1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964641403321

Autore

Pikēs Geōrgios

Titolo

Constitutionalism--human rights--separation of powers : the Cyprus precedent / / Georghios M. Pikis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Martinus Nijhoff, c2006

ISBN

1-281-92611-6

9786611926113

90-474-1021-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

Constitutional law library, , 1871-4110 ; ; 4

Disciplina

341.2

341.2/9

341.29

Soggetti

Constitutional law - Cyprus

Judicial review - Cyprus

Human rights - Cyprus

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- A Preface -- B Constitutional Framework -- C Constitutional Review -- D Law of Necessity -- E Human Rights -- F Separation of Powers: the Sphere and Authority of Each One of the Three Powers of the State -- G Article 146 Judicial Review of Administrative Action -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Following 82 years of British rule, Cyprus emerged in 1960 as an independent state endowed with a written Constitution, detailed to the extent of making provision for nearly every aspect of government. Two distinct features of the Constitution are a) the incorporation of a comprehensive charter of human rights backed up by a duty cast on every authority of the State to ensure its efficient application and b) the strict separation between the three powers of the State. Another notable aspect of it is the introduction of judicial review of administrative action rendering justiciable every act, decision or omission of every organ, body or person exercising administrative or executive authority. The diversity of the sources of constitutional order, its detailed provisions about nearly every aspect of government convey



a distinct complexion to the Constitution of the country. This book covers its application in the turbulent history of the island, which provides a singular if not a unique example of the sustenance of constitutional order in extreme circumstances; constitutionalism in full swing.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910155408503321

Titolo

Bonded Labour : Global and Comparative Perspectives (18th–21st Century) / Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf, Ulrike Lindner, Gesine Müller, Oliver Tappe, Michael Zeuske

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2016

ISBN

9783839437339

3839437334

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Global Studies

Disciplina

331.1173

Soggetti

Labour

Colonialism

Migration

History

Culture

Globalization

Postcolonialism

Work

Global History

History of Colonialism

Social History

Ethnology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 Acknowledgements    7 Introduction: Global Variants of Bonded Labour    9 Coolies - Asiáticos and Chinos:



Global Dimensions of Second Slavery    35 Indentured Labour in Sub-Saharan Africa (1880-1918): Circulation of Concepts between Imperial Powers    59 Coolie Transformations - Uncovering the Changing Meaning and Labour Relations of Coolie Labour in the Dutch Empire (18th and 19th Century)    83 Variants of Bonded Labour in Precolonial and Colonial Southeast Asia    103 "His Original Name Is . . ." REMAPping the Slave Experience in Saudi Arabia    133 Contract Labour and Debt Bondage in the Arab Gulf States. Policies and Practices within the Kafala System    163 Re-presenting and Narrating Labour: Coolie Migration in the Caribbean    191 Cultural Forms of Representation of 'Coolies': Khal Torabully and his Concept of Coolitude    219 Authors    229

Sommario/riassunto

Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous 'coolie trade' – mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa – was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and 'free' wage labour.This interdisciplinary volume addresses historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab Gulf States today.

»Dies ist ein wichtiges Buch, nicht nur für Migrationsforscher und Wirtschaftshistoriker, sondern für alle, die sich mit ökonomischen, sozialen und politischen Zusammenhängen im Kontext einer aktuellen Kapitalismusforschung auseinandersetzen. Das Buch wird nachdrücklich empfohlen.«