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Sakalian, Vladimir P. "Contribution to the knowledge of the Jewel Beetles of Albania (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)." Beiträge zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 50, no. 1 (April 11, 2000): 91–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/contrib.entomol.50.1.91-101.
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Es wird über insgesamt 48 Arten und Unterarten von Albanien, die zu 18 Gattungen und 8 Unterfamilien der Familie Buprestidae gehören, berichtet. Die 15 für die Fauna des Landes neuen Taxa sind mit einem Sternchen markiert. Mit den gesammelten neuen Arten erhöht sich die Zahl der Buprestiden, die aus Albanien bekannt sind, auf 111. Angefügt ist eine zoogeographische Analyse aller bekannten albanischen Buprestiden. Das Überwiegen von mediterranen Arten zeigt den starken Einfluß der Mittelmeerfauna auf die Zusammensetzung der Buprestidenfauna Albaniens.StichwörterColeoptera, Buprestidae, Albania, Mediterranean, Faunistics, Zoogeography.
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Barjaba, Joniada. "Remittances to Albania: Before and after the COVID-19 Pandemic." Remittances Review 6, no. 1 (May 26, 2021): 41–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/rr.v6i1.965.
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This paper aims to advance an understanding of the flows of remittances resulting from Albanian migration before and after coronavirus, their impact on the country’s development and ways to mitigate the effects of the pandemic and ensure resilience of remittance families in Albania. Over the years, migrants’ remittances have played an important role in the social and economic development of Albania and Albanian families. The health emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to reshape our economy and could be devastating for migrants too. This pandemic is expected to change the context for international migration and potentially cause a decrease in remittances from Albanian migrants. And yet, surprisingly, there is a lack of effective mechanisms, policies, and recovery paths for increasing the positive impact of remittances on the country's development. The paper suggests that the way remittances are managed is important. Based on the context of Albania, remittances can be encouraged and facilitated through developing private-public-people partnerships, lowering costs, and using them for entrepreneurial initiatives rather than consumption. The key contributions of the paper lie in extending discussions of the value of collecting data on remittances, providing a dynamic view of the multiplicity of factors behind remittances.
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Titili, Denisa. "The Impact of Financial and Social Remittances in Perpetuating Migration (Albanian Migration Context)." European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 1, no. 3 (April 30, 2016): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejms.v1i3.p82-86.
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Since 1990 Albania has experienced massive external and international migration due to political, economical and social changes occurred in Albanian society. Albanian migration represents a variety of migratory experiences and a combination of different forms of migration (internal, external, temporary, permanent, etc) and destinations. Albania’s contemporaneous mass emigration and internal migration over the short span of time since 1990 provides an excellent laboratory to study the inter links of these types of migration (King R, Skeldon R, - Vullnetari J, 2008: 33). Migration and remittances have changed the social face of Albanian society. Based on the theoretical framework of De Haas (2010) that social remittances can further strengthen migration aspiration, the aim of this paper is to highlight the impact of financial and social remittances from emigrants to Greece in encouraging internal (rural to urban) and external ongoing migration. Data collection will be provided by in-depth interviews. This paper will base on case-histories of Albanian families with different migratory experience to show off how emigration to Greece has lead to a subsequent internal migration within Albania.
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Mano, Laureta, and Mirela Selita. "The Albanian Social Security System and the Institutions of Social Protection in Albania." European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research 3, no. 2 (April 30, 2015): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejser.v3i2.p18-25.
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The social security system in Albania consists of social assistance and social services, health services and health care insurance and social insurance schemes. In the social objectives of the constitution are declared that the State within the constitutional competencies and the probable means as well as in the fulfillment of private initiatives and responsibilities, aims to higher possible standards of health, physical and mental; social care and services of elderly, orphan and invalids; medical rehabilitation, special education and integration in the community, of disabled persons. The Constitution foreseen that everyone has the right of social insurance when retired or in case of incapacity of work under a certain system established by a law. Everyone, when is unemployed for any reasons independent on individual will and when there is no living means, has the right of need under the conditions foreseen by law. Social insurance is a scheme protecting by benefits persons in respect of temporary incapacity due to sickness, maternity, old-age, disability and loss of breadwinner, employment accidents/occupational diseases, unemployment. Social Services are benefits in kind for disabled persons or vulnerable persons. Social Assistances are cash benefits given to families in need, that means families with lower incomes comparable with minimum standard of living or families without incomes. Health services consist of public health, primary health care, hospitalization services nurse's service, dental and pharmaceutical net. The Institutions of Social Protection in Albania are Social Insurance Institute, National Social Services and Health Care Insurance Fund.
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Babameto-Laku, A., A. Mitre, S. Berisha, V. Mokini, and D. Roko. "Molecular Genetic Characterization of β-Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Syndrome in the Albanian Population." Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics 14, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 45–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10034-011-0017-0.
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Molecular Genetic Characterization of β-Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Syndrome in the Albanian Populationβ-Thalassemia (β-thal) is a major public health problem in Albania as it is in many Mediterranean countries. We determined the different β-thal alleles that are present in the Albanian population by using the temporal temperature gradient electrophoresis (TTGE) method because of its high throughput, cost-effectiveness, sensitivity and simplicity. DNA from blood of 68 patients with β-thal, 26 with sickle cell anemia or sickle cell β-thal, 54 parents of these patients and 14 heterozygotes related to these families. We found the IVS-I-110 (G>A), codon 39 (C>T), IVS-I-6 (T>C), IVS-I-1 (G>A) and codon 44 (-C) mutations that accounted for nearly 90% of the β-thal alleles. Their frequencies were similar to those found in other studies in the Albanian population. This method has permitted the detection of heterozygotes for β-thal in this population and offers a prenatal diagnosis with a probability of 90% accuracy.
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BITUŠÍK, PETER, and KATARÍNA TRNKOVÁ. "A preliminary checklist of Chironomidae (Diptera) from Albania with first records for the Balkan Peninsula." Zootaxa 4563, no. 2 (February 28, 2019): 361. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4563.2.9.
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The Chironomidae of Albania have so far received limited attention and only 39 species have been recorded prior to the present study. Here we bring the results of random and non-intensive samplings of chironomid pupal exuviae and adults, at five localities in 2012, that provided 55 species and 5 additional taxa, with 51 being new for the Albanian fauna, out of which 7 were new for the Balkan Peninsula. In addition to that, we present a preliminary checklist of Chironomidae based on the data from Fauna Europaea complemented by the results of the recent investigation. The catalogued fauna now contains 85 species in 44 genera and 6 sub-families.
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Halkias, Alexandra. "K. Kasimati and L. Mousourou (editors), Gender and Immigration, Theoretical references and empirical research, (vol. I), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 299, 2007 (in Greek) E. Kambouri, Gender and Immigration. The everyday life of immigrants from Alba." Social Cohesion and Development 3, no. 1 (April 13, 2016): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/scad.10062.
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<p>No abstract (available). </p><p>K. Kasimati and L. Mousourou (editors), Gender and Immigration, Theoretical references and empirical research, (vol. I), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 299, 2007 (in Greek)</p><p>E. Kambouri, Gender and Immigration. The everyday life of immigrants from Albania and Ukrania (vol. II), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 261, 2007 (in Greek)</p><p>M. Thanopoulou, Gender and Immigration. Intergenerational relationships and gender relations in families of Albanian immigrants (vol. III), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 268, 2007 (in Greek)</p><p> </p>
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Ballinger, Pamela. "A Sea of Difference, a History of Gaps: Migrations between Italy and Albania, 1939–1992." Comparative Studies in Society and History 60, no. 1 (January 2018): 90–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417517000421.
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AbstractThis article examines extended debates after World War II over the repatriation of Italian civilians from Albania, part of the Italian fascist empire from 1939 until 1943. Italy's decolonization, when it is studied at all, usually figures as rapid and non-traumatic, and an inevitable byproduct of Italy's defeat in the war. The tendency to gloss over the complexities of decolonization proves particularly marked in the Albanian case, given the brevity of Italy's formal rule over that country and the overwhelming historiographical focus on the Italian military experience there. In recovering the complex history of Italian and Albanian relations within which negotiations over repatriation occurred, this article demonstrates the prolonged process of imperial repatriation and its consequences for the individuals involved. In some cases, Italian citizens, and their families, only “returned” home to Italy in the 1990s. The repatriation of these “remainders” of empire concerned not only the Italian and Albanian states but also local committees (notably the Circolo Garibaldi) and international organizations, including the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the International Committee of the Red Cross. In recuperating this history, the analysis rejects seeming truisms about the forgotten or repressed memory of Italian colonialism. Drawing upon critical theories of “gaps,” the article addresses the methodological challenges in writing such a history.
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Zenelaga, Dr Brunilda, and Blerina Hamzallari. "The Role of the Family in the Education of Children in Conflict with the Law: Empirical Evidence from Albanian Context." European Journal of Education 1, no. 3 (November 29, 2018): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejed.v1i3.p116-124.
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A child is considered in conflict with the law when he/she has committed or has been accused of committing an offence (UNICEF, 2006). According to local context, a child can also be in conflict with the law, when it is taken up by the justice system for minors or for adults, due to the alleged dangers faced by the child in view, or behavior or environment (IDE, 2016:2). The family is a primary agency that influences the child socio-psychological formation. In the case of children in conflict with the law, on one hand family can contribute on creating causes of antisocial and deviant behaviors of children, but on the other hand, it can be an important factor for rehabilitation and correction of the children attitudes.Recently, in Albania, children in conflict with the law have been in center of the attention of policymakers and researchers, but very few of them have explored in depth the role that the family plays on the education of children in contact with the law. This paper aims to fulfill that gap of researches in Albanian context.The methods used to gather data are based on: (a) the use of the secondary data such as international and national literature about the topic, researches with the focus on children in conflict with the law, statistics and other data from different Albanian institutions; (b) the use of the primary data taken from the interviews with experts who work in Probation Service in Albania, school psychologist, experts and professionals in prisons etc. The study revealed that the role of the family is crucial, especially for the children in conflict with the law. Empirical evidence from Albanian context shows that children in conflict with the law came mainly from families with socio - economical problems and/or lack of the attention to the education of the children. The collaboration of the family with other socialization agencies such as schools etc., can be an effective way for the correction of the attitudes of this category of children.
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Mërkuri, Prof Phd Nexhip, and Elira Xhakollari. "Language Policiy for the Tendency of the Sound Complex in the Albanian Anthroponymy and Patronymic." European Journal of Language and Literature 8, no. 1 (May 19, 2017): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejls.v8i1.p16-26.
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The authors reflects on the progress of anthroponymy and patronomy sounds tendency and its applied linguistic policy in the last century and the beginning of the new millennium. The research is carried out in two periods: during and post-communism. The authors have done a long-time research on this topic, which has resulted in an accurate argumentative discourse on pre-linguistic choices of these sonoric complex usages in family discourse. The authors have listed carefully the entry of Illyrian/Albanian names and the tendency of sonoric usages, which were part of language planning process; and everything is argued on the basis of national spirit of the time. The linguistic policy of entering of Illyrian names into family discourse is also seen as a general trend of Renaissance (1730-1912) for the purpose of restoring historic memory to Albanians. After the 1990-s, the beginning of democracy in Albania, nonetheless the publishing of the study on newborn names, the linguistic policy has never been applied for many reasons. For the last two years, 2015-2016, linguistics, students, surveyors, educational secretaries, members of civil status, have listed a number of reasons on the choices of the names of newborns in Albania. The freedom of choice of the sonoric complex, the trend of names, the tendency of names in the western world, emigration, etc., are some of the reasons to justify the choices and the linguistic behavior of sonoric complexes. The study is carried out in several municipalities and it is noticed that sonoric choices are highly influenced by the trends in media. There is an avoidance of inherited muslim, catholic and orthodox names and of those names claimed by linguistic policy of 1970-1990. Such linguistic tendency is argued on national basis by making comparisons on the frequency of uses. Diachronic comparisons of Albanian names found in registers of different years reflect the cultural trends of the parents. Albanian families have been quite generous with the borrowings of names from other cultures. Borrowings, as an integral part of linguistic policy, are result of foreign literature, movies, history and fashion.
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Dalipaj, Gerda. "Migration, residential investment, and the experience of “transition”." Focaal 2016, no. 76 (December 1, 2016): 85–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2016.760106.
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This article traces the complexity of migration patterns and residential investments of Albanian migrant families. Interlocutors built new houses in Albania and bought, additionally, apartments in Greece. While they consider their multiple residences to be an “achievement” and “immovable wealth,” they continued to see themselves as “runaways from transition.” The article emphasises the multidirectionality and multilocality of these investments. It shows that, despite various spatial tactics that migrants have successfully employed in making the link between different places, for them “transition” continues to mean the permanence of temporal conditions. This permanence is constructed in two ways: as a temporal continuity of conditions of uncertainty, unattainable futures, pain, and fatigue in a postsocialist country; and as a spatial continuity of these same conditions across different spaces, postsocialist or not, which become interconnected within wider ideologies and policies and not only through the mobility of individuals.
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Avdulaj, Phd Cand Entela. "The Macro- System Analysis of Social Care Services in Albania, According to An Ecological Perspective." European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 5, no. 1 (May 19, 2017): 494. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejms.v5i1.p494-494.
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This paper, takes in consideration the most important components of the macro system, of social care services in Albania, according to an ecological perspective. It analyzes the impact and the implementation of national legislation, social policy, national strategies, and different models of interventions in the social care services. The ecological model of Bronfenbrenner (1979, 2000), reveals that the devlopment is result of interaction between the person and its environment and varies according to social context. The macro system, one of the component of this context is defined as the set of attitudes, values and social rules imposed by the other subsystems of other levels. Considering the institution as a whole, we identify its macro- system as a set of legislation, social policies and different models. The macro system analysis serves as a starting point for a depth assessment of the social care programs, based on the eco-systemic perspective. There are 24 public residential centers in Albania, which have dual dependence between the central government (State Social Service) and local governments (municipalities). These centers treat and support with services 6 social categories of people in need: children (orphans, abandoned, in vulnerability situation); people with disabilities (children, young and old people); old people; victims of trafficking; victims of domestic violence; families in need. Their establishment and functioning is regulated according to the Albanian legislation, social policies, strategies and standards. Through the study of law, social policies, strategies and standards set, that exist in Albania for social care services and through the interviews with leaders and services specialists, as well, have been identified the models used in the design of legislation and social policies and theirs impact in the development of social care services in Albania. The results showed that despite the changes in legislation and social policy based in a social inclusion perspective, the programs of social care services are not fulfilling this perspective.
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Kadzadej, Mustafa, and Kleviona Hoxha. "Albanian Diaspora in Greece in the years 1990-2000." European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 1, no. 2 (April 30, 2016): 396. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejms.v1i2.p396-398.
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The reasons that prompted the Albanian exodus were numerous and varied. While if we take a look on its consequences will see that they have a dual nature. Among the positive aspects of exodus we can mention the fact that it helped Albania economically meeting the needs of a considerable part of the population in the moment of political and social crisis transition enabling the survival of many families. On the other hand it had a negative impact not only becouse of spending vital energies of the nation abroad, but also because it led to the formation of a bad opinion about Albanians, opinion spread almost all over Europe, especially where their presence was bigger. For this reason we got to study precisely the image of immigrant in two countries ( Italy and Greece ), where they have the largest flow of migration in 1990-2000. We should note that in recent years in both countryes in Italy and in Greece prevails the same closed mentality against foreigners. Also it is accompanied ( especially in Italy with the malfunctioning of the structure that handles issues of migratory movements, not like in the other states like Germany, England or France where, besides the small number of immigrants, there were laws and better functioning of the state that associated with emigration’s problems. On the other hand we can say that in this period, whether in Greece the fortunes of the Albanian immigrants depended from the relations of the Greek-Albanian state, in Italy they depend mainly on the behavior of immigrants.
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Lafontaine, Annie. "Réfugié ou « Local Staff »?" Anthropologie et Sociétés 26, no. 1 (March 27, 2003): 89–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/000704ar.
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Résumé Cet article porte sur les implications individuelles et collectives du passage du statut de réfugié à celui de « local staff ». En effet, certains Albanais du Kosovo sont passés d’un statut à l’autre durant la guerre, après celle-ci et lors de l’exode massif du Kosovo au printemps 1999. En prenant l’exemple d’une femme en particulier, l’article étudie d’abord les relations entre les dimensions normatives et subjectives des statuts de réfugié et de local staff pour montrer ensuite comment ce transfert de statut entraîne deux phénomènes. D’une part, il permet l’acquisition de pouvoirs socio-économique, politique et familial qui avaient été, dans l’expérience de l’exil et du refuge, réduits au minimum. D’autre part, il provoque, surtout chez les femmes dans la vingtaine, des remises en question des mentalités et des valeurs qui ont largement contribué à la constitution d’une résistance des Albanais du Kosovo au régime yougoslave pendant les décennies 1980 et 1990. Finalement, ce statut, quoique temporaire, étant donné qu’il est lié à la présence éphémère des organisations étrangères au Kosovo, est un facteur de changement social qui ébranle certaines bases identitaires telles que l’organisation familiale albanaise.
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Aliu, Lirie, and Gjylten Ademi. "PERTINENT USE OF DIASPORA REMMITANCE –VITIA CASE." Knowledge International Journal 30, no. 6 (March 20, 2019): 1545–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.35120/kij30061545a.
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Albanian Diaspora is present throughout the world and is large in numbers. A substantial emigration from Kosovo has been taken place in various phases during the second half of the 20th century as Albanians in Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania as well. Albanians generally know the burden of migration. Albanian families have at least one of their close family member or a relative living and working outside Kosovo. For many decades main financial resources from our compatriots have been uncontested and a living source for Kosovo families! In addition, diaspora marks dynamics and drive of money as in construction and trade, and its peak is during the winter and summer holidays. Therefore, we were interested in the most inclusive way and locally to focus on remittances of our compatriots who are from the city of Vitia and surroundings. Interest to investigate this development realized since the municipality of Vitia this year (2016) continually supported the migrants to invest and aid them to channel their humanitarian resources through official and transparent channels by organizing different events and joint cultural gatherings. Maybe, a little bit to alleviate poverty in this city and to deepen cooperation further. The municipality of Vitia is located in south-eastern Kosovo. It covers an area of approximately 276 km² and includes Vitia town and 38 villages. The total population is approximately 47,000 (46,987 according to the Kosovo Population and Housing Census 2011).170 It's interesting that Vitia’s diaspora is very powerful and active always ready to help its people whenever it’s needed. Approximately more than 35% of Vitia’s inhabitants work and live in Switzerland and Germany. Approximately every second village has its respective association in the city where they live, in Switzerland or Germany.
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Kadiu, Brixhilda, and Edmond Kadiu. "Challenges of integration of families that have committed internal migration." European Journal of Social Sciences 1, no. 3 (November 29, 2018): 137. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejss.v1i3.p137-147.
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This study deals with family-related issues that shift from their home country to the Kamza area for a better living above the minimum standard, taking into account the challenges that need to be overcome to integrate into society. Their massive movement begins after the fall of the totalitarian socialist regime in the early 90s of the 20th century, where massive displacement of the population from villages and small peripheral towns and their settling was about a 7 km from Tirana. The population of the Kamza area gradually became present and today is faced with massive overcrowding. Kamza is a region that has been waiting for many migrants mainly from the northern Albania. The study aims to explore the impact of families on their integration into society. The method used in this study is the qualitative data collection method through semi-structured individual interviews as well as free conversations primarily with heads of households, which show in detail what they have done for their family to integrate into society and challenge the minimum vital. Also in the study is used the method of secondary data analysis. In the interview participated 27 individuals, of whom 17 are heads of households and 10 of them are boys and girls. For the purpose of obtaining the findings, thematic analysis was used, which was made possible through the organization of data based on labeling and coding. One of the most important findings of this study is that the Albanian family based on internal migration and the departure from their previous community makes them suffer structural and functional changes within its interior.
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Hoxhaj, Meleq, and Ermelinda Kordha Tolica. "UNDERSTANDING MIGRATION IN ALBANIA." International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences 10, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 153–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.8095.
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Migration is a phenomenon that has been present in many countries during their stages of development. Albania as a developing country is still facing migration in recent years. Since this phenomenon has resulted in obvious effects, researchers have dedicated a lot of work in relation to the impact in the countries’ development. The aim of the paper is to analyze the phenomenon of migration in Albania, its characteristics and its effects on the economy. A brief description of the migration stages and the related causes is provided at the beginning. Then, there are some data on migration in Albania today. The paper follows the link of migration with economic development. In short-term migration has a positive effect on the economy, impacts through remittances help alleviate poverty, but in long run, migrants create families in countries where they have migrated, resulting in a decline in remittances.
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Feshti, Marsida, Ela Golemi, and Greta Petriti. "Social housing in Albania." SEER 22, no. 2 (2019): 245–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/1435-2869-2019-2-245.
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Housing is a particularly important example of what might be thought of as a standard function of central and local government, a consequence of the increased requests of citizens for housing and an attempt to find the best way to realise these. Clearly, it represents an issue of significant social importance. Albania has approved Law No. 22/2018 On social housing, an essential act in the fulfilment of social housing programmes. The objective of the law is to define the rules and administrative procedures as regards the means of planning, insuring, administrating and distributing social housing, with the purpose of creating opportunities for suitable and affordable housing, relying on the capacity to pay of families in need of housing with the assistance of responsible state institutions. This Law is a very important step because, within its desire to facilitate social housing programmes, one part is dedicated to women as survivors of violence, a further step towards meeting the standards of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.
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Fejzaj, Elona, Ilir Kapaj, and Ana Mane Kapaj. "Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic in Personal and Family Savings in Albania." Research in World Economy 12, no. 3 (March 30, 2021): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/rwe.v12n3p32.
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The coronavirus outbreak, Covid-19, began in December 31, 2019 in Wuhan, China and quite quickly was spread in 212 countries and territories around the world. In Albania the first cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in March 2020. Covid -19 pandemic emergency has transformed into a worldwide financial emergency, putting in danger the wellbeing, occupations and salaries of millions of individuals around the planet. Coronavirus devastatingly affects the monetary security and prosperity of families. Since March 2020, the world economy has shed more than 13.3 million positions – 55% of them lost by ladies – setting off broad joblessness and sharp decreases in family incomes. Albania has been hit by two crushing stuns with hardly a pause in between: The November 2019 earth quake and the Covid-19 pandemic in spring 2020 that has frozen huge pieces of the economy. These stuns rule ongoing financial turns of events and the close term viewpoint for the economy. The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact that Covid-19, has had in personal income and also in the way that Albanian react in this situation related to family savings. To fulfil this objective, primary data are collected for the Tirana commune and its surroundings. In order to administer a considerable amount of data, a number of 1500 randomly selected individuals have been directly interviewed. From the data analysis we have concluded that most of the independent factors that we have chosen are significant in the three models. Also from the survey we have seen that the majority of the have changed their way of thinking related to personal and family savings. And as the main reason form this, they have listed the pandemic situation.
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Vathi, Zana, and Veronika Duci. "Making other dreams: The impact of migration on the psychosocial wellbeing of Albanian-origin children and young people upon their families’ return to Albania." Childhood 23, no. 1 (January 28, 2015): 53–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0907568214566078.
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Lumanaj, Brilanda. "Role of Local Government and Non-profit Organizations Toward Social Services For Families. Theoretical and Practical Approaches (North Albania Case)." European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research 1, no. 1 (May 1, 2014): 323. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejser.v1i1.p323-331.
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Family is an important human capital. Family support with social services is an obligation for local government structures and non-profit organizations. The process of decentralization increases the responsibility of local government structures to support families with social services. This study aims to analyze the theoretical approaches regarding the role of local government and non-profit organizations with a focus on social services family. The study is focused on the analysis of national and international documents related to the field study. The paper also has the objective to present an overview of the role of local government and NGOs in the regions of Northern Albania regarding the provision of social services for family. The field study was done in the northern region of Albania, including her four Districts, in its main cities: Shkodër, Lezhë, Kukës and Peshkopi. In the study participated 44 subjects in total, 23 of them are representative of local, regional and central institutions and 21 representatives of NGOs that operate in the filed study. A qualitative research method has been used. The findings of this study reflect the fact that, families in Northern Albania profit a small amount of services from public sector and a variety of services from non-profit organizations. The conclusions of this paper represent the theoretical elements in national and international context toward the role of local government and NGOs focused in social services for families.
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Mangiavacchi, Lucia, Federico Perali, and Luca Piccoli. "INTRAHOUSEHOLD DISTRIBUTION IN MIGRANT-SENDING FAMILIES." Journal of Demographic Economics 84, no. 1 (March 2018): 107–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dem.2017.24.
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Abstract:This paper studies the distribution of resources within families with migrant member abroad. We derive a complete collective demand system with individual Engel effects for male and female adults and children, and the respective share of resources. The focus is on migrant-sending families in Albania, where gender and inter-generational inequalities are relevant social issues. The results show that the female share of resources is substantially lower with respect to an equal distribution and do not benefit from father’s migration. Children have a larger share of resources and benefit from their fathers migration, when women maintain control over family decisions and when the proportion of female children is larger (at the detriment of women).
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Brunnbauer, Ulf. "Fertility, Families and Ethnic Conflict: Macedonians and Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia, 1944–2002*." Nationalities Papers 32, no. 3 (September 2004): 565–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0090599042000246406.
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In 2001, the Republic of Macedonia—the former Yugoslavia's southernmost republic—was on the brink of civil war as the ethnic Albanian “National Liberation Army” (UÇK) was fighting Macedonian security forces and establishing rebel control over parts of the country. The armed conflict took more than 200 lives and displaced, at one time or another, more than 100,000 people. Civil war was prevented by an agreement between the four major ethnic Macedonian and ethnic Albanian parties in the country, signed on August 11, 2001 in the town of Ohrid, thereafter usually referred to as the “Ohrid Agreement.” Far-reaching constitutional and legislative changes would re-construct the Republic of Macedonia as a multi-ethnic democracy. Since then, constitutional amendments and new laws have been passed, increasing the rights and power of minorities, especially the Albanian one. The new constitution combines the concept of civic citizenship with elements of de facto consociationalism, and satisfies the demand of the Albanian minority to help shape the destiny of their country using a collective voice.
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Agolli Nasufi, Irida, and Anxhela Bruci. "Child Social Protection: Accessible by All or None? A Qualitative Analysis of Child Protection Workers Views in Albania." World Journal of Social Science 8, no. 1 (January 28, 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjss.v8n1p1.
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Limited research has focused on the challenges of child protection workers involved in the social protection system
in Albania. Despite the changes that social protection has undergone over the last years, obstacles arise in the
implementation process. Regardless of the strategies and programs targeting child protection in Albania children
have not been protected from exploitation and other life-threatening risks. Mainly non-governmental organizations
and stakeholders who support the child social protection system in Albania have been involved in continuous efforts
to identify what is missing, and what needs to improve regarding the child social protection system. This paper
presents the experiences of child protection workers on how the current social protection system responds to the
needs of children and their families. The data was collected from 10 child protection workers in Albania using
in-depth semi-structured qualitative interviews. This research found that there is a gap in the distribution of services
between urban and rural areas preventing beneficiaries who live in rural areas to access social services. Some of the
major challenges that emerged by the majority of interviewees were lack of training, weak institutional cooperation
accompanied by the need for emergency centers to assist children at risk of exploitation and abuse.
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Radovanovic, Svetlana. "Albanians of the Sirinic district." Stanovnistvo 36, no. 1-2 (1998): 49–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/stnv9802049r.
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The Sirinic district is located in one of the four mountain valleys (Sirinic, Sredska, Opolje and Gora) in the Sara mountain region. Its geographic boundaries almost match the administrative borders of the commune of Strpce. It is first mentioned in Serb manuscripts of the first half of the XIV century. The census taken in 1455 by the Turks shows a relatively high density of Serb population. The Albanians immigrated to the Sirinic district from northern Albania after the second mass migration of Serb population in 1737. They came from north and east, from southern parts of Kosovo, Kacanicka gorge and the Valley of Skoplje. A larger-scale settlement of Albanians into the Sara mountain region was prevented by massive Islamization of native Serb population in the districts of Gora, Opolje and Sredska. Thus, a multi-ethnic buffer zone was formed during Turkish reign which has been basically preserved until today. For this particular reason the region has attracted interest of many domestic and foreign researchers ever since early XIX century. Elaboration of two multi-disciplinary scientific research projects by the Institute of Geography "Jovan Cvijic" of the Serb Academy of Science and Arts in the period from 1989 to 1994 was based on the same considerations. One of the projects is fully concerned with the Sirinic district and the author of this paper was asked to study migrations and the origins of Albanian population as well as to organize and conduct a population census in the commune of Strpce. Immigration of Albanians to the Sirinic district took place in several phases which ultimately led to the formation of five mixed Serb-Albanian settlements located between a group of four homogenous Albanian and seven such Serb settlements. Thus, a relatively stable ethnic and geographic structure was formed as early as in the XIX century. Its territorial and demographic proportions did not substantially change regardless of all tumultuous historical and political events that had since taken place. A more detailed analysis shows that the share of Albanians in total population of the district rose from about 29% in 1931 to only 33% in 1989 in spite of the natural increase in population in excess of 30 per thousand ever since the early 1980s. However, demographic growth of Albanian population remained much below the level of the biological reproduction rate due to intensive emigration i.e., a negative migratory balance ranging from 21.8 per thousand in 1961 to 26.5 per thousand in 1989. The causes for emigration were economic and, for decades, bound toward Kosovo, Western Macedonia and the Valley of Skoplje. Emigration to Turkey began in late XIX century, resumed during the Balkan Wars and was recorded again in the early 1980s (encouraged by the Balkan Treaty signed by the FPRY, Greece and Turkey) but did not much affect total demographic movement of Albanians in the Sirinic district. Economic emigration of population to Switzerland and Germany has been growing from the 1960s onward. This paper also reviews parallel existence and functioning of two crucially different homeostatic demographic systems - the Albanian and the Serb - in the same compact geographic environment. The paper also points to the preserved awareness of a fixed (tribal) affiliation and finally displays a detailed review of migratory dynamics and origins of Albanian population, number of houses (families) and the number of members of each clan in 1989.
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Cattaneo, Cristina. "Opting in to Opt out? Emigration and Group Participation in Albania." International Migration Review 50, no. 4 (December 2016): 1046–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imre.12171.
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The objective of this paper is to determine whether the participation in social organizations represents a complement or a substitute with respect to international emigration. To address this research question, an instrumental variable approach is used, as group participation and international migration are potentially jointly determined. This is the case if the family considers emigration and group participation as alternative strategies to cope with uncertainty or a liquidity need, or alternatively when the family decides to invest in group participation in order to gain information helpful to emigrate. The results of the empirical estimation reveal that families participating in social organizations are more likely to migrate internationally and therefore social networks act as a complement for emigration. This may indicate that families recourse to social networks in order to collect important information that facilitates international migration.
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PEŠIĆ, VLADIMIR, ALEKSANDRA BAŃKOWSKA, TOM GOLDSCHMIDT, MICHAŁ GRABOWSKI, GRZEGORZ MICHOŃSKI, and ANDRZEJ ZAWAL. "Supplement to the Checklist of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Balkan peninsula." Zootaxa 4394, no. 2 (March 13, 2018): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4394.2.1.
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The last checklist of the water mites of the Balkan countries published in 2010 by Pešić et al. is updated to November 2017. This supplement includes new records of water mite species from the Balkan countries (Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece) published after 2010, as well as unpublished records based on material collected from Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, and Greece. Numerous new records for the national faunas, including one species new for the Mediterranean region (Arrenurus stjordalensis Thor, 1899), are reported and one species new to science (Trichothyas jadrankae Pešić sp. nov.) is described. With these additions, a total number of 390 water mite species and subspecies from 34 families and 77 genera is now recorded from the Balkan peninsula (including the Greek Islands).
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Milionis, Charalampos. "Serological markers of Hepatitis B and C among juvenile immigrants from Albania settled in Greece." European Journal of General Practice 16, no. 4 (October 18, 2010): 236–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/13814788.2010.525631.
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Hasani, Nikolin. "Human Beings Trafficking. the Albanian Legislation." European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 1, no. 1 (April 30, 2016): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejms.v1i1.p75-80.
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Human trafficking has emerged as a negative phenomenon, with a large multiple social risks, primarily based on human rights violations practices, on the continuous victimization of people and the denial of human dignity. Economic recession, cultural and rural families, tin heterogeneity of the urban population are also other factors which facilitate domestic trafficking. Albania's geographical position at the external borders of the EU is a mitigating factor for Albanians and other populations in the region to move towards Europe illegally. The aim of this paper is to presents the legal aspects of trafficking in human beings in Albania after the communism regime.
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Canaj, Kimete. "PHRASEOLOGIES WITH ANIMAL NAMES IN ALBANIAN, GERMAN AND ENGLISH: A COMPARATIVE STUDY." Folia linguistica et litteraria XII, no. 34 (April 2021): 245–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.34.2021.14.
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Phraseologies with animal names in Albanian, German and English: A comparative study. The paper takes a comparative approach in discussing selected phraseologies with animal names in Albanian, German and English. The point of departure is a collection of 48 random Albanian lexemes and their counterparts in the other two languages. Phraseologies, Metaphor and Translation have a hidden relationship with one another until we explore the linguistic and conceptual roots of these words. To carry something across, and in the case of translation, something is carried over from one language to another; hence to translate. Metaphor, on the other hand, indicates a similar act of transference (Übertragung), as it is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase signifying one thing is used in place of another to suggest some degree of likeness or equivalence. The most interesting result of the comparison is that there are more similarities between the neighbour languages than Germanic languages. This implies that neighbourhood and the common history have more impact on languages, even from different families (Albanian‐German), than common roots (English‐German).
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Kapllanaj, Migena, Saemira Pino, and Edlira Haxhiymeri. "Mother Employment And The Role Of Care Services In Albania." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 12, no. 5 (February 28, 2016): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2016.v12n5p129.
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Women employment and maintaining the balance between work and family life is a key issue in the modern society where adult worker families are replacing the traditional model of the working father and the housewife mother. Because of different expectations men and women are educated and oriented differently which impacts their economic status. We wanted to see how marriage influence their path to labor force participation In this article we explore women labor force participation and inactivity, with a special focus to married women and the effect that marriage has in labor status. Another issue we want to highlight is the relationship between inactivity and care services for children, disabled and elderly. We had used the data of Labor Force Survey in Albania 2007-2013. We have found a clear relation between women low rates of economic engagement and the care services availability and accessibility.
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SPIRI, GRIJDA. "Women’s Role in Preserving Lament Songs in the Villages of Gjirokastër, Albania." Yearbook for Traditional Music 52 (October 30, 2020): 147–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ytm.2020.6.
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Abstract“Vajtim,” mourning, is an expression of women’s grief and cannot be counted in months or years: it is a continued expression of the inner world that for many women can take decades. In this paper, I examine how women have carried and preserved the lament songs of the Southern Albania region from generation to generation. Field research in my hometown, Gjirokastër, reveals how the laments songs are connected from mother to daughter within the families. Using descriptions of lamenting rituals, personal interviews with mourners, and analysis of lyrics and field recordings, I demonstrate how women continue this tradition through generations.
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Muharremi, Oltiana, Filloreta Madani, and Erald Pelari. "Evaluating the Impact of Microfinance for Women in Albania." Journal of Business Theory and Practice 4, no. 2 (October 20, 2016): 233. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jbtp.v4n2p233.
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<p class="Default"><em>Microfinance is defined as any activity involving the offering of financial services such as loans, savings and insurance to individuals with low income.</em><em> </em><em>Creating social value includes reducing poverty and having a better impact to improve living conditions through capital for micro-enterprises; insurance and savings deposits for reducing risk and boosting consumption. Worldwide microfinance actors promote access to basic financial services by developing new tools, a variety of products and the adoption of an integrated banking access.</em></p><p class="Default"><em>Initially, microfinance was largely gender neutral: it sought to provide credit to the poor who had no assets to pledge as collateral. It quickly emerged, however, that women invested their business profits in ways that would have a longer-lasting impact on their families and communities. Consequently women became fundamental to the success of the microfinance model as a poverty alleviation tool. The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of microfinance loans in improving the lives of women borrowers, as well as in strengthening their social influence and the microcredit impact in promoting savings. This study is based on an empirical investigation of 384 structured questionnaires and surveys directed at microfinance institutions and their clients in the regions of Vlore and Fier, Albania.</em></p>
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Xarba, Belinda, Alketa Bejko, and Etleva Peta. "Record-Keeping as a Factor Related to Meeting the Personal Financial Ratios Guideline." European Journal of Economics and Business Studies 3, no. 1 (December 30, 2015): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejes.v3i1.p70-82.
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An effective way through which the families can measure the progress of their financial situation is using personal financial analysis. The aim of this study is to determine that household record-keeping of the personal expenditures and incomes is positively significant in achieving the recommended level of liquidity ratio, saving ratio and capital accumulation ratio. This study was conducted in the region of Gjirokastra, South Albania and this paper presents the partial results of this study. The analysis of personal financial ratios applied for Albania is still a “fragile seedling”. As a result, researchers, policy-makers and groups of interest should pay more attention to it. Up to the present day, there is no recommended level for financial ratios of personal financial reviews discussed in any academic projects especially for Albania. In order to perform the analysis of the ratios we have been referring to the foreign researches and their guide levels, from which were selected the guide levels that we shall refer to during the study. Based on the analysis of data related to this study, as well as on the results of Chi-Square Test, it resulted that the managers of household who keep notes on the personal expenditures and incomes are more probable to become closer to the recommended levels of financial ratios. The lack of alternative data led us to questionnaires in order to collect information. After the data was collected and refined, the programs Microsoft Office Excel and Spss Ibm Statistics were used for their elaboration. Chi – square test was used for testing.
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Dai, Yael G., Lynn Brennan, Ariel Como, Jamie Hughes-Lika, Thyde Dumont-Mathieu, Iris Carcani-Rathwell, Ola Minxhozi, Blerina Aliaj, and Deborah A. Fein. "A video parent-training program for families of children with autism spectrum disorder in Albania." Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 56 (December 2018): 36–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2018.08.008.
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Dow, Helena D., and Scott R. Woolley. "Mental Health Perceptions and Coping Strategies of Albanian Immigrants and Their Families." Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 37, no. 1 (January 2011): 95–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0606.2010.00199.x.
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Dushi, Mimoza. "Influence of Migration in Women Emancipation - Case Study from Kosovan Albanian Diaspora." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 58 (September 2015): 91–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.58.91.
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In many undeveloped Mediterranean countries with few occupational possibilities, international migration from late 1960’s become a matter of government policy, frequently through bilateral agreements for guest workers. Initially part of these agreements were only men, who migrated toward European counties as seasonal workers. This type of migration created attitudes among the Albanian population in Kosovo that international migrations are mainly for men. However, being in such places with high employment opportunities, profits and life standard, many of them decided to continue living in host countries, bringing thus their family members along. This move gave the to the Kosovar Albanian women opportunity to become part of host societies and possibility to Albanian population to understand that migration as a right which belong to both genders’ equally.Initially, migrated women who joined their husbands came mainly from rural and low educated families and were personally and mentally unprepared for a new life in an alien environment. Even though their integration into host societies was challenge for them, we argue that migration has affected their status and family life, as well. By entering into a wage earning production process they become more independent and active in family decision processes, families became egalitarian, relations between family members became more open and their social networks were expanding. Additionally, recent female migrants are more open into integration processes. They are showing interest for involvement into labor market and educational processes, meaning that beside job, they tend to ensure the position at profession, as well.These criteria of emancipation we will prove by using ethnographic research technique, which implies the collection and analysis of detailed in-depth interviews (life stories) of Kosovan Albanian migrants in Germany and Switzerland. By women’s narratives, through which they express themselves, will draw a conclusion about integration strategies and way of living in host societies. While, the husbands and children’s narratives will be used to prove the changes in their family life.
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Bezo (Hasko), Blegina. "Engagement Ceremony in the Sothern Coastal Area of Albania, An Ethno-Folkloric View." European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 1, no. 1 (April 30, 2016): 132. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejms.v1i1.p132-137.
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One of the most important rituals in this area is also the engagement ceremony, which was considered like a prenuptial agreement of both young ones and it didn't have only a moral importance but also a juridical one between both families. But this tradition had to pass through some rules that each family had to follow starting from the matchmaker who was supposed to be a respected person to the gifts that was made according to the tradition. Also, in this tradition existed some strict rules where the consanguinity of the young ones, who were going to be engaged was forbidden. The engagement was allowed only if they were cousins after seven generations had passed. This rules was to avoid problems with the baby's health and also that the baby would be pure blood. Anyway the engagement could never be broken by the girls or the girl's family as I was considered to be a great offense to the boy and this could bring blood feud. The engagement ceremonial started from the day that the word was given and the setting date of the day. That rings were exchanged, that happened on Monday or Thursday, which was accompanied by giving gifts. But engagement can be broken from the family of the boy only for some reasons, if the girl was sick or deterioration of relations between the families up in enmity to property issues, if separate for moral issue then the family of the boy had to give explanations for claims that they had based on facts, otherwise that was a great insult to the girl's family amounting to enmity. A key step in this ritual is the moral and educational preparation for daughter as well for the men, and also the preparation of the girl for this holy day from the preparation and decoration of the girl from dyeing hair with henna and to the preparation of the dowry.
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Nasto, Kostandin, Junada Sulillari, and Satiola Bundo. "IMMIGRATION ANALYSIS AND REMITTANCES COMPOSITION: A CASE STUDY FROM KORCA, ALBANIA." International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences 10, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 49–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.8087.
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This study aims to realize an analysis of immigration issues and also issues related to remittances. Our focus will be the analysis of these issues in the case of Albanian immigrants from the Korca region. Through the study, we will reveal some of the immigrant's characteristics, the reason for immigration, the benefits that immigration has brought to them, financial and also other benefits. Regarding the remittances, we will see in detail the composi-tion of remittances sent from the immigrants of this region, the reason why they are being sent, their supposed and real usage and other issues. The greatest part of the study is based on the information collected by using a ques-tionnaire, which included the participation of 210 respondents. The analysis conducted revealed that the main part of the respondents had chosen to immigrate for financial reasons, the most part of them had not a high level of education, and what we also revealed was the fact that immigration had improved the employment status of the respondents and had increased their opportunities for career. Regarding the remittances, the study revealed that the main purpose of using remittances was for consumption and moral responsibility was one of the main reasons for sending remittances. In general, the study revealed that immigration has had a great impact on the immigrants' life and also on their families' life.
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Thanopoulou, Maria. "Intergenerational and gender relations in albanian migrant families. The example of household labour division." Επιθεώρηση Κοινωνικών Ερευνών 124 (January 1, 2007): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/grsr.114.
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Gemi, Eda. "Transnational practices of Albanian families during the Greek crisis: unemployment, de-regularization and return." International Review of Sociology 24, no. 3 (September 2, 2014): 406–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2014.954332.
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Krištín, Anton, Tomáš Bělka, David Horal, and Taulant Bino. "Diet of the lesser kestrel Falco naumanni at post-breeding roosts in southern Albania." Raptor Journal 14, no. 1 (December 1, 2020): 15–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/srj-2020-0004.
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Abstract The lesser kestrel is an insectivorous and migratory falcon species, frequently using communal roosts in the post-breeding period in southern Europe. Using pellet analysis from two post-breeding roosting sites in southern Albania collected in August 2017, we identified 1539 prey items belonging to approximately 58 prey species, 20 families and 7 orders in 110 pellets from two sites. Invertebrates made up the major part of the diet spectrum (PNI = 99.8 %, PFI = 100 %). Invertebrate prey body size varied between 8 and 62 mm (mean 28.1 mm). Bush-crickets (Tettigoniidae) and locusts (Acrididae) were the most abundant and frequent prey groups (PNI = 33 % resp. 48.6 % and PFI = 97 % resp. 94 %). Within the bush-cricket family we could identify the species of genera Tettigonia, Decticus, Platycleis, Isophya and Metrioptera. The species of genera Calliptamus, Stenobothrus and Locusta belonged among the locust species identified in the food. Birds and mammals were found in pellets only occasionally. The prey composition was rather similar at both studied sites, while locusts (Acrididae) were more abundant at the Jorgucat site and bush-crickets (Tettigonioidea) at the Mollas site in the same time. Prey groups Scarabeidae beetles and other beetles (Coleoptera other) were more abundant and frequent at Mollas than at Jorgucat, and spiders were more frequent at Jorgucat. These results suggest that the high abundance of orthopterans and beetles in the food supply in certain localities is the main reason for selection and stable occupancy of these massive communal roosting sites by lesser kestrels in Albania.
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Peka, Nejla. "Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families Within the Albanian Context." European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 4, no. 2 (January 21, 2017): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejms.v4i2.p57-61.
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The purpose of this exploratory study is to investigate about the changes in legal framework and the role that legislative measures play in promoting and protecting all the people rights, especially of all migrant workers and members of their families. The study employs a mixed methodology, comprising a review of the legislation, institutional framework, statistics data and some of the relevant literature in the field of international law, regarding the conventions, bilateral agreements and some other documents for promoting and respecting migrant workers’ rights. The findings of this study are supported in prior research in analyzing a lot of documents, strategies, prepared by NGO-s and other government institutions. The in-depth analysis of the qualitative data revealed a basic understanding of promoting and protecting migrant workers and members of their families in my country.
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Meçe, Merita. "Population aging in Albanian post-socialist society: Implications for care and family life." SEEU Review 11, no. 2 (December 1, 2015): 127–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/seeur-2015-0033.
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Abstract Population aging is becoming an inevitable phenomenon in Albanian post-socialist society, posing multi-faceted challenges to its individuals, families and society as a whole. Since 1991, the Albanian population has been exposed to intensive demographic changes caused by unintended aspects of socio-economic transition from a planned socialist economy to a market-oriented capitalist one (Hoff, 2008). Ongoing processes of re-organization of social institutions increased its socio-economic insecurity leading to the application of various coping mechanisms. While adjusting themselves to other aspects of life, people changed their decisions of having children and leaving the country (Hoff, 2008). On the other hand, replacement of former traditional extended family forms with diverse living arrangements and family structures has been the outcome of the combination of three factors: falling fertility, increasing life expectancy and increasing migration (INSTAT, 2014). However, family remains the basic social unit that provides support, care and protection for its old members even though its capacities are diminishing. Family Life Cycle Theory views family development as a series of stages where family members deal with various developmental tasks and play different roles as they move from one stage to another. This paper examines population aging in Albanian post-socialist society (after 1990). Based on Family Life Cycle Theory and Family Development Theory, it reviews literature and uses secondary data to discuss its implications for elderly care and family life. It concludes that population aging requires better understanding of this process in order to facilitate a series of family adaptations to respond to the changing needs of its elderly members.
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Mendes Lopes, Margarida, Rita Pardini, and Gian Pietro Pirola. "Continuous families of divisors, paracanonical systems and a new inequality for varieties of maximal Albanese dimension." Geometry & Topology 17, no. 2 (May 29, 2013): 1205–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2140/gt.2013.17.1205.
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Janackovic, Pedja, Milan Gavrilovic, Boban Rakic, Vele Tesevic, and Petar Marin. "Brine shrimp lethality bioassay of selected gymnosperm and angiosperm species." Zbornik Matice srpske za prirodne nauke, no. 131 (2016): 109–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/zmspn1631109j.
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Methanol extracts of selected species of flowering plants Anthemis cotula, A. ruthenica, Centaurea dubia (Asteraceae), Ajuga genevensis, A. chamaepitys, A. reptans, Micromeria albanica, M. cristata, M. dalmatica, M. juliana, Thymus tosevii (Lamiaceae) and conifers - Abies alba, Picea omorika, Pinus heldreichii (Pinaceae) and Taxus baccata (Taxaceae), as well as diethyl ether extracts of ten species Anthemis cotula, A. ruthenica, Centaurea dubia, Ajuga genevensis, A. chamaepitys, A. reptans, Micromeria albanica, M. cristata, M. dalmatica and M. juliana from two flowering plant families (Asteraceae and Lamiaceae) were tested for general bioactivity using brine shrimp (Artemia salina) lethality test. Lethal concentration (LC50) and 95% confidence intervals were determined by computer program LdP line. Out of fifteen tested methanol extracts, three possessed cytotoxic effect. Taxus baccata methanol extract showed the highest effect (LC50 = 18.60 ?g/ml), while Thymus tosevii methanol extract expressed the lowest (LC50 = 842.50 ?g/ml). All other analyzed species did not express significant cytotoxicity. Also, diethyl ether extracts of all tested species did not show significant cytotoxicity. The obtained results for methanol extracts which show certain cytotoxic effect could be guide for further phytochemical and pharmacological investigations.
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Bjelajac, Mile. "Migrations of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo 1938-1950." Balcanica, no. 38 (2007): 219–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/balc0738219b.
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The Kosovo crisis and the dissolution of the SFR of Yugoslavia provoked the scholarly community to respond in many and varied ways. This paper seeks to show how difficult it was for many to 'navigate' between the 'rocks' of hard fact and pure propaganda, and in what ways that open-ended situation echoes in the present. A more important goal, however, is to put forward the results of my research regarding the reliability of the Yugoslav census data of 1931 which may shed clarifying light on the vastly discrepant demographic figures that are currently in use. The 1931 census data for non-Slav minorities were highly classified and intended only for internal government use in response to the needs of external defense or internal order. Migrations of the ethnic Albanians and other ethnic groups in the Kosovo region during the first half of the twentieth century led to significant shifts in ethnic proportions. It is almost impossible to form a clear fact-based picture of what had happened during the First World War and why the Orthodox Christian Serbian population dropped to 21.1% in 1921, almost twice as low as their number in 1911. On the other hand, it is debatable how many ethnic Albanians or Turks permanently emigrated or went in exile in 1918-21. According to various Yugoslav data sources, some 65,000 settlers and state officials came to Kosovo, while some 24,000 Muslims from all parts of Yugoslavia emigrated to Turkey or Albania. The Second World War brought about another significant population shift. Some 10,000 Serbs were killed in 1941, while almost all Christian Orthodox settler families (about 60,000 people) were expelled. The expulsion was followed by an inflow of Albanians from Albania proper. Only two thirds of the expelled were permitted to return after 1945. The provisional Yugoslav census of 1948 registered a significant increase for Albanians and a decrease for Serbs and Montenegrins or, expressed in percentage terms, Serbs dropped from 33.1% to 27.5% and Albanians rose from 54.4% to 68.5% of the total population in the region. The Tito-Stalin split in 1948 and strained relations with Albania led to another wave of immigrants from that country Yugoslav historians had evidence for at least 30,000 and indications, yet to be proven, for some 75,000.
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PEŠIĆ, VLADIMIR, HARRY SMIT, REINHARD GERECKE, and ANTONIO DI SABATINO. "The water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of the Balkan peninsula, a revised survey with new records and descriptions of five new taxa." Zootaxa 2586, no. 1 (August 31, 2010): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2586.1.1.
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Based on published records and original data from recent research, a list is presented of the water mite (Acari: Hydrachnidia) fauna of the Balkan countries, i.e. Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece. It includes 382 species and subspecies in 77 genera and 34 families. Numerous new records for national faunas are reported, and five taxa, Sperchon pelopeius (Greece), Atractides stankovici (Croatia), Axonopsis graeca (Greece), Woolastookia minuta (Bosnia and Hercegovina, Greece) and Arrenurus ornatus graecus (Greece) are described as new to science. Atractides moniezi (Motaş, 1927) is synonymized with A. lacustris (Lundblad, 1925). The assumption of K. O. Viets (1987) that Pionopsis subruber Đ orđević, 1903 is a synonym of P. lutescens (Hermann, 1804) is confirmed. The characteristics of the water mite fauna in the treated area are briefly outlined. Additional field work is highly desirable for a more appropriate evaluation of the extant water mite biodiversity in the Balkans.
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Morozova, Maria S., and Alexander Yu Rusakov. "Montenegrin-Albanian Linguistic Border: In Search of “Balanced Language Contact”." Slovene 7, no. 2 (2018): 258–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2305-6754.2018.7.2.10.
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The article aims to clarify the notion of “balanced language contact” and to model the situation of a language contact (in the present and the past) in one of the ethnically and linguistically mixed regions of the Montenegrin-Albanian linguistic border. The study focuses on the situation in the bilingual community of thevillageofVelja Gorana, located in the area of Mrkovići inSouthern Montenegro. The community of the village, as it seems at a first glance, provides a good example of a “balanced contact” situation. The language situation in Velja Gorana is described in the article as a set of micro-situations, or scenarios, developing on family and individual levels. Attention is paid not only to the communication in the family domain, but also to the external relations of the community members. Following on from this material, the authors attempt to develop a methodology for assessing the role of both languages in such communities in general, showing which factors influence individual linguistic behavior; how this behavior may change during an individual lifetime; how the different speakers’ strategies amalgamate in what can be considered as behavior of a multilingual speech community. Analyzing the information on the history of Velia Gorana, in particular, conducting a detailed examination of the origins, genealogies and marriage strategies of its families, allows the authors to reconstruct the mechanisms for the development of “linguistic exogamy” in the community of Velja Gorana and to make assumptions about the nature of the contact situation in this region in the past.
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Burtch, Andrew. "Growing up in Armyville: Canada's Military Families during the Afghanistan Mission by Deborah Harrisson and Patrizia Albanese." Histoire sociale/Social history 52, no. 105 (2019): 234–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/his.2019.0019.
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