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In 2006 immigrants and their supporters participated in a series of marches in cities throughout the United States. The enormous size and scale of the demonstrations were surprising to some observers, who saw the marches as a spontaneous outburst of frustra-tion. This article argues the unprecedented turnout at the demonstrations should be seen not as a spontaneous outburst but in large part the result of long-standing cooperative efforts and networks of immigrant-serving nonprofit organizations. Immigrant-serving organizations were at the forefront of organizing public education campaigns, advocacy activities, and community mobilization efforts leading up to the demonstra-tions. Using Chicago and New York City as case studies, the article analyzes data from a survey of 498 nonprofit organizations conducted in 2005, just prior to the demonstra-tions. The authors show how a history of collaborations, organizational network ties, and the existing relations between organizations in key coalitions became the foundation for the mobilizations.

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Barack Obama’s election night address was rhetorically effective. He strategically departed from the norms of the victory speak genre insofar as he moved it outside the usual hotel ballroom and thereby significantly enlarged (and broadened) the audience. He did not, however, take it to just any place; he took it to Chicago’s Grant Park, a place with negative political associations because of the events that occurred there in conjunction with the Democratic National Convention in 1968. Obama thereby redeemed the place and restored the idealism and hope that had been dashed there 40 years before. Obama also echoed Lincoln; Kennedy; Clinton; and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, creating a polyphony that evoked both struggles and a hope that all could be overcome.

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Has the Internet affected the ways in which people communicate by lessening the effects of distance and affecting how people interact? To examine this question, we study scholarly and interpersonal relationships – communicating in person and by email – in two scholarly networks, one in a large university and one dispersed across North America. Not only are these scholarly networks interesting in their own right, they are harbingers of the turn toward network and virtual organizations. Although the Internet helps scholars to maintain ties over great distances, physical proximity still matters. Those scholars who see each other often or work nearer to each other email each other more often. Frequent contact on the Internet is a complement for frequent face-to-face contact, not a substitute for it. The more scholarly relations network members have, the more frequently they communicate and the more media they use to communicate. Although email helps scholars without strong ties to stay in contact, it is used most by scholars who are collaborators or friends.

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This study describes different uncertain, insecure, and unstable working arrangements experienced by workers in Sri Lanka. Findings show that most informal sector workers experience precarious employment. The main types of precarious workers are temporary or contractual workers who work in the formal sector. Faced with competition, and in their attempts to cut costs and increase productivity, employers pressure workers to produce better goods, faster. Also, to adjust the workforce to meet the fluctuating demand in the market at lower cost, workers are given temporary or contractual contracts, so that their work is easily discontinued. The insecurities and instabilities of these workers come from several sources. First, they are deprived of some of the protection afforded by labor legislation because they do not have a permanent contract, and they have to constantly look for alternative work. Second, the intense nature of the work they are exposed to can increase their risks to different adverse health conditions. Poor health and lack of a permanent job can adversely affect their income-earning potential. Third, being temporary workers, they have fewer interactions with labor unions. Better information on the size and trends in precarious employment needs to be systematically collected so that policy makers will be better informed of the issues relating to precarious work in Sri Lanka and can initiate informed initiatives to improve the situation.

This special issue of American Behavioral Scientist provides a cross-section of cutting-edge articles on the third methodological and philosophical movement com-monly known as “mixed methods ” or “mixed methods research ” (MMR), and our research community is fortunate that the issue contains