Social Quality Research in a Globalized World

An Introduction

in The International Journal of Social Quality
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Ka Lin Zhejiang University ka_lin_2004@yahoo.com.cn

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Des Gasper Erasmus University Rotterdam gasper@iss.nl

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Laurent J.G. van der Maesen International Association on Social Quality info@socialquality.org

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In the current globalized world, societal trends, problems, and challenges come not only from national states but also from beyond. These trends, problems, and challenges include international migration, human traffi cking, pandemics such as HIV, environmental pollution, and terrorism, presenting risks for the progress of human society and for world peace. Therefore, they are, or should be, subject to forms of global governance. This issue of the International Journal of Social Quality includes several papers to discuss these issues as important topics in social quality studies.

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The International Journal of Social Quality

(formerly The European Journal of Social Quality)