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  • 7 - Toward a Social Network Theory of Reentry

  • from Part I - Theoretical Foundations of Intercultural Training
  • Edited by Dan Landis, University of Hawaii, Hilo, Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, University of Hawaii, Manoa
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Training
    Published online:
    18 September 2020
    Print publication:
    27 August 2020, pp 281-305

  • Summary

    In this chapter, we make an argument that reentry process and its outcome could be better represented, understood, and explained from a social network perspective. We first review the theories and empirical findings of previous research on reentry using social relations as the binding theme. We then introduce social network analysis and highlight its complementary role to conventional reentry studies. On such basis, an integrated social network theory of reentry is proposed and its various propositions presented. FInally, the implications of this theoretical framework for intercultural training are discussed in detail and suggestions for training design and evaluation are provided.

  • Divorcing Marriage from Marital Assets: Why Equity and Women Fail in Property Readjustment Actions in Nigeria

  • Michael Attah
  • Journal:
    Journal of African Law / Volume 62 / Issue 3 / October 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 September 2018, pp. 427-446
    Print publication:
    October 2018
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  • Applicable statutes give Nigerian courts discretion to achieve fairness in marital property readjustment. Ironically, the courts’ approach has often been to adjudicate on the basis of formal title, resulting in a general failure to make any readjustments. This article offers two alternative explanations for this judicial behaviour: absence of a specific statutory marriage-centred definition of matrimonial property; and the courts’ failure to appreciate the implicit matrimonial property regime revealed by a perspicacious interpretation of the statutes. These factors lead the courts to exercise a title-finding jurisdiction instead of an adjustive one. This conservative approach results in the courts exercising an exclusionary prescription of property. These flaws ignore the socio-cultural underpinnings and environment of marriage that support patriarchy in Africa and generally “disable” women in relation to property rights. Sample court cases support this thesis and underscore the need for a statutory definition of matrimonial property, with marriage as its denominator.