Folk songs encapsulate contemporary society’s cultural life. Folk songs have been used by many historians to better comprehend the culture and traditional consciousness of people who left just a few written records of their lives. As a result, folk songs can reveal a lot about their history, culture, values, and societal advancement. Folklore is a body of expressive culture that encompasses folktales, folk music, superstitions, beliefs, and other cultural expressions exclusive to a community. A folk song, on the other hand, is a song that belongs to a community’s or region’s folk music, and can have a variety of regional features. Folklore has been classified in a variety of ways, with Dorson (1972) dividing it into four categories: i) oral tradition, (ii) material culture, (iii) social folk customs, and (iv) traditional folk arts. This paper tries to explore the changing sensibilities in popular culture, particularly in the field of folk music, and the forms in which it is expressed and used as a tool to resist the status quo. This manuscript focuses on the folk traditions of traditional Irish music and Ulster Orange music in Northern Ireland and the co-existing folk music of the Koch Rajbonshis in the Assam region of North-Eastern India, trying to highlight the attached identity of the groups/community in both regions.

Administrative Justice Reform in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The article examines the essence and significance of the institution of administrative justice in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is noted that the modern Anglo-Saxon model of administrative justice emerged in the early twentieth century, creating a system different from continental European countries to protect the rights of citizens from decisions, actions and inaction of public administration and control them, which plays an important role in public administration. The lack of a unified theory of administrative justice, the chaotic creation of its bodies has led to different interpretations and understandings of the system of administrative justice. It is emphasized that today there is no consensus on the concept, nature and system of administrative justice in the United Kingdom, but a study of various theoretical concepts and opinions in this regard led to the conclusion that the main administrative justice bodies are special quasi-judicial institutions - tribunals. the bulk of administrative disputes in the field of public administration. It is substantiated that the Anglo-Saxon model of administrative justice is characterized by significant differences in the nature of its bodies, historical development, procedural features and so on. The administrative justice of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is represented by a system of tribunals empowered to deal with a range of matters concerning illegal decisions, acts or omissions of officials and public authorities. Such tribunals are quasi-judicial institutions that consider and resolve administrative disputes in a procedure that resembles the judiciary, but are not part of the judicial system of the state, thus forming separate bodies with specific functions. Today, the importance of tribunals is constantly growing, from temporary special purpose bodies they are becoming an important element of the justice system. Thus, in recent years, the United Kingdom has been reformed to improve the system of administrative justice, unify and develop common standards for their work. It is analyzed that in 2007, with the adoption of the Act on Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Proceedings, which entered into force on November 3, 2008, a new period of administrative justice of the United Kingdom began. This law significantly reformed the organizational framework of the tribunal system, as well as created the preconditions for the convergence of the tribunal system and the courts in order to create a single mechanism for protecting the rights and freedoms of individuals. It was emphasized that the modern system of tribunals has ceased to be perceived as a temporary, additional way to protect the rights of the individual, and together with the courts has become an essential part of the system of protection of rights.

Migration from the new European Union (EU) Member States to the United Kingdom (UK) has been identified as one of the most significant social phenomena of recent times and Accession 8 (A8) migration to the UK has been studied extensively particularly since 2004. Even though gendered studies of migration are now attaining recognition, there is limited literature in relation to Polish migrant women. What is more, there is now much evidence to support the view that migrant women constitute a large proportion of international migrants. In fact, when considering migration within the European context, migrant women now outnumber their male counterparts. Drawing on a review of secondary literature and preliminary findings from new fieldwork research undertaken in Poland and the UK in 2012, this paper explores how Polish migrant women exercise their rights as EU citizens to better their own and their families’ wellbeing. As the consequence of their newly acquired rights as EU citizens, Polish migrant women appear to be active agents who make use of the resources and opportunities that migration offers. It is concluded that migration within the EU presents positive opportunities for Polish migrant women to actively engage with and exercise national and EU citizenship rights.