Parent-School Partnerships: Accounting for Parents Facing Economic Hardship and Social Marginalization

This paper analyses the nexus of the global financial crisis and the remittance markets of Mexico and India, along with introducing new and emerging payment technologies that will help facilitate the growth of remittances worldwide. Overall resiliency is found in most markets but some are impacted differently by economic hardship. With that we also explore the area of emerging payment methods and how they can help nations weather this economic strife. Mobile payments are highlighted as one of the priority areas for the future of transferring monetary funds, and we assess their ability to further facilitate global remittances.

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Entrepreneurship as Social Status: Turkish Immigrants’ Experiences of Self-Employment in Finland

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v5i1.58 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 53-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Östen Wahlbeck

Keyword(s):

Social Status ◽

Fast Food ◽

Economic Hardship ◽

Social Aspects ◽

Food Sector ◽

Turkish Immigrants ◽

Self Employment

The article discusses the experiences of self-employment among immigrants from Turkey living in Finland. The immigrants are mainly active in the restaurant and fast food sector in Finland, primarily in small kebap and pizza businesses. The article argues that both economic and social aspects explain the experiences of self-employment. Despite economic hardship, the freedom and social status connected to entrepreneurship is highly valued. Self-employment provides a positive self-understanding and a good social status, which the immigrants from Turkey find it difficult to achieve by any other means in Finnish society

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The Roma in Post-Communist Bulgaria: Growing Social Marginalization and State Policies

Journal of Asian Social Science Research ◽

10.15575/jassr.v2i1.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1-24

Author(s):

Yorgos Christidis

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

Social Exclusion ◽

Hate Crime ◽

Hate Speech ◽

Poor Performance ◽

State Policies ◽

Social Marginalization ◽

Popular Support ◽

Economic Problems ◽

The Poor

This article analyzes the growing impoverishment and marginalization of the Roma in Bulgarian society and the evolution of Bulgaria’s post-1989 policies towards the Roma. It examines the results of the policies so far and the reasons behind the “poor performance” of the policies implemented. It is believed that Post-communist Bulgaria has successfully re-integrated the ethnic Turkish minority given both the assimilation campaign carried out against it in the 1980s and the tragic events that took place in ex-Yugoslavia in the 1990s. This Bulgaria’s successful “ethnic model”, however, has failed to include the Roma. The “Roma issue” has emerged as one of the most serious and intractable ones facing Bulgaria since 1990. A growing part of its population has been living in circumstances of poverty and marginalization that seem only to deteriorate as years go by. State policies that have been introduced since 1999 have failed at large to produce tangible results and to reverse the socio-economic marginalization of the Roma: discrimination, poverty, and social exclusion continue to be the norm. NGOs point out to the fact that many of the measures that have been announced have not been properly implemented, and that legislation existing to tackle discrimination, hate crime, and hate speech is not implemented. Bulgaria’s political parties are averse in dealing with the Roma issue. Policies addressing the socio-economic problems of the Roma, including hate speech and crime, do not enjoy popular support and are seen as politically damaging.

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SOCIAL INTEGRATION, ECONOMIC HARDSHIP AND RATES OF PERSONAL VIOLENCE (SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE): 1933-1970 IN THE USA

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1987.60.3c.1306 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 60 (3c) ◽

pp. 1306-1306 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

DAVID LESTER

Keyword(s):

Social Integration ◽

Economic Hardship ◽

The Usa ◽

Personal Violence

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Reshaping Tunisian identity

10.1093/oso/9780190670757.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Anne Wolf

Keyword(s):

Economic Hardship ◽

Underground Structures ◽

Political Repression ◽

Constituent Assembly

Chapter 6 reveals that Ennahda’s previous underground structures and wide network of sympathisers helped it to quickly gain in relevance after the 2010–11 uprisings. Yet whilst the uprisings took place in response to economic hardship and political repression, discussions in the Constituent Assembly, elected in October 2011, quickly centred on the role of Islam in society. This exposed Ennahda’s leaders to a challenging task: accounting for its frequent compromises—including on issues of religion—with secular parties, to the detriment of its more conservative grassroots, which it increasingly risked losing to the Salafis.

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