Social Work Organizations’ Role in the Social Capital Building in China: A Case Study Among Rural Migrant Workers in Xiamen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanshan Hong ◽  
Rosila Bee Mohd Hussain ◽  
Danny Tze Ken Wong
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
The Social ◽  
Capital Building ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

Risk and Resilience Among Rural Migrant Workers in Mainland China During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Post COVID

2021 ◽  
pp. 185-205
Author(s):  
Shanshan Hong ◽  
Rosila Bee Mohd Hussain ◽  
Danny Tze Ken Wong
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Risk And Resilience ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

Rural migrant workers are an indigenous population migrated from rural to urban, encountering risks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including social, political, and psychological facets. Through conducting a case study in an eastern city, it is found that economic crisis and mental distress are risks rural migrant workers faced during COVID-19. Social trust and support, self-help, traditional Chinese culture, and volunteerism are presented as resilient among rural migrant workers during COVID-19. Risks persist in post COVID, which are difficulties in job hunting and finding a place to live. However, they still maintain resilience, such as hard-working, enduring hardship, and trust for the future to cope with additional risks. The research findings can reveal further implications for social workers and policymakers.

Thinking on Completing the Social Security Systems toward the Rural Migrant Workers in Cities

2011 ◽  
Vol 55-57 ◽  
pp. 2039-2044
Author(s):  
Lei Sun
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Social Security System ◽  
Security System ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

Rural migrant workers in cities exist as a special group and its social security issue attracts much attention from the country and the government. Despite of it, there emerges a serious of problems in the process of social security completion toward rural migrant workers. For example, significant discrepancy between rural migrant workers’ economic contribution and social security policy; low positivity and little awareness of participation in the social security system; lagging behind of Endowment insurance ; disparity between rural areas and urban areas; The shortage of rural migrant workers’ medical security; Difficulties in implementing rural migrant workers’ social security, and so on . This essay, through analyzing causes of these problems, bring up suggestions on: reforming the census register policy and land policy and eliminating the disparity between the rural and the urban; Systematizing rural migrant workers’ social security net; Building the social relief system for rural migrant workers concentrating on ensuring a minimum standard of living and their medical insurance system; completing social security system, and the like.

Building and Maintenance of Social Capital in Rural Farming Community of the Western Hills of Nepal

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-41
Author(s):  
Ram Krishna Shrestha ◽  
Donald Charles Cameron ◽  
Jeff Coutts ◽  
Jim Cavaye
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Farming Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Capital Building

Farmers' cooperatives are considered social capital dependent organization. Fostering the development of social capital and its maintenance would help improve the performance of farmers' cooperatives. Multiple case studies of agriculture cooperatives from Western Hills of Nepal were carried out to explore what prompts the building of the social capital and what factors influence the maintenance of this capital in farming communities. Finding shows that ‘extension and rural development intervention', ‘access to external supports and benefits', and ‘existing economic potential' in the form of market-oriented vegetable production were the drivers of social capital building. Similarly, ‘leadership', ‘good governance', and ‘members' commitment' influenced maintenance of social capital within the framework of case study cooperatives. The finding concluded that channelizing extension services through cooperatives had a strong bearing on social capital building and that internal dynamics of cooperatives were critical in the maintenance of social capital. Some policy implications are given.

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