Qualified to be deviant: stigma-management strategies among Chinese leftover women

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-300
Author(s):  
Qian Liu
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Stigma Management ◽  
Queer Women ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Population Policies ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
Labelling Function ◽  
Leftover Women ◽  
Legal Consequences

AbstractThis paper highlights the intersection of gender, sexuality and class in shaping the ways in which ‘leftover’ women navigate legal and social discrimination. ‘Leftover women’ is a stigmatising term in China that refers to women who do not get married by the time they reach their late twenties. Based on my fieldwork in China with queer and heterosexual ‘leftover’ women, I introduce two strategies of stigma management: ‘buying a licence to be deviant’ and ‘identity-hopping’. The former is a strategy adopted by heterosexual women with financial resources and a desire frequently expressed by queer women. ‘Buying a licence to be deviant’ refers to the strategy of accumulating sufficient financial resources to justify one's choice to be deviant and deal with the legal consequences of the evasion of the population policies. ‘Identity-hopping’ is popular among those with a lower social and financial status, who use the law's labelling function to hop from one stigmatised identity to another as a way to deal with stigma. From an intersectional lens, this paper advances law and society's study of stigma and discrimination by emphasising the hierarchy of stigmatised identities and the strategy of using the law's power of labelling identities to hop from one identity to another. It also demonstrates how the intersection of gender, sexuality and class complicates the ways in which leftover women understand and engage with the law.

scholarly journals Empowered by stigma? Pioneer organic farmers’ stigma management strategies

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 152-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merja Lähdesmäki ◽  
Marjo Siltaoja ◽  
Harri Luomala ◽  
Petteri Puska ◽  
Sami Kurki
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
Stigma Management ◽  
Organic Farmers

scholarly journals Self-Disclosure and Non-Communication: Stigma Management in Third-Sector Transitional Employment

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 11840
Author(s):  
Miira Niska ◽  
Melisa Stevanovic ◽  
Elina Weiste ◽  
Tommi Ostrovskij ◽  
Taina Valkeapää ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Information Control ◽  
Stigma Management ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Transitional Employment

People who are recovering from a mental illness often have difficulties finding and maintaining employment. One of the main reasons for these difficulties is the negative label, or stigma, attached to mental illnesses. People who possess stigmatizing characteristics may use compensatory stigma management strategies to reduce discrimination. Due to mental illnesses’ invisible characteristics, information control is an important stigma management strategy. People can often choose whether they disclose or non-communicate their illness. Nevertheless, it might be difficult to decide when and to whom to disclose or non-communicate the stigma. Since stigma management is a dilemmatic process, workers in mental health services play an important role in informing their clients of when it is best to disclose or non-communicate their illness. In this article, we adopt the perspective of discursive social psychology to investigate how workers of one mental health service programme evaluate and construct self-disclosure and non-communication as stigma management strategies. We demonstrate how these workers recommend non-communication and formulate strict stipulations for self-disclosure. At the same time, they differentiate non-communication from lying or providing false information. The study contributes to an improved understanding of stigma management in contemporary mental health services.

Brothels as Hidden Organizations

2019 ◽  
pp. 195-214
Author(s):  
Sarah Jane Blithe ◽  
Anna Wiederhold Wolfe ◽  
Breanna Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Image Management ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Stigma Management ◽  
Boundary Crossings ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Organizational Stakeholders

This chapter examines the nature of the revelation-concealment dialectic faced by the brothels as these organizations work to strategically build visibility despite external pressures to keep them hidden and internal desires to protect the privacy of certain organizational stakeholders. Additionally, in instances of organizational visibility, the authors examine brothels’ strategies for managing core-stigma while attempting to project a socially-acceptable public image. Brothels address this revelation-concealment dialectic by adopting stigma-management strategies of distancing themselves from identities they perceive as socially undesirable and aligning themselves with non-stigmatized industry practices. At the same time, the brothels construct selectively-permeable organizational boundaries through the invitation of controlled outsider boundary-crossings and through the promotion of their own community-engagement efforts. These results extend research on hidden organizations to consider the particular image-management challenges faced by shadowed organizations.

Stigma Management Strategies Checklist

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nyoman Agus Jagat Raya ◽  
Kittikorn Nilmanat
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
Stigma Management

scholarly journals Avoided emissions and conservation of scrub mangroves: potential for a Blue Carbon project in the Gulf of California, Mexico

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 20180400 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. F. Adame ◽  
E. Najera ◽  
C. E. Lovelock ◽  
C. J. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Short Stature ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Gulf Of California ◽  
Blue Carbon ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Dominant Form ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Avoided Emissions ◽  
Carbon Project ◽  
Definition Of

Mangroves are considered ideal ecosystems for Blue Carbon projects. However, because of their short stature, some mangroves (‘scrub’ mangroves, less than 2 m) do not fulfil the current definition of ‘forests’, which makes them ineligible for emission reduction programmes such as REDD+. Short stature mangroves can be the dominant form of mangroves in arid and nutrient-poor landscapes, and emissions from their deforestation and degradation could be substantial. Here, we describe a Blue Carbon project in the Gulf of California, Mexico, to illustrate that projects that avoid emissions from deforestation and degradation could provide financial resources to protect mangroves that cannot be included in other emission reduction programmes. The goal of the project is to protect 16 058 ha of mangroves through conservation concessions from the Mexican Federal Government. The cumulative avoided emissions of the project are 2.84 million Mg CO 2 over 100 years, valued at $US 426 000 per year (US$15 per Mg CO 2 in the California market). The funds could be used for community-based projects that will improve mangrove management, such as surveillance, eradication of invasive species, rehabilitation after tropical storms and environmental education. The strong institutional support, secure financial status, community engagement and clear project boundaries provide favourable conditions to implement this Blue Carbon project. Financial resources from Blue Carbon projects, even in mangroves of short stature, can provide substantial resources to enhance community resilience and mangrove protection.

scholarly journals Intersectional identifications: Ethnicity and sexuality among diasporic queer women in Belgium

Ethnicities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1025-1043
Author(s):  
Alexander Dhoest
Keyword(s):  
Migration Background ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Queer Women ◽  
Structuring Element ◽  
Intersectionality Theory ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Racial Lines ◽  
Depth Interviews

While research on migration and diasporas tends to be heteronormative, research on sexual minorities tends to ignore migrants and ethnic minorities. The current paper aims to problematize both tendencies by taking a queer perspective on migration and a diasporic perspective on sexuality. As part of a larger project on diasporic LGBTQs living in Belgium, this paper discusses the social positions and identifications of six non-heterosexual women with a migration background, as narrated in individual in-depth interviews. Drawing on intersectionality theory, the relative importance and mutual interplay between their sexual and ethno-cultural identifications are analysed. This analysis discloses the irreducible individuality of each narrative, where the balance and interaction between ethno-cultural and sexual identifications is part of an intricate interplay of social positions and contexts. The participants’ migration background is a key structuring element, leading to a combination of geographic and/or social distance from their family and ethno-cultural community in which religious, family and gender norms lead to a range of expectations and pressures. Sexual identifications tend to be more salient when they are strongly rejected, in which case they lead to more social and often also geographic distancing. This is further modulated by race, as non-white participants tend to identify more strongly along racial lines because they are continuously reminded of their otherness.

Financial performance of the pharmaceutical manufacturers: 2020 interim results

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-69
Author(s):  
Svetlana Romanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Data Form ◽  
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers

Financial status is the most important characteristic of the economic activity of the industry enterprises, which determines its economic attractiveness. Let us consider a set of indicators reflecting the availability, placement and use of financial resources of enterprises in the industry. Financial status of the industry enterprises is analysed using the data form State Statistical Reporting Form No. P-3 Information on Company Financial Status.

scholarly journals “People Are Enemies to What They Don’t Know” Managing Stigma and Anti-Muslim Stereotypes in a Turkish Community Center

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Paul ◽  
Sarah Becker
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Community Center ◽  
Stigma Management ◽  
Turkish Culture ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Turkish Community

In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, anti-Muslim discourse and sentiment has become pervasive in the West. Using a collaborative ethnographic approach, we observe how participants at a Turkish Community Center (TCC) cultivate stigma management strategies against the cultural backdrop of post-9/11 anti-Muslim stereotypes. In our analysis, we use Goffman’s work on stigma and critical race theory to explore the socially embedded nature of stigmatization processes for Turkish Muslims in a local community center. Our findings reveal how aspects of Turkish culture and Islam, together with a structural context that facilitates collective stigma management, allow TCC participants to effectively manage stigma and combat anti-Muslim stereotypes. Turkish participants use the practice of “dialogue” to prioritize secular identity(ies) through cultural education, normalize the Muslim self in conversation about religion, and embody a gendered presentation of Islam and Turkish culture. While facilitating individual and collective resilience for TCC participants in the face of stigmatization and pervasive anti-Muslim sentiment, these practices also contribute to the reproduction of broader patterns of racial, cultural, and gender inequality.

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