Integration or marginalization? The failures of social policy for the Roma in Rome

Modern Italy ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Clough Marinaro

SummaryThis article examines Rome City Council's policies concerning the Roma during Francesco Rutelli's two terms as mayor (1993-2001). It demonstrates that the Rutelli administration's policies for these minority communities shifted from a superficial but genuine attempt to overcome aspects of marginalization to a criminalizing strategy of exclusion. It is argued here that the failure significantly to improve the social conditions of the Roma was due to (a) a refusal to tackle the inter-related causes of their social exclusion and (b) submission to the anti-Roma hostility of parts of the voting public. Following the demolition of Rome's largest shanty town in October 2000, the Council was unable to house many of the Roma it had made homeless. It would seem that a ‘cleaning-up’ campaign was intro duced to distance undocumented individuals and those with criminal records from the city through a notable rise in police raids. This change in approach was accompanied and justified by an intensification of ethnicized public order discourse.

ijd-demos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Firda Afifah Damayanti ◽  
Jimas Maulana ◽  
Rasifa Apriliana ◽  
Ridwanul Maknunah ◽  
Riza Aulia S

AbstractThis paper aims to dissect the concept of how to compare religions related to houses of worship between Lebak and Pandeglang. Today, social society has a lot of diversity, including ethnicity, language, race, and religion. With so many differences and social diversity, society tends to cause divisions in the community environment. The differences that are present in the community are fostered by a unity that respects one another. The study in this article describes the side of Indonesian pluralism, especially the social conditions of the religious community in Lebak Regency. The challenges that are present in forming unity and respecting differences in the concept of multicultural pluralism are not clashed with disagreements and respect for the differences that exist in each individual. Neither government regulations or policies, both central and regional, do not limit the space for minority communities. The concept that is present in the community will lead to love for unity and peace. Lebak is a district in Banten Province, which is tolerant of differences. In the condition of a society that respects each other and chats with tolerance, the culture of the community that is different from the individuals in the environment, is able to understand the character of every human being, so that hate speech about a group is almost non-existent. However, in contrast to neighboring districts, Pandeglang has become a district nicknamed the city of santri in Banten province, which is quite intolerant of non-Muslims. One of which is the community rejects the construction of non-Muslim places of worship in Pandeglang district. Of course this shows a clear allusion that looks like distinguishing the right to religion and worship only in Islam.Keywords: multiculturalism, pluralism, identity, comparison  AbstrakTulisan ini bertujuan untuk membedah konsep bagaimana Komparasi Agama Terkait Rumah Ibadah Antara Lebak dan Pandeglang. Dewasa ini sosial masyarakat  memiliki banyak keberagaman, baik suku, bahasa, ras, maupun agama. Dengan banyaknya perbedaan serta keberagaman sosial masyarakat cenderung menimbulkan perpecahan dalam lingkungan masyarakat tersebut. Perbedaan yang hadir ditengah masyarakat dipupuk dengan persatuan yang saling menghargai satu sama lain. Kajian dalam artikel ini mendeskripsikan sisi pluralism Indonesia terkhusus kondisi sosial umat beragama di Kabupaten Lebak. Tantangan yang hadir dalam membentuk persatuan dan saling menghargai perbedaan dalam konsep pluralism multikultularilsm tidak dibenturkan dengan perselisih­­ paham dan menghargai perbedaan yang ada pada setiap individu. Baik aturan atau kebijakan pemerintah baik pusat ataupun daerah, tidak membatasi ruang terhadap masyarakat minoritas. Konsep yang hadir ditengah masyarakat tersebut akan menimbulkan cinta persatuan dan perdamaian. Lebak merupakan kabupaten yang berada di Provinsi Banten, menjdi salah-satu daerah yang toleran terhadap perbedaan. Dalam kondisi masyarakat yang saling menghargai dan bercengkrama dengan toleransi, budaya masyarakat yang berbeda dengan individu yang ada di lingkungan tersebut, mampu memahami karakter setiap insan, sehingga ujaran kebencian akan suatu kelompok hampir tidak ada kasus. Namun beda dengan Kabupaten tetangganya, Pandeglang malah menjadi sebuah kabupaten yamng di juluki kota santri di provinsi Banten cukup intoleran terhadap non-muslim. Yang salah satunya masyarakat  menolak pembanguan rumah ibadah non-muslim di kabupaten pandeglang. Tentu hal ini menunjukan adanya singgungan jelas yang terlihat seperti membedakan hak beragama dan beribadah hanya ada pada agama islam.Kata Kunci: multikulturalisme, pluralisme, identitas, komparasi


2021 ◽  
pp. 147488512110080
Author(s):  
Lois McNay

Steven Klein’s excellent new book The Work of Politics is an innovative, insightful and original argument about the valuable role that welfare institutions may play in democratic movements for change. In place of a one-sided Weberian view of welfare institutions as bureaucratic instruments of social control, Klein recasts them in Arendtian terms as ‘worldly mediators’ or participatory mechanisms that act as channels for a radical politics of democratic world making. Although Klein is careful to modulate this utopian vision through a developed account of power and domination, I question the relevance of this largely historical model of world-building activism for the contemporary world of welfare. I point to the way that decades of neoliberal social policy have arguably eroded many of the social conditions and relations of solidarity that are vital prerequisites for collective activism around welfare.


1979 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 171-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Mason

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that the practice of religion will be influenced by the social conditions prevailing in any given locality.’ The debate on this statement is largely concentrated for present purposes into a consideration of activities between c1100 and c1250 in two distinctive societies: Westminster abbey and its environs and, in contrast, the city and diocese of Worcester. The essential function of Westminster abbey was, of course, intercessory, and while this role was shared with Worcester cathedral, the latter church had also a wide-ranging pastoral responsibility. In this sense, no exact equation can be made, yet the richness of the records which both churches accumulated presents adequate material for a valid comparison in other respects. It is not intended, and is, indeed, impossible to make an arbitrary definition of Westminster as town and Worcester as countryside. Elements of both were contained in Westminster and Worcester alike.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
I. Antonovich ◽  
K. Velikzhanina ◽  
O. Kolesnikova ◽  
S. Chudova

The Object of the Study. Municipal social policy.The Subject of the Study. The role of scientific research in realizing municipal social policy.The Purpose of the Study. Identifying the role of scientific research in realizing social policy at the municipal level.The Main Provisions of the Article. The main theoretic methodological and philosophy approaches to the science integration to the social policy realization are analyzed. There is the substantiation of the efficiency of the scientific potential use in the social policy implementation at the local level. Scientific achievements and innovations involvement in solving social problems of the city of Barnaul are considered through the implementation of the grant mechanism of interaction in the municipality. A special contribution of the authors is the analysis of legislation in the field of grant support for research projects, monitoring the efficiency of the competition, as well as the correlation of the results of the grant competition with the directions of social policy at the city level (based on the results of monitoring the implementation of grant forms of support in the city in the period from 2014 to 2017). The main problems have been identified that make it difficult to use the potential of science in the implementation of social policy of the city, namely the lack of strong and extensive network of grant competitions in this area, the "frozen" amount of funding for the competition and weak differentiation in the degree of scientific experience among applicants for the grant. According to the study results the place and role of scientific research in the implementation of the activities of local governments in the city of Barnaul in order to implement social policy have been defined, as well as recommendations to improve this activity for the city management developed.


Author(s):  
Danu Aris Setiyanto

The study in this paper is focused thinking Islamic law Imam Malik bin Anas approach to social history.  This study is a study that is fairly new in the field of science of Islamic law, so it is still a bit of academics watched. Imam Malik himself was one of four priests schools are known by the nickname ahlu hadith. Imam Malik in his life has never been out of the city of Medina except during Hajj. This of course support his thought in solving the complexity of the problems largely solved by the hadith enough. In addition, the state of the environment in the Medina which is the place where the Prophet lived for several years, community issues are lightweight and simple. Although Imam Malik called a hadith expert, but he also remains unaffected by the use of ratios in berijtihad because the social conditions at the time. This is evidenced by the use of expert Amal Madinah (Medina community of practice), Fatwa Sahabah, Qiyas, Al-maşlahah mursalah, Aż-żari'ah, Al-Urf (custom) in making Islamic law. Imam Malik was also like other schools with the Qur'an and Hadith as the primary source of Islamic law. [Kajian dalam tulisan ini difokuskan pemikiran hukum Islam Imam Malik bin Anas dengan pendekatan sejarah sosial.  Kajian ini merupakan kajian yang cukup baru di bidang keilmuan hukum Islam, sehingga masih sedikit dari kalangan akademisi yang memperhatikannya. Imam Malik sendiri adalah salah satu dari empat imam mazhab yang terkenal dengan julukan ahlu hadits. Dalam kehidupannya Imam Malik tidak pernah keluar dari kota Madinah kecuali saat haji. Hal ini tentu saja mendukung pemikirannya dalam menyelesaikan kompleksitas permasalahan yang sebagian besar cukup diselesaikan dengan hadits. Selain itu,  keadaan lingkungan di Madinah yang merupakan tempat dimana Rasulullah hidup selama beberapa tahun, permasalahan masyarakat yang ringan dan sederhana. Walaupun Imam Malik disebut sebagai ahlu Hadits namun dirinya juga tetap terpengaruh dengan penggunaan rasio dalam berijtihad karena kondisi sosial saat itu. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan penggunaan Amal ahli Madinah (praktik masyarakat Madinah), Fatwa sahabat, Qiyas, Al-maşlahah mursalah, Aż-żari'ah, al-‘Urf (adat istiadat) dalam pengambilan hukum Islam. Imam Malik pun juga seperti mazhab lain dengan al-Quran dan Hadits sebagai sumber utama dalam hukum Islam.]


Author(s):  
Brian Elliott

This paper offers an interpretation of the dramatic setting of Plato’s Phaedrus as an allegory of the situation of the philosopher within Plato’s Athens. Following Jean-Pierre Vernant’s work on the place of class struggle and warfare within the ancient Greek city-state in his Myth and Society in Ancient Greece I decipher key passages on the Phaedrus as implicit responses to Plato’s experience of the city. The key themes that emerge are: the relation between the country and the city; the connection between leisure, luxury, and territorial expansion; the prospects for philosophical rule in the city; and the assessment of writing as a product of urban and commercial development. In my concluding paragraphs I suggest that Plato’s dialogues should more generally be regarded as a confrontation with the social conditions of the city-state as Plato experienced them. I also suggest that Platonic writings such as the Phaedrus are best interpreted allegorically as well as literally to ensure that multiple levels of meaning are drawn out through close analysis.


2013 ◽  
Vol 329 ◽  
pp. 467-471
Author(s):  
Fang Liu ◽  
Qi Wu

This article has embedded welfare triangle paradigm in empirical research by social exclusion and social policy. Starting from the situation in Sweden and Finland, it has analyzed the convergence and the differences in paradigm content. At the same time, by using the social research to quantitative analysis the data, it has drawn the economic recession and recovery. Based on the above analysis, it is necessary to build a welfare system that in line with the national condition, to select a long-term welfare system mechanism, and to constantly improve the prototype of the welfare system that has begun to take shape.


2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-104
Author(s):  
Marta Danecka

The article concerns the issue of social economy and social employment as one of its forms. Social employment is represented as a modern method of combating social exclusion. It is part of the principles of an active social policy, based above all on voluntary participation, collaboration and concentrating resources on the support of people fit to work, but engulfed by poverty. The author presents the various forms and functions of social employment, the groups of people who are encompassed by such aid, and the methods of reintegration in the social environment and the job market. Statistical data and the opinions of participants in these courses are used to present the results achieved by the spread of social employment schemes in the past few years.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Majka Łojko

The aim of the paper is to present solidarity economy reintegration entities and to analyse the actions they undertake for labour market reintegration and social inclusion of people at risk of social exclusion and for social and vocational rehabilitation of the disabled in the Warmia and Mazury region. The paper provides a review of the literature on the subject, based on an analysis of data from public statistics published by Statistics Poland, current studies of the Regional Centre of Social Policy in Olsztyn and scientific studies dedicated to the field of the social and solidarity economy. The analysis has revealed that all solidarity economy entities operating in the region are focused on taking comprehensive measures aimed at counteracting social exclusion and promoting social and vocational reintegration of people who, for various reasons, are not able to perform their social and professional roles independently and effectively.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-223
Author(s):  
Rekho Adriadi ◽  
Faizal Anwar ◽  
Yogi Alfiansyah

This paper examines the Policy for Parking Services Policies on the Side of Public Roads in Bengkulu City as a result of the monitoring results from the analysis of the implementation of Parking Service Policies on Public Roadside of Bengkulu City In the implementation of the parking service retribution policy in Bengkulu city, the standards and procedures are clear, but in the field implementation, especially the Panorama area is still there. The targets in this policy are in accordance with Perda no. 07 of 2011. Implementation of parking policies that affect the social conditions of the people in the city of Bengkulu with the number of parking spots is the stage of the Bengkulu city community. However, during the crisis there was still a mismatch of income results and targets in this policy due to the low parking potential in the city of Bengkulu. Keywords: Policy, Parking, Retribution


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