Borrowed Belonging

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Phelan
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 1 commences with a discussion of the changing cultural and social landscape of Ireland at the turn of the century, particularly in the context of religion and migration. It explores two ritual case studies based on fieldwork with a Russian Orthodox and Nigerian Pentecostal ritual community in Limerick city, Ireland. It looks at the characteristic of resonance through an examination of the relationship between sound and space. In the face of ritual “absences” often experienced by migrant communities unable to ritualize in their own space or with ritually specific artifacts or vestments, singing is shown to exhibit a compensatory ritual “authority.” Through the metaphor of pilgrimage, it examines how new migrant communities are contributing to a reimagining of traditional Irish Catholicism as a more inclusive space of belonging.

Strikes, Ballots, Law, and Democracy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Breen Creighton ◽  
Catrina Denvir ◽  
Richard Johnstone ◽  
Shae McCrystal ◽  
Alice Orchiston
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Historical Outline ◽  
The Social ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the nature and purposes of strike action. It suggests that strikes are a means of protecting and promoting the social and economic interests of workers—especially in the context of collective bargaining. It provides an historical outline of the relationship between strikes and the law by tracing the transition from repression of union organization, and more specifically the capacity to take strike action, through toleration to recognition, and recently back to reluctant toleration. The chapter also notes that the capacity to take strike action is almost always limited in one or more ways, including restrictions on the organizations and/or individuals that can lawfully take strike action, the forms of strike action that can legitimately be taken, the matters in relation to which strike action may be taken, and the procedural requirements for lawful strike action. A very common procedural constraint is a requirement that proposed strike action be authorized by a pre-strike ballot. Chapter 1 introduces the usual ostensible rationale for pre-strike ballots—the need to protect the democratic rights of individuals: the so-called ‘democratic imperative’. It also uses two case studies to introduce important theoretical and practical issues raised by the use of pre-strike ballots.

scholarly journals Unequal Youth Migrations: Exploring the Synchrony between Social Ageing and Social Mobility among Post-Crisis European Migrants

Sociology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 1160-1176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Varriale
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Downward Social Mobility

This article explores how symbolic boundaries between youth and adulthood shape experiences of upward and downward social mobility among EU migrants. Drawing on 56 biographical interviews with Italians who moved to England after the 2008 economic crisis, and focusing on three individual case studies, the article reveals that normative understandings of adulthood emerge as a central concern from participants’ biographical accounts, and that they mobilise unequal forms of cultural, economic and social capital to maintain a feeling of ‘synch’ between social ageing and social mobility. Drawing on Bourdieu and the sociology of adulthood, the article proposes the notion of synchrony to explore how tensions in the relationship between social ageing and social mobility shape experiences of migration. This allows for an innovative theoretical bridge between cultural class analysis, adulthood studies and migration studies, and for a better understanding of how intersections of class and age shape intra-European migrations.

scholarly journals Bridging the parallax gap: settler-colonialism and the relationship between Indigenous peoples and racialized migrants in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Root
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
The Relationship

I intend to expand the idea of the immigrants as settler, and establish on a theoretical basis that 'settlerism' is about an ideology of neo-colonialism, not about movement to a place that is not your own. In this way, there can be migrants who are allies with Indigenous peoples, who reject settler and neo-colonial ideologies at the same time, as there can be migrants who adopt consciously, or unconsciously, these oppressive ideologies. After establishing this theoretical framework, the remainder of this MRP presents case studies which profile some of the important work being done by organizations to build bridges between Indigenous and migrant communities in Canada and to decolonize relations among these groups which make up much of Canada's population. A brief discussion about the policies and other stat tools used to separate these two communities with an analysis of why this is the case will also be included.

scholarly journals Bridging the parallax gap: settler-colonialism and the relationship between Indigenous peoples and racialized migrants in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Root
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
The Relationship

I intend to expand the idea of the immigrants as settler, and establish on a theoretical basis that 'settlerism' is about an ideology of neo-colonialism, not about movement to a place that is not your own. In this way, there can be migrants who are allies with Indigenous peoples, who reject settler and neo-colonial ideologies at the same time, as there can be migrants who adopt consciously, or unconsciously, these oppressive ideologies. After establishing this theoretical framework, the remainder of this MRP presents case studies which profile some of the important work being done by organizations to build bridges between Indigenous and migrant communities in Canada and to decolonize relations among these groups which make up much of Canada's population. A brief discussion about the policies and other stat tools used to separate these two communities with an analysis of why this is the case will also be included.

Chasing the Past: Geopolitics of Memory on the Margins of Modern Greece

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Sintès
Keyword(s):  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Close Observation ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Of Greece

Since 2008, Greece has been at the centre of European current affairs due to the financial and economic crisis. However, it should not be forgotten that before the current crisis the political upheavals of the early 1990s and the collapse of Marxist-inspired regimes had already radically transformed the face of the country. These transformations have been seen as a return of the Balkans’ question, raising issues of border disputes and migration, minorities and national inclusion. They have had far-reaching consequences on the relations between Greek society and its peripheries, and what some have deemed to be its destabilising diversity. In this context, the material presented in this book examines the strengthening of discourses of belonging which draw legitimacy from a glorification of the past and tradition. The fieldwork carried out over the past 15 years on the fringes of Greece has focused on groups who were stigmatised and distanced from standard definitions of Greekness. It provides an original perspective on the changes that the country has undergone in recent decades. The question of the nation-state’s future is raised through close observation on the local scale, leading to a debate about the relationship between areal and reticular territory within the framework of globalisation. This book also aims to provide non-Francophone readers with access to research carried out on these issues in France, shifting the focus of Balkan Anglophone specialists for whom French publications remain a distant province.

Case Studies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Professor John Swarbrooke
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

In this section I offer a range of short case studies to illustrate issues covered in the text and provide detailed examples of what is happening in the relationship between tourism and the marine environment around the world at the time of writing, between autumn 2019 and spring 2020. As far as possible the sequencing of the case studies below seeks to mirror the structure used in the book starting at Chapter 1.

Credit constraints and Rural Migration: Evidence from Six Villages in Uttar Pradesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-398
Author(s):  
Ruchi Singh
Keyword(s):  
Credit Constraints ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Male Migration ◽  
Rural Economies ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Rural economies in developing countries are often characterized by credit constraints. Although few attempts have been made to understand the trends and patterns of male out-migration from Uttar Pradesh (UP), there is dearth of literature on the linkage between credit accessibility and male migration in rural Uttar Pradesh. The present study tries to fill this gap. The objective of this study is to assess the role of credit accessibility in determining rural male migration. A primary survey of 370 households was conducted in six villages of Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh. Simple statistical tools and a binary logistic regression model were used for analyzing the data. The result of the empirical analysis shows that various sources of credit and accessibility to them play a very important role in male migration in rural Uttar Pradesh. The study also found that the relationship between credit constraints and migration varies across various social groups in UP.

Flesh Searches in China

Asian Survey ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between netizens and the Chinese Communist Party by investigating examples of “flesh searches” targeting corrupt officials. Case studies link the initiative of netizens and the reaction of the Chinese state to the pattern of management of social space in contemporary China.

Two Gambling Women

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Tzu-Hui Chen
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Immigrant Population ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mail Order ◽  
Foreign Brides ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship

This narrative aims to explore the meaning and lived experiences of marriage that a unique immigrant population—“foreign brides” in Taiwan—possesses. This convergence narrative illustrates the dynamics and complexity of mail-order marriage and women's perseverance in a cross-cultural context. The relationship between marriage, race, and migration is analyzed. This narrative is comprised of and intertwined by two story lines. One is the story of two “foreign brides” in Taiwan. The other is my story about my cross-cultural relationship. All the dialogues are generated by 25 interviews of “foreign brides” in Taiwan and my personal experience.

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