‘Now I'm just like anyone else in the community’: Work, welfare, and community expectations of refugees in Australia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Boese ◽  
John Van Kooy ◽  
Dina Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Settlement Policies ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Community Expectations ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract This article analyses policy documents and data from interviews with employment and settlement service providers, employers, and government officials to explore the increasing shift of Australian refugee settlement policies towards neoliberal imperatives of productivity and self-sufficiency. The responses of service providers shed light on prevalent constructions of refugee subjecthood and related expectations of humanitarian entrants as potential labour market participants. Our analysis highlights the policy rationales that underpin the contemporary design and delivery of refugee settlement support, and draws attention to variations in service providers’ adoption of these rationales. We argue that, while the realignment of refugee settlement support in Australia towards ‘workfare’ is consistent with emergent global narratives of ‘enhancing refugee self-reliance’, the significance of this shift lies in the ideologically driven erosion of the primary protective purpose of Australia’s long-standing humanitarian migration programme.

scholarly journals Newcomer ReSettlement in a Globalized World

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bharati Sethi
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Social Supports ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Settlement Policies ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

This paper presents findings from part of a larger Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) entitled ‘Newcomer Settlement and Integration in Education, Training, Employment, Health and Social Support in Grand Erie’. Data was gathered from 212 newcomers (men and women) and 237 service providers. The qualitative and quantitative responses to the survey questionnaires (newcomers and service providers) on social supports highlight newcomers’ experiences of discrimination, as well as draw attention to the unique barriers that immigrant/refugee women experience in their resettlement. The multifaceted nature of factors contributing to newcomer integration requires collaboration between newcomers, service providers, and government officials. The study findings have important implications for social work practise and settlement policies in an increasingly globalized world.

scholarly journals PENGELOLAAN KOMPLAIN (KELUHAN) MASYARAKAT DALAM MEWUJUDKAN PEMERINTAHAN YANG BAIK DI KOTA SEMARANG

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Wiyanto Wiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
City Government ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Complaint Handling ◽  
Community Expectations ◽  
Good Government ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews

The purpose of this study is to find out the problems that cause complaints, complaints management of society and business undertook Semarang city government to overcome obstacles in the management of community complaints in an attempt to realize good government in the city of Semarang. This research is a qualitative research. The research location is centered on Public Service Complaint Handling Center (P5) Semarang City. The source of data comes from the in-depth interviews conducted with employees P5, documents and questionnaires. Data were collected through interviews, documentation, and observation. To ensure the validity of the data the researchers used triangulation techniques and then performed the analysis. The results of this study indicate that the problem that raises the complaints in the community is the service both services and non-services from service providers (government of Semarang City) not in accordance with community expectations. In addition, complaints arise due to service providers and service users who violate the rights of other service users. Model of community resolving as an outcome of this research. Suggestion for government officials needs to pay attention and support the community to improve the services provided. For the next researchers who conduct an integrated academic study of various disciplines.

THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE AMARNA LETTERS TOWARDS A STUDY OF SYRO-PALESTINIAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE (1). TERMINOLOGY FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 788-832
Author(s):  
Lukas M. Muntingh
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Social ◽  
Amarna Letters ◽  
Free People ◽  
Shed Light

Egyptian domination under the 18th and 19th Dynasties deeply influenced political and social life in Syria and Palestine. The correspondence between Egypt and her vassals in Syria and Palestine in the Amarna age, first half of the fourteenth century B.C., preserved for us in the Amarna letters, written in cuneiform on clay tablets discovered in 1887, offer several terms that can shed light on the social structure during the Late Bronze Age. In the social stratification of Syria and Palestine under Egyptian rule according to the Amarna letters, three classes are discernible:1) government officials and military personnel, 2) free people, and 3) half-free people and slaves. In this study, I shall limit myself to the first, the upper class. This article deals with terminology for government officials.

Working Women’s Decision-Making Power at Home: Evidence from Four North Indian Urban Clusters

Urbanisation ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 245574712110258
Author(s):  
Megan Maxwell ◽  
Milan Vaishnav
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Significant Heterogeneity ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Household Decision Making ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Shed Light

Do working women enjoy greater levels of human agency? While the theoretical foundations underlying this connection are clear, the empirical evidence is quite mixed. We leverage detailed, new data on intra-household decision-making and labour market behaviour from four north Indian urban clusters to shed light on this question. We find that women who work exercise greater say in important decisions around the home. However, this ‘work advantage’ exhibits significant heterogeneity across decision types, decision-making domains, and definitions of work.

基层档案揭示的农业合化作运动：以江苏省宝应县为例 1953–1957

Rural China ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-305
Keyword(s):  
Rural China ◽  
Jiangsu Province ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Ordinary Sense ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Resistance Forces ◽  
Shed Light

Agricultural collectivization was a movement in the early 1950s that profoundly changed the traditional methods of production and lifestyle in rural China. Drawing on original archives from Baoying county of Jiangsu province, this article delves into the actual implementation of, and resistance by different stratum of the peasantry to, this movement. The wealth of archival data and details included in this study shed light on the multifaceted realities of the movement that have been obscured in past studies, in particular, the complexity of the mentality of the peasants and their various forms of resistance, as well as the efforts by government officials to divide and put down the resistance forces and carry out the state’s policies. These data further enable an in-depth analysis of the basic issues about agricultural collectivization. It is shown that this movement was more than a transformation of economic institutions in the ordinary sense; it involved intense political struggles. 上世纪五十年代初开始的农业合作化运动深深改变了中国农民传统的生产生活方式。本文以江苏省宝应县的原始档案为依据，试图从底层的角度探究这一运动的具体实施过程，以及各阶层农民对这一运动的真实反应。本文以大量数据和细节揭示了农业合作化运动的多重面相，特别是以往研究中被忽视的部分，如农民对这一运动的复杂心态和种种抗争，以及当政者如何分化瓦解各种反对力量、步步推进其政策的过程。基于这些事实，本文就农业合作化运动中存在的基本问题进行了讨论，并提出这场运动已经超越了一般经济制度的改革，其实质是一场严峻的政治斗争。 (This article is in Chinese.)

Creating Dynamic Pretrade Models: Beyond the Black Box

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Form ◽  
Information Leakage ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Sensitivity Analyses ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Box Models ◽  
Portfolio Managers ◽  
Black Box Models ◽  
Shed Light

We provide a framework for investment managers to create dynamic pretrade models. The approach helps market participants shed light on vendor black-box models that often do not provide any transparency into the model’s functional form or working mechanics. In addition, this allows portfolio managers to create consensus estimates based on their own expectations, such as forecasted liquidity and volatility, and to incorporate firm proprietary alpha estimates into the solution. These techniques allow managers to reduce overdependency on any one black-box model, incorporate costs into the stock selection and portfolio optimization phase of the investment cycle, and perform “what-if” and sensitivity analyses without the risk of information leakage to any outside party or vendor.

scholarly journals The Exclusive Nature of Inclusive Productive Employment in the Rural Areas of Northern Ethiopia

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1044-1060 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crelis F Rammelt ◽  
Maggi Leung ◽  
Kebede Manjur Gebru
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Northern Ethiopia ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Sociology Of Work ◽  
Poverty Threshold ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Productive Employment

Inclusiveness, with its emphasis on productive employment, has become central in development policy. From this perspective, unwaged-work is condemned for not being sufficiently productive; that is, for failing to lift incomes above a poverty threshold. However, insights from the sociology of work reveal a range of unwaged activities that are potentially highly productive in their contribution to self-reliance. The article explores whether these activities are undermined by the promotion of inclusiveness. The case study takes place in Tigray, Ethiopia. Through semi-structured interviews, the activities of different households were classified according to a typology of work based on the work of Gorz, Illich, Wheelock, Taylor, Williams and others. Results show the heterogeneous character of work and shed light on the meaning of productivity. The article ends with a discussion on the risk that inclusiveness may be achieved by replacing activities ‘that count’ with activities ‘that can be counted’.

scholarly journals Women vaqfs in the sixteenth-century Sanjak of Krusevac (Alaca Hisâr)

Balcanica ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Dragana Amedoski
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Shed Light

The role of the vaqf in the Ottoman Empire, as in the whole Islamic world, was quite significant, especially in a period marked by the founding of new orien?tal settlements. The first endowers in the newly-conquered lands were sultans, begs and prominent government officials. Affluent citizens also took part in endowing their cities, and women are known to have been among them. The aim of the paper, based on Ottoman sources, is to shed light on the participation of Muslim women in this kind of humanitarian and lucrative activity using the example of the Sanjak of Krusevac (Alaca His?r) in the sixteenth century.

scholarly journals UNREGISTERED EMPLOYMENT IN THE LOCAL LABOUR MARKET: CASE STUDY OF PŁOCK

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Mariola Szewczyk-Jarocka ◽  
Janina Sawicka ◽  
Anna Nowacka
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Survey Question ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Local Labour Market ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
Socially Excluded ◽  
Theoretical Issues

The aim of this study is to present the opinions of local labour market participants regarding unregistered work that is performed by socially excluded people who are registered in the Labour Office in the city of Płock, Poland. The paper begins with a literature review of the theoretical issues and presents conclusions based on published studies and articles. This is followed by an empirical data analysis where the authors diagnose the causes, important advantages and disadvantages of unregistered work. The data includes the results of surveys that were distributed to 350 respondents: 195 received PAPI paper questionnaires and 155 people were surveyed using a CAWI questionnaire posted on the Internet (additionally, a campaign on Facebook) in 2018. The analyses includes the distribution of answers to the survey question together with verification of the statistical significance between the answers and specific variables, such as education, sex and age group.

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