Single Motherhood of Refugees in Poland and the Challenges of Socialization in the Face of Cultural Alienation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna KoŚĆ-RyŻko
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Acculturation Strategies ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
The Face ◽  
Close Relatives ◽  
Culture Of Origin

Abstract Maternity is an extremely important aspect of self-determination regardless of the culture of origin. In the case of refugee women (functioning without the support of close relatives, the family, and their own society with its cultural norms), it additionally plays a crucial role in the construction of self-image. Women are often taken care of their children, which largely determines their adaptation strategies focused primarily on providing offspring with safety, development conditions, and stability. No less important it is also for their self-perception and self-determination, which are to a large extent conditioned by the gender roles in their culture of origin. In the article, I discuss the most common dilemmas of mothers-refugees among whom I conduct research since 2014 (coming from former Soviet Republics: Chechnya, Dagestan, Tajikistan) and I analyse their impact on the upbringing of offspring. At the beginning of the article, I present the basic terminological issues related to socialization and enculturation. These processes are considered to be one of the most important and difficult challenges faced by refugee women living in Poland. In the following part, I analyse the relationship between the self-assessment of the parental and educational activities effectiveness made refugee mothers and their adaptation attitudes and acculturation strategies.

scholarly journals “Be the Dream Queen”: Gender Performativity, Femininity, and Transgender Sex Workers in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (21) ◽  
pp. 11168
Author(s):  
Eileen Y. H. Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Sex Workers ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Hate Crimes ◽  
High Risk Population ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
The Face ◽  
Gender Performances

An under-researched aspect of transgender sex workers in China pertains to their desires and expressions of femininity. Male-to-Female (MTF) transgender sex workers are a high-risk population prone to depression and stress regarding body image, intimate relationships marked by violence, and social stigma, rendering them vulnerable to hate crimes and discrimination. Ethnographic data from in-depth interviews with 49 MTF transgender sex workers indicate that sex, gender and feminine desire are mutable in the construction of self and subjectivity. This study uses the conceptual framework of gender performativity, that is, gender is performative and distinct from physical bodies and binary classifications. It is not only an individual’s normative gender expressions which are based on the sex assigned at birth, but it also reinforces the normative gender performances of the gender binary. This article argues that the 49 MTF transgender sex workers are embodiments of gendered performances, displaying femininity to ameliorate hate crimes and discrimination as well as reinforce the masculinity and sexuality of their clients and intimate sex partners. Embracing their femininity constitutes a self-help program, enabling them to build self-confidence and develop a positive self-image in the face of overwhelming social disapproval.

scholarly journals Сhange in figurative ideas of women’s quality of life depending on age

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
N. M. Kamilova ◽  
L. A. Guliyeva
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Group Iii ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Group I ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Close Relatives

Objective. To assess the quality of life of refugee women. Material and methods. 149 refugee women, who are close relatives in three generations, were examined and divided into 3 groups depending on their age: Group I 51 women aged 1835 years, group II 61 women aged 3654 and group III 34 women aged 55 and over. The quality of life was assessed in two main ways: by self-assessment (subjective method) and by doctors (objective approach). The studies regarding the quality of life were carried out in accordance with the general principles of sociological research. The assessment was realized in points for each criterion. The maximum scale corresponds to 100 points. Along with this program, the international standardized questionnaire SF-36 was used in addition. Results. The data we obtained in the course of the study, first of all indicate the importance of the life priorities of the subjects examined and must be taken into account when planning measures to improve the quality of health. Conclusions. Comparative analysis of health-related quality of life indicators showed that among women parameters of physical functioning significantly decrease with age, regardless of the hierarchy of life priorities. Psychological components increase in middle-aged women with the life priority work.

Student Perceptions of Face-to-Face and Online Discussions: The Advantage Goes To . . .

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina A. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Political Tolerance ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Online Setting ◽  
And Gender

Thirteen students in a graduate-level course on Historical and Policy Perspectives in Higher Education held face-to-face and online discussions on five controversial topics: Diversity, Academic Freedom, Political Tolerance, Affirmative Action, and Gender. Students read materials on each topic and generated questions for discussion that were categorized by Bloom’s taxonomy so that the level of questions in the two discussion settings would be closely parallel. Upon completion of each discussion, they answered questions that addressed depth and length of the discussion, ability to remember, and a self-assessment of how the student learned. Students’ assessments show a consistent preference for the face-to-face discussion but a small number of students preferred the online setting. However, what is perhaps more interesting is a minority of approximately one-third of the students who perceived no difference between the settings, or that the two settings were perhaps complementary.

Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth van Houts
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Married Life ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

This book contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe c. 900–1300. The focus will be on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage. The book consists of three parts: the first part (Getting Married) is devoted to the process of getting married and wedding celebrations, the second part (Married Life) discusses the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage, while the third part (Alternative Living) explores concubinage and polygyny as well as the single life in contrast to monogamous sexual unions. Four main themes are central to the book. First, the tension between patriarchal family strategies and the individual family member’s freedom of choice to marry and, if so, to what partner; second, the role played by the married priesthood in their quest to have individual agency and self-determination accepted in their own lives in the face of the growing imposition of clerical celibacy; third, the role played by women in helping society accept some degree of gender equality and self-determination to marry and in shaping the norms for married life incorporating these principles; fourth, the role played by emotion in the establishment of marriage and in married life at a time when sexual and spiritual love feature prominently in medieval literature.

scholarly journals Indigenous Lessons about Sustainability Are Not Just for “All Humanity”

2018 ◽  
pp. 149-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Whyte ◽  
Chris Caldwell ◽  
Marie Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Indigenous Planning ◽  
The Face ◽  
Colonial Oppression ◽  
Planning Concepts ◽  
The U.S

Indigenous peoples are widely recognized as holding insights or lessons about how the rest of humanity can live sustainably or resiliently. Yet it is rarely acknowledged in many literatures that for Indigenous peoples living in the context of settler states such as the U.S. or New Zealand, our own efforts to sustain our peoples rest heavily on our capacities to resist settler colonial oppression. Indigenous planning refers to a set of concepts and practices through which many Indigenous peoples reflect critically on sustainability to derive lessons about what actions reinforce Indigenous self-determination and resist settler colonial oppression. The work of the Sustainable Development Institute of the College of Menominee Nation (SDI) is one case of Indigenous planning. In the context of SDI, we discuss Indigenous planning as a process of interpreting lessons from our own pasts and making practical plans for staging our own futures. If there are such things as Indigenous sustainability lessons for Indigenous peoples, they must be reliable planning concepts and processes we can use to support our continuance in the face of ongoing settler colonial oppression.

scholarly journals Flying in the Face of Adversity: A Drosophila-based Virtual CURE Provides Semester-long Authentic Research Opportunity to the Flipped Classroom.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A Waddell ◽  
Dara Ruiz-Whalen ◽  
Alana M O'Reilly ◽  
Nathan T. Fried
Keyword(s):  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Complex Design ◽  
Research Opportunity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Upper Level

A call for the integration of research experiences into all biology curricula has been a major goal for educational reform efforts nationally. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) have been the predominant method of accomplishing this, but their associated costs and complex design can limit their wide adoption. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced programs to identify unique ways to still provide authentic research experiences while students were virtual. We report here a full guide for the successful implementation of a semester-long virtual CURE that uses Drosophila behavioral assays to explore the connection between pain and addiction with the use of a "lab-in-a-box" sent home to students. Individual components were piloted across three semesters and launched as a 100-level introductory course with 19 students. We found that this course increased science identity and successfully improved key research competencies as per the Undergraduate Research Student Self-Assessment (URSSA) survey. This course is ideal for flipped classrooms ranging from introductory biology to upper-level neuroscience courses and can be integrated directly into the lecture period without the need for building a new course. Given the low cost, recent comfort with virtual learning environments, and the current proliferation of flipped biology classrooms following the 2020 pandemic, this curriculum could serve as an ideal project-based active-learning tool for equitably increasing access to authentic research experiences.

scholarly journals Rumours in a Situation of Political Conflict: Catalonia and Its Referendum of Self-Determination

2021 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 25-48
Author(s):  
Emili Samper ◽  
◽  
Carme Oriol ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Conflict ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Political ◽  
Independent State ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media

Catalonia is in a situation of political conflict with the Spanish State regarding its right to self-determination, a conflict that has been exacerbated in recent years by the growing demand from a part of Catalan society for an independent state. Throughout this situation rumours have appeared in relation to events as they unfold. One of the key moments in the conflict was the referendum on self-determination, which was approved, prepared, and held on 1 October 2017, in the face of continuous opposition from the Spanish State. The tensions, uncertainties, and fears experienced by those in favour of the referendum were fuelled by rumours that in many cases were ultimately proven to be false. The present paper will analyse the rumours that emerged in relation to the referendum and the political atmosphere at that time. The study will analyse the rumours relating to aspects such as the logistics required to hold the referendum, the key figures in the process, the organizations that support it and the actions of the media, among others.

Toward a Sociology of Colonial Subjectivity: Political Agency in Haiti and Liberia

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricarda Hammer ◽  
Alexandre I. R. White
Keyword(s):  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Formation Theory ◽  
Racial Formations ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Black Agency

The authors seek to connect global historical sociology with racial formation theory to examine how antislavery movements fostered novel forms of self-government and justifications for state formation. The cases of Haiti and Liberia demonstrate how enslaved and formerly enslaved actors rethought modern politics at the time, producing novel political subjects in the process. Prior to the existence of these nations, self-determination by black subjects in colonial spaces was impossible, and each sought to carve out that possibility in the face of a transatlantic structure of slavery. This work demonstrates how Haitian and Liberian American founders responded to colonial structures, though in Liberia reproducing them albeit for their own ends. The authors demonstrate the importance of colonial subjectivities to the discernment of racial structures and counter-racist action. They highlight how anticolonial actors challenged global antiblack oppression and how they legitimated their self-governance and freedom on the world stage. Theorizing from colonized subjectivities allows sociology to begin to understand the politics around global racial formations and starts to incorporate histories of black agency into the sociological canon.

Acculturative stress as a mental health predictor of North Korean refugees in South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hwajin Shin ◽  
In-Jin Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Status ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Acculturative Stress ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
North Korean Refugees ◽  
Integrated Or ◽  
Culture Of Origin

South Korea is an emerging immigration destination where over half of the country’s immigrant population are ethnic return migrants. Thus far, little attention has been given to the effect of acculturation on the mental health of coethnic migrants in non-traditional immigration states such as South Korea. Using 2010 survey data on 1,200 North Korean refugees, this study examines the effect of preserving cultural norms and practices from the home country on the mental health of North Koreans in the South. Based on an acculturation typology, we categorize respondents into four groups based on their attitudes toward home and host cultures. Given South Korea’s homogenous context, our cluster analyses extracted two acculturation types—the integrated and the assimilated groups. The finding that integrated or bicultural individuals had better mental health status than assimilated individuals underscores the crucial role of the culture of origin in attenuating acculturative distress for coethnic migrants in South Korea.

The Special Relationship and the Falklands War

2015 ◽  
pp. 40-92
Author(s):  
Sally-Ann Treharne
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Falkland Islands ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
National Pride ◽  
Falklands War ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk

The Falklands War between Britain and Argentina from April to June 1982 was an emotive political and ideological issue for the UK and its Prime Minister, who fought tirelessly to safeguard the Falkland islanders’ right to self-determination. The war represented a considerable financial and moral commitment by the British to the Falkland Islands and their 1,800 inhabitants in a time of significant economic uncertainty in the UK. Notwithstanding this, Britain’s hegemony and influence over the islands was reasserted in the face of perceived Argentine aggression. Britain’s victory was considered a great success in the UK given the strategic difficulties involved in orchestrating a war in a wind-swept archipelago nearly 8,000 miles from the British mainland, but a mere 400 miles from Argentina. Moreover, it helped to secure Thatcher’s re-election the following year and was a source of national pride for the jubilant British public.1

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