Enforceability of rights in the temporary agency sector: The case of Belgium

2021 ◽  
pp. 0143831X2110172
Author(s):  
Kim Bosmans ◽  
Deborah De Moortel ◽  
Christophe Vanroelen
Keyword(s):  
Social Rights ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Temporary Agency Workers

This study explores why temporary agency workers are disadvantaged compared to regular workers regarding their employment-related and social rights in Belgium despite extensive equal rights regulation. Fifteen in-depth interviews among temporary agency workers were analysed thematically. The enforceability of rights poses the main problem in temporary agency workers’ disadvantaged position. The following manifestations of a lack of enforceability are discussed: (1) lack of enforceability due to ignorance and indifference about rights; (2) vulnerability hindering enforceability; and (3) lack of enforceability due to misuse by employers and cutting corners. It is argued that this problem of enforceability is mainly caused by a lack of a clear allocation of responsibilities as to who should ensure the rights of temporary agency workers.

scholarly journals Consumption and Resistance in the Context of Brazilian Housewives and Consumers’ Movement

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Talita De Oliveira Trindade ◽  
Eduardo André Teixeira Ayrosa ◽  
João Felipe Rammelt Sauerbronn
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Consumer Satisfaction ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Consumer Rights ◽  
Favorable Conditions ◽  
Representation Of Interests ◽  
Depth Interviews

The way people consume in contemporary societies has directly affected forms of citizenship. The continuous process of reframing goods, followed by a growing disbelief in representative political institutions and social rights has encouraged the proliferation of a number of institutions and alternative modes of participation. Canclini (2001, p.29) states that "men and women realize that many of the questions made by citizens are more promptly answered by private consumption of goods and mass media than by abstract rules of democracy or collective participation in public spaces. Therefore, the study of the reconfiguration of the links between consumption and citizenship is a way to glimpse new possibilities of social participation and representation of interests of civil society. Although most studies still focus on the understanding of consumer satisfaction, this work seeks to highlight the consumer as the focus of resistance to consumption. So, I used narrative analysis to identify – between the participants of the Housewives and Consumers Movements (MDCC) – the conditions under which some form of resistance was possible. For this, there were 16 in-depth interviews in the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Minas Gerais. At the same time, I described the strategies developed by MDCC to participate in the formulation of public policies, as representative of civil society with regard to the protection of consumer rights. The observations indicate that the existence of an opponent, as well as an intention and the existence of mechanism of action around the (re)construction of collective signs show that favorable conditions for the existence of the MDCC as an institution of resistance to consumption.

Is Islam a Cure for Ethnic Conflict? Evidence from Turkey

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Gurses
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Turkish Nationalism ◽  
Kurdish Conflict ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractTurkish Islamists have long attributed the root causes of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey to the anti-religious Turkish nationalism promulgated by the secular Kemalist republican elite in the 1920s. As a result, they lay emphasis on “Islamic brotherhood” as the glue that holds numerous ethnic nationalities together. This article examines this claim and argues that Islam's role as a peacemaker has been overstated. The data from in-depth interviews with dozens of Kurdish Islamists in Turkey conducted in the summer of 2013 indicate that Kurdish Islamists in principle agree with the peacemaking potential of Islam. Distrustful of the “Islamic brotherhood” discourse however, they describe this allegedly new policy as yet another tactic to undermine the Kurdish struggle for equal rights

scholarly journals Hybrid entitlement: Welfare recipients’ perceptions of entitlement to social rights

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
EINAT LAVEE
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Reduced State

Abstract Recent decades have witnessed changes in welfare states, shaped by a neoliberal ideology that has reduced state responsibility for weakened populations and transformed definitions of citizenship from the universalist notion of social citizenship to the idea of market citizenship. Contemporary welfare policy is based on a disciplinary regime, which aims to produce self-disciplined citizens who adhere to market rules as the most essential civic rules. Following this change in social contract between the state and its citizens, the notion of entitlement to social rights has been transformed into disentitlement to public support. However, economic independence via labour market participation is not always possible and many must rely on welfare support for material survival. This study aims to pinpoint the factors shaping welfare recipients’ perceptions of entitlement. Drawing on 76 in-depth interviews with welfare recipients in Israel, we argue that people’s perceptions of their entitlement to public support are disciplined by the “new” welfare regime of market citizenship, yet simultaneously influenced by “old” perceptions of universal citizenship rights. This kind of “hybrid entitlement” allows welfare recipients to resist exclusion and to avoid disconnection from work and welfare.

scholarly journals The Social Issue in Peruvian Constitutionalism of the 20th Century and in the Case Law of the Constitutional Court: Influence of Socialist Constitutionalism?

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-69
Author(s):  
César Landa ◽  
Isabel Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Student Movements ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Power ◽  
International Investors ◽  
The Impact

The socialist ideas of Russian Revolution were well-known in Peru, according with the struggles of working-class and student movements and the birth of socialist and communist parties. But the Peruvian Constitutions of 1920 and 1993 only opened someone social rights, not only for the workers, but also for the indigenous people to protect their community territories. Only with the Constitution of 1979 the leftwing constituents were almost one third of the constituents. In this way the Constitution included social ideas in the type of State as social and democratic Rule of Law, the equal rights between all persons, particularly between men and women, the employment was protect by the State, the public education cost-free, the property had a social function, the natural resources were of the Nation, and the indigenous and Amazonian communities were protected, etc. But, with the neoliberal Constitution of 1993 the economic model was liberalized in favor of the market and the international investors, reducing the social rights, and the national power was centralized in the Executive Power. But, since 2000, after the fall-down of Fujimori’s regimen, the Constitutional Court played a role of balanced the impact of this new model, according with the international treaties of human rights and social rights. In this sense, the Constitutional Court was able to give the Constitution of 1993 a social content.

scholarly journals Between Money and Love: Work-family Conflict Among Swedish Low-income Single Mothers

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Roman
Keyword(s):  
Single Mothers ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Depth Interviews

Research suggests that single mothers are an increasingly vulnerable group in Scandinavia. Drawing on in-depth interviews, this study takes a closer look at challenges faced by Swedish working-class and low-income single mothers. It explores how working conditions and economic resources influence their access to valued practices, such as the possibility to reconcile paid work and family commitments. It is assumed that discrepancies between mothers’ notions of good mothering and their ability to act in accordance with these values give rise to conflicts and dilemmas. Findings show that lack of financial resources and low control over their work situation significantly limited the mothers’ possibility to combine various responsibilities and to practice the kind of mothering they preferred. Furthermore, the opening hours of preschools frequently did not match the mothers’ working schedules, and they could often not effectively benefit from some of the social rights granted by the Swedish welfare state.

The Double Exclusion of Bedouin War Widows

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-131
Author(s):  
Ya’arit Bokek-Cohen ◽  
Smadar Ben-Asher
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Cultural Features

We critically examine the officially declared policy vis-a-vis the actual fulfilment of minorities’ equal rights in Israel. According to the theory of democratic exclusion, minority groups are tacitly disadvantaged despite formal policies and laws aimed at ensuring equality. We showcase this phenomenon in a hitherto unstudied minority sector in Israel, namely Bedouin Israel Defence Forces (idf) war widows. Analysis of in-depth interviews has led us to expose a failure to take the unique religious and cultural imperatives and restrictions into consideration, as well as a paradox of Bedouin war widows’ entitlement to equal rights while reporting suffering discrimination, exclusion, and marginalisation. In the name of these silenced Israeli citizens we call this severe violation of civil rights to public awareness and propose some practical suggestions as to how to adjust the provision of treatment and support to their cultural features, in order to truly adhere to the democratic vision.

scholarly journals The pursuit of new citizenship by peri-urban residents in China: Status, rights, and individual choice

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-269
Author(s):  
Dong Wang ◽  
Flemming Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Urbanization Process ◽  
Rational Choices ◽  
Urbanization Policy

Although China did not announce any official urbanization policy until 2014, since the 1980s urbanization has been the core goal of China’s unceasing push for modernization and national rejuvenation. Tens of millions of inhabitants living on the fringes of China’s cities merely hold temporary permits with virtually no political and social rights and only a modicum of public policy benefit in the cities where they work. The rights and social entitlements of these people are changing once again, because cities in China are now required by the central government to include the majority of them as normal citizens with equal rights. From the perspectives of three groups of peri-urban residents – relocated agricultural elites, in situ urbanites, and migrant workers – in Luoyang, Shanghai, and Hohhot, this article traces the dynamic dimensions of this ongoing, highly complex urbanization process. We argue that the decision to become a participant, negotiator, deal-maker, or deal-breaker in the migration, displacement, and/or resettlement process involves proactive agency and rational choices in a fast-moving environment, and that cities in China must make concessions to convince peri-urbanites to give up their official rural links.

Restitution Judges: A Starting Point for an Agrarian Jurisdiction as a Guarantee of Non-repetition in Colombia

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocío del Pilar Peña-Huertas ◽  
Luis Enrique Ruiz-González ◽  
Ricardo Álvarez-Morales ◽  
María Mónica Parada-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Rural Populations ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Judicial Decisions ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Colombian Government ◽  
Land Restitution ◽  
Depth Interviews

The Colombian government and the main guerrilla, the farc, signed a peace agreement in November 2016. The establishment of an agrarian jurisdiction is one of the settlements they have reached. This article evaluates the already existing capacities the Colombian state has developed, based on an analysis of the ongoing land restitution process. Based on an analysis of some judicial decisions taken in the context of this process, and on three in-depth interviews with judicial operators involved in it, the article makes two main findings: the procedural innovations of the land restitution process and the application of the constitutional precept of the effective enjoyment of rights guarantee the effective access to justice for rural populations and to the social rights aimed at protecting and stabilising their property rights. For these reasons, these features will prove to be useful in the establishment of an agrarian jurisdiction in Colombia that will represent a guarantee of non-repetition.

Understanding Why Older People Develop a Wish to Die

Crisis ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 204-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. Rurup ◽  
H. R. W. Pasman ◽  
J. Goedhart ◽  
D. J. H. Deeg ◽  
A. J. F. M. Kerkhof ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Cohort Studies ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Traumatic Life Events ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Wish To Die ◽  
Open Coding ◽  
Death Wishes ◽  
Depth Interviews

Background: Quantitative studies in several European countries showed that 10–20% of older people have or have had a wish to die. Aims: To improve our understanding of why some older people develop a wish to die. Methods: In-depth interviews with people with a wish to die (n = 31) were carried out. Through open coding and inductive analysis, we developed a conceptual framework to describe the development of death wishes. Respondents were selected from two cohort studies. Results: The wish to die had either been triggered suddenly after traumatic life events or had developed gradually after a life full of adversity, as a consequence of aging or illness, or after recurring depression. The respondents were in a situation they considered unacceptable, yet they felt they had no control to change their situation and thus progressively “gave up” trying. Recurring themes included being widowed, feeling lonely, being a victim, being dependent, and wanting to be useful. Developing thoughts about death as a positive thing or a release from problems seemed to them like a way to reclaim control. Conclusions: People who wish to die originally develop thoughts about death as a positive solution to life events or to an adverse situation, and eventually reach a balance of the wish to live and to die.

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