Relative Success of Male Workers in the Host Country, Kuwait: Does the Channel of Migration Matter?

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasra M. Shah
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Personal Networks ◽  
Relative Success ◽  
Male Workers

A survey of 800 South Asian males employed in skilled or unskilled jobs in Kuwait showed the channel of migration to be a highly significant factor of migrant success. About 34% moved through friends/relatives and 50% through recruitment agents. Multivariate analyses indicate that those who came through friends/relatives earned a higher salary, found the job to fit their expectation, and were happier than those who came through agents, but more of the former came on an Azad visa which may be illegal. Personal networks are likely to encourage additional future migration and are very difficult to regulate through government initiatives.

FDI in Retail Sector in South Asia: A Case of India

2012 ◽  
pp. 951-971
Author(s):  
Badar Alam Iqbal ◽  
Munir Hassan ◽  
Bhawana Rawat
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Retail Sector ◽  
Double Edge ◽  
Accelerate Growth ◽  
Unorganized Sector ◽  
South Asian Region

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has become the necessity of every nation as it does accelerate growth in an economy. FDI is double edge weapon as it cuts both ways. It supplements the resources of the host country and also may replace resources in the host country. South Asia is a region wherein FDI has been restricted in the retail sector where as South Asian region is the region of shopkeepers. Hardly 5 per cent of the retailing is in the organized sector and the remaining 95 per cent is unorganized sector. Hence, the biggest issue in South Asia in general and India in particular is whether to allow FDI in the retail sector. Allowing FDI in retail sector would create a plethora of new and modern retailing to the consumers but may generate unemployment to the enormous people in the region. With this back drop, the major objectives of this paper are to highlight the scenario of FDI in retail in South Asia, focusing specifically on India. The paper, as such, is divided into six sections. Section I deals with the introduction. Section II enlists the objectives of the paper to be looked at. Section III deals with the methodology adopted in the study. Section IV highlights FDI scenario in retail sector in South Asian nations. Section V analyses a detailed study of FDI in retail sector in India. Lastly, Section VI includes conclusions that are drawn from the study.

Migration has Stripped Us of Our Manhood: Contradictions of Failed Masculinity Among South Asian Male Migrants in Greece

2020 ◽  
pp. 1097184X2092705
Author(s):  
Reena Kukreja
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Migrant Status ◽  
Compensatory Strategies ◽  
Asian Male ◽  
Personal Sacrifice ◽  
Male Workers ◽  
Labor Regimes

This article explores the contradictions of the failed masculine stature of South Asian male migrants in Greece. Transnational migration provides low-class rural Indian and Pakistani men an opportunity to socially re-inscribe their adult breadwinner stature. It discusses relational hierarchies of masculinities that shape these men’s encounters with Greek employers, compatriots in Greece, and transnationally located families. Discriminatory state migration and labor regimes intersect with discourses of racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia to reinforce these racialized men’s sense of failed masculinity. Relative powerlessness to a range of local and co-ethnic men further emasculates them. Consequently, they adopt a series of compensatory strategies that include self-valorizing their masculinity relationally vis-à-vis co-ethnic males and Greek male workers. Strategically repositioning self as indispensable to the Greek nation and accentuating personal sacrifice for families notionally transforms them into mythic heroes. Notwithstanding, precarious migrant status in Greece renders hegemonic masculine stature elusive to them.

South Asian Stories: Firsthand Client Perspectives on Barriers to Accessing Speech-Language Pathology Services

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nidhi Mahendra
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Client Experiences ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Timely Access ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Case Vignettes ◽  
Language Pathology

This article details the experience of two South Asian individuals with family members who had communication disorders. I provide information on intrinsic and extrinsic barriers reported by these clients in responses to a survey and during individual ethnographic interviews. These data are part of a larger study and provide empirical support of cultural and linguistic barriers that may impede timely access to and utilization of speech-language pathology (SLP) services. The purpose of this article is to shed light on barriers and facilitators that influence South Asian clients' access to SLP services. I provide and briefly analyze two case vignettes to provide readers a phenomenological perspective on client experiences. Data about barriers limiting access to SLP services were obtained via client surveys and individual interviews. These two clients' data were extracted from a larger study (Mahendra, Scullion, Hamerschlag, Cooper, & La, 2011) in which 52 racially/ethnically diverse clients participated. Survey items and interview questions were designed to elicit information about client experiences when accessing SLP services. Results reveal specific intrinsic and extrinsic barriers that affected two South Asian clients' access to SLP services and have important implications for all providers.

Associations Between Informal Caregivers’ Burden and Educational Level

GeroPsych ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Oedekoven ◽  
Katja Amin-Kotb ◽  
Paul Gellert ◽  
Klaus Balke ◽  
Adelheid Kuhlmey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support Services ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Autonomy Support ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Informal Caregivers ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
Perceived Burden ◽  
Result Show ◽  
Care Situation

Abstract. We investigated the association between the education of informal caregivers’ (IC) and their physical and mental burden. We hypothesized that better-educated IC would have more resources available to manage the care situation and as a result show lower perceived burden. We conducted a population survey of 6,087 German residents aged 18+ years, 966 of whom reported to be IC. Results show that IC felt more often mentally than physically burdened. In the multivariate analyses, higher-educated IC did not have lower odds of feeling physically burdened than lower-educated IC, though they did have increased odds of feeling mentally burdened. The higher perceived mental burden of higher-educated IC may be related to fear of loss of self-fulfilment and autonomy. Support services should consider the mental burden of higher-educated IC and tailor their interventions accordingly.

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