Immigrant Worker Centers, Technologies of Citizenship, and the Duty to Be Well

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 647-666
Author(s):  
Erika Denisse Grajeda
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Immigrant Workers ◽  
Labor Movements ◽  
Immigrant Labor ◽  
Immigrant Worker ◽  
Worker Centers ◽  
Worker Center

Although worker centers have reenergized immigrant labor movements in the U.S., recent research points to their potential deradicalization as they expand and institutionalize. This article builds on emerging critiques of the nonprofit worker center model by interrogating this organizational form through the analytic lens of governmentality, particularly efforts to shape immigrant workers’ subjectivities, proclivities, and comportment to capacitate them for the exigencies of responsible citizenship. How do worker centers set out to make ethical subjects out of “illegal” immigrant workers? What technologies do centers rely on to redeem populations marked as criminal, deviant, and deficient? I explore these questions through a case study of a worker center in San Francisco, California, which serves immigrant day laborers and domestic workers. I focus on its “feminist wing” to highlight the technologies of empowerment and self-esteem aimed at reforming Latina immigrant women, a group historically deemed “neither ideal laborers nor ideal women.”

scholarly journals The Impact On The Implementation Of Presidential Regulation Number 20 Of 2018 Concerning The Use Of Immigrant Worker

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Irfan Nur Fahmi ◽  
Nasrullah Nasrullah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Political System ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Immigrant Workers ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Entry And Exit ◽  
Immigrant Worker ◽  
Domestic Worker ◽  
Constitutional Order ◽  
The Impact

In regulating the constitutional order, it should have a clear legal basis based on the viewpoint of a democratic political system. With the issuance of Presidential Regulation Number 20 of 2018 concerning the Use of Immigrant Worker, it is hoped that it can become a government effort in overcoming problems in the availability of jobs for domestic workers, this is due to the use of immigrant workers which has an impact on domestic worker in Indonesia and deviant articles and not in accordance with what is contained in this rule. Therefore, the issuance of this Presidential Regulation discusses licensing and regulations that must be obeyed and implemented by both employers and workers themselves. It is the same as entering the new normal era which is caused by the existence of the Covid-19 and become pandemic; so that permits for the entry and exit of immigrant workers into Indonesia must be clearer and stronger, in order to minimize the movement and spread of the virus. This study used qualitative research with a normative juridical case approach, this study also was conducted to analyze how the Presidential Regulation Number 20 of 2018 gave impacts especially to the domestic worker caused by stipulated this regulation; not only that, this study also discussed the mechanism of monitoring and evaluating this presidential regulation. The results of this research showed that there was some impacts caused by the existence of the Presidential Regulation Number 20 of 2018 both from the use and licensing of immigrant workers as well as from the articles contained in this regulation.

Removing Self-stigma: The Successes of People with Schizophrenia in Removing Self-stigma Through Self-control

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Franciscus Adi Prasetyo ◽  
Jajang Gunawijaya
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Study Quality ◽  
Data Display ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Depth Interviews

Self-stigma experienced by people who experience schizophrenia has influence on reduced self-esteem, on powerlessness, the weakening of hope, and a motivation towards recovery. The aim of this study is to explain the efforts of people suffering schizophrenia to manage their self-stigma through self-control, using a case study approach. Based on the purposive sampling technique, five people with schizophrenia were selected as the cases to be studied. Data collection techniques utilized in-depth interviews, observation, and documentary studies. The analysis of the study data employed the stages of data reduction, data display, and data verification. Improvement in study quality employed the triangulation of data sources by checking the data to determine its consistency. The results of this study indicate that people with schizophrenia who have the ability to self-control can overcome self-stigma through changes in the manner of viewing themselves, self-training through activities, having endurance, having an honest approach, being able to explain schizophrenia from a positive viewpoint, having initiative, and having a positive attitude and the courage to face challenges.

The effect of “Forgiveness therapy” on depression and low self-esteem for a victim of abuse: A Case study

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeledan Tagreed Malik
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Physically Abused ◽  
Projective Tests ◽  
Biological Parents ◽  
Forgiveness Therapy ◽  
Emotionally Abused ◽  
Study Techniques

It has been said before that “No one forgives with more grace and love than a child”. And also no one can compete the child with his outstanding memory which can’t forget deep injuries during childhood, especially when these multiple abuses come from his/her parents and other relatives. Being physically abused, emotionally abused, and neglected from her biological parents and sexually abused from one of her relatives, this 25 years old female, who is a student in the university, suffers from severe depression and very low level of self-esteem. The current research aims at decreasing the client’s depression and improving her self-esteem through case study techniques, assessing her needs, fears, deep feelings and behavior using a variety of methods, including projective tests, life history, interviews and direct observation of her behavior. The researcher will attempt to help this female using the techniques of the “Forgiveness Therapy” which is described by a number of clinicians and researchers as a promising approach to anger-reduction, depression healing and the restoration of general emotional and mental health. Key words: Forgiveness Therapy, depression, self-esteem, child abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, childhood, case study, clinical psychology.

How Worker Centers Organize Low-Wage Workers: An Exploration of Targets and Strategies

2021 ◽  
pp. 0160449X2198942
Author(s):  
Jessica Garrick
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Worker Centers ◽  
Center Staff ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Worker Center

In response to the growing absence of unions from the private sector, community-based organizations known as worker centers have emerged as a new front in protecting and organizing workers. Scholars generally argue that worker centers have converged on a model of combining service provision with organizing and advocacy, supported primarily by funding from foundations and government agencies. I draw on interviews conducted with worker center staff, a dataset compiled from their public materials, and secondary research to add to the existing literature and to argue that a clear categorization of worker centers can be derived by attention to their primary workplace strategies. First, worker centers can be meaningfully distinguished by whether they attempt to raise standards in specific industries versus responding to problems in individual workplaces. But they can also be distinguished based on the extent to which they view public policy or winning agreements with employers as the primary route to systemic improvements. These divergences in strategy echo Progressive-era debates about the role for the state in redressing workplace ills. Similar to that era, strategic differences among today’s worker centers are driven less by ideology and more by the distinct structural challenges facing workers in particular political and economic contexts.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document