Walking and Talking Integration: Triangulation of Data From Interviews and Go-Alongs for Exploring Immigrant Welfare Recipients’ Sense(s) of Belonging

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 799-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwe Flick ◽  
Andreas Hirseland ◽  
Benjamin Hans
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Mobile Methods ◽  
Levels Of Integration

Integration of immigrants is a major political and societal topic in societies such as Germany, although there are different ideas about when integration is achieved. For analyzing integration from the immigrants’ points of view, data triangulation of talking (episodic interviews addressing migration histories) and walking (mobile methods—go-alongs) reveals several levels of integration experiences. After outlining space and belonging as relevant theoretical concepts and the methods triangulated in a study, four case studies of immigrants from Turkey and the former Soviet Union in Berlin are presented. The immigrants’ perceptions and aspirations toward belonging, participation, and integration are explored and compared from an intersectional perspective. We find differing ways of positioning toward the German majority society, of getting connected to it and coping with unemployment. Relations of work and social integration or marginalization are discussed based on the case studies and the relevance of using various kinds of data is demonstrated.

Young children in Kyrgyzstan: Agency in tight hierarchical structures

Childhood ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Bühler-Niederberger ◽  
Jessica Schwittek
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Poor Country ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
Age Appropriate ◽  
Children’S Views ◽  
Relational Order

This article focuses on preschool children in Kyrgyzstan, a poor country of the former Soviet union. What are children’s views on the relational order in this transition society, and what is their contribution to the reproduction or challenging of this order? The authors use and elaborate the theoretical concepts of ‘agency’ and ‘collectivism-individualism’ to develop age-appropriate research instruments and to interpret children’s views. Data were collected in a mixed-method field study. The presented results show children’s agency in a tight hierarchical structure, revealing both complicity and self-assertion, occasionally resulting in opposition.

Predicting Immigrants’ Fear of Crime Based on Ethnicity, Acculturation, and Coping

2019 ◽  
pp. 215336871986596
Author(s):  
Keren Cohen-Louck
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Neighborhood Disorder ◽  
Acculturation Strategies ◽  
Ethiopian Immigrants ◽  
And Coping

This research focuses on fear of crime and acculturation strategies in two immigrant groups in Israel: Ethiopians and those from the former Soviet Union (FSU). Relative contributions of various individual and social factors that predict fear of crime were examined. Five hundred and fourteen immigrants were interviewed, half from each group. All participants completed questionnaires on their fear of crime levels, perceived neighborhood disorder, social integration, coping styles, acculturation strategies, and prior criminal victimization. Both Ethiopian ( M = 4.44) and FSU ( M = 4.20) immigrants preferred integration to other acculturation strategies ( p < .05). However, for Ethiopian immigrants, their high integration scores coexist with separation from Israeli society. There were no significant differences between the two groups of immigrants as for fear of crime. Several explanations for these findings are discussed. These results challenge notions of a single acculturation strategy. Ethiopian immigrants show a pattern of “cultural ambivalence” where both integration and separation are used, while FSU immigrants demonstrate patterns of “cultural modularity,” where integration and assimilation strategies coexist.

Migration, Unemployment, and Lifeworld

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwe Flick ◽  
Benjamin Hans ◽  
Andreas Hirseland ◽  
Sarah Rasche ◽  
Gundula Röhnsch
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Relevant Issue ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Mobile Methods

Migration is an issue for many countries. It affects several areas of social problems, for example, work and unemployment. A relevant issue to study in the context of unemployment and social welfare is, “Which are experiences of migrants with different language backgrounds in finding work and support?” For a running study with episodic interviews and mobile methods with migrants from the former Soviet Union to Germany, several issues are discussed in a “new critical inquiry”: Critical issues in the studied area (help, control, normative claims); applying (familiar) qualitative methods (interviewing in various languages and cultural backgrounds or mobile methods); triangulation in a new critical migration research.

scholarly journals From Development and Grand Corruption to Governance

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-28
Author(s):  
Scott MacWilliam ◽  
Mike Rafferty
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Social Wealth

In development policy circles, corruption has become a pressing global issue. Yet the contemporary relationship between corruption and development is complex and contested. For many, corruption robs people of economic resources and social wealth, and denudes the state of important capacities. That is, corruption prevents or blocks development. For others, corruption often occurs in the process of development as the form in which a class of developers accumulates wealth. That is, corruption is a phase of development. This article explores the contested relationship through two case studies: in Sub-Saharan Africa; and in the former Soviet Union. The article also links contemporary debates about corruption and development with earlier thinking about capitalist progress and development.

WYZWANIA POLITYKI MIGRACYJNEJ FEDERACJI ROSYJSKIEJ – STUDIUM PRAWNE, SOCJOLOGICZNE I GEOPOLITYCZNE (wersja poprawiona)

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-83
Author(s):  
Piotr Wojnicz
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
International Issues ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
External Migration

Migration is a mass phenomenon of our time, a permanent phenomenon which takes manyforms, affects all continents and all countries. This phenomenon is one of the most important socialand international issues of the modern world. In this context, the Russian Federation is not freefrom problems arising from migration processes. Migration policy of the Russian Federation isa very important part of that country’s geopolitical game. Location Russia between the EuropeanUnion and China creates considerable scope to influence the shape of migration processes notonly regional but also global. Russia has become a country of immigration. There are two veryimportant aspects in the migration policy of Russia: the internal and external aspects. The internalaspect relates to such phenomena as the fight against the demographic crisis and related deficitsin the labor market, national and religious revival of ethnic groups living in Russia, the low levelof social integration of immigrants. In terms of external migration policy is treated as an instrumentof pressure on the countries of the former Soviet Union, a way of shaping relations with Chinaand the element of national security. Russian migration policy is an active instrument for solvingproblems within the country, as well as a very important foreign policy wizard. Pejorative sideof this policy is that it is planned from above, without taking into account the needs and natureof various Russian regions.

From the Arctic to Istanbul

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexia Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Field Work ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Mobile Methods ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

This chapter provides an overview of the ethnographic research and theoretical foundations informing this study of women’s labor migration from the former Soviet Union into Turkey. Tracing three intertwined themes that animate the book—postsocialism, transnational mobility, and intimacy—the chapter highlights gendered aspiration for mobility and intimate practices like emotional labor forged within forces of global capitalism. The chapter also critically discusses global concerns with trafficking in women, showing how post-Soviet women migrants’ accounts complicate assumptions of oppression. The chapter also presents the context and methods of the research, with an analysis of “mobile” methods and field work with an infant along. The chapter closes with the book’s organizational thread, namely accounts of five key women and their families.

Role-blurring and ethical grey zones associated with lay interpreters: Three case studies

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Brua
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Medical Terminology ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Professional Resources

This article examines a context in which immigrants from the former Soviet Union must navigate the English-speaking medical system in a semi-rural area of the USA. In this setting, institutional interpretation resources are not consistently available, and various informal arrangements emerge. One type consists of naive interpreters such as family members of low bilingual capability and/or medical knowledge. Another arrangement involves relatively skilled bilinguals who have command of medical terminology but who are not professionally trained as interpreters. Three case studies of this latter category of ‘lay interpreters’ are presented. Among the roles reported by the lay interpreters are information source and advocate. The three interpreters are making a contribution in the absence of institutionally provided professional resources, and their help can be viewed as better than the use of naive interpreters such as patients’ children. However, the lay interpreters also occasionally seemed to stray into ethically grey areas. For instance, one interpreter said he discarded a client’s outdated medicine against her wishes, and another expressed envy of ungrateful clients who had better healthcare access than she did. While professionally trained interpreters are not immune from ethical challenges, such training would better safeguard both patient and interpreter.

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