An intersectional theoretical framework for exploring racialized older immigrant women’s subjectivities

2021 ◽  
pp. 146801732110084
Author(s):  
Manaal Syed
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Skilled Immigration ◽  
Women's Lives

Summary Today, racialized older women’s international migration is increasingly accelerated, cyclical and transnational, illustrating the transcendence of lives across time and space. At the same time, immigration regimes regulate and restrict these seemingly unfettered mobilities using neoliberal, gendered and ageist policies that favor (younger) skilled immigration. This article addresses the question of how social work can use intersectionality perspectives to theorize racialized older immigrant women’s lives which are stretched across multiple time(s) and space(s) yet confined within highly regulated multi-tiered immigration systems. Findings This article outlines a theoretical framework grounded specifically within intersectional feminist, post-structural, and transnational aging perspectives. The framework embraces the temporality, spatiality, and transnationality of gendered, aging and migrant lives and reconsiders their agency as a performed subjectivity bound by multiple forces of institutionalized regimes. Applications This theoretical framework moves social work inquiry to a richer understanding of the migratory realities of diverse aging lives that are simultaneously in-motion and regulated within structural constraints.

scholarly journals Achieving Juvenile Justice through Abolition: A Critical Review of Social Work’s Role in Shaping the Juvenile Legal System and Steps toward Achieving an Antiracist Future

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Durrell M. Washington ◽  
Toyan Harper ◽  
Alizé B. Hill ◽  
Lester J. Kern
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Juvenile Court ◽  
Black Youth ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Juvenile Courts

The first juvenile court was created in 1899 with the help of social workers who conceptualized their actions as progressive. Youth were deemed inculpable for certain actions since, cognitively, their brains were not as developed as those of adults. Thus, separate measures were created to rehabilitate youth who exhibited delinquent and deviant behavior. Over one hundred years later, we have a system that disproportionately arrests, confines, and displaces Black youth. This paper critiques social work’s role in helping develop the first juvenile courts, while highlighting the failures of the current juvenile legal system. We then use P.I.C. abolition as a theoretical framework to offer guidance on how social work can once again assist in the transformation of the juvenile legal system as a means toward achieving true justice.

scholarly journals Social pedagogy vs social work in Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Odrowąż-Coates ◽  
Katarzyna Szostakowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Screening Procedure ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Literary Sources

This article is a descriptive review of the historical and theoretical conditions of social pedagogy and social work in Poland. It pertains to the definition, tradition and development of social pedagogy and social work in Poland. Using the insiders’ expert overview of the latter, it identifies the disciplinary boundaries, commonalities and differences that shape both social work and social pedagogy today. The authors present the academic roots, methodology, research scopes, theoretical framework for practitioners and finally, the practical application for both disciplines. The discussion is based on literary sources and extensive experience in the field presented by an associate professor of social pedagogy and a qualified social worker, both employed at a social pedagogy department. This combination ensures scientific honesty and a double-screening procedure of the content from the perspective of practitioners representing both disciplines. This approach provides a balanced view, since the interdependency and separation of the two fields may be seen as an area of potential negotiation.

scholarly journals How do places of origin influence access to mobility in the global age? An analysis of the influence of vulnerability and structural constraints on Senegalese translocal livelihood strategies

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Schöfberger
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
Global Age ◽  
The Way

Abstract. Literature has often underlined the relevance of mobility for modern lifestyles. However, it has frequently overlooked that mobility has long been the rule in Senegal. There, mobility has allowed households to cope with environmental and economic vulnerability. Over the last decades, households have extended their traditional mobility through internal and international migration. This paper investigates how place-related vulnerability and structural constraints influence the way Senegalese households construct translocal spaces and livelihood strategies in the global age. For this purpose, a multi-sited ethnographic study has been conducted at four villages in Senegal and at two immigration destinations in Italy and Spain. The empirical results show that vulnerability and structural constraints in the home place do not prevent households from adopting strategies based on mobility, but rather influence the composition of translocal spaces, the ability to move between places, and the construction of translocal livelihood strategies.

The Role of Households in International Migration and the Case of U. S. -Bound Migration from the Dominican Republic

1982 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia R. Pessar
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Core ◽  
Peripheral Area ◽  
Continuous Stream ◽  
Household Strategies

Analysis of the role of the household in migration necessitates a theoretical framework that encompasses both variables. This study of Dominican migration contributes to this goal by exploring several propositions. Principal among these is the claim that the structure within which Dominican migration occurs is capital's requirement for a continuous stream of cheap, vulnerable labor and the need of households to reproduce themselves at an historically and culturally prescribed level of maintenance. The article's emphasis on household strategies clarifies several important issues, such as variation in the rates of migration among groups in the same peripheral area, the increased improvishment of nonmigrant members of sending communities, and the intensified dependency of emigrant households on the core economy.

scholarly journals Specifikusság, mint migrációs ellenösztönző: elmélet és egy rendezett logit modell tanulságai = Specificity as counterincentive of migration: theoretical approach and the teaching of an ordered logit model

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-116
Author(s):  
József Golovics
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Logit Model ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Microeconomic Theory ◽  
Ordered Logit ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Migration Intention ◽  
Ordered Logit Model ◽  
Specific Investments

Jelen tanulmányban a nemzetközi migráció hagyományos mikroökonómiai elméletét bővítjük ki a Williamson-féle specifikusság koncepciójával. Amellett érvelünk, hogy bizonyos hely- és kapcsolatspecifikus beruházások megléte komoly ellenösztönzőként szolgálhat az elvándorlásra. A specifikusság fogalmával így a korábbi gazdasági megközelítések horizontján kívül eső empirikus megfigyeléseket is magyarázni tudjuk, emellett pedig bizonyos, a migráció közgazdaságtani modelljeiben meglévő tényezőket helyezünk új megvilágításba. Feltevéseinket egy elméleti keretben vázoljuk fel, majd egyéni szintű migrációs potenciálra vonatkozó Eurobarometer adatok és egy rendezett logit modell segítségével empirikusan is teszteljük őket. This paper integrates Williamson’s concept of specificity into the neoclassical microeconomic theory of international migration. It is claimed that certain site specific and relationship specific investments may be substantial disincentives to migrate. Thus, the concept of specificity can interpret several empirical findings that remained unexplained in former economic models. Besides, it can shed a new light on standard factors of these models as well. These claims are outlined in a theoretical framework and tested empirically by using individual Eurobarometer migration intention data and an ordered logit model.

scholarly journals A Peace Paradigm in Social Work.

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adenike Yesufu
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Social

Social work is usually seen as a profession with a localized focus but it is eclectic as it borrows from various disciplines for its theoretical framework, which makes it at times disjointed with no cohesion in the various dimensions of its practice. There have been several calls for a change of paradigm in Social Work. This paper takes a critical look at the profession and joins the myriad of calls for the expansion of the Social Work focus. In particular, this article introduces a peace paradigm, which would essentially integrate peace issues and peace perspectives into Social Work practice.

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