Transnational care constellations: Im/migrant families, children and education

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-199
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Central Piece ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Economic Health

Drawing on over a decade of empirical research, this article develops the framework of ‘Transnational Care Constellations’ in order to understand how mothers, children and caregivers are connected across national terrains. This approach takes into account the ways families organize care, economic, health and everyday decisions and focuses on relationships across nations. The purpose of this article is twofold: (1) to present relevant literature in transnational migration research that has led me to think about care as a central piece that keeps families together; and (2) to show through empirical ethnographic data three cases of families that are organized transnationally. This article also takes into consideration the impacts of a global pandemic in the modes of communication transnational care constellations have used.

Integration of refugees in rural areas and the role of the receiving society: conceptual review and analytical framework

Erdkunde ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Birgit Glorius ◽  
Miriam Bürer ◽  
Hanne Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Local Integration ◽  
Research Gap

Research on integration processes of migrants has until recently remained on geographical levels of observation which are not apt to reveal and explain the variety of local integration trajectories. Furthermore, most research has focused on the role of migrants within these processes, while the attitudes and behaviours of the receiving society have been rarely addressed. This research gap concerns in particular rural areas since those areas have been widely left out of migration research. This article addresses those research gaps and develops a concept for the empirical research of local receptivity processes.

Citizens' Readiness for E-government in Developing Countries (CREG)

2010 ◽  
pp. 215-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hany Abdelghaffar
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Government Project ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Ict Infrastructure ◽  
The Impact

Many developing countries are facing difficulties in applying successful electronic government (e-government) projects. A major part of these difficulties that they are not used by citizens due to the lack of appropriate ICT infrastructure that support e-government services; in addition to the existence of a small percentage of citizens who are able to deal with such technology. This chapter introduces an empirical research that closely investigates the e-government weaknesses in developing countries from two major perspectives: e-readiness and trust. The research proposes a model based on e-readiness assessments and relevant literature that investigates the impact of citizens’ readiness for e-government (CREG) on e-government success within developing countries. The model was tested on the Egyptian e-government project as a sample of developing countries. The research findings confirmed the importance of the CREG model to achieve successful e-government projects in developing countries.

scholarly journals Spatial and Financial Aspects of a Protected Area Functioning – The Case of the Gorce National Park

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-74
Author(s):  
Alina Kulczyk-Dynowska ◽  
Grzegorz Gaura
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
National Park ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Human Economic Activity ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
Central Statistical Office

Abstract Subject and purpose of work: The Gorce National Park (GNP) represents the object of the study. The purpose of the article is to present the GNP in the category of an area and in the category of an active managing unit. Materials and methods: Empirical research was conducted (2008-2014) based on the data collected from the GNP financial and accounting records and the Central Statistical Office. The degree of tourism function, carried out by the territorial municipalities connected with the GNP, was studied (Baretje and Defert index and Charvat index were calculated) and also the analysis of the GNP activities was conducted. Both the relevant literature query and the analysis of development strategies prepared by the territorial municipalities connected with the GNP were conducted. Results: It was found that the tourist function constitutes an important, however, not the primary function for the analysed municipalities, whereas the initiated activities (both on the part of municipalities and the GNP) indicate the desire for its intensification. The GNP has assets exceeding the value of PLN 17 million, offers jobs for the team whose total annual remuneration is almost PLN 2,5 million and the total annual costs for the last audited year amount to PLN 7,5 million. Conclusions: The described protected area constitutes the example of proper coexistence of human economic activity and nature. The GNP remains a significant entity of the local economic life scene which increases tourist attractiveness of the Gorce Mountains.

scholarly journals Employee Responses To Psychological Contract Breach And Violation: Intentions To Leave The Job, Employer Or Profession

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Paille ◽  
Marie-Eve Dufour
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Employee Turnover ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Psychological Contract Breach ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Contract Breach ◽  
Professional Employees ◽  
Turnover Cognitions ◽  
Employee Responses

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Empirical research supports the idea that the perception of under-fulfillment of psychological contract (i.e., breach and violation) increases the willingness to leave the employer via turnover cognitions (i.e., available alternatives and search a job). Further research indicates that employee turnover is not only restricted to the notion of an employee leaving an employer to join another employer. To go beyond this restriction, data were collected among a sample of professional employees. The results suggest that when employees feel that under-fulfillment of psychological contract occur, they may leave the organization or the current job for one another by in the same organization, but did not consider leaving the profession. Findings are discussed in light of relevant literature.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>

The varieties of ethical experience

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-190
Author(s):  
Peter J. Rosan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Life ◽  
Precise Form ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Ways Of Being

This article offers original phenomenological descriptions of empathy, sympathy, and compassion. These descriptions are based on empirical research, and they sample the variety of ways the subject may respond to the suffering of another person. The structure of these different, but similar ways of being are then taken up as clues hinting at a sensibility bearing on the formation of an ethical life. This sensibility is essentially twofold in character. On the one hand, a pairing of the perceived similarities between subject and other opens the subject to a resonance with the humanity of the other. On the other hand, the other’s expressive life awakens the subject’s interest in wanting to know the meaning of these expressions for the other or calls forth a caring regard for the well-being of the other. The ways of being represented by empathy, sympathy, and compassion may be viewed as different ways of organizing or rendering a precise form to the constitutive strands of the aforementioned sensibility. The relevant literature in phenomenology and ethics is commented on as it informs the discussion, but is kept to a minimum.

Intergenerational Dimensions of Transnational Chinese Migrant Families in New Zealand — A Research Gap Identified (新西兰跨国华人移民家庭的代际维度研究)

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liangni Sally Liu (刘良妮)
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Impact

With the accelerating trend toward transnational families in many parts of the world associated with globalization, coping with the demand for family reunification has become a major challenge for both migrant families and migrant-sending and -receiving societies. In July 2012, a significant policy change regarding the Family Sponsorship Stream (Parent Category) took place in New Zealand, which raised the bar for migrants’ elderly parents on entering New Zealand as permanent residents. This policy change has a significant impact on many Chinese migrant families from the People’s Republic of China (prc), where filial piety is an important part of traditional values and the state provides very limited ageing support to the elderly. In the meantime, legislation came into force in China in July 2013 that requires children to visit their* elderly parents “often” or risk being sued. This paper takes these policy and legislative changes as a starting point for an exploration of the changing dynamics of Chinese migrant families in New Zealand in a multi-generational and transnational context. It first examines the impact of the New Zealand policy and then discusses the wider implications of this policy change on migrant family dynamics as well as on New Zealand society. The second focus is on younger generations in the Chinese migrant families. Linking three generations of the Chinese migrant families together, the final part of this paper addresses a highly pertinent research area — the intergenerational dimensions of transnational migration. 全球化进程催速了跨国移民家庭现象的形成。这些身居异地的移民家庭成员对家庭团聚有着非常强烈的诉求, 但却面临来自移民源发国和接收国制度和体系造成的对家庭团聚的种种阻碍。 新西兰在 2012 年开始执行新的家庭团聚担保政策。紧缩的新政策使成年移民子女担保父母移民变得更加困难，对新西兰新华人移民家庭造成了负面影响。原因主要是子女孝顺与父母同住的华人传统理念与新西兰不欢迎移民年老父母的政策倾向形成的冲突。华人移民家庭面临的压力还来自于移民源发国—— 中国的新立法改革。2013 年 7 月中国正式立法规定成年子女必须勤力探望照顾年迈父母，否则将会面临法律指控。本文以这项新立法为着眼点，深入探究新西兰多代大陆华人新移民家庭现在面临的来自家庭内部成员间的压力和来自外部跨国移民趋势的影响。本文首先研究新西兰 2012 年家庭父母类别团聚新政策对移民社区的冲击和影响， 再深入分析该新移民政策调整对移民家庭内部关系，种族关系的引申社会含义。 本文最后一部分着重比对出一个至今还被忽略的研究领域空白—那就是跨国移民的代际维度。 This article is in English.

scholarly journals The determinants of university strategic positioning: a reappraisal of the organisation

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Fumasoli ◽  
Giovanni Barbato ◽  
Matteo Turri
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Strategic Positioning ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
External Influences ◽  
Change In Higher Education ◽  
Three Components

AbstractThis paper makes a contribution to the debate on university organisational actorhood by theorising the determinants of institutional strategic positioning. It argues that besides environmental forces and managerial rationality, the organisational dimension needs to be accounted for. Addressing the mixed empirical evidence in the relevant literature, we conceptualise the organisational dimension as a meso-level intervening variable mediating both external influences (outside-inside) and organisational action (inside-outside). We operationalise the organisational dimension along three components: organisational structure, identity and centrality, which are further elaborated in sub-components and indicators. A set of hypotheses to be tested in empirical research is provided. The paper offers new perspectives on the dynamics of change in higher education and on strategic agency of organisational actors.

Towards a Political Sociology of Transnationalization. The State of the Art in Migration Research

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS FAIST
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Political Sociology ◽  
Hierarchical Control ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
General Study ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
National Borders

The transnational turn in international migration research since the early 1990s has sparked vigorous debates among migration scholars. Yet the political aspects of transnational migration have been under-studied when compared to social, cultural and economic processes. This is particularly astonishing because the very term transnational suggests the importance of national borders and nationally-bound polities as opportunities and restrictions of exchange, reciprocity, solidarity and hierarchical control for processes involving non-state actors to varying degrees. The goal of this analysis is to take stock of some developments in the general study of transnationalization and treat the aspects of politics, policy and polity as a specific case of this broader conceptual and empirical effort. This effort also identifies questions for further research and offers methodological venues for the study of transnationalism arising out of international migration.

scholarly journals Flynn effect: Generation growth of IQ

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
Igor Vujović ◽  
Đorđe Petronić
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Nutrition And Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Flynn Effect ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Primary Family ◽  
Iq Tests

In the 1980-s, the attention of the public was attracted by the research of James Flynn, who noticed something interesting - as the time went by, respondents achieved higher scores in the IQ tests. According to his research, as well as the researches of the authors who were engaged in the subject, the observed increase was 4.4 points per decade on average. These increases varied across different environments, however, in almost every country where research was conducted the point increases in IQ tests were observed. In addition to the observed increases in the IQ tests, it was also necessary to uncover the reasons for such results. The aim of the study is to present the results of the empirical research confirming this phenomenon, as well as to provide some possible explanations related to its occurrance. The relevant literature have singled out education, test exposure, nutrition and health care, reduction in the number of primary family members and heterosis as the possible reasons for the above-mentioned point increases.

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