scholarly journals Human displacement and social recognition: the working conditions and relations of refugees and displaced people in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-291
Author(s):  
JOSÉ HENRIQUE DE FARIA ◽  
ELAINE CRISTINA SCHMITT RAGNINI ◽  
CAMILA BRÜNING
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Public University ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Psychological Suffering ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
The City ◽  
Nancy Fraser ◽  
Human Displacement

Abstract This research analyzes the process of inclusion and social recognition of migrants in a Brazilian city. The study presents a report of the demands from migrants in the context of a host project carried out at a Brazilian public university regarding their insertion in the world of work and in Brazilian higher education, highlighting their difficulties and expressions of suffering. Documentary research was used based on the analysis of qualitative data collected from about 300 interviews and over 1000 individual and group psychosocial consultations carried out with migrants in the city of Curitiba-PR. As a theoretical framework we adopted the category of “social recognition” proposed by Nancy Fraser (2008a) based on the debate with Axel Honneth (2009), and inspired by the category “struggle for recognition,” by Hegel (2008). Results point to the precarious inclusion of migrants in the labor market, with evident social injustice and psychological suffering.

Journey to Shanghai: The Effects of Rural-to-urban Migration and Social Class on Perceptions of Home

2020 ◽  
pp. 0972558X2097523
Author(s):  
Arianna Ponzini
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Migration Dynamics ◽  
Primary Reference ◽  
Social Advancement ◽  
Rural To Urban Migration ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

The present article centers on the home, the perceptions of which are challenged, and modified by rural-to-urban migration dynamics and outcomes. The core research interest hereby presented pertains to the effects of migration and social advancement on individuals’ perceptions of home: whereas some identify their original rural home as their “home,” others manage to achieve a “shift” of the home after migration, by relocating their “home” from their original home in the village to their created home in the city. These two opposite perceptions about where the home of primary reference is located are not coincidental. Rather, the article presents a pattern that connects home shifting to upward mobility and social advancement: in fact, the shift in the location of the home owes to three major driving forces that are key in social mobility processes: career development, locus, and networks. The findings of this research, reached through the analysis of empirical qualitative data, provide practical insights to post-migratory class formation as well as upward mobility dynamics.

Cathedral and Town

2021 ◽  
pp. 121-158
Author(s):  
Marion Grau
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Local History ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Religious Significance ◽  
International Solidarity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ongoing Development ◽  
The City ◽  
Main Attraction

Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim is the historical resting place of St. Olav and an end point of many of the pilgrimage trails in Norway. The history of the cathedral intersects with the history of the city and the region as one of significant economic and religious significance. The movement of St. Olav’s relics throughout the city matches urban and religiocultural development of city and nation. This chapter explores the cathedral’s architecture and use and how contemporary engagements with the space facilitate ritual creativity and are part of the hosting and welcoming of pilgrims. Along with other centers of hospitality, the cathedral looms especially large as a main attraction point for both tourists and pilgrims in Trondheim, as an adaptable space for many purposes. The annual St. Olavsfest is a ten-day festival that begins with the saint’s day and features liturgies, concerts, plays, lectures, a medieval market, and televised panel discussions to involve city and region in the celebration of local history and culture. Controversial topics such as the colonial repression of Sámi indigenous peoples, the violent heritage of Viking king St. Olav, religious and other forms of discrimination, social injustice, and international solidarity are among the themes discussed during the festival. Thus, the “protest” in Protestantism is reflected in a critical engagement with history and with the ongoing development of the ritualization of Christian history and heritage in Norway.

scholarly journals Gender Dimensions of (Non)Violence in Communal Conflict: The Case of Jos, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (10) ◽  
pp. 1466-1499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Krause
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
Communal Conflict ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The City

Peacebuilding is more likely to succeed in countries with higher levels of gender equality, but few studies have examined the link between subnational gender relations and local peace and, more generally, peacebuilding after communal conflict. This article addresses this gap. I examine gender relations and (non)violence in ethno-religious conflict in the city of Jos in central Nigeria. Jos and its rural surroundings have repeatedly suffered communal clashes that have killed thousands, sometimes within only days. Drawing on qualitative data collected during fieldwork, I analyze the gender dimensions of violence, nonviolence, and postviolence prevention. I argue that civilian agency is gendered. Gender relations and distinct notions of masculinity can facilitate or constrain people’s mobilization for fighting. Hence, a nuanced understanding of the gender dimensions of (non)violence has important implications for conflict prevention and local peacebuilding.

scholarly journals Ethnoreligious Urban Violence and Residential Mobility in Nigerian Cities: The Kaduna Experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Danjuma Wapwera ◽  
Jiriko Kefas Gajere
Keyword(s):  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Urban Violence ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The City

This paper seeks to examine the ethnoreligious urban violence and residential mobility in the city of Kaduna with a view to make recommendations towards ameliorating its effects by evaluating the causal factors fueling the crisis and examining the pattern and direction of the residential mobility in the city. The sources of data were both primary and secondary. The sampling technique used was purposive and random sampling from two residential districts from both the northern and southern parts of the city. A total of 1,000 questionnaires were administered within the study areas and 900 questionnaires were collected. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with major stakeholders from the two parts. The data obtained were analysed using thematic and content analysis for the qualitative data whilst the quantitative data were analysed using simple percentages. The results revealed that the factors causing the ethnoreligious urban violence and residential mobility are unemployment, social institutional breakdown, politics, and colonial impact and the pattern/direction of the residential mobility in the city of Kaduna show a clear polarization along religious lines based reactive residential mobility between the two parts of the city. Based on these results recommendations were made to assist the academia, practitioners, and policy makers.

Lively Infrastructure

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 137-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ash Amin
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Solidarity ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
The City

This paper examines the social life and sociality of urban infrastructure. Drawing on a case study of land occupations and informal settlements in the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, where the staples of life such as water, electricity, shelter and sanitation are co-constructed by the poor, the paper argues that infrastructures – visible and invisible – are deeply implicated in not only the making and unmaking of individual lives, but also in the experience of community, solidarity and struggle for recognition. Infrastructure is proposed as a gathering force and political intermediary of considerable significance in shaping the rights of the poor to the city and their capacity to claim those rights.

scholarly journals La celebración del Inti Raymi en el Parque del Retiro de Madrid. Reconfiguración identitaria, rituales andinos en espacios públicos

2017 ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Ana Pinilla Pulido
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Migrant Community ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
The City ◽  
Specific Identity

<p><em></em><strong></strong>In this communication concerning the celebration of Inti Raymi (The Sun Festival – Traditonal ceremony related to the commencement of a time of renovation according to the Andean worldview) in a Madrid public space (Retiro Park) in 2012 and 2014. I shall discuss and analyse the process of revitilization both cultural and political, through which the Andean migrant community empowers itself. Becoming visible as a community with a specific identity to the Madrilenian society in its struggle for recognition as active social agents who participate in the construction of the city in which they inhabit.</p><p><strong>Published online</strong>: 11 December 2017</p>

scholarly journals Difa City Tour dan Pemenuhan Kebutuhan Wisata Difabel

INKLUSI ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Tuti Elfrida ◽  
Upik Dyah Eka Noviyanti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Disabled Tourists ◽  
The City

Various sectors seem to ignore the existence of persons with disabilities, including the tourism industry. The majority of tourist destinations have not provided accessible facilities for them. Transportation services also do not accommodate the mobility needs of persons with disabilities. This study focused on Ojek Difa in Yogyakarta. Through observation and interviews, qualitative data was obtained to see the recreational needs of persons with disabilities and how the roles of Ojek Difa. The study found that people with disabilities have different ways of defining tourism activities. Ojek Difa offers Difa City Tour to provide services for disabled people who want to take a tour in the city or visit other tourist destinations. The existence of Difa City Tour in the Ojek Difa organization shows the importance of involving service providers from groups of persons with disabilities in the tourism sector, especially in serving disabled tourists.[Berbagai sektor tampak mengabaikan keberadaan difabel, termasuk industri pariwisata. Mayoritas destinasi wisata belum menyediakan fasilitas yang aksesibel bagi difabel. Layanan transportasi juga kurang mengakomodasi kebutuhan mobilitas difabel. Penelitian ini terfokus pada Ojek Difa di Yogyakarta yang memberikan layanan mobilitas bagi para difabel. Melalui observasi dan wawancara, data kualitatif diperoleh untuk melihat kebutuhan wisata para difabel. Penelitian menemukan bahwa para difabel memiliki cara berbeda dalam mendefinisikan kegiatan wisata. Ojek Difa menawarkan Difa City Tour untuk menyediakan layanan bagi para difabel yang ingin melakukan tur dalam kota atau mengunjungi destinasi wisata lainnya. Eksistensi Difa City Tour dalam organisasi Ojek Difa menunjukkan pentingnya melibatkan pegawai atau penyedia layanan dari kelompok difabel di sektor pariwisata terutama dalam melayani para wisatawan difabel.] 

scholarly journals SARAJEVO

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders H. Stefansson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Demographic Structure ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
Large Groups ◽  
Cultural Constructions ◽  
The City ◽  
Radical Transformation

Anthropological urban studies tend to explore how the specific social structures of cities affect the life of their inhabitants. In contrast, this article analyses local actors’ own cultural constructions of the city and urbanity. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a city that suffered heavy destruction during the war in the 1990s. According to native Sarajevans, however, the greatest threat to the unique urban culture of Sarajevo emanated from the radical transformation of the demographic structure that took place during the war, as many people fled Sarajevo while large groups of displaced people from other parts of the country sought refuge in the city. It was a popular perception among the local population that what used to be a modern and cosmopolitan European city in the course of war had deteriorated into “one big village”, plagued by cultural primitivism, ethnic nationalism and intolerance imported by newcomers from the rural backwaters of the country. The article shows how the roots of the powerful cultural dichotomies between city and countryside as well as between cultured and uncultured are to be located in the region’s historical position at the margins of Europe. The article argues that Sarajevans employed displaced persons as politically convenient scapegoats for experiences of social transformation and decay that stemmed more from war and crisis than from the inferior cultural habits of the newcomers.  

scholarly journals Objects as battlefields in the struggle for civil rights: The archaeology and analysis of contemporary material culture and heritage in Chile

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dafna Goldschmidt Levinsky ◽  
Javiera Letelier Cosmelli
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Cost Of Living ◽  
Santiago De Chile ◽  
Social Protests ◽  
Augusto Pinochet ◽  
The City

In October of 2019 began, as a manifestation of growing discontent, in Santiago de Chile a movement of social protests popularly known as “Estallido social”. This movement marched against social inequality and high cost of living, targeting the neoliberal system established during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet as responsible. Although Chile has been a democracy since 1990, inequality and social injustice has perpetuated  in democracy. We reflect on the role of the contemporary objects, their contexts and the position of archaeology in revealing current struggle discourse of civil rights, social diversity and social conflicts. Likewise, we analyze the transformation process of cultural heritage meanings through time, observable both in the appropriation of quotidian objects as way as protest as the resignification of the traditional monuments erected in the city.

scholarly journals Wisata Dendang Melayu Sebagai Salah Satu Potensi Wisata Bahari Di Kota Batam

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ulima Harma
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Reduction ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Qualitative Data Analysis ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Marine Tourism ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The City

The purpose of this research is to see the extent of the management of  Dendang Melayu tourism as one of the potential marine tourism in the city of Batam in terms of facilities and attractions. This type of research used in this research is descriptive research with a qualitative approach. In this study qualitative data analysis is used by following the concept of Miles and Huberman with several stages, namely Data Reduction, Data Presentation and Conclusion. The results of this study show that the management of Dendang Melayu tourism has undergone many changes as one of the potential for marine tourism in the city of Batam, although there are still some shortcomings. Dendang Melayu Tourism is far more interesting than before because of the tourism of Tanjung Penarik, but there are some things that must be addressed, namely the condition of the facilities that are still complained by the community and the attraction of Dendang Melayu tourism for tourists.

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