scholarly journals Vietnamese Women’s Responses to Domestic Violence in South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Suyeon Park
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Vietnamese Women ◽  
Informal Social Networks ◽  
Depth Interviews

The purpose of this study is to explore Vietnamese women’s responses to domestic violence in South Korea. Based on in-depth interviews with 22 Vietnamese women who marry Korean men, six strategies to cope with domestic violence are identified: enduring, escaping, confronting, negotiating, getting help from informal networks, and seeking assistance from formal sources. This study presents that informal social networks are critical in the process of help seeking for abused Vietnamese women.

scholarly journals Tacit networks, crucial care: Informal networks and disaster response in Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake

Urban Studies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 561-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocio Carrero ◽  
Michele Acuto ◽  
Asaf Tzachor ◽  
Niraj Subedi ◽  
Ben Campbell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Gorkha Earthquake ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
2015 Gorkha Earthquake ◽  
Informal Social Networks

It is often reiterated that a better understanding of local networks and needs is key to risk reduction. Nevertheless, the crucial role of informal social networks and actors in the catering for human needs in disaster circumstances remains largely under-explored. If we have to rethink the ‘work’ that informality does for our understanding of urban areas, its contribution to resilience, and take it seriously in the ‘full spectrum of risk’ in urban and peri-urban centres, better and more balanced methods are needed. This paper attends to this gap. Examining the mechanisms of aid provision in the aftermath of the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal, it details an experimental set of quantitative research methods to explore the role of informal social networks in the provision of critical human needs in natural disasters. Relying on a sample of 160 households across four districts and 16 villages in the built environment affected by the Gorkha earthquake, the paper reveals that, overall, a wide disparity exists in the comparative importance of organisations in the provision of aid and resources. Much crucial after-disaster care is catered for by a mix of relatives, temples, friends, neighbours and local clubs. It highlights the importance of informal networks in understanding, and theorising, governance (of disaster and of the ‘urban’ more in general), and calls for greater attention to its role. It is time, it argues, to revalue informal disaster governance networks as a crucial, not tacit, component of disaster response.

The Ties that Heal: Guatemalan Immigrant Women's Networks and Medical Treatment

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Menjívar
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Prescription Drugs ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
Traditional Medicines ◽  
Women's Networks ◽  
Depth Interviews

Using participant observation and in-depth interviews with ladina and indigenous Guatemalan immigrant women, this article examines the intricate social networks - both local and transnational - through which these immigrants obtain treatment for their own and their families' illnesses. Although Guatemalan women also relied on ties with friends, families and acquaintances to obtain a cure in their country, these ties acquire more significance within the broader U.S. politicoeconomic context that restricts their medical choices. Under these conditions, these women's informal networks become key in putting within reach a variety of treatments that include prescription drugs (obtained over the counter) and “traditional” medicines, which are acquired both locally and from contacts back home. Giving and receiving help through these social networks, however, is a negotiated process punctuated by disillusions, tension, and frustration as much as by cohesiveness and support.

scholarly journals Domestic abuse in marriage and self-silencing: Pastoral care in a context of self-silencing

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sinenhlanhla S. Chisale
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Domestic Abuse ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
The Self ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
Depth Interviews

The socialisation of women into self-silencing by religion has complicated pastoral care interventions for the victims of domestic violence, particularly within the context of marriage. This article is written from an intercultural approach to pastoral care and applies the theory on silence. The aim of this article is to explore the way pastoral caregivers can extend caregiving to the victims of marital domestic violence who have silenced the self. The article draws from qualitative data that were collected through autobiographical narratives, in-depth interviews and observations, and analysed through thematic analysis. The findings indicate that women are forced to silence the self in contexts of domestic violence by not speaking about the abuse that takes place in marriage. The self-silencing is justified by those who interpret Biblical texts that address marriage naively; in this case one of the two women who participated in this study confirmed that Proverbs 21:9 is used to justify self-silencing. Thus, the article concludes that pastoral care interventions in such contexts should include a circle of the significant others that women interact with such as the perpetrator and the broader community, including her social networks.

Informal Social Networks as Intermediaries in Foreign Markets

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 629-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Apaydin ◽  
Jon Thornberry ◽  
Yusuf M. Sidani
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Internationalization Process ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Business World ◽  
Informal Social Networks ◽  
History Of ◽  
Asian Economy

ABSTRACTWe investigate how informal social networks can assist multinational firms in their internationalization strategy. We propose a refinement of the Uppsala internalization model (Johanson & Vahne, 2009) grounded in network theory, by developing an intermediate position between an ‘insider’ and an ‘outsider’ for conditions when the transformation of an outsider into an insider is limited by institutional constraints. An intermediary position represents one of the sides of ‘patron-client’ informal networks (Denoeux, 1993) whereby the other side is represented by the ‘insider’. We argue that this setup would help mitigate the Liability of Outsidership (Johanson & Vahne, 2009), a replacement of the Liability of Foreignness (Hymer, 1976; Zaheer, 1995), in the modern networked business world. We contextualize our proposition for the case of Iran, a large rising West-Asian economy with known institutional limitations, and suggest that the informal network of local merchants (bazaaries) could play an important intermediary role in Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) internationalization process. We review the history of bazaaries and make a series of propositions exemplifying possible ways informal networks could influence the internationalization process. In addition to re-affirming the importance of the MNE country of origin (emerging markets, and low psychic distance with Iran), we propose that an intermediary of the Iranian bazaaries will have a positive impact on performance and survival of the MNE's subsidiary in Iran, especially in the case of incongruence of MNE's leadership with Shi'a Islam. Additionally, we suggest that employing the Iranian diaspora may also improve subsidiary performance and survival.

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