Psychological Counseling Interventions for People with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses: Meeting the Needs of Minority Groups in a Multicultural Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Sunghee An
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Chronic Illnesses ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Psychological Counseling ◽  
Counseling Interventions

Judy Jaffe-Schagen, Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. x + 221 pp.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Ethiopian Jews ◽  
State Of Israel

This chapter reviews the book Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel (2016), by Judy Jaffe-Schagen. In Having and Belonging, Jaffe-Schagen explores the connection between identity, material culture, and location. Focusing on eight cases involving Chabad, religious Zionists, Moroccan Jews, Iraqi Jews, Ethiopian Jews, Russian Jews, Christian Arabs, and Muslim Arabs, the book shows how various minority groups in Israel are represented through objects and material culture in homes and museums. According to Jaffe-Schagen, in the politicized cultural landscape of borderless Israel, location not only affects the interplay between objects and people but can also provide important insights about citizenship. Her main argument is that the nation-state of Israel is not a multicultural society because it has failed to serve as a cultural “melting pot” for the various immigration groups.

scholarly journals Mind This Gap, Too: Political Orientations of People with Disabilities in Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 791-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Reher
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Political Inequality ◽  
Political Orientations

Abstract People with disabilities constitute one of the largest minority groups in Europe, and yet our knowledge about how they relate to the political system remains limited. In addition to facing practical barriers such as inaccessible campaign material and polling stations, they often have fewer resources that facilitate and promote confidence and engagement in politics. Moreover, experiences of discrimination and low numbers of politicians with disabilities can generate feelings of disempowerment. Using European Social Survey data from 30 countries from 2002 to 2015, this study shows that people with disabilities have lower levels of internal and external efficacy, political trust and interest, and electoral participation. The disparities in internal efficacy and political interest disappear when accounting for education, income, employment, and social contact. Meanwhile, significant gaps in external efficacy, political trust, and turnout remain to be explained. Perceptions of discrimination strengthen the internal efficacy and political interest of citizens with disabilities but further decrease their external efficacy, political trust, and turnout. The study sheds light on a frequently overlooked dimension of political inequality, provides insights on several contributing factors, and highlights where further research is needed.

scholarly journals When Human Rights are not Enough

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Joeni Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Fellow Citizen ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Human Rights Act ◽  
The Law

Juridically, there have been quite a lot of legal instruments existing in Indonesia to protect human rights. These legal instruments include the Indonesian Constitution, which has special articles regulating about human rights, the Human Rights Act (the Law Number 39 of 1999), the National Commission for Human Rights, etc. Thus, normatively, all those legal instruments should be adequate to protect human rights in Indonesia, including the protection of the minority groups. However, the facts don’t seem in line with such expectation. There have been a lot of cases happened in Indonesia that bring this country into a serious question in its ability to protect the minority groups. The persecutions over the Ahmadiyah and Shia sects, the rejections against non-Muslim worship place establishments, and as the most recent one, the case of Jakarta’s governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, are some of the long sad stories showing how Indonesia is really poor in its performance to protect the minority groups. Identity politics and even a sentiment of racism are re-escalating in Indonesia today, which seems affirming the research findings got by the Wahid Foundation showing that 59.9% of 1520 of respondents from 34 provinces in Indonesia said that they have hatred towards some groups of their fellow citizen, such as those who are non-Muslims, Chinese-descents, communists, etc (Hakim 2016). Among this 59,9% respondents, 92,2% of them said that they highly oppose a person coming from those groups to become a governmental leader, and 82,4% of this people even said that they don’t want to have a neighbor coming from those groups (Hakim 2016). Such re-emergence of identity politics and sentiment of racism, as well as a frightening fact of hatred among people, really give a serious question about why all the human rights instruments which already exist in Indonesia seem to fail in preventing all those things to happen. In this article, I will show my hypothesis that all that sad news that happened in Indonesia in regard to the minority group protection are due to the failure of multiculturalism approach implemented in Indonesia so far. Thus, I will also propose the interculturalism approach to be implemented in Indonesia as the critique and refinement of multiculturalism approach in dealing with the multicultural society, including in regard to the minority groups protection.

scholarly journals Just regionalisation: rehabilitating care for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Secker ◽  
Maya J Goldenberg ◽  
Barbara E Gibson ◽  
Frank Wagner ◽  
Bob Parke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Chronic Illnesses

Jewish Space and the Beschneidungsdebatte in Germany

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay (Koby) Oppenheim
Keyword(s):  
Male Circumcision ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
European Development ◽  
Jewish Practice

The concept of Jewish space, initially conceived by Diana Pinto as a unique European development, marked a critical shift in relations between Jews and non-Jews, the latter embracing a Jewish past as constitutive of their countries' own. The hoped-for European multiculturalism failed to blossom and Jewish space, in Pinto's assessment, has not born the fruit of its potential. To investigate the shortfall of Jewish space, this article examines the 2012 debate on ritual male circumcision in Germany (Beschneidungsdebatte) that drew contemporary Jewish practice into the public eye. Pinto's formulation is premised on a multicultural society that actively works to blunt intolerance, a condition whose fulfilment in contemporary Europe remains incomplete and uneven. Moreover, this attempt to extend the integration of history into memory was stymied by its lack of a living subject. While Jews constitute a long-standing minority population with a unique history in Germany, their success in establishing a shared Jewish space is tied to the broader project of tolerance and integration facing immigrant and minority groups in Western Europe.

scholarly journals REVITALISASI WAWASAN KEBANGSAAN MELALUI PENDIDIKAN MULTIKULTURAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Azyumardi Azra
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Unitary State ◽  
Unity In Diversity

<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> This article affirms the relevance of multicultural education in the endeavour to construct nationalistic ideals that covers four pillars: Pancasila, the Unitary State of Indonesia, the 1945 Constitution, and Unity in Diversity. Even though the conception of nation-state based on Pancasila has become the national consensus since 1945, it must be admitted that lately nationalistic ideals have increasingly been threatened by primordialistic religious practices. The formation of a multicultural society in Indonesia that is based on nationalistic ideals must be conducted systematically, structurally, integrally, and sustainably. In that context the approach of multicultural education is very relevant. Specifically, the concept of multicultural education includes acknowledgement of individual cultural differences of minority groups. The concept of multicultural education contains aspirations as well as efforts to respect the dignity of each person.</p><p><br /><strong>Keywords:</strong> nationalistic ideas, Pancasila, national identity, multicultural education, diversity, multiculturalism, civil society</p>

scholarly journals Allochtone Leerlingen en Allochtone Talen in Het Voortgezet Onderwijs

1998 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Jeroen Aarssen ◽  
Peter Broeder ◽  
Guus Extra
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Home Language ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Education Data

Owing to processes of migration and minorization, the Netherlands is increasingly developing into a multicultural society. Litde information, however, is available about the actual composition of this multicultural society. Statistics on immigrant minority groups are commonly based on nationality and/or birth-country criteria, which both suffer from increasing erosion. Ethnic self-categorization and home language use have been suggested as complementary or alternative criteria. Particularly in the context of education, data on home language use of immigrant minority pupils can supply relevant information on the multicultural composition of schools. In fact, such data are essential for language planning and educational policy. We carried out a language survey at two schools for secondary education, with a total group of 1305 respondents. The study establishes empirical evidence on: the distribution and vitalily of immigrant minority languages of pupils in secondary education; the complementary or alternative value of the home language criterion for the definition and identification of immigrant minority pupils; and the participation in and need for immigrant minority language instruction. Procedural matters (quality of the form, distribution to and within schools) are also investigated.

scholarly journals Islam under the Rule of Law in Europe: How Consistent Is the Human Rights Test?

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 857
Author(s):  
Marie-Claire Foblets
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
The Rule Of Law

This contribution draws attention to human rights as an instrument of justice to deal with requests that are either made directly or may prove indirectly to be relevant to Muslims who claim the protection of freedom of religion and faith in contemporary European societies. The analysis is distributed over two distinct but complementary illustrations of such claims. The position defended here is that the key to a successful multicultural society lies in enabling adherents of all religions and beliefs, and thus also Muslims, to participate to the same extent, fully and actively, in social life, both as citizens and as private individuals. The challenge lies in finding the balance between looking after the interests of the majority society and meeting the needs and wishes of minority groups and communities, including those communities that are perceived to be ‘new’.

scholarly journals Keberadaan Kelompok Minoritas: Mitos Homogenitas Bangsa Jepang

KIRYOKU ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-256
Author(s):  
Arsi Widiandari
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Japanese Government ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Minority Community ◽  
Library Method

The focus of this research is to discus the existence of minority groups in Japan. The existence of this minority community breaks the understanding of the Japanese nation which consists of a homogeneous society. This study uses the library method, by taking data from various literatures such as scientific articles, reference books and official reports issued by the Japanese Government through official website. This study found that existence of minority community in Japan for example Zainichi Korea, Burakumin groups, Ainu and a number of migrant worker is proof that Japan is not a homogeneous society but is a multicultural society. This paper is expected to complement the research that has been done previously related to the identity of the Japanese nation.

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