scholarly journals Weapons of the weak twisted in jars of love. The transnational maternal foodways of Polish migrants in Brussels

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylwia Urbańska
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Food Studies ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Transnational Mothers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
Polish Migrants ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Work Abroad

The aim of the article is to analyse social change in the area of the gendered care practices and identities of migrant mothers, who were forced by the social and economic situation in Poland to (illegally) work abroad without their children and families. It asks what kind of experiences of social change we can find if we look at the foodways practised by transnational mothers from the working classes. The concepts of "transnational maternal foodways" and "maternal bustling around foodways" will be used as tropes to discuss and explore the gendered changes in motherhood experienced by Polish migrants. The analysis presented here is based on the results of extensive fieldwork conducted both in the villages and small towns of Eastern Poland and in Belgium (particularly in its capital, Brussels), and on 54 autobiographical narrative interviews with Polish women who, during the two decades after the fall of socialism in Poland (1989–2010), worked permanently or cyclically abroad. The analysis combines critical food studies with gender and migration studies. 

Peace as opportunity for social justice: Establishment of new social change organizations in Israel in the wake of the Oslo Peace Accords

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roni Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Peace Accords ◽  
Social Change Organizations ◽  
Israeli Experience

The social work profession is committed to the promotion of peace and social justice. It is often assumed that peacetime enables diverting resources and attention to the promotion of disadvantaged groups. However, little is known about the mechanisms. This study of the Israeli experience following the Oslo Peace Accords suggests that one potential mechanism is the development of social change organizations (SCOs) in the wake of peace. Findings indicate growth in SCO establishment in the periphery and small towns, in vulnerable groups, and in the Israeli Palestinian (Arab) citizen minority group. Implications for social work are suggested.

scholarly journals Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World: An Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Catherine Lejeune ◽  
Delphine Pagès-El Karoui ◽  
Camille Schmoll ◽  
Hélène Thiollet
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Exclusionary Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The City

AbstractGlobalization and migration have generated acute and often contradictory changes: they have increased social diversity while inducing global homogenization; they have sharpened differentiation of spaces and statuses while accelerating and amplifying communication and circulations; they have induced more complex social stratification while enriching individual and collective identities. These changes happen to be strikingly visible in cities. Urban contexts, indeed, offer privileged sites of inquiry to understanding the social dynamics of globalization, informal belonging and local citizenships, transient and multi-layered identities, symbolic orders and exclusionary practices. But cities are also material sites and they create multisensorial scapes that shape experiences of globalization and social change. They operate through multiple scales, connecting horizontal extensions and vertical layers of the city with generic, landmark, interstitial and neglected places. Far from being mere contexts, cities are both changing and being changed by migration and globalization.

THE BUILDING OF HAMBURG'S BISMARCK MEMORIAL, 1898–1906

2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK A. RUSSELL
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Important Development ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

Hamburg's Bismarck memorial, unveiled in 1906, is considered to be one of the greatest expressions of Imperial Germany's Bismarck cult and an important development in the history of German memorial art. This article looks beyond these contextual categories to focus on the political and cultural exigencies specific to Hamburg which gave birth to the memorial. It suggests it was born of the desire of Hamburg's patrician classes to defend their political privileges in the face of dramatic social change and attendant demands for political reform. To those who presided over its construction, it was also a means of asserting Hamburg's cultural aspirations and of shrugging off a reputation as a city hostile to the arts. The article examines some of the memorial designs submitted to a competition as a means of illustrating the functions it was intended to fulfil, but argues that it failed to fulfil both. Meeting widespread disapproval among the working classes, the memorial could not stay their increasing support for the Social Democrats. Although widely admired, the monument did not stimulate further significant patronage of the arts in Hamburg.

scholarly journals Mapping Gender and Migration in Sociological Scholarship: Is It Segregation or Integration?

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara R. Curran ◽  
Steven Shafer ◽  
Katharine M. Donato ◽  
Filiz Garip
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
American Sociological Review ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Migration

A review of the sociological research about gender and migration shows the substantial ways in which gender fundamentally organizes the social relations and structures influencing the causes and consequences of migration. Yet, although a significant sociological research has emerged on gender and migration in the last three decades, studies are not evenly distributed across the discipline. In this article, we map the recent intellectual history of gender and migration in the field of sociology and then systematically assess the extent to which studies on engendering migration have appeared in four widely read journals of sociology (American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Demography, and Social Forces). We follow with a discussion of these studies, and in our conclusions, we consider how future gender and migration scholarship in sociology might evolve more equitably.

scholarly journals “We Become Capable of Handling Everything”: Gender and Gulf Migration in Kerala, South India

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
Kathryn Gerry
Keyword(s):  
South India ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Work Abroad

Women have a uniquely gendered experience with worker migration from Kerala, South India to the Gulf, a phenomenon which touches virtually every household in this state. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kerala, this article examines the intersections of gender and migration; I argue that migration fuels significant social change in terms of gender expectations and the role of women as economic agents. My fieldwork reveals that women work abroad due to personal circumstances and to conform to local ideas about modernity. Migrants’ wives also experience increased autonomy in their daily lives. These two categories of women, migrant women and the wives of male migrants, are attuned to others’ perceptions of their roles vis-à-vis migration. Despite occasional negative feedback, women report that they are empowered by worker migration. This project builds on scholarship examining the status of women in Kerala (Eapen and Kodoth 2003), the experiences of migrant spouses (Osella 2016), and female Christian nurses’ Gulf migration (Percot 2006). I extend this work by analyzing the personal narratives of individual women who work in the Gulf, head their own households in Kerala, and experience stigmatization because of emigration. Finally, I explored the broader implications of migration for the lifestyles and aspirations of women in Kerala.

Doing embodied research: participatory and creative approaches

2018 ◽  
pp. 31-48
Author(s):  
Elena Vacchelli
Keyword(s):  
Third Sector ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Creative Research ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
Third Sector Organisations ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Coherent Body

This chapter provides examples of creative and participatory work done when qualitatively researching race, gender, and migration. The ground-breaking practices developed by voluntary and community organisations and NGOs to help the communities they target is constantly evolving, differs according to the area of intervention, and is not systematically documented or mapped in a coherent body of work. Rather, it is fragmented, unevenly developed within organisations and highly dependent on the context in which these experimentations with creative methods take place. The chapter reviews the experience of third-sector organisations using embodied approaches to engage their service users and discusses examples of research conducted using participatory and creative research methods in the social sciences, before focusing specifically on research which has dealt with embodied methodologies in the field of migration. Colonial relationships in research are considered from a critical perspective.

Geographies of Gender and Migration: Spatializing Social Difference

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Silvey
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Geography ◽  
Social Difference ◽  
Migration Literature ◽  
Spatial Production ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Place And Identity ◽  
Insight Into

This article provides a review of the contributions that the discipline of geography is making to gender and migration research. In geographic analyses of migration, gender differences are examined most centrally in relation to specific spatialities of power. In particular, feminist geographers have developed insight into the gender dimensions of the social construction of scale, the politics of interlinkages between place and identity, and the socio-spatial production of borders. Supplementing recent reviews of the gender and migration literature in geography, this article examines the potential for continued cross-fertilization between feminist geography and migration research in other disciplines. The advances made by feminist geographers to migration studies are illustrated through analysis of the findings and debates tied to the subfield's central recent conceptual interventions.

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