scholarly journals Nye former for tilhørighet. Migrantorganisasjoner for barn og ungdom i en norsk sivilsamfunnskontekst

2018 ◽  
pp. 271-298
Author(s):  
Guro Ødegård ◽  
Marianne Takle
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Voluntary Organization ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Sector Model ◽  
Immigrant Background ◽  
Transnational Ties ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Political Communities ◽  
Migrant Organizations

The traditional Scandinavian voluntary sector model is under pressure. The aim of this chapter is to identify the importance of individuals’ cultural background in creating new forms of community and belonging among young people of immigrant background. Based on a qualitative study of eight national voluntary organizations for children and young people of immigrant background, we analyse transnational ties and practices in these organizations. What is the importance of these ties for social and political integration, and how do, these organizations meet the Goverment`s requirement of being a traditional voluntary organization with a national scope? This analysis shows that migrant organizations can be understood as both socio-cultural and political communities. With this dichotomy as a backdrop, we discuss how migrant organizations are trying to fill the role as intercultural communities and at the same time act as arenas for social and political integration. We find that the socio-cultural and political dimensions of the migrant organizations cannot be understood independently of each other. This means that the integration process and transnational ties are two complementary processes. The chapter concludes that the migrant organizations have the potential to play an important role as arena for social and political integration. However, this potential seems to become activated because of the organizations transnational ties and networks, and not despite of them.

A Cooperative Approach to the Logic of Collective Action: Voluntary Organizations and the Prisoners' Dilemma

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Richard C. Rich
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Voluntary Organization ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Cooperative Approach ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Prisoners Dilemma

A reexamination of certain tenets of Olson's logic of collective action suggests that it fails to explain some types of behavior found in voluntary organizations, especially mutual assistance groups. Specifically, Olson fails to account for non-coercive and non-individualistic factors and gives insufficient attention to the social context of voluntary organization life. A fresh applications of the prisoners' dilemma and the introduction of the concept of community expand our understanding of behaviors heretofore unexplained. Implications are discussed for the design and management of voluntary organizations under certain conditions.

scholarly journals "Er det noget med bander?" – Om modstand, andenhed og positioner i et sociologisk feltarbejde

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-63
Author(s):  
Sune Qvotrup Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Theoretical Idea ◽  
Immigrant Background ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Criminal Matters ◽  
Immigrant Men

Med udgangspunkt i nyere diskussioner om kvalitativ metode, intersektionalitet og metodeproblemer som datakilde analyserer artiklen de problemer i form af modstand og undvigen, forfatteren har mødt under udarbejdelsen af sin ph.d. afhandling blandt marginaliserede unge mænd med indvandrerbaggrund. Det vises, at de unge mænd gør modstand mod den objektivering, der kan ligge i det sociologiske blik, og at feltrelationerne får en etnisk/racial gennemfarvning, således at det som undviges især er en etnisk/racial forskellighedslogik. De unge antager, at forskningsinteressen drejer sig om kriminalitet og gør følgelig modstand mod det kriminaliserende blik. De påberåber sig normalitet, ligesom de ironiserer over stereotype forestillinger om kriminelle unge indvandrermænd. Modstanden viser noget om de unge mænds forhold til voksne hvide autoriteter og noget om de komplekse identiteter, som produceres blandt de unge. Således problematiserer analysen den teoretiske udlægning, at de unge mænd internaliserer stereotype forestillinger om dem selv. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Sune Qvotrup Jensen: ’’Is There Something Special about Bands?’’ On Resistance, Otherness and Positions in a Socio-logical Fieldwork The author addresses the problems of resistance and avoidance encountered in the empirical part of his PhD. project among marginalized young men with immigrant background. This is done through a discussion of qualitative methods, intersectionality and methodological problems as a source of data. The young men resist being seen as objects in the sociological gaze, and the field relations become cast as ethnic and racial, so that what is resisted is in particular a logic of ethnic and racial difference. The young men assume that the researcher is interested in criminal matters, and resist the criminalizing gaze. They claim normality, just as they use irony when playing with the stereotype imaginary of young criminal immigrant men. The resistance casts light on the relation between the young men and adult white authorities. It also illustrates the complex identities constructed by the young people. The article questions the theoretical idea that these young men internalize stereotypical understandings of themselves. Key words: Qualitative method, intersectionality, field relations, field work, resistance, methodical problems.

scholarly journals Behind the Exceptional Educational Pathways of Canadian Youth from Immigrant Background: Between Equality and Ethnic Hierarchy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Canisius Kamanzi ◽  
Tya Collins
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Geographic Origin ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Immigrant Background ◽  
Canadian Youth ◽  
Educational Pathways ◽  
Specific Objective ◽  
Canadian Immigrants ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter aims to show that, behind the general exceptional academic pathways of Canadian students from immigrant backgrounds, some of these young people, belonging to racialized ethnic minorities, are less likely to access and graduate from postsecondary education. Its specific objective is to describe the general portrait of their educational pathways. A synopsis of some recent studies shows that that these students often face structural barriers at the institutional level. Comparative analyses between young Canadians of immigrant origins and their peers who are not recognize the remarkable success of Canadian immigrants, a rather exceptional phenomenon compared to what is observed internationally. However, this chapter stresses that this portrait must be nuanced: a number of studies highlight significant disparities among young people from immigrant backgrounds according to the ethnocultural and geographic origin of their parents. The situation is less favorable or unfavorable, in the case of certain racialized groups. Therefore, following an overview of the contribution of studies inspired by a postpositivist approach, this chapter highlights some dimensions that have been traditionally obscured. This allows for a better understanding of the relationship between the effects of various factors (individual, institutional, systemic) that structure and perpetuate inequalities and ethnic hierarchy among students from immigrant backgrounds.

scholarly journals Employee Motivation in Non-Profit: Evidence from a Community Based Voluntary Organization

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Mohiuddin ◽  
Ms. Gurjit Dulay
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Voluntary Organization ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Made In

<p>This paper explores employee motivation in one of the UK based voluntary organizations. It used a mixture of primary and secondary data. Primary data were collected in the form of questionnaires. By using Frederick Herzberg’s two factor theory we found that, in the absence of sufficient financial rewards, non-financial rewards such as: extra days off for employees; implementation of employee of the month; and simple verbal recognition in an attempt to recognise employee’s efforts were key motivating factors for the employees. Recommendations to management were made in terms of offering flexible hours and quality supervision in order to motivate unpaid volunteers. </p>

Constraints and opportunities for civic and political participation: perceptions of young people from immigrant and non-immigrant background in Portugal

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 685-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norberto Ribeiro ◽  
Carla Malafaia ◽  
Tiago Neves ◽  
Pedro D. Ferreira ◽  
Isabel Menezes
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Immigrant Background

Heritage Conservation and Urban Development in India

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
Kelly Alley
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Voluntary Organization ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Material Conservation ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This paper discusses the role a voluntary organization plays in the spatial definition and material conservation of cultural heritage in late twentieth century India. Voluntary organizations work in a broad range of fields in India, but the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) may be of particular interest to applied anthropologists because of its creative uses of anthropological concepts and methods. In addition, since the concept of culture is not confined to academic discourse today, anthropologists may find it worthwhile to learn about other public and private ways culture is defined and cultural analysis is carried out.

scholarly journals Democratic Citizenship-in-the-Making: Dis/Engagement Profiles of Portuguese Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Malafaia ◽  
Pedro D. Ferreira ◽  
Isabel Menezes
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
The Political ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Democratic Support ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Analyze Data

Coming to terms with the multidimensionsionality of civic and political engagement implies analyzing it in a comprehensive manner: not limited to conventional modes of expression, nor to dichotomic perspectives or observable acts of participation. Studies in this field tend to overlook cognitive and emotional dimensions as types of engagement which, alongside with behavior, constitute citizenship. In this article, we analyze data from the Portuguese sample of the CATCH-EyoU Project’s survey (1,007 young people aged between 14 and 30 years old). The main result is the identification of four distinct profiles according to behavioral, emotional and cognitive forms of engagement: Alienated, Passive, Disengaged and Engaged. These profiles are then examined to assess whether and how they differ in terms of: i) national and European identification, ii) relationships with alternative and traditional media, iii) democratic support, and iv) attitudes towards immigrants and refugees. The relationship between the different profiles and individual socio-demographic variables is also examined. We discuss how different dis/engagement profiles relate with socio-political dimensions and have different consequences both in terms of the political integration of young people and of the political challenges faced by democratic societies.

scholarly journals Forholdet mellom online- og offline-deltakelse i frivillige organisasjoner

2018 ◽  
pp. 101-126
Author(s):  
Bernard Enjolras ◽  
Kari Steen-Johnsen ◽  
Audun Beyer
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Voluntary Organization ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Voluntary Work ◽  
Norwegian Population ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Important Exception ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

In this chapter the relationship between online and offline civic engagement. We look specifically at the effect of being a member of a Facebook group related to voluntary organizations or to different types of protest on offline membership in voluntary organization and offline volunteering. Using panel-data from a three-wave survey of the Norwegian population using the Internet we test three hypotheses about the relationship between online and offline civic engagement. According to the mobilization-hypothesis, online experience will enhance offline participation of those who are inactive. The crowding-out hypothesis predicts that, since those who are engaged offline will also be the one who are engaged online, increased online engagement will reduce offline engagement. Finally, the independence-hypothesis considers online and offline engagement as not related to each other. Our results show that, in Norway during the period 2012–2016, following Facebook-groups related to a voluntary organization or to different types of protest groups has an impact on offline membership in voluntary organizations, but not on voluntary work. An important exception, however, is that following a Facebook group related to a voluntary organization has a positive effect on offline volunteering in voluntary organization.

scholarly journals Feeling Blue by Extension: Intrafamily Transmission and Economic Pressures Explain the Native-Immigrant Gap in Well-Being among Youth in Switzerland

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oriane Sarrasin ◽  
Eva G. T. Green ◽  
Gina Potarca ◽  
Claudio Bolzman ◽  
Ursina Kuhn
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Immigrant Background ◽  
Path Models ◽  
Household Panel Data

Several factors explain the native-immigrant gap in well-being frequently found among adolescents and young adults. First, discrimination and integration challenges impact the psychological health of immigrants of all ages. Though rarely studied, low parental well-being is transmitted thereby also deteriorating youth well-being. Second, individuals with an immigrant background generally endure economic pressures to a greater extent than natives, which impact children through a lower parental well-being independently of origins. These factors—intrafamily transmission of negative affect and economic pressures—have been mostly studied separately (and only rarely for the former). Combining the two, the present study uses Swiss Household Panel data to examine the extent to which immigrant background and economic pressures relate to well-being of adolescents and young adults through the negative affect experienced by their mothers and fathers. In Switzerland, young people with an immigrant background—both immigrants and dual citizens—reported being more anxious, sad and depressed than natives. Path models showed that young people with foreign roots were more likely to live in a household that experienced economic pressures, which, in turn, related to impaired parental (mothers and fathers alike) well-being and finally their own. An immigrant background, economic pressures and parental well-being were also independently related to young people’s negative affect, highlighting the complexity of the factors underlying the well-known immigrant–native gap in well-being.

Coping with the African Refugee Problem: Reflections on the Role of Private Voluntary Organization Assistance

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Robert F. Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Voluntary Organization ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Refugee Problem ◽  
Private Voluntary Organizations ◽  
African Refugee

There can be little doubt that the African refugee problem is a severe one that should command a good deal more attention than it has received over the past few years in the public’s eye. But if the African refugee crisis has received less than its deserved attention, the role of private voluntary organizations (PVOs) in responding to that crisis has received less. It is the purpose of this brief inquiry to assess the role of PVCs in the African refugee situation. Before doing so it is essential that the dimensions of Africa’s refugee problem be briefly outlined.

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