scholarly journals ‘It depends on us’: The experiences of fifteen young Burmese migrants living in the border town of Mae Sot, Thailand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rebecca Helene Ross
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Children ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Geographic Space ◽  
Future Goals ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
Border Town ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Political Opinions ◽  
Burmese Migrants

<p>The Burmese diaspora in Thailand attracts significant academic attention. However, the voices of migrant Burmese children are largely unexplored and often ignored altogether. On arriving in Thailand young migrants find themselves located within a new cultural, social, and linguistically different geographic space. Underpinned by the recognition that migrant youth actively engage with the world around them, this study challenges the idea that young migrants are passive bearers of circumstance. Rather, as they seek education in Thailand they exercise their agency in unique ways by performing their cultural traditions, creating their ‘own place’, navigating opportunities, voicing critical political opinions, displaying resilience and setting future goals.  Using the participatory method of ‘photo-voice’ this research explores the everyday experiences and stories of fifteen Burmese migrant children living in Thailand as they present them through photography. The participants, most of whom crossed the border unaccompanied, have assessed the relative opportunities available to them in Burma and Thailand. They have chosen to endure the hardships associated with living in a marginalised space away from their parents, culture and country in order to gain an education in Thailand. Technically considered ‘illegal’, these young migrants are facing their present challenges, setting life goals and bending the rules in order to receive an education and establish successful futures.</p>

scholarly journals ‘It depends on us’: The experiences of fifteen young Burmese migrants living in the border town of Mae Sot, Thailand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rebecca Helene Ross
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Children ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Geographic Space ◽  
Future Goals ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
Border Town ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Political Opinions ◽  
Burmese Migrants

<p>The Burmese diaspora in Thailand attracts significant academic attention. However, the voices of migrant Burmese children are largely unexplored and often ignored altogether. On arriving in Thailand young migrants find themselves located within a new cultural, social, and linguistically different geographic space. Underpinned by the recognition that migrant youth actively engage with the world around them, this study challenges the idea that young migrants are passive bearers of circumstance. Rather, as they seek education in Thailand they exercise their agency in unique ways by performing their cultural traditions, creating their ‘own place’, navigating opportunities, voicing critical political opinions, displaying resilience and setting future goals.  Using the participatory method of ‘photo-voice’ this research explores the everyday experiences and stories of fifteen Burmese migrant children living in Thailand as they present them through photography. The participants, most of whom crossed the border unaccompanied, have assessed the relative opportunities available to them in Burma and Thailand. They have chosen to endure the hardships associated with living in a marginalised space away from their parents, culture and country in order to gain an education in Thailand. Technically considered ‘illegal’, these young migrants are facing their present challenges, setting life goals and bending the rules in order to receive an education and establish successful futures.</p>

scholarly journals Differences over Difference: Sino-Russian Friendship at Interstate and Interpersonal Scales

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 685-721
Author(s):  
Ed Pulford
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Border Town ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Daily Interactions ◽  
Difference Form ◽  
Social Scientific

AbstractRelations between states are usually framed in human terms, from partners to rivals, enemies or allies, polities and persons appear to engage in cognate relationships. Yet whether or not official ties and relationships among people from those states actually correspond remains less clear. “Friendship,” a term first applied to states in eighteenth-century Europe and mobilized in the (post)socialist world since the 1930s, articulates with particular clarity both the promise and the limitations of harmonized personal and state ties. Understandings of friendship vary interculturally, and invocations of state-state friendship may be accompanied by a distinct lack of amity among populations. Such is the case between China and Russia today, and this situation therefore raises wider questions over how we should understand interstate and interpersonal relationships together. Existing social scientific work has generally failed to locate either the everyday in the international or the international in the everyday. Focusing on both Chinese and Russian approaches to daily interactions in a border town and the official Sino-Russian Friendship, I thus suggest a new scalar approach. Applying this to the Sino-Russian case in turn reveals how specific contours of “difference” form a pivot around which relationships at both scales operate. This study thus offers both comparison between Chinese and Russian friendships, and a lens for wider comparative work in a global era of shifting geopolitics and cross-border encounters.

scholarly journals THE PRACTICE OF CITY RESIDENTS IN INFORMALITY RIVERBANKS WINONGO YOGYAKARTA CITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosesynta Paramita ◽  
Ahmad Ramdhon
Keyword(s):  
Physical Condition ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Community Data ◽  
Time Changes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The City ◽  
City Village

<p><em>The city is a network of human life which is characterized by a high population density with colorful heterogeneous socioeconomic strata and materialist. Cities in Indonesia is currently undergoing a fairly rapid growth rate. This makes more and more people are interested to move and settle in the city. The impact of the activity of the townspeople always affects the environment inside. The river is one of the influences of the ecological activity of the city. The banks of the river became the site of the settlement of the community we callcity-village. City-Village inhabited by natives or newcomers with limited conditions that do daily activities to maintain his presence in the city. This research aims to 1) Describes social conditions the city-village of Winongo riverbanks. 2) The physical condition of the environment Winongo riverbanks. 3) Describes the everyday practice of residents of the city on the Winongo River. In this study used the thought of Pierre Bourdieu's theory of capital.  This study uses qualitative methods, Descriptive approach to generate the information. The selected informer is the original city residents, expat residents and FKWA as the Winongo River Community. Data collection using in-depth interviews, observation, and documentation. The research results showed that: 1) City-Village of winongo riverbanks have dynamics over time. Changes in total population seriring just time to make settlements in the city is getting memeadat. The presence of many routine activities collectively used to tie the laces of city-village on the Winongo River. 2) The physical condition of the city-villages and river more start specially degraded river conditions began declining quality is due to receive waste from human activities. Waste into the Winongo probelm and there needs to be an awareness to preserve the Winongo. 3) Everyday lives practice showed that the city-village’s Winongo riverbanks most of all its citizens with low socio economic circles. The daily activities of the city-village of this town is a form of adaptation should be done to connect to live. The idea of Bourdieu about capital, proved to be the fifth capital used in the everyday life of the city-village in sustaining life. Reciprocal relationships, networks, norms and trust strengthen city residents living in activity and connect live.</em></p>

scholarly journals Neuvostoliiton ”hyviä ystäviä” tuottamassa

Idäntutkimus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21
Author(s):  
Riikkamari Muhonen
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Ideal Image ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Extra Curricular Activities ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Return Home ◽  
Everyday Realities ◽  
To Receive ◽  
State Socialist

Vastaitsenäistyneistä Aasian, Afrikan ja Latinalaisen Amerikan maista kotoisin olevien opiskelijoiden kouluttamista varten vuonna 1960 perustettu moskovalainen Kansojen ystävyyden yliopisto nimesi toimintansa tavoitteeksi sen, että opiskelijat valmistumisensa jälkeen palaavat kotimaihinsa Neuvostoliiton “hyvinä ystävinä” . Keskeinen osa opiskelijoihin kohdistunutta ideologista kasvatustyötä, joka tuki tätä tavoitetta, oli neuvostoyhteiskunnan saavutusten monipuolinen esittely niin osana opetusohjelmaa kuin opiskelijoiden vapaa-aikaakin. Artikkeli analysoi tämän Neuvostoliiton poliittisia ja ideologisia tavoitteita tukeneen ”neuvostotodellisuuden” eri osa-alueiden merkitystä sosialistisesta yhteiskuntajärjestelmästä luodulle kokonaiskuvalle. Artikkeli pureutuu tätä ideaalikuvaa osaltaan kyseenalaistaneisiin arjen kokemuksiin niin Moskovassa kuin sen ulkopuolellakin. Analyysi pohjaa venäläisiin arkistolähteisiin, joiden pohjalta on pyritty nostamaan esiin koulutusyhteistyön toimintamuotoja, arkitodellisuutta ja siihen liittyneitä ongelmia.   Producing ”good friends” of the Soviet Union Founded in 1960 specifically to receive students from the newly independent countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, the Moscow-based Peoples’ Friendship University stated the goal of its activities was for their graduates to return home as “good friends” of the Soviet Union. The most important feature of the ideological work conducted among the students to reach this goal was presenting the achievements of Soviet society both as part of the curriculum and during the extra-curricular activities organized for the students. This article analyzes the role that different features of this representation of “Soviet reality” had for creating an overall image of the state socialist system. At the same time, those everyday experiences both in Moscow and outside it that question this ideal image are discussed. The analysis is based on Russian archival sources and their descriptions of forms of work and the everyday realities of the cooperation, as well as the problems encountered.  

scholarly journals Greener grass or sour grapes? How people value future goals after initial failure

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hallgeir Sjåstad ◽  
Roy Baumeister ◽  
Michael R Ent
Keyword(s):  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Cognitive Test ◽  
Practice Trial ◽  
Performance Study ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Initial Failure ◽  
Future Goals ◽  
Dissonance Theory ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Sour Grape

Across six experiments (N=1,304), people dealt with failure by dismissing the value of future goals. Participants were randomly assigned to receive good or poor feedback on a practice trial of a cognitive test (Studies 1-3, 5-6) or their academic performance (Study 4). Those who received poor (vs. good) feedback predicted that they would feel less happy about a future top performance. However, when all participants received a top score on the actual test they became equally happy, regardless of initial feedback. That is, initial failure made people underestimate how good it would feel to succeed in the future. Inspired by Aesop’s fable of the fox and the grapes, we term this phenomenon the “sour-grape effect”: A systematic tendency to downplay the value of unattainable goals and rewards. Mediation analyses suggest that the low happiness predictions were a self-protective maneuver, indicated by apparent denial of the personal and future relevance of their performance. Moderation analysis showed that people high in achievement motivation constituted the main exception, as they predicted (correctly) that a big improvement would bring them joy. In a final and high-powered experiment, the effect generalized from predicted happiness to predicted pride and gratitude. Crucially, the sour-grape effect was found repeatedly across two different countries (USA and Norway) and multiple settings (lab, field, online), including two pre-registered replications. In line with the principle of "adaptive preferences" from philosophy and cognitive dissonance theory from psychology, the results suggest that what people want is restricted by what they can get.

scholarly journals Modeling the Professional Training of Future Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 1411-1418
Author(s):  
Nurullaeva Shakhlo Uktamovna Et al.
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
General Education ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Human Life ◽  
General Nature ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Education School ◽  
To Receive

The pace of modern scientific and technological progress is such that all new types of activity are constantly introduce the everyday and industrial spheres of human life, for mastering which special training is needed. This is reflected in the discovery of new specialties in universities. Meanwhile, in order to receive special education at any level, it is first necessary to obtain a certain range of knowledge and skills of a general nature. The implementation of this function is carried out by a general education school, the main goal of which is through mastering the system of knowledge, skills and abilities laid down in the State Standard of General Secondary Education, to form and develop the personality of the student. Let us emphasize the fact that the means of personal development is the content of education. However, the modern secondary school follows the path of expanding curricula, when the names and programs of new disciplines appear, the amount of information in the old subjects increases, and the time allotted for their study, at best, remains the same, and at worst, decreases.

Professoras em Campo Verde (MT): Migração e Convivência

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 317
Author(s):  
Maria Das Graças Campos
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Environmental Implications ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Geographic Space ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The City

Este trabalho apresenta parte dos resultados de uma pesquisa, que estudou o percurso vivido por professoras migrantes, que atuam em escolas públicas no município de Campo Verde, interior do Estado de Mato Grosso. Nos estudos foram consultadas fontes documentais e orais, na medida em que a investigação procurou situar e refletir o processo de ocupação da cidade, bem como as implicações humanas e ambientais atinentes a esse processo. Nesse espaço geográfico e de sociabilidade, também considerada fronteira humana, são reproduzidas formas de convivências pacíficas e solidárias, mas ainda são lugares segregadores, nos quais estereótipos, preconceitos e discriminação permeiam as relações sociais, principalmente, com a população autóctone, como os índios e os negros. A partir da reflexão acerca da forma de ocupação e organização da cidade, buscou-se responder às questões étnico-raciais que permeiam as relações sociais e educativas da cidade, muitas vezes, conflituosas no cotidiano de alunos, pais e professores. Os resultados da pesquisa contribuíram, também, para uma reflexão sobre os motivos, que impulsionaram o processo de migração e a necessidade de maior preservação dos recursos naturais frente ao crescimento da monocultura.Palavras-chave: Migração. Ocupação. Convivências e Conflitos.AbstractThis paper presents part of the results of a survey, which studied the route experienced by migrant teachers working in public schools in the municipality of Campo Verde, interior of the state of Mato Grosso. In the studies oral and documentary sources were consulted , to the extent that the research sought to situate and reflect the process of occupancy of the city, as well as the human and environmental implications related to this process. In this geographic space and sociability, also considered human frontier, are reproduced forms of peaceful cohabitation and solidarity, but there are still segregating places , in which stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination permeates the social relations, especially, with the indigenous population, such as the Indians and blacks. From the reflection about the form of occupation and organization of the city, it was sought to respond to the ethnic-racial issues that permeate the social relations and educational activities of the city, many times, conflicting in the everyday life of students, parents and teachers. The results of the research contributed also to a reflection on the reasons that drove the migration process and the need for greater preservation of natural resources before the monoculture growth.Keywords: Migration. Occupancy. Coexistence and Conflicts.

Unaccompanied Afghan Minors’ Rights when Restrictive Transnational Migration Policies are in Force – The Case of Sweden

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 894-924
Author(s):  
Guadalupe Francia ◽  
Silvia Edling
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
National Level ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive

Abstract This article highlights how migrant childrens’ rights to, and within, education can be negotiated at the national level. The aim is to underline and discuss the discourses that appear in selected Swedish legal and political documents relating to unaccompanied Afghan minors. Drawing on critical discourse analysis (cda), this research shows the co-existence of two different discourses on unaccompanied Afghan minors. The first discourse is based on the concept of unaccompanied Afghan minors as global rights holders and considers all children without exception as having the right to receive human assistance, education and appropriate protection against violence. The second discourse relates to the concept of unaccompanied Afghan minors as foreign citizens, which counteracts the work of Swedish authorities to deal with contradictions in policies assuring the rights of migrant children. This could also be a risk when the Convention on the Rights of the Child becomes Swedish law in 2020.

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