scholarly journals ‘Mapping Migrancies’: A discursive mapping approach to analyse lived experiences of skilled migration infrastructures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Khan
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Migration Experience ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Mapping Approach ◽  
New Research ◽  
Mind Maps ◽  
Migration Pathways ◽  
Depth Interviews

The recent ‘infrastructural turn’ in migration studies has provided valuable insights into the emergence and functions of different aspects of migration infrastructure such as the commercial migration industry, social networks, and technological innovations (Xiang and Lindquist 2014). The focus of current scholarship, however, has been on how these infrastructures mobilise migrants, predominantly across irregular migration pathways. There remains a gap in exploring infrastructures of formal migration, and their entanglements with migrants’ own subjectivities. This paper reports on a research project that explores this gap by arguing for a new research agenda on migration infrastructure. The study uses a ‘discursive mapping’ approach involving in-depth interviews and mind-maps sketched by 27 research participants based in Australia and Canada as they narrated their migration experience. This paper draws upon the experiences of three migrants to illuminate how their journeys are intertwined with and shaped by migration infrastructures - particularly media and regulatory processes. By (re)centring the infrastructural focus on migrants’ own agencies, desires, and life-courses, this study presents nuanced understandings of the lived experience of skilled migration infrastructures.

scholarly journals ‘Mapping Migrancies’: A discursive mapping approach to analyse lived experiences of skilled migration infrastructures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Khan
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Migration Experience ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Mapping Approach ◽  
New Research ◽  
Mind Maps ◽  
Migration Pathways ◽  
Depth Interviews

The recent ‘infrastructural turn’ in migration studies has provided valuable insights into the emergence and functions of different aspects of migration infrastructure such as the commercial migration industry, social networks, and technological innovations (Xiang and Lindquist 2014). The focus of current scholarship, however, has been on how these infrastructures mobilise migrants, predominantly across irregular migration pathways. There remains a gap in exploring infrastructures of formal migration, and their entanglements with migrants’ own subjectivities. This paper reports on a research project that explores this gap by arguing for a new research agenda on migration infrastructure. The study uses a ‘discursive mapping’ approach involving in-depth interviews and mind-maps sketched by 27 research participants based in Australia and Canada as they narrated their migration experience. This paper draws upon the experiences of three migrants to illuminate how their journeys are intertwined with and shaped by migration infrastructures - particularly media and regulatory processes. By (re)centring the infrastructural focus on migrants’ own agencies, desires, and life-courses, this study presents nuanced understandings of the lived experience of skilled migration infrastructures.

scholarly journals An Exploratory Study of Entrepreneurship in Taiwan’s Small & Medium Enterprises – Case Studies of Six Manufacturing Companies

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-114
Author(s):  
Wen-Chia Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Individual Factor ◽  
Entrepreneurial Management ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Small Medium Enterprises ◽  
New Research ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Crucial Part

Entrepreneurship with organization setting has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. Studies in this area remain broad and appear relatively fragmented. From previous literature reviews, we found that little attention has been paid toward the entrepreneurial management model with the starting-up phases of Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Taiwan. In view of this, the purpose of this study is to fill this gap in the literature by proposing a research framework that integrates both entrepreneurship literature and Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) literature. To address this problem, a new research method based on integrating cases study and in-depth interviews methods are also proposed. According to the results, the individual factor was the central part among the four contributing factors (reproduction, imitation, valorization, and venture). With respect to the six dimensions of entrepreneurship (strategic orientation, commitment to opportunity, commitment to resources, control over resources, management frame, and compensation philosophy), the enterprises interviewed in this research all set forth their perspectives. As for the four kinds of entrepreneurial status, there were four entrepreneurial imitation companies and two entrepreneurial venture companies in this research. To conclude, several propositions were proposed, and the results released that the individual factor was the crucial part among the four contributing factors. Research also examined the main dimensions of entrepreneurship for analyzing the theoretical basis.

scholarly journals Cessation strategies used successfully by individuals in recovery from methamphetamine addiction

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-44
Author(s):  
Yvonne Gordon ◽  
Christine Stephens
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Appropriate Treatment ◽  
Important Health ◽  
Important Health Issue ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

INTRODUCTION: Methamphetamine (MA) misuse is a recognised health issue in Aotearoa New Zealand, and there is a lack of appropriate treatment available for individuals who are methamphetamine dependent. This exploratory study, undertaken in 2019, sought to gain insight from individuals in Aotearoa who have experienced MA dependence and now identify as being in recovery, to discover which strategies, approaches or treatment appeared helpful in their recovery.METHODS: The participants in the study were seven adults (New Zealand European, Samoan and Māori ethnicity) who had abstained from methamphetamine for six months or more. In-depth interviews were audiotaped and transcribed before being analysed. The data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis, which has its theoretical origins in phenomenology and hermeneutics.FINDINGS: Four themes emerged to describe the lived experience of recovery from methamphetamine misuse: Getting Away, Support, Personal Sources of Strength, and Treatment. Each theme held importance in the participants’ recovery from MA and provided insight into their journey in abstaining and being in recovery.CONCLUSIONS: These findings may be used to assist others entering recovery. The present findings are limited by the size of the sample; however, they provide valuable information on this important health issue as a basis for further research, which is urgently needed in Aotearoa.

scholarly journals La relación enfermera-paciente: “a veces lo único que necesitas… es tomar la mano de la persona…”

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Cecilia Landman-Navarro ◽  
Carolina Salazar-Pérez ◽  
Damaris González-Cea ◽  
Francisca Romero-Benavides ◽  
Nicole Conejera-González ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Homogeneous Sample ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
The People ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological Study ◽  
Perception Of Care ◽  
Depth Interviews

Introduction: Watson established the humanized care as a research phenomenon. It remains an ethical responsibility of nurses in the context of a transpersonal relationship that enhance the harmony and individuals integrity. Humanized care now faces a dilemma for a coexistence of diverse institutional, biomedical, administrative-economist and humanist axiological models. Objective: To know the perception of care, according to lived experience of three retired nurses, through authentic stories. Methodology: A qualitative, phenomenological study describes the experiences through authentic stories of three retired nurses obtained by in-depth interviews. Homogeneous sample selection criteria: nurses belonging to 3 generations removed extensive experience in closed care, participation in training students. Results: four categories were found concatenated with each other, which reconfigure the essence of care, emphasizing the integral character of the people and harmonizing the relational dimension with the technical-scientific dimension. Nurse as a caregiver; person as being of care; essence of care and vocational training. Conclusion: Knowing the perception of retired nurses, regarding care is a contribution for reflection. It is necessary to aim for humanized care, as an ethical duty of nurses. The intervention of various institutional axiological models weakens the possibility of guiding care towards humanization. There is a risk of fragmenting people, leaving aside individualized, warmth care, generated through a transpersonal relationship.

scholarly journals Introduction to Communicating on/with Minorities

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Leen D’Haenens ◽  
Willem Joris
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Migration Experience ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Relative Disadvantage ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
New Research ◽  
Professional Contexts ◽  
Media And Communication

This editorial delivers an introduction to the <em>Media and Communication </em>thematic issue on “Communicating on/with Minorities” around the world. This thematic issue presents a multidisciplinary look at the field of communicating on and with different members of minority groups who, based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or a background in migration, experience relative disadvantage and marginalization compared to the dominant social group. The contributors to this thematic issue present a variety of professional contexts (i.e., portrayals in journalistic content, in fiction and non-fiction audiovisual content, on social media platforms and in health care). Taken together, the contributions examine various theoretical angles, thereby adopting new research directions through the use of quantitative, qualitative or mixed methodologies.

Africa's Platform and the Shared Economy

2021 ◽  
pp. 231-251
Author(s):  
Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro
Keyword(s):  
Growth Trajectory ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Enabling Environment ◽  
New Research ◽  
Research Frontiers ◽  
Platform Economy ◽  
Insight Into

As African economies make efforts to compete with the rest of the world's economies, technological innovations are critical towards attaining inclusive development. Platforms remain one of the innovations that are shaping the growth trajectory of many African countries, and while they seem to offer diverse benefits and opportunities to leapfrog development, there are also attendant challenges that need to be addressed if African economies seek to maximize the opportunities of the platform and shared economy. This chapter provides insight into some of the benefits of the platform and shared economy and further argues that to address the challenges of the platform economy, there is need for evidence-based research. The chapter further proposes new research frontiers in the platform and shared economy that require immediate attention as first step to providing the required evidence for building a market enabling environment for Africa's platform and shared economy.

Processes of Shaming

2018 ◽  
pp. 263-280
Author(s):  
Nandini Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Ideologies ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Depth Interviews

Ableism is entrenched in all societies and cultures, and reveals itself in the cultural inclination towards normalcy. The ‘norm’ reflects the cultural reproduction of ableism, by drawing boundaries around those bodies that transgress able-bodied whiteness. Emotions, as normative evaluative judgements, help in understanding social relationships within both macro and micro contexts. In the case of disability, emotions make the exclusion of some bodies acceptable through a process of othering, by devaluing and debasing certain identity groups. Public policy discourses on disability frequently reference emotions such as shame or pity to describe the lived experience of disabled people. In India, laws and policies around disability have largely been influenced by the ableist socio-cultural ideologies, drawing on cultural assumptions and dominant power equations. This paper seeks to elaborate the processes whereby persons with impairments are socialised into accepting their own bodies as “deviant/impaired” and consequently experience shame and stigma in society. This paper uses qualitative case studies of men and women with different disabilities in India to reflect on how pity, disgust and shame, influenced by socio-cultural ideologies, operate within interpersonal interactions to ensure that disabled people remain othered in everyday life processes. The socio-cultural ideologies around disability and impairments have been evinced through focus groups discussion by mostly nondisabled people and in-depth interviews with key informants. The paper will illustrate how disabled people experience internalised oppression, a phenomenon that has hitherto remained unaddressed by policy frameworks in India. The paper will finally reflect on the ways in which disability policy in India has failed to address both the structural barriers and the socio-cultural attitudes that underpin the process of disabilism.

scholarly journals Digital Supply Chain Management in the Videogames Industry: A Systematic Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Kelly ◽  
Vojtech Klézl ◽  
John Israilidis ◽  
Neil Malone ◽  
Stuart Butler
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Supply Chain Design ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
New Research

AbstractAs industries mature, they rely more heavily on supply chain management (SCM) to ensure effective operations leading to greater levels of organisational performance. SCM has been widely covered in many industrial areas and, in line with other burgeoning sectors such as Tourism, an industry focus provides the opportunity to look in-depth at the context-based factors that affect SCM. Developments in digital distribution and rapid technological innovations have resulted in an increased focus on Digital Supply Chains (DSCs), which bring about significant changes to how consumers, customers, suppliers, and manufacturers interact, affecting supply chain design and processes. Through a systematic review of the Videogames Industry Supply Chain Management literature, which serves as a pertinent contextual example of a DSC, we look at how supply chains are affected by structural, market and technological change, such as increased platformisation, disintermediation and the proliferation of digital distribution. We distil these findings into a new research agenda, which identifies themes in line with extant DSC research, provides a series of relevant practice recommendations and identifies opportunities for future research.

An exploratory study of the migration pathways by international labour migrants from Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 311-323
Author(s):  
Nguyen Quynh Phuong ◽  
Mokbul Morshed Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Skill Acquisition ◽  
Return Migrants ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
New Town ◽  
Home Town ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
International Labour Migration ◽  
Migration Pathways ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to map the “migration pathways” (King and Skeldon, 2010) followed by interviews with a group of Vietnamese international labour migrants. Design/methodology/approach Through 50 in-depth interviews, the authors identify the reasons that explain the pathways observed. Findings The authors found that more than half of the interviewees did what King and Skeldon describe as a U-turn, whereby the migrants go abroad for work directly from their home town and return to settle there. The remainder did a J-turn, meaning the migrants returned and settled elsewhere. The majority of those doing a J-turn moved to another town/city within the province of their home town. Few return migrants settled outside their home province. The main explanations for the U-turn choice include existing investment in immobile assets in their home town, strong family ties, parental care obligations, lack of skill acquisition from international labour migration, age and for married migrants having children. Poor conditions in their home town, the absence of local job opportunities and better schooling for children were important considerations that made the J-turn more desirable. Having family ties in a new location, and affording the investment needed to settle in a new town, were important explanations to make the J-turn possible. Originality/value This paper highlights the need for economic development in rural Vietnam, including the creation of decentralised and sustainable livelihoods, so that return migrants have opportunities to reintegrate within their home communities.

scholarly journals The influence of social support on strengthening families of children with chronic renal failure

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 692-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Érica Simpionato de Paula ◽  
Lucila Castanheira Nascimento ◽  
Semiramis Melani Melo Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Renal Failure ◽  
Chronic Renal Failure ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Supports ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Strengthening Families ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Identification And Characterization

This paper presents a study of the families of children on peritoneal dialysis, emphasizing the identification of social supports and networks to strengthen interventions aimed at health promotion. Our discussion is located in the context of inequalities between developed and developing countries. For this qualitative study, a content analysis was conducted in order to elicit themes from the raw data related to the lived experience of four families that have a child with chronic renal failure. The data were collected mainly by in-depth interviews and the construction of genograms and ecomaps. The identification and characterization of the families' social supports and networks allowed nurses and families to strengthen their coping mechanisms. Because families are dealing with severe economic problems, they need better supportive programs to guide their offspring to their full potential.

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