Bangladeshi immigrants’ self-organization and associationism in Venice (Italy)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
Claudia Mantovan
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Personal Variables ◽  
The Social

In Italy, most of the studies on immigrants’ associationism and participation have concentrated on the more formal andstructured aspects. Little research has been done on forms of immigrant self-organization not oriented towards the society in the country of adoption. Drawing on these considerations, this article analyzes the self-organization of Bangladeshi residents in the municipality of Venice considering both their infra-political and their politico-organizational mobilization, seeking relationships between these two spheres of action, identifying transnational bonds, and dynamics linked to the social and political context of their home country. At the same time, the study considers the influence of other factors, such as the social, political and economic context found in the country of immigration (at both national and local level), and also the personal variables that can influence people’s participation, such as gender, generation, social class, amount of time spent in the adopted country, legal status, formal education, human capital, attitudes and personal projects in general.

scholarly journals The Presentation of Self in Emigration

2012 ◽  
Vol 642 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Cvajner
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
The Self ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Eastern European Immigrant

This article, based on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, describes the strategies for the presentation of the Self employed by Eastern European immigrant women in the Italian northeast. These middle-aged women migrated alone, are employed as live-in care workers, and often lack legal status. For them, migration is a deeply felt trauma, which they narrate as being forced upon them by the collapse of the USSR and the failures of the transition to a market economy. They perceive their life in Italy as degrading, their work is stressful and undignified, they miss their children, and they are often seen as poor mothers with questionable morals. Consequently, they seek to dilute the social stigma, presenting positive images of their selves and claiming respect from a variety of audiences. The women continuously endeavor to define their current condition as accidental and temporary and to assert their right to a better future.

The Social Structure of Competition

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Burt
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Rate Of Return ◽  
Rates Of Return ◽  
Job Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lines Of Credit ◽  
Market Production

A player brings capital to the competitive arena and walks away with profit determined by the rate of return where the capital was invested. The market production equation predicts profit: invested capital, multiplied by the going rate of return, equals the profit to be expected from the investment. You invest a million dollars. The going rate of return is 10 percent. The profit is one hundred thousand dollars. Investments create an ability to produce a competitive product. For example, capital is invested to build and operate a factory. Rate of return is an opportunity to profit from the investment. The rate of return is keyed to the social structure of the competitive arena and is the focus here. Each player has a network of contacts in the arena. Something about the structure of the player’s network and the location of the player’s contacts in the social structure of the arena provides a competitive advantage in getting higher rates of return on investment. This chapter is about that advantage. It is a description of the way in which social structure renders competition imperfect by creating entrepreneurial opportunities for certain players and not for others. A player brings at least three kinds of capital to the competitive arena. Other distinctions can be made, but three are sufficient here. First, the player has financial capital: cash in hand, reserves in the bank, investments coming due, lines of credit. Second, the player has human capital. Your natural qualities—charm, health, intelligence, and looks—combined with the skills you have acquired in formal education and job experience give you abilities to excel at certain tasks. Third, the player has social capital: relationships with other players. You have friends, colleagues, and more general contacts through whom you receive opportunities to use your financial and human capital. I refer to opportunities in a broad sense, but I certainly mean to include the obvious examples of job promotions, participation in significant projects, influential access to important decisions, and so on. The social capital of people aggregates into the social capital of organizations.

The use of register data to monitor micro, small and medium-sized enterprises’ economic situation at the local level on the basis of the example of Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodship

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 52-68
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak ◽  
Aneta Ptak-Chmielewska
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Register Data ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Level Of Aggregation ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Micro Enterprises

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) play a significant role in the economy. According to the European Commission data, the SME sector in 2018 represented 99.8% of all enterprises in Europe, and likewise in Poland, therefore it is vital to have access to information regarding this sector and its economic situation on the lowest possible level of aggregation. The aim of the study described in this paper is to assess as to what degree data collected in public registers in Poland, including the information compiled by the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) register, can constitute a source of information about the situation and development of the SME sector at the local level. The paper presents the economic situation of the SME sector in Europe, and also a range of information collected in ZUS registers relating to micro enterprises (including the self-employed enterpreneurs), small and medium-sized enterprises. Information concerning the SME sector in Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodship as of December 2018 is used in the research. The results confirm that register data enables the assessment of the economic situation of micro, small and medium- sized enterprises at the level of gminas (municipalities, communes), as per the OECD recommendations to broaden knowledge about the condition of the sector at a local level.

Translation as metaphor in Meridel Le Sueur

Babel ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-74
Author(s):  
Carolina Núnez Puente
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
The Self ◽  
American Writer ◽  
The Social ◽  
Meridel Le Sueur ◽  
Unmarried Girl

Abstract This paper was inspired by a line of Julia Kristeva, revealing the virginity attributed to Mary an effect of translation. According to Kristeva, the scribe chose “the Greek [word] parthenos’’ to translate “the Sernitic word denoting the social-legal status of an unmarried girl” ( 1986, 101). My paper deals with the theory and practical effects of translaltion. Taking translation as a metaphor of ‘rewriting,’ I evaluate the version of the biblical Annunciation by the American writer Meridel Le Sueur. The problems of manipulating texts in (non-metaphorical) translations are examined too. Most importantly, I emphasize the role of connections, such as those between the translated text and its source, the baby and its mother, etc. Hopefully, reflecting on both ‘translation’ and ‘rewriting’ will lead us to a (new) conception of the self-in-relations, with all its ethical consequences. Résumé Cet article s’inspire d’une ligne de Julia Kristeva, qui révèle que la virginité attribuée à Marie est un effet de la traduction. D’après Kristeva, l’auteur a choisi le terme grec parthenos pour traduire le terme sémite signifiant le statut socio-légal d’une fille célibataire (1986, 101). Mon article traite de la théorie et des effets pratiques de la traduction. Considérant la traduction comme une métaphore de la ‘réécriture’, j’évalue la version de l’Annonciation biblique par l’écrivain américain Meridel Le Sueur. Les problèmes de manipulation des textes dans les traductions (non-métaphoriques) sont également examinés. Plus important, je souligne le rôle des connections, comme celles entre le texte traduit et sa source, ou le bébé et sa mère. Espérons que réfléchir à la fois à la ‘traduction’ et à la réécriture’ nous conduira à une (nouvelle) conception du « soi-même en relation avec l’autre », avec toutes ses conséquences éthiques.

scholarly journals Social Phenomenology as a Factor of Self-organization of Democracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Budz
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Phenomenological Dimension ◽  
Social Phenomenology

The study investigates the self-organizational bases of democracy. The author proves that social phenomenology is the self-organizational basis of democracy. The main idea of the article is that the self-organization of democracy has a phenomenological dimension. It is established that the self-organization bases of democracy are such structural elements of social phenomenology of democracy as social feelings – voluntariness, responsibility, openness, respect, tolerance, solidarity, honesty, humanness, trust, devotion to the ideals of democracy and sacrifice for them. It is substantiated that the elements of social phenomenology of democracy are such values as egalitarianism, rule of law, freedom, justice, the plurality of values, democratic competition, civic peace and cooperation. It is shown that the social phenomenology of democracy is the basis for support of such democratic institutions and procedures as a division of branches of power, fair and free elections, the secrecy of the ballot, deliberation, control over government and multiparty system.

scholarly journals СУТНІСТЬ ПОНЯТТЯ «СОЦІОКУЛЬТУРНА АДАПТАЦІЯ» ТА СПЕЦИФІКА ЇЇ ПРОЯВУ В ІНОЗЕМНИХ МАГІСТРАНТІВ − МАЙБУТНІХ ВИКЛАДАЧІВ ВОКАЛУ

World Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (7(35)) ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Мен Ян
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Musical Education ◽  
Master Degree ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Requirements

The essence of notion «socio-cultural adaptation» and peculiarities of its manifestation for foreign master degree students – prospective voice instructors. The article considers the education issues of the foreign artistic master degree students. The essence of notions «adaptation» and «socio- cultural adaptation» is analyzed; peculiarities of socio-cultural adaptation in the musical education field and the problems that are faced by Chinese students while mastering the specialty of voice instructor are revealed. Socio-cultural adaptation is considered as an active process which is realised in the unity of social and psychological adaptation of individual to its surroundings and through the self-perfection and development of one's potential which in its turn enables the implementation of reversed influence upon the social environment and the state of culture within society.Socio-cultural adaptation of foreign master degree students to artistic education within the new educational and social environment is realised through the particular organisation of pedagogical and inter-student communication, combination of new artistic interest with national and cultural requirements and tasks of preparation for future professional activity back at home country.

scholarly journals Dominant Language Acquisition in Destination Countries: Structure, Agency and Reflexivity

Sociology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 843-860
Author(s):  
Gina Netto ◽  
Maria Hudson ◽  
Nicolina Kamenou-Aigbekaen ◽  
Filip Sosenko
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The Self ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Dominant Language ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk

This article advances understanding of the structural and agentic factors which influence how migrants in low-paid work reflexively acquire the dominant language of destination countries. Bourdieu’s theories on the symbolic power of language and habitus, and theories of reflexivity by Archer and others underpin our analysis of how migrants acquire English in the UK. Analysis of data generated from in-depth qualitative interviews with 31 migrants from EU and non-EU countries in low-paid work reveals that the agency of migrants in increasing proficiency in the language is shaped by access to resources, conscious and unconscious reflexive processes, aspects of embodiment and perceptions of identity by the self and others. We argue that closer attention to the social, political and economic context in which migrants acquire the dominant language of destination countries is needed, as well as greater awareness of the multi-dimensional nature of reflexivity and the constraints on agency.

scholarly journals On the Unbearable Lightness of John Key

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Warwick Tie
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
The Self ◽  
Efficient Operation ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Neoliberal Reforms ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
The Social

The neoliberal reforms of the 1980s produced, going into the new millennium, a contradiction within capitalism that is illuminated by the unprecedented popularity of John Key as prime minister. This contradiction concerns an impasse in political economy that develops as a consequence of capital’s inability to create experiences of self required for its own reproduction. In short, the contradiction signals a crisis in the social reproduction of capital, a crisis in the reproduction of capitalist subjectivity. The requirement upon people to become ‘entrepreneurs of the self’ or units of self-actuating ‘human capital’ produces insufficiently coherent experiences of selfhood, accompanied by a widespread development of compensatory states of narcissistic grandiosity. Different social formations produce particular kinds of subjectivity, and come to privilege specific public figures as ideals of the psychological traits favourable to the efficient operation of the prevailing social order. That order, in our case, is neoliberal capital of an increasingly authoritarian populist kind, and Key exemplifies its ideal subject. Resistance to the logics by which a given social order is functioning turns, in part, upon the dislocation of its central figures. Against the individualistic contentedness projected by the figure of Key, a need arises to imagine how a collective, cooperative, subject might form anew in this situation. This essay will move towards Jodi Dean’s discussion of the party form to think through what such a project might entail.  

scholarly journals Chance as a Means of Resistance to the Constitutional Development of the People

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Aleksandr A. Makushin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Constitutional Development ◽  
Russian People ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Free Development ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Critical Change

The article deals with the definition of the chance as a measure of the strength of resistance to the free development of the people. On the example of the Russian people the author shows how a successive chain of chances can lead to the critical change of the properties of social matter and, as a result, the destruction of the natural basics of the development. One of the forms of the self-organization of the development of the people is the social order. The question of what kind of social order is natural for the people is the most difficult. In the mid-80s of the last century the Russian people began to modernize the socialism they had built. However, at some point in this process of “perestroika” the chance began to dominate. As a result, the process of improving socialism was replaced by the process of building democracy, which, as time shows, for the development of the Russian people is of more random than natural character. In conclusion it is concluded that the chance in the process of the development of the people occurs when the people start to neglect the laws of order.

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