scholarly journals Refugee Arrival under Conditions of Urban Decline: From Territorial Stigma and Othering to Collective Place-Making in Diverse Shrinking Cities?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13301
Author(s):  
Norma Schemschat
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Shrinking Cities ◽  
Urban Decline ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Group Relations ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
Local Discourses

Places affected by urban shrinkage are widely depicted as left behind places characterized by decline and decay. Refugees are generally constructed as victims or ‘dangerous other’. Hence, place-making and negotiations of belonging in shrinking cities are accompanied by multiple layers of stigmatization. Despite this contextual factor and even though many questions related to inter-group relations in shrinking cities are still unanswered, refugee-centered revitalization of shrinking cities is being discussed among city officials, planners and in the scientific community. This paper investigates local discourses on urban shrinkage and refugee arrival as contextual factors for negotiations of place and belonging, and connects to previous studies on the stigmatization of declining cities and the othering of refugees. It uses Nayak’s (2019) concept of re-scripting narratives to analyze whether acts of re-writing apply not only to stigmatizations of place, but marginalized groups as well. The paper finds that while dominant discourses on place are contested and at times re-scripted by local actors, discourses which construct refugees as other are reaffirmed. Confirming previous findings according to which stigma was passed on to other marginalized groups, it concludes that there is a need to consider dominant discourses and their negative impact on social cohesion in debates around refugee-centered revitalization.

A Visit to Rusty Ships. Tourism as a Strategy of Rejuvenating Shrinking Towns in Coastal Areas

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 588-612
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Jarosz ◽  
Hanna Daria Tricoire
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Shrinking Cities ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Environmental Value ◽  
Culture History ◽  
Tourist Infrastructure ◽  
Tourism Potential

The aim of the paper is to analyse, whether and to what degree that tourism is a way of rejuvenating shrinking cities located on the coast. The research is based on three cities, and the adjacent regions, located in Uzbekistan (Mo'noq), Romania (Sulina) and Georgia-Abkhazia (Sukhumi). Tourist attractions connected with nature, culture, history and cuisine are examined, along with the land use and tourist infrastructure. The research indicates that the three sites have great tourism potential, with a focus on nature-oriented tourism. It also suggests that infrastructure, transport, access to information and land use can have a strong, positive or negative impact on tourism attractiveness. Additionally, the threats that uncontrolled tourism can bring are considered - it has been shown that unsustainable tourism and an excessive influx of tourists are threats to the environment and to local societies. A balance between economic and environmental value should therefore be maintained in the process of developing tourism.

scholarly journals 留守经历对大学生社交焦虑的影响 ——以一例大学生社交焦虑症个案为例

2019 ◽  
Vol 01 (02) ◽  
pp. 87-99
Author(s):  
胜杰 胡 ◽  
颖 韩
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Subjective Distress ◽  
Attachment Relationship ◽  
Processing Mode ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Cognitive Information

本研究以一例大学生社交焦虑症来访者为例，通过严格的个案概念化形成对其认知信息加工模式的评估和理解 , 选用认知行为疗法进行咨询 , 并采用症状自评量表（SCL-90）对求助者进行咨询前后测评，评估症状改善情况。结果：有留守经历大学生在人际互动中特有的认知信息加工模式可能为：他人和世界是冷漠的，不可能获得爱和理解。咨询后求助者躯体化、抑郁、焦虑因子分均低于前测，主观困扰减少。结论：（1）认知行为疗法可以对个体的认知信息加工模式形成有效的理解。（2）有留守经历大学生因早年缺乏父母的关爱和陪伴，很难形成安全型依恋关系。（3）这种不安全型依恋关系会内化形成自己的内部工作模式，对其认知信息加工模式产生长期的负面影响。 Taking a case of a visitor who is a college student with social anxiety as an example, through the evaluation and understanding of his processing mode of cognitive information formed by strict case conceptualization, the study selects and uses cognitive behavioral therapy for counseling, and adopts SCL-90 to evaluate the patient before and after counseling, and evaluates the improved condition of symptoms. Results: In interpersonal interaction, the typical processing mode of cognitive information of college students with left-behind experience may be that others and the world are indifferent, and love and understanding are hardly gained from them. After consulting, with the reduced subjective distress, the scores of somatization, depression and anxiety factors of help seekers were lower than those of the pretest. Conclusion: (1) Cognitive behavioral therapy can form an effective understanding of processing mode of individual cognitive information; (2) College students with left-behind experience can hardly form a secure attachment relationship because they grow up without the care and company from their parents; (3) This insecure attachment relationship will internalize and form its own internal working mode, which will have a long-term negative impact on its processing mode of cognitive information.

scholarly journals RESPONS ANAK-ANAK MIGRAN TERHADAP MIGRASI INTERNASIONAL DI PERDESAAN PONOROGO

Populasi ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Purwatiningsih
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Household Economy ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Family ◽  
Migrant Households ◽  
Work Abroad ◽  
The Impact

Children being left behind by their parents whose migrating are vulnerable to face social problems. Several studies noted the negative impact on migration on the children, but some positive impact on the household prosperity were gained as well. Even though it has the negative impact, international migration has an increasing tendency to become one of the efforts to boost the household economy. This article uses data from CHAMPSEA (Child Health and Migrant Parents in South East Asia) Study which underlined the importance to know the child’s condition as the impact of international migration phenomena towards the family they left behind. Study showed that children being left by migrated parents, especially fathers, gave more positive responses, but those being left by mothers or both of the parents gave more negative responses. Nevertheless, those children apparently had desire to do migration abroad just as their parents did. Apparently the surrounding of the migrants and the better economy of migrant households had in uenced the children to do migration and work abroad as well. 

Artisans Meet Design: The Reception of the Turkish Handicraft Development Office in Turkey1

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahar Emgin
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Us ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Technical Assistance Program ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
Basket Weaving

Abstract Peter Müller-Munk Associates, an American industrial design firm, established the Turkish Handicraft Development Office in 1957 in Ankara as part of the US technical assistance program to developing nations. The aim of the program was to improve selected local crafts products in order to make them appealing for the American market. To this end, American designers and local craftspeople produced about 150 prototypes formed by creative combinations of meerschaum, copperware, ceramics, woodwork and basket weaving. When the office was closed in the early 1960s because of its failure to mass-produce the samples, it left behind a lively debate regarding the improvement of craft production and its relation to industrialization and economic growth. This article focuses on these debates to determine the place allocated to design within the discussions of crafts as a socio-economic activity. The article will focus on the reception of the design assistance program among the local actors to answer how Turkish crafts practitioners and officials perceived design, how the emergent concept of design was linked with handicraft and artisanal production, and how it took place as part of the agenda of economic and industrial development.

‘The power of a simple gift’: The ethics of children’s evangelization by Christian NGOs in Côte d’Ivoire

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-272
Author(s):  
Marie Nathalie LeBlanc ◽  
Boris Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Cote D'ivoire ◽  
Côte D’Ivoire ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Cote D’Ivoire ◽  
Transnational Organizations ◽  
Côte D'ivoire ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Holistic Conception ◽  
Local Discourses

This article examines how some Evangelical nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Côte d’Ivoire have focused their actions towards children and in doing so use strategies based on gifts and play. These organizations’ activities encourage a holistic conception of ‘development’ that is based on both spiritual and material dimensions. In fact, these NGOs provide fascinating examples of the interaction between divergent development ideals, which are based on seemingly competing notions of the ‘good life’. These organizations promote an ethics of evangelization, which rests on the underlying ideas that ‘good Christians will make good citizens’, by emphasizing activities geared to the tutoring of children through educational, charitable, sanitary, and playful interventions. In order to illustrate how the leaders of these local Evangelical NGOs carefully manipulate the border between play and evangelization, and how amusement and gift-giving are key to the interconnection of humanitarian and proselytizing activities, we focus the analysis on the activities of a local affiliate of the transnational NGO Samaritan’s Purse. This case study also highlights how ethical ideals of evangelization defined by transnational organizations are appropriated by local actors and integrated within local discourses regarding the moralization of Ivorian society. The article is based on ethnographic field research conducted in the city of Abidjan in 2011, 2012, and 2016.

scholarly journals What Happens to the Health of Elderly Parents When Adult Child Migration Splits Households? Evidence from Rural China

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianxiang Li ◽  
Beibei Wu ◽  
Fujin Yi ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Tomas Baležentis
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Parental Health ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Variable Approach ◽  
Child Migration ◽  
The Impact

There is little understanding about the effects of adult child migration on the health of elderly parents left behind in the light of economic contribution and time allocation (farm work and emotional cohesion). Using the pooled data from three latest issues of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in the rural areas, this study assesses the impact of child migration on parents’ health by employing instrumental variable approach to deal with the endogeneity problem. Overall, the evidence suggests that adult child migration impairs parental health as indicated by lower self-reported health (SRH), body mass index (BMI), physical activity of daily living (PADL), and higher depression score. Moreover, parents who are female, poorly-educated, and living with one adult child at least are the most vulnerable groups in terms of poor health outcomes. The negative impact of farming burden on the health of parents left behind outweighs the positive impact of economic support and emotional cohesion. Thus, child migration exerts a significantly negative impact on parental health. Establishing medical and social security systems for the elderly is important to complement the traditional family support in rural China.

scholarly journals Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the 'Left-behind' Generation in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol III (I) ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
Shahid Iqbal ◽  
Anwaar Mohyuddin ◽  
Riaz Ahmad Muazzmi
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
School Level ◽  
School Type ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Parental Migration ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Children's Schooling ◽  
The Impact

This study examines the long-term effects of parental international migration on the schooling of children left behind in Pakistan. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically but the lack of parental care may cause relational and psychological problems that may affect children's welfare in the long term. The locale of the present study is district Gujrat where the labor migration is considered as the best viable way to cope with an increasing poverty and the scarcity of public resources for sustaining households' incomes. To gain the objectives of the study, a mix methods approach has been used for the collection and analysis of data. In the present study the impact of migration on the education of the children was measured through their enrolment in school, type of institution and level of investment on education, dropout from the school, level of achievement. The results show that parental migration has a positive impact on the enrolment of children and investment on education, but it has negative impact on the dropout and level of achievement especially in case of boys.

scholarly journals Male migration and problems face by the family left behind

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Shazia Kousar ◽  
Dr. Sumaira Rehman ◽  
Dr.Ch. Abdul Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Male Migration ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Psychological Disturbances ◽  
The Family ◽  
Qualitative Nature

Migration can bring financial prosperity but it causes the absence of traditional and cultural figure from family, which ultimately brings a change in the lives of left behinds, the wives and children. This research aims to explore the economic, social and psychological perspectives of an effected family. Qualitative nature of inquiry has been used. Study found that migrant’s children enjoy greater opportunities of education and health. Migration have positive relationship with budget allocation for educational and health requirements. But the psychological disturbances become the part of the personality of the children left behind because they miss the shelter of father. Similarly women feel economically well-established but they also feel emotional stress, loneliness and sadness. My research will helps the policy makers and stakeholders to frame the evidence based social policies which minimize the negative impact of migration on family left behind.

scholarly journals Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 Crisis on the Social- Economic Situation: Evidence from the Gambia

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 168-177
Author(s):  
Ebrima K. Ceesay
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The Gambia ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Open Borders ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

This study assesses the social and economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic in the Gambia. The data used in this paper was generated from online survey questionnaire, in which the participants were asked about certain questions in which coronavirus affect social and economic in the Gambia. The questionnaire was designed to help Gambia to understand covid-19 impacts on their social and economic situation. The results of this study reveal that coronavirus pandemic affected the people in the Gambia in a number of ways; 1) 84 percent said they should not open borders to more countries while only 16 percent said they should open borders.   2)  In the Gambia, 61 percent of the respondents said the environmental factor that is serious hit due to covid-19 outbreak is the energy sector. 3)  44.2 percent of the respondent said that covid-19 will have fluctuation in growing on the GDP and trade in the Gambia. 4)  Due the serious impact of covid-19 on the societies, 48.8 percent of the respondent in the Gambia said they are very worried that they or someone in their family will be exposed to the coronavirus outbreak. 5) 70.5 percent of the respondent said the outbreak will have negative impact in the economy of the Gambia.  6) As the result generated from the survey, 58 percent of the respondent said in the Gambia, due to covid-19 the recession will happen over the next year.   7) 65.4 percent of the respondents said government implemented an education response for continue of learning in the Gambia while educational institutions are closed.8) 55.1 percent of the respondent said their enterprise used online learning programmes and resources and 32. 1 percent said their enterprise used video conferencing tools and 15.4 percent said their organization used printed materials such as new papers or posters and 9 percent said multimedia including podcasts and YouTube and  6.4 percent, which is the least said TV are used for staff development and training during covid-19 pandemic.9) 50 percent of the respondent to this question of the survey said their organization had planned new training programmes or activities in response to the covid-19 e.g University of the Gambia training their staffs for quality teaching and learning for their students. The implication of the results from this online survey is that it has serious impacts in the Gambia especially in economic situation, employment, consumption, investment and energy. Another policy implication is that, high co2 emission will affect national parks, wildlife and forests’, and poverty, food insecurity and hunger will rises and poor agriculture, the domestic and international migration will be reduces, remittances reduces and those left behind will be seriously affected in terms of health, food security, education, energy and so on especially women, children, elderly and disable that are left behind.

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