scholarly journals The position of migrant women from the perspective of employment and labour relations – the road towards equality and the challenges by the road

Eudaimonia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Mina Kuzminac
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
The Road ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Many women around the world decide or are forced to cross a path of several hundred or thousands of miles for various reasons, but at the same time for reasons that through one phrase can be expressed as a search for a better future. In this context, the paper deals with the issue of challenges faced by migrant women who are migrants for employment, i.e., migrant workers. Regardless of the existence of a developed international legal framework related to the position of migrant women, they are often put in a worse situation in the field of employment and labour relations in practice, based on (at least) two grounds. Given this, the hypothesis put forward in the paper is that migrant women are often victims of intersectional discrimination, and that it is necessary to pay additional attention to the issue of protection of migrant women in the labour market and in the sphere of labour relations. Although the path towards equality includes a number of challenges along the way, equality as a goal makes every step towards achieving the goal valuable and significant.

Doing Decoloniality in the Writing Borderlands of the PhD

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ailie McDowall ◽  
Fabiane Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Zero Point ◽  
Academic Training ◽  
The Road ◽  
The World ◽  
Constant State ◽  
The Way

This paper takes us into the Writing Borderlands, an ambiguous in-between space borrowed from Anzaldúa's concept of Borderlands, where we as PhD students are in a constant state of transition. We argue that theorising from a decolonial position consists of not merely using concepts around coloniality/decoloniality, but also putting its core ideas into practice in the ‘doing’ aspect of research. The writing is a major part of this doing. We enact epistemic disobedience by challenging taken-for-granted conventions of what ‘proper’ academic writing looks like. Writing from a universal standpoint — the type of writing prescribed in theses formats, positivist research methods and ‘proper’ academic writing — has been instrumental in promoting the zero-point epistemologies that prevail through Northern artefacts of knowledge. In other words, we write to de-link from the epistemological assumption of a neutral and detached observational location from which the world is interpreted. In this paper, we discuss the journey we take as PhD students as we attempt to delink and decolonise our writing. Traversing the landscape of the Writing Borderlands, different features arise and fall. Along the way, we come across forks in the road between academic training and the new way we imagine writing decolonially.

scholarly journals The Entrapment of Migrant Workers in Servile Labour: The Case of Live-in Domestic Workers from Ukraine in Greece

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikos Xypolitas
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Domestic Work ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Employment Relationships ◽  
Subjective Element ◽  
Emotional Demands

<p>The article presents an effort to analyze the entrapment of migrant domestic workers in their low-status jobs. This will be done by looking at the consequences of live-in domestic work on migrant women from Ukraine working as servants in Athens. The study utilizes a Marxo-Weberian framework that focuses on both working conditions and perceptions of migrant workers. It is argued that the emotional demands of domestic work result in migrants perceiving their tasks as an extension of familial relationships and obligations. These employment relationships are defined as ‘pseudo-familial’ and form the basis of deference in domestic work. Combined with the structural barriers in the labour market, deference represents the subjective element of the entrapment of migrants in their job.</p>

scholarly journals Woman, Authority and Manifestation of God in The Narrative of Sufism

2018 ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Khusnul Khotimah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
The Road ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
The World ◽  
Ibn Arabi ◽  
Culture Education ◽  
The Way

This study aims to analyze the position of women in Islamic spiritual discourse. During this time, patriarchal culture places women in subordinate men in a variety of situations; politics, economics, culture, education and religion. This study criticizes the results of studies that narrate that women are second class. Through qualitative methods and descriptive analysis, this study relies on primary documents about traces of women in the labyrinth of Sufism. The results of the study indicate that the position of women is so central and a bridge to climb the title of Insan Kamil (perfect human). Many minor, nagging, and wrong views that view women has tempting, wild, bad instinct and as a barrier for the Sufis to reach the highest level. In the context of Sufism, women as seducers are God's elements that manifest on humans. As long as directed, she is the road to the perfection and the maqam of Insan Kamil. The world of Sufism understands women in the corridors of harmony and duality. Women are miniatures of nature. The famous Ibn ‘Arabi thesis says that God wants to be known so He creates nature. There is duality in it, Qahar, Luthf, Jamal and also Jalal. To the way of God, it cannot be separated from feminine and masculine aspects. Recognizing women is like recognizing God.

Autonomous future of the road transport - AV-POLAND 2021 Conference

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-46
Author(s):  
Mariusz Zbyszyński
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Modern Logistics ◽  
The Road ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Transport is one of the most important components of the world around us. Effective and modern logistics allows to achieve economic growth. Means of transport influence the lifestyle of residents and the way in which urban space is designed and used today.

scholarly journals Walking as a Metaphor

Transfers ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Avishek Ray
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
City Space ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This article reflects on the dissenting act of mobility as articulated by migrant workers in India, who, during the nationwide lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, are walking back home, hundreds of miles away, in lieu of public transport. Their mobility—precisely, the act of walking—has thus acquired a metaphoric status, and laid bare the ideological practices of territorializing the city-space. This article argues that the migrant worker’s mobility, from within the axiomatic of the prevalent “mobility regime,” can be read as a powerful metaphor of our tensions within the global political-economic order that the pandemic has so starkly exposed. The article provokes less literal, but more literary, understandings of mobilities in general, in order to come to grips with the manifold contradictions, paradoxes, and counteractions in the way the world moves.

scholarly journals ROAD TRANSPORT IN TOURISM: IMPLEMENTING SUCCESSFULLY AIR TRANSPORT PRACTICES

1970 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Emmanouil Christofakis ◽  
Theodoros Stavrinoudis ◽  
Spyridon Kapitsinas ◽  
Andreas Papatheodorou ◽  
Dimitrios Pappas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
The Road ◽  
The World ◽  
Low Cost Carrier ◽  
Additional Demand

Transportation has always been closely connected to the development of a region. Technological advancements as well as the increase of the available income has set the fundamentals for more effective ways of transportation. At the same time, tourism flourishes and more people travel around the world. To accommodate this additional demand, airlines introduced several strategies; among others, the Low Cost Carrier (LCC) business model has played a disruptive role. At the same time, road transport operators started to implement several strategies, some of which are inspired from the airline sector. Road transport operations, mainly undertaken by coaches, introduced several strategies to address the evolving demand. This paper presents a wide overview of the Greek road transport sector and its related legal framework. The review aims to identify and discuss the best practices, introduced by the airlines, and fruitfully apply them in the context of the road transport sector.

Walking as a Metaphor

Transfers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 103-109
Author(s):  
Avishek Ray
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
City Space ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This article reflects on the dissenting act of mobility as articulated by migrant workers in India, who, during the nationwide lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, are walking back home, hundreds of miles away, in lieu of public transport. Their mobility—precisely, the act of walking—has thus acquired a metaphoric status, and laid bare the ideological practices of territorializing the city-space. This article argues that the migrant worker’s mobility, from within the axiomatic of the prevalent “mobility regime,” can be read as a powerful metaphor of our tensions within the global political-economic order that the pandemic has so starkly exposed. The article provokes less literal, but more literary, understandings of mobilities in general, in order to come to grips with the manifold contradictions, paradoxes, and counteractions in the way the world moves.

scholarly journals Minimum wage in Greece and Southern Europe: Towards a new model for shaping labour relations

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Maria Georgia Antonopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Social Expenditure ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
Fiscal Adjustment ◽  
The Way

The article focuses on the institution of the general minimum wage in Greece and Southern Europe during the economic recession and up to the present day. The economic crisis and the way it was dealt with by European and international institutions led not only to constraints in social expenditure but also restrictive income policies, among other things. Especially in countries that found themselves involved in ‘fiscal adjustment programmes’, like Greece, Spain, and Portugal, the whole of the labour market and labour relations became the arena for radical reforms. The declared targets were increasing flexibility in the labour market, decreasing labour force costs, gradually decentralizing collective agreements, changing the way wages are determined, and strengthening of flexible forms of work. Our study examines the changes in the established method of determining minimum wage in the countries of Southern Europe that were part of fiscal adjustment programmes.

The Whys and Hows of Religious Transmission

2019 ◽  
pp. 156-206
Author(s):  
Christian Smith ◽  
Bridget Ritz ◽  
Michael Rotolo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Models ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
The Road ◽  
The World ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Religious Transmission ◽  
The Way

This chapter takes a look at the cultural model that runs in the background of and helps to guide American religious parents' approach to handing on religious faith and practice to their children. This is determined by the content of all of the cultural models examined in the previous chapter. Here, parents do good and well to pass on religious faith and practice to their offspring, because religion can help growing children successfully navigate the journey of life in the world that they will soon face. Life's journey can be a difficult one, and parents' primary job is to prepare and provision their children for safety and success on the road. Religion offers particularly valuable help in the forms of guidance, comfort, and rest stops offering rejuvenation and aid along the way.

scholarly journals Nature of the EU Labour Market and Its Regulations

Pro Futuro ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moe Thazin Khaing
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
Active Labour Market Policies ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
The World ◽  
Labour Legislation ◽  
The Eu

The labour market can also make the process of the labour migration easy and protect the rights of the workers with some restrictions. This paper especially focuses on the role of the labour market regulations relating to the migrant workers in EU. However, general labour market regulations have been expressed in the first chapter. When we talk about the labour market, the regulations will be assessed as to whether they are strong or not and to what extent the workers will get their rights protected. EU labour migration is large around the world and can be handled with labour legislation and the labour market. Therefore, EU labour market regulations and policies, especially active labour market policies, are mainly expressed in this paper.

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