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Migration to and from Welfare States
This open access book explores the role of family, public, market and third sector welfare provision for individual and households’ decisions regarding geographical mobility. It challenges the state-centred approach in research on welfare and migration by emphasising migrants’ own reflections and experiences. It asks whether and in which ways different welfare concerns are part of migrants’ decisions regarding (or aspirations for) mobility. Employing a transnational and a translocal perspective, the book addresses different forms of geographical mobility, such as immigration, emigration, and re-migration, circular and return migration. By bringing in empirical findings from across a variety of Western and non-Western contexts, the book challenges the Eurocentric focus in current debates and contributes to a more nuanced and more integrated global account of the welfare-migration nexus.
Field Guide to Intercultural Research
This informative Field Guide to Intercultural Research is specifically designed to be used in the field, guiding the reader away from pitfalls and towards best practice. It shares valuable fieldwork challenges and experiences, as well as insights into key methodological debates and practical recommendations relevant to both new and seasoned researchers.
Parenting from Afar and the Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance
An increasing number of families around the world are now living apart from one another, subsequently causing the defining and redefining of their relationships, roles within the family unit, and how to effectively maintain a sense of familial cohesion through distance. Edited by Maria Rosario T. de Guzman, Jill Brown, and Carolyn Pope Edwards, Parenting From Afar and the Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance uniquely highlights how families--both in times of crisis and within normative cultural practices--organize and configure themselves and their parenting through physical separation. In this volume, readers are given a unique look into the lives of families around the world that are ...
Myths, Narratives and Welfare States
This unique book explores the question of whether different myths and narratives have an impact on the development of welfare states. After discussing the various definitions of ‘myths’ and ‘narratives’, Bent Greve disentangles their relationship with the welfare state, referring also to debates on welfare chauvinism, deservingness and retrenchment.
Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa
Violence affects the economy of production and the ecology of reproduction— the production of economic goods and services and the generational reproduction of workers, the regeneration of the capacity to work and maintenance of workers on a daily basis, and the renewal of culture and society through community relations and the education of children Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa explores the persistence of violence in conflict zones in Africa using a political economy framework. This framework employs an analysis of violence on both edges of the spectrum—a macro-economic analysis of violence against workers and a micro-political analysis of the violence in womenâ€...
Multidimensional Inequalities
Multidimensional Inequalities is a deep dive into the historical contexts and contemporary realities that negatively influence society and its structures. It is often overlooked that inequality is not just about income and wealth but rather a broad spectrum of intersecting factors. This book focuses on each aspect individually, analysing its effect on welfare systems, and informs about the instruments available to reduce inequality.
Context and Catholicity in the Science and Religion Debate
Based on a thorough study of the ‘lived theology’ of Christian students and university professors in Abidjan, Kinshasa and Yaoundé, this book proposes a theoretical framework that makes an intercultural and interdisciplinary debate on science and religion possible.
L'interdiction de la participation aux hostilités, la démobilisation et la réinsertion des enfants soldats en République démocratique du Congo
"Pour l'accusation, on entend par enfants soldats "tous les enfants de moins de 18 ans qui font partie d'une force ou d'un groupe armé, en quelque qualité que ce soit". Cette définition, qui comprend les enfants qui participent activement aux combats, "s'étend également aux enfants dont le rôle est essentiel au fonctionnement du groupe armé, comme ceux qui travaillent comme cuisiniers, porteurs, messagers, ainsi que les enfants utilisés à des fins sexuelles, y compris au moyen de mariages forcés."" Les enfants soldats, dès lors qu'ils sont enrôlés dans des groupes armés, perdent leur statut d'individu et sont considérés comme des choses de moindre valeur. Bien que l'État tente de protéger les mineurs contre les recrutements et les participations forcées aux hostilités, les programmes officiels mis en oeuvre ne parviennent pas à endiguer leurs implications dans les conflits armés. Thomas Furaha Mwagalwa s'est penché sur la triste réalité des combats dans l'Afrique des Grands Lacs, l'une des régions les plus touchées par le phénomène des enfants soldats."--Page 4 of cover.
The Future of Social Policy
This book analyses trends and data relating to issues affecting social policy in mature welfare states in Europe, and uses these elements to further our understanding of, and ability to try to say something about, the future of social policy, its direction and content. Looking at the financial crisis of 2008, the refugee crisis in Europe, COVID-19, the climate crisis, ageing populations and the rise of artificial intelligence, it shows how these may also have an impact on future social policy, including what kind of social policy might be needed because of changes in living conditions across the continent. Written by one of Europe’s more prominent social policy experts, this book, the first of its kind, will be required reading for all scholars and students of social policy, social welfare, public policy, sociology and social work.
