The ‘New’ Migration for Work Phenomenon Groutsis, Dimitria; Vassilopoulou, Joana; Kyriakidou, Olivia ...
Work, employment and society,
10/2020, Letnik:
34, Številka:
5
Journal Article
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This article examines the ‘new’ migration for work phenomenon gripping Southern Europe since the Global Financial Crisis struck in 2008, by focusing on the case of skilled Greeks migrating to Germany ...for work purposes. In applying Honneth’s concept of emancipation to the domain of work, the article frames emancipation as a phenomenon which emerges from an individual’s search for meaningful work and as a form of resistance to deteriorating institutions and social injustice. Informed by this is an assessment of the new migration for work phenomenon from Greece to Germany by employing survey data on the perceptions of skilled emigrants. Following analysis of the findings, it is concluded that migration is a form of emancipation that allows individuals to regain recognition and self-respect while also to protest the erosion of social and human rights in their home country.
In his book Bad Beliefs, Neil Levy defends the engineering of our epistemic environment by removing epistemic pollutions and by nudging people through second-order evidence. Although we agree with ...his core ideas, in this commentary, we aim at supplementing his approach in light of the participation of the general public in science. In the first part, we argue that the issue of participatory epistemic injustice in the scientific community remains unaddressed in Levy's discussion and that addressing the issue is equal to removing an epistemic pollution. In the second part, we address the issue of transparency in nudging. Here, we discuss the significance of public engagement in controlling the system of nudges to respect our rational and autonomous choices.
Context
Existing landscape sustainability studies mostly follow design-based, practical approaches, emphasizing “linking knowledge to action;” while the problem-driven, diagnostic approach that ...emphasizes “understanding human–environment interactions” remains underused.
Objectives
To apply the problem-driven, diagnostic approach to a widespread and controversial landscape-relevant problem: farmland loss associated with the long-term, global trend of urbanization.
Methods
We comparatively analyzed the farmland loss and landscape dynamics in the core and peripheral areas of rapidly urbanizing Tongling City in China, by using 30 m-grid land use/cover data in 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015. To understand the temporal trends and abnormalities of farmland loss, we identified probable regime shifts of socioeconomic and agrifood dynamics by changepoint detection using relevant data from 2000 to 2015.
Results
Changes of the whole landscape were dominated by persistent aggressive land gains of developed lands and increasing land losses of farmland and densely/moderately vegetated land. The ratio of farmland loss to total land conversion (8–77%) decreased in general during 2000–2015, with urban encroachment of farmland accounting for 14.72–74.36% of total farmland loss. Farmland had become smaller in patch size, less regular in patch shape, and more isolated between patches since 2005, indicating farmland deintensification. Three temporal abnormalities of farmland change were identified, which were associated with abrupt socioeconomic and agrifood dynamics affecting farmland demand–supply.
Conclusions
Farmland loss is more of an economic issue than a resource issue, and focusing on urban expansion is often inadequate. Policy efforts are needed to address the real problem of social injustice in mandatory farmland preservation practices.
This article examines Yahweh's response to corruption in Amos 8:4-10. In the pericope, the rich ensured that the poor remained poor. The situation of Israel in the eighth century is a reflection of ...the present situation of the people of the Niger Delta. Although some studies have focused on the poor in the Niger Delta, many of the existing works have generally paid less attention to the corruption in Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) which has sustained the poverty situation in the area. Using literary analysis methodology for the text, findings reveal that the underdevelopment in the Niger Delta region is also caused by the unchecked corrupt practices, financial recklessness, and diabolic activities in NDDC. The recommendations are discussed.
This article examines the conditions under which political déjà vu (PDV), a perceived analogy between past and present societal‐level traumatic events, can mobilize people to support system‐changing ...collective action. We propose that individuals' perceptions of PDV can evolve both social identification with a group that sustains the victimized and disidentification with the perceived perpetrators. We further suggest that disidentification and identification can form two distinct psychological paths to collective action through the sequential effects of moral outrage and collective efficacy beliefs. We tested these ideas in a cross‐sectional field study (N = 272) in the context of antigovernment protests over a missing activist in Argentina, a country with a legacy of enforced disappearances. The findings demonstrated that perceiving two events from different times as similar simultaneously predicted identifying as a supporter of the victimized and disidentifying with the perceived wrongdoer. Disidentification was found to predict collective action intentions through the sequential effect of collective efficacy beliefs and moral outrage, whereas the indirect effect of social identification was nonsignificant. Results provide an intriguing example of the effects of perceived PDV in social mobilization and extend our understanding of disidentification as a powerful predictor of collective action.
This study examined social injustice and public perception of Biafra social movements in the south east Nigeria. A cross-section of 1191 participants, comprising 717 (60.2%) males and 474 (39.8%) ...females, was purposively recruited among members of the public in three southeastern States. Descriptive statistics and linear regression were used to analyse the quantitative data. The results revealed that 89.3% of the variance in Biafra movements resulted from social injustices caused by the State and its institutions and actors (β = 0.95, t = 56.46, p ≤ 0.05). Both theoretical and empirical evidence further indicated that marginalised, excluded and dispossessed ethnic group may have no option but to agitate for their rights and emancipation which may culminate in secession attempts in the long run. The conclusion was that separation from the system that is believed to have persistently nurtured social injustices would be alternatively sought if protests for justice restoration in unfair central political arrangements cannot be effectively addressed, suggesting that secession was not the underlying objective and ideology of the advocates. Seeing that Nigeria’s social structure, combined with political economy, is unjust, maleficent and unbalanced, the policy implications call for inclusive institutional restructuring to reflect equity, justice and fairness in the distribution of power, authority and other vital assets in the national polity.
Una cosa es afirmar que un sujeto merece un castigo, otra que ese castigo es necesario para prevenir delitos futuros, y otra bien distinta que la instancia de imputación tiene la autoridad moral y/o ...política requerida para imponerlo. El presente artículo trata de analizar el modo en que las teorías de la pena, tradicionales y contemporáneas, han abordado la tercera cuestión, a la que nos referiremos como «problemática política del castigo»; en segundo lugar y en ese marco, trata de cuestionar la legitimidad del Estado para castigar a aquellas personas cuyos delitos están conectados a una injusticia que él mismo ha producido o tolerado. Analizada la cuestión en el nivel de la teoría de la pena, el artículo llama la atención sobre la necesidad de proponer una articulación dogmática para esa nueva forma de deslegitimación, concretamente a través de la noción de inexigibilidad.
Poverty is the outcome of the unequal distribution of resources reinforced by a legal, political, economic, and cultural model and is the central expression of social injustice. The impact of ...economic inequality on humanity’s quality of life can be better explained from the perspective of basic needs and their ties with rights, the unequal opportunities and their connection with the degree of autonomy that situated individuals effectively enjoy, and the effectiveness of public policy and the responsibilities and duties of the governments. This article discusses the close (and not visible) ties between justice, law, and poverty, emphasizing that the current legal framework -even the human rights system- legitimizes an unequal status quo that prevents real access to and enjoyment of rights and freedoms for people living in poverty conditions. Moreover, it also endangers democratic stability.
Like many other countries, the Netherlands have witnessed increasing conditionality regarding the right to social assistance. To date, research paid little attention to how recipients themselves ...experience (in)justice in an increasingly conditional policy landscape. Based on 53 interviews with recipients, we distinguish three different ways of framing social assistance: as a right, a transaction, or a gift. Each frame gives way to particular ideas about social justice, legitimates different feelings and leads to othering of fellow social assistance recipients. Bringing together insights from the sociology of emotions and social justice literature, the article empirically shows the diversity of ideas and feelings regarding social justice, illuminates the role of framing and feeling rules in the process, and argues that increased conditionality produces steep divisions that undermine in-group solidarity.
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