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Neurodiversity, Networks, and Narratives: Exploring Intimacy and Expressive Freedom in the Time of Covid-19. Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Kerri Betts,Louise Creechan,Rosemarie Cawkwell,Isabelle Finn-Kelcey,C J Griffin,Alice Hagopian,David Hartley,Marie Adrienne R Manalili,Inika Murkumbi,Sarinah O'Donoghue,Cassandra Shanahan,Anna Stenning,Alyssa Hillary Zisk
The Narratives of Neurodiversity Network (NNN) is a neurodivergent academic, creative, and educator collective that came together with allies during the Covid-19 pandemic to create a network centred around emerging narratives about neurodiversity and exploring new ways of learning and socialising. The network focuses on exploring the roles of written, spoken, and visual narratives across cultural locations
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Immigrant Children’s Connections to People and the World Around Them: A Critical Discourse Review of Academic Literature Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Anita Borch
A primary goal of the welfare state is to ensure that children and young people have a good upbringing and that families feel secure. However, several studies indicate that the risk of marginalisation and social exclusion increases, especially among children of low‐income and immigrant families. Why some children seem to be more loosely connected to people and the world around them is poorly understood
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The Role of Autonomy in the Transition to the World of Work Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Jan F. C. Gellermann,Philipp Fuchs
The article is based on a qualitative study covering 32 youths from the age of 18 to 25 who did not manage a stable transition from school to the German labor market. All of them, albeit to different degrees and for different reasons, are running the risk of long‐term exclusion from the sphere of work and vocational training measures as well as public support structures. Based on multiple narrative
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Understanding Social Inclusion in Contemporary Society: Challenges, Reflections, Limitations, and Proposals Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Ana Belén Cano-Hila
In 2015, the UN approved the 2030 agenda on sustainable development, intending to bridge—and eventually close—the gaps that divide our societies. These 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) are presented as a master plan that covers the most painful global challenges to a knowledgeable and inclusive society. In this thematic issue we look more incisively into goals no. 1 (no poverty), no. 4 (quality
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Exploring Women’s Uptake of Active Labour Market Programmes: The Role of Household Composition Across Migrant Origin Groups Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Tair Kasztan Flechner,Karel Neels,Jonas Wood,Naomi Biegel
Active labour market policies, like training, aim to increase the employability of unemployed population subgroups. Research indicates that the most vulnerable groups—such as women of migrant origin—are less likely to participate in the most effective programmes. Prior studies have established that household composition affects the labour market outcomes of women without and with a migration background
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Afghan Migration to Europe From Iran Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Heaven Crawley,Esra S. Kaytaz
Afghans have consistently been one of the largest groups of refugees arriving in Europe, with more than 600,000 Afghan asylum applications in European countries over the past ten years, second only in number to Syrians. Afghan migration to Europe is a response to both the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan and protracted displacement in countries hosting the vast majority of Afghan refugees
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Educational and Occupational Aspirations: A Longitudinal Study of Vienna Youth Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Ona Valls,Franz Astleithner,Brigitte Schels,Susanne Vogl,Raphaela Kogler
During their transition from lower to upper secondary education, young peoplemake educational and occupational choices driven by their aspirations. Such aspirations are shaped by the individuals’ social environment, their idea of what seems achievable and desirable, and their experiences. Therefore, aspirations can change during the transitional phase. In this article, we explore the development of
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Educational Transitions in War and Refugee Contexts: Youth Biographies in Afghanistan and Austria Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Nadja Thoma,Phil C. Langer
This article addresses educational transitions under conditions of multiple insecurities. By analyzing empirical data of two research projects with youths in Afghanistan and refugee students in Austria, we show how young peoplemake sense of the social and educational inequalities they encounter on their educational pathways within different national, socio‐political, and institutional contexts. We
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Participative Cooperation During Educational Transition: Experiences of Young People With Disabilities in Austria Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Helga Fasching,Katharina Felbermayr
The results of international research studies show that early and careful planning, preparation, and implementation can contribute significantly to a successful transition from compulsory education to vocational training and employment. One key aspect in this respect is participative cooperation (i.e., involvement and active participation in the planning process), above all of the youths with disabilities
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Negotiating the “Maze”: SEN and the Transition From Lower Secondary Education in Austria Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Gabriele Pessl,Mario Steiner
Austrian students with special educational needs (SEN) face many obstacles in the transition from lower to upper secondary education. Using administrative data from national statistics, we analyse the trajectories of these students focusing on two questions: First, what is the impact of the former setting on further pathways for students from special schools compared with mainstream schooling? Second
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The Art of Governing Youth: Empowerment, Protagonism, and Citizen Participation Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Otávio Raposo
This article discusses social inclusion policies for youth from vulnerable socioeconomic contexts, based on the ethnographic monitoring of an associative experience promoted by the Choices Programme (“Programa Escolhas”) on the outskirts of Lisbon. Considered the main public policy directed at poor, racialised, and peripheral youth in Portugal, the Choices Programme is driven by strategies of empowerment
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Transnational Social Protection: Inclusion for Whom? Theoretical Reflections and Migrant Experiences Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
With migration being a reality within and between nation‐states worldwide, transnational social protection has become a concern on various levels. This thematic issue focuses on nation‐state conceptions and policies, migrants’ experiences with regards to accessing social protection, as well as the social inequalities resulting from the nexus of transnational social protection and migration.
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The Interiorization of Public Higher Education in Santana do Araguaia, Brazil Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Tarciso Binoti Simas,Lucélia Cardoso Cavalcante,Carlos Maviael de Carvalho,Samuel Da Silva Sousa
As part of the interiorization program of public higher education in Brazil, and following the dismemberment of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), the Federal University of South and Southeast of Pará (Unifesspa) was created in 2013 in the Eastern Amazon. In 2014, the Araguaia Engineering Institute (IEA) of Unifesspa was set up in the city of Santana of Araguaia, providing a licentiate degree course
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The Impact of the Covid‐19 Global Health Pandemic in Early Childhood Education Within Four Countries Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Lynn McNair,John Ravenscroft,Irene Rizzini,Kay Tisdall,Linda Biersteker,Fortunate Shabalala,S’lungile K. Thwala,Clement N. Dlamini,Malcolm Bush,Malibongwe Gwele,Lizette Berry
The recent Covid‐19 global health pandemic has negatively affected the political and economic development of communities around the world. This article shares the lessons from our multi‐country project Safe, Inclusive Participative Pedagogy: Improving Early Childhood Education in Fragile Contexts (UKRI GCRF) on how children in communities in Brazil, Eswatini, South Africa, and Scotland have experienced
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Emigration and the Transnationalization of Sending States’ Welfare Regimes Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Jean-Michel Lafleur,Inci Öykü Yener‐Roderburg
How does emigration affect sending states’ welfare policies? Existing migration literature has identified numerous political, economic, and institutional variables that influence sending states’ approaches towards emigrants’ welfare. However, this literature has neglected broader processes of social transformation in sending states. Using the concept of welfare regime transnationalization, we show
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Migrant Students’ Sense of Belonging and the Covid‐19 Pandemic: Implications for Educational Inclusion Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Nikolett Szelei,Ines Devlieger,An Verelst,Caroline Spaas,Signe Smith Jervelund,Nina Langer Primdahl,Morten Skovdal,Marianne Opaas,Natalie Durbeej,Fatumo Osman,Emma Soye,Hilde Colpin,Lucia De Haene,Sanni Aalto,Reeta Kankaanpää,Kirsi Peltonen,Arnfinn J. Andersen,Per Kristian Hilden,Charles Watters,Ilse Derluyn
This article investigates school belonging among migrant students and how this changed during the Covid‐19 pandemic. Drawing on quantitative data gathered from 751 migrant students in secondary schools in six European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK), we examined the impact of Covid‐19 school closures, social support, and post‐traumatic stress symptoms on changes in
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The Inclusion of Students With Disabilities: Challenges for Italian Teachers During the Covid‐19 Pandemic Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Maddalena Colombo,Mariagrazia Santagati
In March 2020 all schools in Italy were closed due to the Covid‐19 pandemic, and the novelty of distance learning was introduced. During the 2020–2021 school year, pre‐primary and primary schooling was carried out in situ, while secondary education was re‐organized into a mixed system, with students spending 50% of their time attending classes from home, in distance learning. This reconfiguration was
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Youth Empowerment Through Arts Education: A Case Study of a Non‐Formal Education Arts Centre in Barcelona Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Mariona Ferrer‐Fons,Marta Rovira‐Martínez,Roger Soler‐i‐Martí
This article discusses how non‐formal arts education attenuates socioeconomic and cultural barriers in a vulnerable context. Although cultural capital has usually been conceived as dependent on high socioeconomic status, we explore the inclusiveness of a project of non‐formal education and how it enhances the capacity of youth to achieve empowerment and self‐confidence through the arts. We analyse
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Welfare Deservingness for Migrants: Does the Welfare State Model Matter? Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Maarja Saar,Bozena Sojka,Ann Runfors
This article draws on the idea that welfare systems and institutions are based on normative assumptions about justice, solidarity, and responsibility. Even though the literature on welfare deservingness has highlighted the connection between ideas of solidarity and the support to, for instance, people with different ethnic backgrounds, there is very little research on the interconnections of different
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The Politics and Aesthetics of the Urban Commons: Navigating the Gaze of the City, the State, the Market Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Louis Volont,Peer Smets
This thematic issue puts “urban commoning” centre stage. Urban commoning constitutes the practice of sharing urban resources (space, streets, energy, and more) through principles of inclusion and cooperation. Whilst generally defined as an autonomous, bottom‐up, and most of all cooperative practice, the sphere of the commons necessarily stands in interaction with two other spheres: the state/city (“provision”)
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What Is Inclusive Education? Voices and Views From a Carpentry Classroom Workshop Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Rafel Argemí‐Baldich,Paulo Padilla‐Petry,María Inés Massot‐Lafón
Theories of inclusive education usually assume the schooling of all students within the same educational contexts, focusing on presence, participation, and success. However, the current implementation of inclusive education in regular schools has encountered resistance and difficulties that have led to special education schools assuming a complementary role in ensuring that all students’ educational
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Art Organisers as Commoners: On the Sustainability and Counter‐Hegemonic Potential of the Bangkok Biennial Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Bart Wissink,Lara Van Meeteren
As part of a remarkable wave of perennial contemporary art events in Thailand, the Bangkok Biennial was organised for the first time in 2018. Without central curation or funding, the organisational strategy of this artist‐led, open‐access event was strikingly different from the state‐organised Thailand Biennale and the corporate Bangkok Art Biennale that were inaugurated several months later. Through
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An Intersectional Analysis of Child and Adolescent Inclusion in Local Participation Processes Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Noemi Laforgue,Marta Sabariego,Antonio Ruiz,Ana Belén Cano-Hila
Educational and social initiatives promoting participation among children and adolescents struggle with the widely‐held notion that non‐adult stages of life are merely transitory and that, therefore, non‐adults’ views on public life are of less value. Apart from this hurdle of adult‐centrism, there are other obstacles to the full participation of this segment of the population. The present study analyses
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“No German, No Service”: EU Migrants’ Unequal Access to Welfare Entitlements in Germany Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Nora Ratzmann
While existing research has analysed the intersecting migration and social security law, which stratifies migrants’ formal social entitlements, less work has been done on the informal stratifications beyond the law that determine substantive social rights. This article illustrates the informal barriers to de facto benefit receipt that intra‐EU migrant citizens may experience when claiming social assistance
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Inclusion as a Value in Participation: Children’s Councils in Spain Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Javier Morentín‐Encina,Elena Noguera Pigem,María Barba Núñez
The two‐way relationship between inclusion and participation makes municipal child participation organisations and experiences a key means of guaranteeing the inclusion in community life of children and adolescents, who are traditionally excluded from decision‐making and the promotion of changes in the realities of their lives. One of the main objectives of municipal child participation organisations
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Children’s Participation, Progressive Autonomy, and Agency for Inclusive Education in Schools Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Marta B. Esteban
Whereas children’s agency and their right to civic participation have been extensively discussed in childhood studies, especially within sociology, their presence in pedagogical studies is still scarce. We intend to contribute to tentatively plugging that gap by analysing the need for a change of perspective in school settings based on acknowledging children as participatory social actors. We are committed
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Actually Existing Commons: Using the Commons to Reclaim the City Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Caroline Newton,Roberto Rocco
In Paraisópolis, a slum in São Paulo (Brazil) housing over 100.000 inhabitants, the Covid crisis seemed to have less of a death toll (0,0217%) than in other areas of the city (an average of 0,0652% as of May 2020); or at least it did at first. The sense of community in the area is strong, leading to many community initiatives and organisations to rise to the challenge of combating the pandemic with
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Spanish LGBTQ+ Youth and the Role of Online Networks During the First Wave of Covid‐19 Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 R. Lucas Platero,Miguel Ángel López‐Sáez
During the lockdown measures put in place at the time of the first wave of the Covid‐19 pandemic in Spain (March through June 2020), LGBTQ+ youth lived through a particularly stressful situation that has so far received little attention. Confined in homes that are often hostile to their sexuality, struggling with the transition to online classes, they reached out to Internet social networks to obtain
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Child‐Led Participation: A Scoping Review of Empirical Studies Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Tania Mateos-Blanco,Encarnación Sánchez‐Lissen,Inés Gil‐Jaurena,Clara Romero‐Pérez
Children’s participation is a universal right recognised by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This right corresponds to an image of children as social actors because of their relevant role in achieving inclusive, equitable, and sustainable development. Participation can take different forms and levels of involvement: consultative, collaborative, and child‐led. This study aimed
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Who Belongs, and How Far? Refugees and Bureaucrats Within the German Active Welfare State Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Katrin Menke,Andrea Rumpel
Concepts such as “belonging” (Yuval‐Davis, 2011) and “community of value” (Anderson, 2013) try to capture the multiple ways of classifying migrants. In this article, we argue that belonging needs to be analyzed against the backdrop of active social citizenship in European welfare states. Although the literature acknowledges the increasing links between migration and social policies, the latest “turn
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Meetings Between Professionals for the Inclusion of Children in Citizen Participation: A Formative Experience Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Ana M. Novella Cámara,Ferran Crespo i Torres,Héctor Pose Porto
Municipalities must take steps towards an “educational action” that welcomes children into environments that estimulate their involvement and participation in issues that mean something to them. Professionals working directly with children in the municipal sphere must strengthen the development of their active and committed citizenship (SDG no. 4), relating to them as citizens capable of transforming
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Beyond the “Trans Fact”? Trans Representation in the Teen Series Euphoria: Complexity, Recognition, and Comfort Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Maria-Jose Masanet,Rafael Ventura,Eduard Ballesté
Recent anti‐LGBTQ+ discourse has increased the threat of violence against people who do not follow the cisheteronormative mandates. To face these dialectics, the media can offer alternative discourses, in particular by providing realistic and non‐stereotyped LGBTQ+ representations. Media portrayals can be seen as both positive and negative. On one hand, they may offer stereotypical and narrow representations
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Music to Face the Lockdown: An Analysis of Covid‐19 Music Narratives on Individual and Social Well‐Being Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Priscila Alvarez-Cueva
When the world seemed to collapse due to the Covid‐19 pandemic in 2020, music was employed to promote positivity and strength among citizens and communities, especially during worldwide lockdowns. Because the general context of the pandemic was saturated with anxiety, uncertainty, and fear, music—in all its forms of production—became an ideal resource for entertainment and accompaniment, and helped
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The Gender Wage Gap in Peru: Drivers, Evolution, and Heterogeneities Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-25 Giannina Vaccaro,Maria Pia Basurto,Arlette Beltrán,Mariano Montoya
Despite the recent economic growth and gender equality improvement in educational attainment, important gender disparities remain in the Peruvian labour market. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the Peruvian gender wage gap evolution during 2007–2018 and identifies key elements that explain its patterns. First, the article shows that the raw wage gap showed an upward trend between 2007–2011
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Inequality and Exclusion in Latin America: Health Care Commodification, Gendered Norms, and Violence Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-25 Maria Amparo Cruz Saco
Since the early 1990s, a market‐orientated policymaking in Latin American countries did nothing to secure decent and productive jobs or eliminate gender inequities. It served, rather, to limit social investments that were needed to increase wellbeing, social cohesion, and, eventually, productivity. The pioneering scholarly work of the authors in this thematic issue, using either qualitative or quantitative
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Migrants’ Experiences With Limited Access to Social Protection in a Framework of EU Post‐National Policies Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
It has been argued that nation‐states confront migrant protection with a highly diverse array of measures ranging from excluding strategies (often labelled as “welfare chauvinism”) to more inclusionary, post‐national approaches. While exclusionary strategies are often guided by nativist principles such as citizenship, post‐national approaches of social protection are usually based on residence. Building
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Welfare Paradoxes and Interpersonal Pacts: Transnational Social Protection of Latin American Migrants in Spain Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Laura Oso,Raquel Martínez‐Buján
This article analyses the relationship between migration, care work, and welfare provision, highlighting the role of Latin American migrants in Spain as providers of formal and informal social protection on a transnational scale. It contributes to the debate on transnational social protection and transnational social inequalities from the perspective of welfare paradoxes and interpersonal pacts. Migrant
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Making Migrants’ Input Invisible: Intersections of Privilege and Otherness From a Multilevel Perspective Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Ewa Palenga‐Möllenbeck
For some years, the German public has been debating the case of migrant workers receiving German benefits for children living abroad, which has been scandalised as a case of “benefit tourism.” This points to a failure to recognise a striking imbalance between the output of the German welfare state to migrants and the input it receives from migrant domestic workers. In this article I discuss how this
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Welfare Mediators as Game Changers? Deconstructing Power Asymmetries Between EU Migrants and Welfare Administrators Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Nora Ratzmann,Anita Heindlmaier
Under EU law, EU citizens constitute a particular group of immigrants, as they can, mostly without restrictions, move to, and reside in, another EU country, enjoying equal treatment with nationals in terms of accessing employment and social rights. However, as this article demonstrates, the settlement of EU citizens in another member state does not happen without hurdles. Through a careful in‐depth
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My Brother the “Other”: Use of Satire and Boundary‐Making by Venezuelan Migrants in Peru Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Leda M. Pérez,Luisa Feline Freier
While the criminalization and hyper‐sexualization of Venezuelanmigrants and refugees across South America have received growing scholarly attention, fairly little is known about the coping strategies of migrants in this context. In this article, we build on quantitative and qualitative data from a survey (N = 100), 72 in‐depth interviews, and five focus groups with Venezuelan immigrants in five Peruvian
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Towards a Common Public Culture? Boundaries to Belonging in Catalonia Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Angelina Sánchez‐Martí,Jordi Pàmies,Alejandro Caravaca,Berta Llos
The tension between the will to build a collective national identity and the increasing diversity of today’s societies is one of the main challenges facing nation‐states today. Catalan society, being no exception, also faces many challenges as diasporic identities and transnational loyalties proliferate, weakening both citizens’ roots and their need to belong. The present article aims to identify situations
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On the Fringes of Urban Justice: Violence and Environmental Risks in Guatemala City Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Florencia Quesada
Living in the city’s ravines is the common destiny of thousands of poor urban dwellers in Guatemala City, as is too often the case elsewhere in the Global South. The ravines surrounding the city represent one of the most visible and unjust urban spaces in the nation’s capital. At the same time, Guatemala City has been among the most violent cities in the world and is highly vulnerable to climate change
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Governmentality, the Local State, and the Commons: An Analysis of Civic Management Facilities in Barcelona Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Marina Pera,Iolanda Bianchi
This article deploys the Foucauldian concept of governmentality to study the political tensions that may unfold when commons are enacted through hybrid institutional configurations. We focus on civic management facilities (CMFs) that are located in the city of Barcelona. These are facilities owned by Barcelona City Council which, responding to organised citizens’ demands, are transferred to them so
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Urban Commoning: An Assessment of Its Aesthetic Dimension Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Louis Volont
The practice of urban commoning continues to tickle the imagination of activists and academics alike. Urban commoning’s aesthetic dimension, yet, has not been fully understood. This contribution seeks to fill such gap and approaches aesthetics in the literal sense: That which presents itself to sense perception. The article thus asks: To what extent may commoning practices that are dedicated to the
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The World Bank and Healthcare Reforms: A Cross‐National Analysis of Policy Prescriptions in South America Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Gabriela De Carvalho
Recent literature on comparative welfare states has recognised the central role international financial institutions (IFIs) play in shaping social policy. Particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs), where constraints often lead to reliance on foreign resources, IFIs can act as agenda‐setters, transferring their ideas to vulnerable governments. The neoliberal model promoted by IFIs at
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“The Revolution Will Be Feminist—Or It Won’t Be a Revolution”: Feminist Response to Inequality in Chile Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Sarah Perry,Silvia Borzutzky
This article argues that gender inequality, which in Chile is superimposed on a societal and economic structure characterized by deep inequalities that cut across every aspect of society, has been sustained by a political and legal system that has severely limited women’s access to economic power and equality. The neoliberal policies implemented by the Pinochet dictatorship and maintained by the democratically
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In Good Company? Personal Relationships, Network Embeddedness, and Social Inclusion Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Miranda J. Lubbers
How do individuals’ networks of personal relationships affect their social in‐ and exclusion? Researchers have shown that micro‐level, informal relationships can be highly consequential for social inclusion, but in complex, contradictory ways: Personal networks reflect the degree of relational exclusion and protect against (other forms of) exclusion, but they also erode in conditions of exclusion and
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“She’s Surrounded by Loved Ones, but Feeling Alone”: A Relational Approach to Loneliness Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia,Miranda J. Lubbers,Jose Luis Molina
Loneliness poses one of the significant problems of our modern post‐industrial societies. Current research on loneliness has been developed primarily by psychology, biomedicine, nursing, and other health‐related disciplines, showing a surprising number of variables and risk factors involved in the experience of loneliness, along with positive correlations with premature mortality and morbidity. However
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Intergenerational Friendship as a Conduit for Social Inclusion? Insights from the “Book‐Ends” Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Riikka Korkiamäki,Catherine Elliott O'Dare
Friendship is said to promote psychological and physical well‐being and increase social inclusion. Yet, intergenerational friendship has garnered little research attention due to the assumed dominance of age homophily in friendship. In this article we explore intergenerational friendship from the perspective of “younger” and “older” friends at the “generational book‐ends” of the life course. We focus
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The Role of Parent‐Child Relationships and Filial Expectations in Loneliness Among Older Turkish Migrants Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Rowan L. F. Ten Kate,Başak Bilecen,Nardi Steverink
Older first‐generation migrants living in Europe, particularly Turkish migrants, feel relatively lonely, which indicates social exclusion. Social embeddedness within the family, particularly parent‐child relationships, can alleviate loneliness for older migrants, but such relationships can also be ambivalent, which may not prevent loneliness altogether. Earlier research indicates that Turkish migrants
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The Impact of Life Trajectories on Retirement: Socioeconomic Differences in Social Support Networks Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Francisca Ortiz,Elisa Bellotti
In general, the literature about social support networks (SSNs) has been divided into two different statements: On the one hand, social support is a safety net that helps the ego confront disadvantages in life. On the other hand, studies have shown how SSNs could act as sources of constraints for ego, especially in poverty. In this study, we looked into the SSNs of older people over time and found
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Structural Embeddedness in Transnational Social Fields: Personal Networks, International (Im)Mobilities, and the Migratory Capital Paradox Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Renáta Hosnedlová,Ignacio Fradejas‐García,Miranda J. Lubbers,José Luis Molina
In this article we focus on individuals’ structural embeddedness in transnational social fields (TSFs) and examine how this is related to patterns of international mobility. The main argument is that the structure of TSFs matters for (im)mobility trajectories, and thus all actors (migrants, non‐migrants, and returnees) need to be examined as a whole to obtain a deeper understanding of the role of social
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Ambivalent and Consistent Relationships: The Role of Personal Networks in Cases of Domestic Violence Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Elisa Bellotti,Susanne Boethius,Malin Åkerström,Margareta Hydén
Social networks are usually considered as positive sources of social support, a role which has been extensively studied in the context of domestic violence. To victims of abuse, social networks often provide initial emotional and practical help as well useful information ahead of formal institutions. Recently, however, attention has been paid to the negative responses of social networks. In this article
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Two Sides of the Coin: The Link Between Relational Exclusion and Socioeconomic Exclusion Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Verónica De Miguel-Luken,Livia García‐Faroldi
Social capital, derived from the individual embeddedness in a net of personal relationships that gives access to a pool of potential resources, is crucial in understanding how some people experience a higher risk of falling into social exclusion. In this article, we related some compositional and structural factors of egocentered networks to various measures on economic deprivation and social exclusion
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A Privilege not a Choice: Transnational Support Networks of Asylum Seekers and Expatriates Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Dorottya Hoór
The article explores how different factors shape migrants’ transnational social fields and support networks through a comparative study of two different groups of migrants—asylum seekers and expatriates—in Budapest, Hungary. To do so, the study employs a parallel mixed‐methods social network design by combining personal network data with qualitative data based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork
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People, Place, and Politics: Local Factors Shaping Middle‐Class Practices in Mixed‐Class German Neighbourhoods Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Heike Hanhörster,Isabel Ramos Lobato,Sabine Weck
This article takes a nuanced look at the role played by neighbourhood characteristics and local policies in facilitating or limiting the ways in which diversity‐oriented middle‐class families interact and deal with people of lower social classes in mixed‐class inner‐city neighbourhoods. The study draws on interviews and social network analysis conducted in neighbourhoods with different socio‐economic
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Networks Amongst Syrians: Situated Migrant Positionalities and the Impact on Relational Embedding Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Francesca Speed,Tracy Scurry,Peter Edward,Mona Moufahim
This article employs Yuval‐Davis concept of situated intersectionality to explore processes of relational embedding amongst Syrian migrants in the UK. By drawing on in‐depth interview data from 31 men and women living in North East England, we explore how varying social categories—or positionalities—intersect and shape personal networks and feelings of attachment amongst Syrians. We show how wider
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Interpersonal Antecedents to Selective Disclosure of Lesbian and Gay Identities at Work Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Julian M. Rengers,Liesbet Heyse,Rafael P. M. Wittek,Sabine Otten
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) employees’ sexual identitymay be considered a concealable stigmatised identity. Disclosing it to others at work could potentially lead to discrimination and rejection, hence threatening their inclusion. Therefore, they may hide their sexual identity instead, which may then come at the cost of, e.g., guilt for not living authentically. However, disclosure is a continuum—rather
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Differentiated Embedding and Social Relationships Among Russian Migrant Physicians in Finland: A Narrative Socio‐Analysis Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Driss Habti
Migrants’ processes of (dis)embedding in local and transnational social networks have received growing attention in recent years, but most research focuses on low‐skilled migration. This study explores the affordances and challenges that Russian physicians, as a high‐skilled migrant group in Finland, experience in these processes in work and non‐work domains. Based on semi‐structured biographical interviews
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When Spatial Dimension Matters: Comparing Personal Network Characteristics in Different Segregated Areas Social Inclusion (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Éva Huszti,Fruzsina Albert,Adrienn Csizmady,Ilona Nagy,Beáta Dávid
Living in segregated areas with concentrated neighbourhood poverty negatively affects the quality of life, including the availability of local jobs, access to services, and supportive social relationships. However, even with similar neighbourhood poverty levels, the degree and structure of spatial separation vary markedly between such areas. We expected that the level of spatial segregation aggravates