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Religious Minorities and Struggle for Recognition Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Christophe Monnot, Solange Lefebvre
Religious minorities are increasingly present in the public sphere. Often pointed out as a problem, we argue here that the establishment of these minorities in Western societies is happening through struggles for recognition. Communities or individuals belonging to different minorities are seeking recognition from the society in which they are living. In Section 1, we present, briefly, our perspective
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Space, Religious Diversity, and Negotiation Processes Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Solange Lefebvre
After a literature review of space, urbanity, and religion, this article identifies some descriptive categories and analytical frameworks to theorize problems faced by religious minorities, especially Muslims, in obtaining space for their cemeteries and places of worship. A second section focuses on debates and an analysis related to these themes in the province of Quebec (Canada), especially in the
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Inclusive Education for Religious Minorities: The Syriacs in Turkey Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Halis Sakız, Abdurrahman Ekinci, Güldest Baş
Expanding the scope of inclusion beyond specific groups such as individuals with disabilities has led to the investigation of school systems’ inclusiveness from the perspective of all students. With this in mind, this research investigated the experiences of students and parents belonging to the ancient Syriac community in Turkey, who inhabited Mesopotamia since the inception of Christianity. Obtaining
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Muslim and Buddhist Youths in Switzerland: Individualising Religion and Striving for Recognition? Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Martin Baumann, Rebekka Christine Khaliefi
Since the second half of the 20th century, immigrants and refugees from numerous countries have arrived in Switzerland. With their long-term settlement, the immigrant minorities have established cultural and religious associations to maintain their cultural and religious traditions and to teach their children the faith and religious practices from the country of origin. In contrast to the first immigrant
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The City as a Continuous Laboratory for Diversity: The Case of Geneva Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Christophe Monnot
After a long period of interest of religious plurality in the nation-state, the sociology of religion, with the impulse of the sociology of migration, has turned its attention to the city. This local level allows us to understand the issues of diversity governance. This article takes advantage of the literature on the governance of migration to apply it to the governance of religious diversity. Using
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The Demands of Niqabi Women in the Telegram Subaltern Corner Orgullo Niqabi Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Alexandra Ainz-Galende, Rubén Rodríguez-Puertas
The present article is about Niqabi women belonging to the private Telegram instant messaging channel Orgullo Niqabi (Spanish for ‘Niqabi Pride’). More specifically, our main objective is to explain what they are demanding, how they articulate their demands through that channel, and why they use it for communicating and to organize their actions. Said demands are mainly linked to their recognition
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Jewish Spatial Practices in Barcelona as Claims for Recognition Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Julia Martínez-Ariño
In this article, I argue that the spatial practices of the contemporary Jewish organisations in Barcelona’s medieval Jewish neighbourhood represent claims for public recognition. As a small and quite invisible minority within the diverse city population, Jewish groups increasingly claim that their presence in the city should be recognised by political authorities and ordinary citizens alike. They do
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Sport for Vulnerable Youth: The Role of Multi-Professional Groups in Sustaining Intersectoral Collaboration Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Chiara D'Angelo, Chiara Corvino, Eloisa Cianci, Caterina Gozzoli
Intersectoral actions in the sport-for-development field constitute a pre-condition for the implementation of sport-based interventions. At an operational level, the multi-professional group is the tool through which intersectoral collaboration may successfully achieve its aims. Despite the prominent role of the group, this topic is under-researched in terms of understanding intersectoral actions in
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Young People’s Perceptions of the Influence of a Sport-for-Social-Change Program on Their Life Trajectories Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Rob Cunningham, Anne Bunde-Birouste, Patrick Rawstorne, Sally Nathan
Sport-for-social-change programs focusing on enhancing young people’s personal and social development emerged in the early to mid-2000s. Children and adolescents who participated in early programs are now adults, providing an opportunity to examine whether these programs have had any influence on their life trajectories. The Football United program has been operating in Sydney, Australia, since 2006
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“Why Can’t I Play?”: Transdisciplinary Learnings for Children with Disability’s Sport Participation Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Simon Darcy, Janice Ollerton, Simone Faulkner
This article explores the constraints to mainstream sports participation of children with disability in community sports clubs and schools through their lived experiences and the perceptions of parents, teachers, coaches, and club officials. It does so by administering an open-ended survey instrument to a sample of participants recruited from schools, sporting facilities, and disability organizations
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Using Realist Interviews to Improve Theory on the Mechanisms and Outcomes of Sport for Development Programmes Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Kirsten Thecla Verkooijen, Sabina Super, Lisanne Sofie Mulderij, Dico De Jager, Annemarie Wagemakers
The complex nature of Sport for Development (SfD) programmes makes impact evaluation challenging. Realist evaluation has been proposed as a new, theory-driven approach to evaluate complex programmes. The present study aimed to explore the value of conducting realist interviews to gain improved insight into the mechanisms and outcomes of three SfD programmes in the Netherlands: a programme that promotes
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Inclusion through Sport: A Critical View on Paralympic Legacy from a Historical Perspective Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Sylvain Ferez, Sébastien Ruffié, Hélène Joncheray, Anne Marcellini, Sakis Pappous, Rémi Richard
Through its commitment to universalism, the inclusion of disabled people has become an increasingly prominent objective of the Paralympic Games. To achieve this, the organisers rely on the notion of legacy, which refers to the expected effects of major sporting events on host countries. This notion was initially founded on material aspects and then took an interest in certain intangible sides that
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Boundary Spanning in Sport for Development: Opening Transdisciplinary and Intersectoral Perspectives Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Reinhard Haudenhuyse, John Hayton, Dan Parnell, Kirsten Verkooijen, Pascal Delheye
We can no longer claim that academic interest in the area of sport and social inclusion is lacking. Dedicated books, special issues, commissioned reports, and landmark articles on the topic of social inclusion and sport have been produced by devoted scholars. The same can be said for the burgeoning area of sport for development and peace. These relatively young academic fields seem to be struggling
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(Re)forming the Inside/Outside: On Place as a Governable Domain through Sports-Based Interventions Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 David Ekholm, Magnus Dahlstedt
This article draws attention to two sports-based interventions carried out as part of the Midnight Football initiative and the places where they are conducted in two suburban areas in Sweden. Rather than approaching geographic place as simply a background and a context for sport-based interventions, we put place in the spotlight, scrutinising the very formation of place and its productive role in governing
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Exploring the Contested Notion of Social Inclusion and Gender Inclusivity within eSport Spaces Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Emily Jane Hayday, Holly Collison
With an emphasis on virtual engagement, creativity, and diverse competitive platforms, eSport is being explored as a new activity to achieve development outcomes within the Sport for Development (SfD) movement (Kidd, 2008). Research has shown the potential of eSport to provide opportunities for social interaction, bonding, and building social capital (Trepte, Reinecke, & Juechems, 2012). This exploratory
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Sport and Incarceration: Theoretical Considerations for Sport for Development Research Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Mark Norman
Despite a rapid expansion in research on Sport for Development (SfD), there remain numerous untapped veins of exploration. This article makes a novel argument for increasing the theoretical and substantive depth of SfD research by linking it to the relatively small, yet developing, body of literature on sport and incarceration. Drawing from the emergent field of carceral geography and the literature
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Bridge over Troubled Water: Linking Capacities of Sport and Non-Sport Organizations Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Bram Constandt, Cleo Schyvinck, Thomas De Bock, Mathieu Winand, Annick Willem
Community Sport Development Programs (CSDPs) that use an intersectoral capacity building approach have shown potential in reaching individuals in disadvantaged situations. This study has investigated how the application of capacity building principles in disadvantaged communities results in higher sport participation rates in these communities. A multiple case design was used, including six similar
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(Re)Building Home and Community in the Social Housing Sector: Lessons from a South Australian Approach Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Selina Tually, William Skinner, Debbie Faulkner, Ian Goodwin-Smith
Australia’s social housing sector is under great pressure. Actions to improve social housing sector capacity and responsiveness have occupied the minds and endeavours of many policy makers, practitioners and scholars for some time now. This article focusses on one approach to challenges within the sector recently adopted in a socio-economically disadvantaged area within Adelaide, South Australia: transfer
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Is Housing Growth Ever Inclusive Growth? Evidence from Three Decades of Housing Development in England and Wales, 1981–2011 Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Rebecca Tunstall
There is global concern about who gains from economic growth, including housing development, and global interest in making growth more inclusive. This article creates a new definition of ‘housing growth,’ growth in median space per person. It says that this housing growth is ‘inclusive’ if the worst-off make some gains, and ‘just’ if inequality does not increase. It applies these terms to data for
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Neighbourhood Impacts on Wellbeing: The Role of Housing among Low-Income Tenants Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Steve Rolfe, Lisa Garnham
The existing literature on neighbourhood effects suggests that a number of factors within local areas can have an impact on health, including environmental hazards, social networks and the socio-economic status of the area. However, there is minimal evidence regarding the role of housing organisations in shaping these effects. This article sets out the findings from a three-year longitudinal, mixed
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Inclusive Social Lettings Practice: Opportunities to Enhance Independent Living for Disabled People Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Isobel Anderson, Dianne-Dominique Theakstone, Julia Lawrence
Appropriate housing is a key element of independent living for disabled people, yet research evidence confirms the continuing, often negative, impact of unsuitable housing on their lives. This article examines access to social rented housing as a route to independent living, through a study of lettings practice for accessible and adapted homes. Drawing on the social and social-relational models of
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Home, Housing and Communities: Foundations for Inclusive Society Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Isobel Anderson, Joe Finnerty, Vikki McCall
This issue of Social Inclusion explores the interconnected, but multi-faceted concepts of home, housing and communities as fundamental tenets of an inclusive society. Our editorial introduces our motivation for this topic, outlines the contributions to the collection and highlights some crosscutting themes, which emerge from the articles. The research presented was largely completed in advance of the
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“Listen to What We Have to Say”: Children and Young People’s Perspectives on Urban Regeneration Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Siobhan O'Sullivan, Cathal O'Connell, Lorcan Byrne
There is an important body of research that explores the contested understandings of urban regeneration programmes in areas of socio-economic disadvantage. While poor housing and living conditions must be tackled, regeneration programmes have been criticised for their destructive and displacement impacts on communities, their lack of public consultation and their reinforcement of the stigmatization
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Who’s Homeless and Whose Homeless? Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Ingrid Sahlin
What does the persistent construction of ‘the homeless’ and the revitalised term ‘our homeless’ include, imply, and exclude in Swedish political debate? And how is it politically and morally related to other houseless groups in the country? These questions are approached through an analysis of minutes from the Swedish Parliament 2015–2019. Inspired by Simmel’s (1908/1965) definition of ‘the poor’ as
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“It Is Part of Belonging”: Walking Groups to Promote Social Health amongst People Living with Dementia Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Jane M. Robertson, Grant Gibson, Catherine Pemble, Rog Harrison, Kim Strachan, Sheila Thorburn
People with dementia often report experiencing a ‘shrinking world’ connected with reduced opportunities to access physical and social spaces. This article applies the framework of social health (Droes et al., 2017; Huber et al., 2011) as a theoretical lens through which to consider how inclusive walking groups can facilitate access to places and spaces to support people with dementia to remain connected
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Housing and Ageing: Let’s Get Serious—“How Do You Plan for the Future while Addressing Immediate Chaos?” Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Vikki McCall, Friederike Ziegler, Jane Robertson, Melanie Lovatt, Judith Phillips, Jeremy Porteus, Zhan McIntyre, Alasdair Rutherford, Judith Sixsmith, Ryan Woolrych, Jim Eadie, Jim Wallman, Melissa Epinosa, Emma Harrison, Tom Wallace
This article presents findings from the Housing and Ageing programme conducted in 2018 that investigated how the housing sector can effectively plan for an ageing population. The project took a transdisciplinary approach to focus on new, critical insights into the process of decision making concerning housing and ageing across Scotland, England and Wales. A ‘Serious Game’ methodology was developed
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Access to Housing and Social Inclusion in a Post-Crisis Era: Contextualizing Recent Trends in the City of Athens Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Thomas Maloutas, Dimitra Siatitsa, Dimitris Balampanidis
The way housing affordability evolved since WW2 in Greece—and in its capital city in particular—is an example of how the South European welfare system managed, for several decades, to provide socially inclusive housing solutions without developing the services of a sizeable welfare state until global forces and related policies brought it to an end. The increased role of the market in housing provision
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Gypsy Policy and Roma Activism: From the Interwar Period to Current Policies and Challenges Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Elena Marushiakova, Vesselin Popov
The editorial introduces the key ideas of this thematic issue, which originated within the European Research Council project ‘RomaInterbellum. Roma Civic Emancipation between the Two World Wars.’ The period between WWI and WWII in the region of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe was an era of worldwide significant changes, which marked the birth of the Roma civic emancipation movement and impacted
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Hungarian Gypsy Musician’s National Association: Battles Faced by Gypsy Musicians in Hungary during the Interwar Years Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Tamás Hajnáczky
The governments of the Horthy era did not formulate a central Gypsy policy and, consequently, the so-called ‘Gypsy issue’ fell fully into the hands of the assigned ministries and local authorities. The public authorities acted at their own discretion: Largely, they acted according to their basic tasks and understanding, or simply ignored the issue. As a result, the Ministry of the Interior and the
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A View of the Disaster and Victory from below: Serbian Roma Soldiers, 1912–1918 Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Danilo Šarenac
The Kingdom of Serbia fought in three consecutive conflicts between 1912 and 1918. These events merged into a devastating experience of an all-out war, completely reshaping all aspects of contemporary life. As the first centenary of these events has recently shown, the memories of wartime still play a very prominent role in the Serbian national narrative. By 1915 around 20% of Serbian combatants belonged
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‘The Books to the Illiterate?’: Romani Publishing Activities in the Soviet Union, 1927–1938 Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Viktor Shapoval
As one of the projects of the Soviet cultural revolution, the Gypsy project was notable for its unusual success in creating a new literary language and active book publishing. Among its achievements are both original fiction, textbooks and manuals in various fields of knowledge and technics. For instance, the elementary school was almost fully provided with necessary books in Romani. It is noteworthy
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Political Activity of Kwiek ‘Dynasty’ in the Second Polish Republic in the Years 1935–1939 Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Alicja Gontarek
The coronation of King Janusz Kwiek, which took place in 1937, was meant to integrate the Romani elite in the interwar sociopolitical life of Poland. Unfortunately, the creation of a homogeneous and centralized Romani representation through the royal institution ended in a fiasco. Firstly, the centralized model of power was in conflict with the Romani nomadic system in Poland, which was based on a
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Between Nationalism and Pragmatism: The Roma Movement in Interwar Romania Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Petre Matei
In the interwar period, for the first time in their history, Romanian Roma managed to organise themselves on a modern basis, by forming Roma associations and unions, and issuing their own newspapers and programmes. In an effort to define themselves, they became politically active, claiming and negotiating rights. In my article I analyse the context of the interwar Roma movement, how Roma leaders of
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From Christian Mission to Transnational Connections: Religious and Social Mobilisation among Roma in Finland Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Raluca Bianca Roman
Based on the analysis of archival material, and combined with ethnographic fieldwork conducted among the Finnish Kaale (the Finnish Romani population) since 2011, this article looks at the historical intertwining of Roma religious and social activism in Finland from the beginning of the 20th century. A focus is placed on the role of the Gypsy Mission (Mustalaislahetys), nowadays Romani Mission (Romano
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Images of Roma through the Language of Bulgarian State Archives Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Aleksandar G. Marinov
This research has been carried out as part of the RomaInterbellum Project which studies the Roma civic emancipation between World War I and World War II. Trawling through the Bulgarian archival documents on Roma in this time period, a reader cannot help but begin to form a certain image about the Tsigani, the term with which Roma have been popularly referred to in the archives. Unsurprisingly, this
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The Kalderash Gypsies of Russia in Industrial Cooperation of the 1920s–1930s Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Aleksandr V. Chernykh
At the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s, in line with the state economic policy of the time, which was aimed at industrialisation and cooperativisation, and also as part of the implementation of measures to promote a settled way of life for nomadic Gypsies, the Kalderash Gypsies became actively involved within cooperatives and started establishing artels (Gypsy production cooperatives)
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Effective Experiences: A Social Cognitive Analysis of Young Students’ Technology Self-Efficacy and STEM Attitudes Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-05-14 Kuo-Ting Huang, Christopher Ball, Shelia R. Cotten, LaToya O’Neal
The development of computer skills, as well as computer self-efficacy, has increased in importance along with the role of technology in everyday life. Childhood is a critical time for the development of these skills since early inequalities may substantially impact future life outcomes. In a context of a computing intervention designed to improve digital inclusion, we hypothesize that students’ enactive
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Technological Socialization and Digital Inclusion: Understanding Digital Literacy Biographies among Young People in Madrid Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-05-14 Daniel Calderón Gómez
The main goal of this article is to analyze young people’s technological socialization experiences to build a comprehensive model of the distinctive digital literacies interwoven with their biographies. Considering that digital accessibility is a necessary but not sufficient condition for inclusion, we identify which types of digital literacies are linked to the acquisition of digital competencies
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Fostering Digital Participation for People with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Caregivers: Towards a Guideline for Designing Education Programs Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-05-14 Vanessa N. Heitplatz
In Germany, libraries or public training centers offer education programs for different target groups to foster digital participation. Yet, those programs often do not meet the requirements of people with intellectual disabilities, their formal caregivers or social institutions. A high degree of personal and organizational effort, lack of caregivers’ knowledge and expenditure of time materialize as
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Configuring the Older Non-User: Between Research, Policy and Practice of Digital Exclusion Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-05-14 Vera Gallistl, Rebekka Rohner, Alexander Seifert, Anna Wanka
Older adults face significant barriers when accessing the Internet. What can be done to address these barriers? This article analyses existing strategies to tackle the age-related digital divide on three different levels: research, policy and practice. It analyses (1) scientific conceptualisations that are used when studying Internet use and non-use in later life, (2) policies that address older adults’
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A New Player for Tackling Inequalities? Framing the Social Value and Impact of the Maker Movement Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-05-14 Elisabeth Unterfrauner, Margit Hofer, Bastian Pelka, Marthe Zirngiebl
The Maker Movement has raised great expectations towards its potential for tackling social inequalities by mediating technology-related skills to everybody. Are maker spaces new players for social inclusion in digital societies? How can this potential impact be framed? While scientific discourse has so far identified broad value and impact dimensions of the Maker Movement, this article adds empirical
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Social Support for Digital Inclusion: Towards a Typology of Social Support Patterns Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-05-14 Axelle Asmar, Leo Van Audenhove, Ilse Mariën
This article contributes to a better understanding of patterns of social support in relation to digital inequalities. Based on an extensive qualitative study, the diversity of support networks and supports seeking patterns are unveiled. A typology of six patterns of help-seeking is presented and described: the support-deprived, the community-supported, the supported through substitution, the network-supported
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Implications of Digital Inclusion: Digitalization in Terms of Time Use from a Gender Perspective Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-05-14 Lidia Arroyo
The implications of digital technologies for the transformation of gender relations and identities have been discussed since the early days of the internet. Although gender studies have identified clear gender gaps in terms of digital inclusion as well as potentialities for the transformation of women’s subjectivity, there is a lack of empirical evidence of the impact of digitalization in terms of
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Digital Inclusion as a Core Component of Social Inclusion Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-05-14 Bianca Reisdorf, Colin Rhinesmith
There is a large body of research that has examined digital inequities, inequalities, and divides—i.e., those countries, communities, and individuals digitally left behind or disadvantaged. Whereas we know quite a lot about what is lacking and for whom, there is less focus on what works to alleviate these inequalities and divides in a variety of cultural contexts. This thematic issue brings together
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Digital Inclusion Across the Americas and Caribbean Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-05-14 Laura Robinson, Jeremy Schulz, Matías Dodel, Teresa Correa, Eduardo Villanueva-Mansilla, Sayonara Leal, Claudia Magallanes-Blanco, Leandro Rodriguez-Medina, Hopeton S. Dunn, Lloyd Levine, Rob McMahon, Aneka Khilnani
This research brings together digital inequality scholars from across the Americas and Caribbean to examine efforts to tackle digital inequality in Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, the United States, and Canada. As the case studies show, governmental policy has an important role to play in reducing digital disparities, particularly for potential users in rural or remote areas, as
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Digital Literacy Key Performance Indicators for Sustainable Development Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-05-14 Danica Radovanović, Christine Holst, Sarbani Banerjee Belur, Ritu Srivastava, Georges Vivien Houngbonon, Erwan Le Quentrec, Josephine Miliza, Andrea S. Winkler, Josef Noll
The concept of digital literacy has been defined in numerous ways over the last two decades to incorporate rapid technological changes, its versatility, and to bridge the global digital divide. Most approaches have been technology-centric with an inherent assumption of cultural and political neutrality of new media technologies. There are multiple hurdles in every stage of digital literacy implementation
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Boundary Spanning and Reconstitution in Migration Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Anya Ahmed
The focus of this thematic issue is on migrants’ experiences of belonging and non-belonging, and how communities are constructed in the destination country. It includes a group of international scholars across disciplines who are studying migration in a range of different contexts. Migration spans multiple disciplines and encompasses a variety of epistemological, ontological and methodological orientations
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Managing Multiplicity: Adult Children of Post-Independence Nigerians and Belonging in Britain Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Julie Botticello
Migration remains a contentious and divisive topic, particularly with the rise of xenophobia and far right ideologies, which seek to demonize migrants as neither belonging nor welcome in the host society. This reduction leaves the realities of postcolonial migrants as misunderstood and misrepresented. Particularly misunderstood are the children of post-colonial migrants, who were born and raised in
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The Great Secession: Ethno-National Rebirth and the Politics of Turkish–German Belonging Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Özgür Özvatan
Germany is facing a contemporary mainstreaming of the far right, which has a long tradition of wanting “Turks out!” Turkish immigrants have been the main strangers in Germany following the guest-worker treaty signed in 1961, physically close as friends, yet culturally distant as foes. From September 2015 onwards, German–Turkish politics of belonging, the Turkish issue, underwent a contentious period
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“Home Is Where I Spend My Money”: Testing the Remittance Decay Hypothesis with Ethnographic Data from an Austrian-Turkish Community Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Silke Meyer
Remittances—money sent back by migrants to their place of origin—are considered to be both economic and social practices mapping out a transnational space of migration. By sending and receiving money, objects, ideas, and social norms, migrants and non-migrants strengthen their social ties and express their multiple belongings. Remittances can thus be read as a practice of multi-local participation
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Beyond Legal Status: Exploring Dimensions of Belonging among Forced Migrants in Istanbul and Vienna Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Susan Beth Rottmann, Ivan Josipovic, Ursula Reeger
Migrants with precarious legal statuses experience significant structural exclusion from their host nations but may still feel partial belonging. This article explores two dimensions potentially relevant for this group’s sense of belonging: city-level opportunity structures and public political discourses. Specifically, we examine perceptions of belonging among forced migrants with similarly precarious
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Transnationalism and Belonging: The Case of Moroccan Entrepreneurs in Amsterdam and Milan Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Giacomo Solano, Raffaele Vacca, Matteo Gagliolo, Dirk Jacobs
Research on migrant transnationalism has mostly focused on particular transnational activities, their salience in various contexts and populations, and their relationship with migrant incorporation. Less attention has been paid to the interplay between the different domains of transnationalism (economic, political, and socio-relational) and to the way in which they affect migrants’ identity. This study
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Socio-Economic Participation of Somali Refugees in the Netherlands, Transnational Networks and Boundary Spanning Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Ilse Van Liempt, Gery Nijenhuis
In this article we analyse the socio-economic participation of Somali refugees in the Netherlands. Unemployment is higher among Somalis than any other refugee or immigrant group in the Netherlands and they face many obstacles when it comes to social and economic participation. At the same time, they are known for having a strong transnational orientation. We were interested to learn whether and, if
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How the Architecture of Housing Blocks Amplifies or Dampens Interethnic Tensions in Ethnically Diverse Neighbourhoods Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Maurice Crul, Carl H. D. Steinmetz, Frans Lelie
This article explores how the architecture of neighbourhoods influences interethnic tensions in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods. We found that people of Dutch descent living in apartments in four storey walk-ups in ethnically diverse innercity neighbourhoods seem less likely to feel threatened by ethnic diversity than people living in in similarly diverse suburbs characterized by larger housing blocks
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Institutions of Inclusion and Exclusion Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-03-20 J. Cok Vrooman, Marcel Coenders
This thematic issue aims to shed light on the connections between institutions (and related forms of organisation) and social inclusion and exclusion. In this editorial we briefly introduce the concepts, summarise the various articles and provide some general conclusions.
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Meeting Boundaries: Exploring the Faces of Social Inclusion beyond Mental Health Systems Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Carole Heather Walker, Sophie Thunus
This article examines social inclusion in the context of the deinstitutionalisation of mental health care. It draws on a scientific evaluation of the Belgian reform of mental health care (2010), designed to assess the influence of organisational mechanisms on the social and care trajectories of service users. The findings highlight the ongoing challenge for mental health systems to support the inclusion
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Mutuals on the Move: Exclusion Processes in the Welfare State and the Rediscovery of Mutualism Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Eva Vriens, Tine De Moor
Declining welfare states and increasing privatization of the insurance sector are leaving an increasing number of people, particularly in Europe, without insurance. In many countries, new initiatives like Friendsurance (Germany), Broodfonds (the Netherlands), and Lemonade (US) have emerged to fill this gap. These initiatives, sometimes called peer-to-peer insurance, aim to make insurance fair, transparent
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Factors Influencing the Ability to Achieve Valued Outcomes among Older Long-Term Unemployed People Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Nienke Velterop, Jac Van der Klink, Sandra Brouwer, Hilbrand Oldenhuis, Louis Polstra
This qualitative study aims to explore the valuable functionings—things that people consider to be important—of the older long-term unemployed and their ability to achieve valued outcomes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 long-term unemployed people aged 45 and over. Participants were included through purposeful sampling. The theoretical frameworks of the latent deprivation theory
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Enforcing Your Own Human Rights? The Role of Social Norms in Compliance with Human Rights Treaties Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Violet Benneker, Klarita Gërxhani, Stephanie Steinmetz
Although scholars are increasingly able to explain why states (do not) comply with human rights treaties, the role of social norms in compliance has been neglected. This is remarkable because human rights often directly address social norms. Our study aims to contribute to the existing literature by providing quantitative and qualitative evidence on the relationship between citizens’ social norms and
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Universalism in Welfare Policy: The Swedish Case beyond 1990 Social Inclusion (IF 1.297) Pub Date : 2020-03-18 Paula Blomqvist, Joakim Palme
Despite its broad usage, universalism as a concept is not always clearly defined. In this article, a multidimensional definition of universalism in social policy is developed, based on four policy characteristics: inclusion, financing, provision, and the adequacy of benefits. In the empirical part of the article, the feasibility of this definition is tested by an analysis of recent changes in the Swedish
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