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The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India's migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour, migration, and gender that were thrown up as a result of this forced migration. The book examines the failings of the public health systems and the state response to address the humanitarian crisis which unfolded in the middle of the pandemic. It highlights how the pandemic-lockdown disproportionately affected marginalised social groups - Dalits and the Adivasi communities, women and Muslim workers. The book reflects on the socio-economic vulnerabilities of migrant workers, their rights to dignity, questions around citizenship, and the need for robust systems of democratic and constitutional accountability. The chapters also critically look at the gendered vulnerabilities of women and non-cis persons in both public and private spaces, the exacerbation of social stratification and prejudices, incidents of intimidation by the administration and the police forces, and proposed labour reforms which might create greater insecurities for migrant workers. This important and timely book will be of great interest to researchers and students of sociology, public policy, development studies, gender studies, labour and economics, and law.
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The public culture of the receiving society and the dominant understanding of belonging and political membership can influence the social participation of immigrants as much as immigration law. However, current discussions of integration focus primarily on the distribution of rights and neglect the role of tacit knowledge. Through a systematical and philosophical analysis of identity's role in policy-making, governance and social practice, Bodi Wang shows how a one-sided understanding of integration resembles 'assimilation' and why integration should be expected from locals as well. Weaving together extensive findings in sociology, history, critical race theory and Chinese philosophy with ethics and migration studies, this book provides a compelling argument for adopting the concept of 'mutual integration' to overcome injustice and to enhance social solidarity.
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"This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flexed on the global stage. Through a fascinating combination of ethnographic research across seven US states and the application of postcolonial, anti-racist, feminist and poststructuralist theories, Land, God, and Guns reveals how time-honoured rites of passage associated with taken-for-granted notions of manhood in the American Heartland are constitutive of a constellation of colonial worldviews, capitalist logics, gender essentialisms, ethnocentric religious beliefs, jingoistic populism, racial animus, and embodied violence. A constellation that, within the US, upholds a heteropatriarchal and racist ordering of life that both privileges and ultimately damages its main proliferators ? white settler men. This is a detailed work that at once unravels rural white settler masculinity and the US state at their roots, whilst demonstrating why any analysis of the cultural production and social practice of masculinity in the United States must take into account the country's historical trajectories of imperialism, land dispossession, nation-state building, enslavement, extractive accumulation and valorisation of masculinist assertions of dominance."-- Provided by publisher.
Marginality, Social. --- Marginality, Social --- Religious aspects.
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Obra voltada para aqueles que estão realmente empenhados em solucionar, na teoria e na prática, os problemas da exclusão social institucionalizada. Ao voltar-se para a realidade dos moradores de rua, a autora fala e escuta. Fala quando busca, em alicerces teóricos, as causas e definições para a exclusão social. Escuta quando abre espaço, em seu trabalho, para as declarações daqueles que não 'têm um lugar no mundo'. O resultado é um relato sensível, por vezes impressionante, de um dos fenômenos mais cruéis da atualidade. Torna-se, deste modo, reflexão, avaliação e alerta: até quando seremos cúmplices na fabricação de excluídos da condição de cidadãos?
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"In the postmodern era, when the interface of bodies, biologies and technologies increasingly challenges the very notion of what counts as human, Margrit Shildrick proposes new understandings of the limits and possible extensions of posthuman embodiment. Focusing on prostheses, Shildrick broadens our understanding of both what prostheses are and what they might mean for human embodiment. As well as rehabilitation devices used by disabled people to replace or augment impaired parts of the body, Shildrick introduces visceral organic prostheses, which involve any cellular material that cannot be identified with the self, from organ transplantation to the physiological processes of microchimerism and the microbiome. Beyond origin narratives that concentrate on 'host' and 'guest' and 'self' and 'other', she examines the transformative possibilities that prostheses offer as they extend the nature of the embodied self beyond genetic singularity. Building on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in critical disability studies, transplantation studies, and bioscience, Visceral Prostheses argues that bodies with prostheses in whatever form should no longer be understood as irregular forms of normative embodiment, but as limit cases of a common experience. In doing so, it challenges the western understanding of the singular self and welcomes a new understanding of the human."--
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Le petit peuple est le mal-aimé de l'histoire, soit que l'historiographie lui préfère les élites à qui profite leur propre discours, soit qu'elle le pousse en ses marges jusqu'à donner à ce très grand nombre la figure de l'exclu, soit qu'elle le qualifie de pauvre pour en faire un intermédiaire privilégié entre Dieu et les hommes. Pourtant le petit peuple existe au sein même du commun, et il se nourrit autant de la faiblesse de ses revenus, de ses souffrances et de ses aspirations que du jugement que portent sur lui les autres membres du corps social. Ces quarante-huit communications ont donc eu à cœur de cerner le vocabulaire complexe qui désigne le petit peuple au Moyen Âge, de décliner les perceptions d'une réalité sociale qui, loin d'être lisse, laisse apercevoir des strates internes, juridiques, économiques, culturelles, n'excluant ni des pratiques communes, ni la possibilité d'ascensions sociales, ni une certaine liberté. Elles se veulent un bilan sur les recherches en cours et une ouverture pour une histoire qui ne réduise pas la société médiévale à ses élites ou à ses marges. Si le pouvoir a été confisqué au petit peuple, sa capacité d'agir et de participer à l'équilibre social n'en demeure pas moins vivante. De ce livre, notre vision du petit peuple de l'Occident médiéval sort profondément renouvelée.
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This collection of thirteen essays examines sociolinguistic phenomena in a wide variety of marginal environments, providing both an overview of globalizaiton on the margins and a foundation for an expanded understanding of the processes of linguistic and cultural changes at work in these settings. Taking an expansive conceptual view of margins, the volume is organized in three parts, looking at examples of marginal spaces in the nation-state, in online environments, and in the peripheries of urban locations, globally to call attention to new and changing discursive genres, patterns, practices, and identities emerging in these spaces as a result of contemporary mobilities, the evolving global economy, and socio-political changes. With previous research previously confined to the study of globalization in urban areas, this volume opens the door for further research on the complex sociolinguistic processes resulting from globalization on the margins, making this an ideal resource for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, globalization and heritage studies, new media, anthropology, and cultural studies.
Linguistic minorities. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Marginality, Social.
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In addition to contributions from research and development, the focus is on comparative country studies and current issues of digitisation in the context of inclusion. Furthermore, the volume also presents informative short contributions or profiles of current projects. Through this joint national and international The aim of this joint national and international overview of findings and project resources is to strengthen the sustainability of knowledge and ensure its transfer from research to the respective fields of practice.
Inclusive education. --- Mainstreaming in education. --- Marginality, Social.
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Poverty --- Marginality, Social --- Latin America --- Pobreza --- Marginalidad social --- Social policy.
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Regional economics --- Marginality, Social --- Portugal --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions
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