scholarly journals Ambiguous agency in the vulnerable trafficked body: reading Sanusi’s Eyo and Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
Dina Ligaga
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
African Women ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Face ◽  
African Migrant ◽  
Sex Slave

The narrativization of the trafficked body in the novels of Abidemi Sanusi and Chika Unigwe allows for a contemplation of Europe in African migrant imaginaries as both promise and failure. Sanusi’s Eyo is a narrative of a ten-year-old girl who is trafficked to the United Kingdom as a human sex slave. The novel draws attention to the tensions that define her being/unbeing in Europe and beyond, even after a brave escape from her traffickers. This precarious existence is enhanced in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street, whose main characters exist in Europe selling their bodies while existing in states of continuous vulnerability. In reading these two novels side by side, this article explores the discursive meanings of trafficked bodies and how traumatic existence allows for an engagement with Europe as illusory in the imaginaries of African women who cross borders into Europe. The article argues that while the female characters are vulnerable, they retain an ambiguous agency contained within their ability to survive and remain resilient in the face of atrocities for borders crossers. The narrative form of the novel allows for an exploration of what this agency looks like in the face of extreme vulnerability.

scholarly journals Culture Shock and Job Expectations Adjustment among Nigerian Self-Initiated Expatriates in the United Kingdom

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Oluwadare, Sunday Victor
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Culture Shock ◽  
Cultural Adjustment ◽  
Job Dissatisfaction ◽  
Thick Description ◽  
Job Expectations ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose: A great number of people in the world today, live and work outside the shores of their nations of origin. It is imperative to investigate how they are faring in the face of job satisfaction/dissatisfaction and the divergent cultural environment of their sojourn in order to correctly harness their inter-cultural usefulness across the globe. This research investigated the factors that influenced the relocation of Nigerians to the United Kingdom and sustained them there, in spite of their job experiences and culture shock.Methodology/Approach: Methodology triangulation of both questionnaire survey on seventy-six participants and six in-depth interviews was employed. Reflexivity, thick description and grounded theory were the approaches engaged in the data analysis and Interpretation of results.Findings: The findings revealed that multiple reasons like education, economic, socio-political and personal, are ‘pushing’ Nigerians from home and ‘pulling’ them to the United Kingdom. It was also discovered that the Nigerians in the United Kingdom, are experiencing different forms of job dissatisfaction and culture shock but for some salient reasons, they adjust fairly well to the environment.Keywords: Self-initiated expatriates, job expectations, culture shock, and socio-cultural adjustment.

Belonging

2018 ◽  
pp. 57-80
Author(s):  
Mary Gilmartin ◽  
Patricia Burke Wood ◽  
Cian O’Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

This chapter discusses the issue of belonging. It first focuses on citizenship, which is often described as formal belonging. While citizenship is regularly framed as ‘natural’ and ‘common sense’, it is argued that it is never fully stable or secure. This is shown in practice through the example of the United Kingdom and Ireland, specifically, how the Brexit vote has had knock-on consequences for how citizenship and belonging is being re-imagined in both places. This is contrasted with the practice of citizenship in the United States, where, despite effusive expressions of unity, articulations of belonging have a deep history of division and exclusion. It considers both the barriers to formal belonging experienced by undocumented residents of the United States and the ways in which citizens themselves struggle to achieve inclusion and equality in the face of increasingly explicit intolerance.

scholarly journals Mapping, Assessing and Improving Legal Preparedness for Pandemic Flu in the United Kingdom

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme T. Laurie ◽  
Kathryn G. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The Face ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
Pandemic Flu ◽  
The Uk

This article assesses the legal framework within which responses are deployed in the United Kingdom in the face of a pandemic such as the current H1N1 crisis or some other public health emergency. It begins with an account of the importance of legal preparedness as an essential feature of public health preparedness. It moves to an outline of the key legal provisions and parameters which provide the architecture for the existing framework in the UK, both domestically and internationally; thereafter, it identifies relevant factors that can be used to assess the efficacy of current legal preparedness, drawing on comparative experiences. Finally, it offers recommendations on how legal preparedness could be improved within the United Kingdom and in line with international obligations.

scholarly journals International mental health outcomes and benchmarking using the FACE approach

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Elzinga ◽  
Fiona Meredith & Paul Clifford
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
Care Plan ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Similar Treatment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
The Face

This article describes and compares the nature and severity of problems encountered by persons receiving mental healthservices in the United Kingdom and Australia, and the outcome of their treatment. The perspective of service providersand service users in the two countries was strikingly similar. Treatment was effective in alleviating problems withsocial circumstances, and in increasing adaptive and interpersonal functioning. Treatment was less effective inaddressing psychological or physical problems. Service users in the United Kingdom were more involved in developingtheir treatment care plan than those in Australia. The study demonstrates how data required for benchmarking andoutcome evaluation purposes can be generated as part of routine clinical processes.

scholarly journals Did Social Connection Decline During the First Wave of COVID-19?: The Role of Extraversion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunigan Parker Folk ◽  
Karynna Okabe-Miyamoto ◽  
Elizabeth Warren Dunn ◽  
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Connection ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Face ◽  
Negative Effect

In two pre-registered studies, we tracked changes in individuals’ feelings of social connection during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both studies capitalized on measures of social connection and well-being obtained prior to the COVID-19 pandemic by recruiting the same participants again in the midst of the pandemic’s upending effects. Study 1 included a sample of undergraduates from a Canadian university (N = 467), and Study 2 included community adults primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom (N = 336). Our results suggest that people experienced relatively little change in feelings of social connection in the face of the initial reshaping of their social lives caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploratory analyses suggested that relatively extraverted individuals exhibited larger declines in social connection. However, after controlling for levels of social connection prior to the pandemic (as pre-registered), the negative effect of extraversion reversed (Study 1) or disappeared (Study 2).

scholarly journals The Private Fund Limited Partnership: a new fund vehicle for the UK

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-78
Author(s):  
Sally Gibson ◽  
Geoffrey Kittredge ◽  
Simon Witney
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Global Fund ◽  
Investment Management ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Limited Partnership ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk

Purpose To explain the UK government’s long-awaited reforms to limited partnership law. Design/methodology/approach This article discusses the key updates to limited partnership law in the UK that the reforms represent and draws some conclusions as to what may lay ahead. Findings The article concludes that the new regime is a welcome step and one that should help the United Kingdom to remain competitive as a jurisdiction for global fund formation in the face of competition from other jurisdictions. Originality/value This article contains key details on the new limited partnership regime in the UK and guidance from experienced lawyers with specialties in investment management and public and private funds.

scholarly journals “The Mosques Are the Biggest Problem We’ve Got Right Now”: Key Agent and Survivor Accounts of Engaging Mosques With Domestic and Honor-Based Violence in the United Kingdom

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (13-14) ◽  
pp. 2464-2491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mazher Idriss
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Face ◽  
Large Congregations ◽  
Worrying Trend

This article considers the role of mosques in addressing domestic violence (DV) and honor-based violence (HBV) in the United Kingdom. Utilizing data extracted from interviews with 38 key agents and survivors, this article will highlight that some mosques can be difficult to engage with when attempting to raise awareness on violence against women (VAW). Participants explained that the patriarchal nature of mosques contributes to this difficulty together with their exclusion of women within organizational structures. Some mosques also deny that VAW is even a problem within their communities. This is a worrying trend as those on the pulpit often possess significant powers of influence across large congregations and are perfectly placed to help provoke dialogue on these issues. Furthermore, it adds yet another layer of inequality experienced by Muslim women that makes reporting abuse and seeking intervention that much more difficult. In the face of this resistance, this article will consider some ways in which mosques can raise awareness about VAW and where Muslim women can access support. It will also explore additional strategies and recommendations in relation to overcoming mosques unwilling to support VAW initiatives.

scholarly journals Continuing Education through COVID-19 Crisis in the United Kingdom: A Swiss Trainee Abroad

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. e25-e29
Author(s):  
Alicja Zientara
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Surgery ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Swiss Society ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Cardiac Surgeon ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

AbstractThe work has been awarded in July 2020 with the “Special Swiss Young Cardiac Surgeon Award 2020” by the Swiss Society of Cardiac Surgery (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Herz- und thorakale Gefässchirurgie [SGHC-SSCC]) and reflects a personal perspective from a Swiss trainee experiencing the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic during her fellowship in London.

scholarly journals Patriarchal Oppression and Women Empowerment in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Tifanny Astrick
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
African Women ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Made In

This study examines how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus interrogates the oppressions of women in the Nigerian patriarchal society and how women empower each other lead them to women empowerment. The study shows how the oppressions of women is represented through female characters which perpetually put women in disadvantaged positions as portrayed in Purple Hibiscus. One of the most despicable oppression among the so well-known cultural practices in Nigeria is the patriarchal oppression. However, as the events unfold, efforts will be made in order to reveal of how African women are rated based on the good and real women as represented by Beatrice and Ifeoma. I argue that Adichie's approach to subvert patriarchal oppression describes that despite the struggle and pain, women assert themselves in the world of patriarchy through education and sisterhood. Adichie’s novel suggests women empowerment through social transformation confronted by women. The title of the novel, "Purple Hibiscus" may refer to a particular type of flower, but it also emphasizes the triumph of the innovative suggesting that the unusual is not necessarily bad as it looks which aims to women empowerment.

scholarly journals THE ANOMALY OF CONTEMPT IN THE FACE OF THE COURT RECORD

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Halili Hassan ◽  
A. Vijayalakshmi Venugopal
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Other ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Court Record ◽  
The Face

Categories and forms of contempt of court are not closed, whereby, judges have the discretion to use this power when they deem appropriate. However, there are a number of traditional categories that have been created and used by the courts in Malaysia and the United Kingdom. Contempt in the face of the court record has not been a traditional category of contempt in either country, and, thus far, has only been recognised in Malaysia in one case. The aims of this paper are to consider what the scope of contempt in the face of the court record is, when it should apply and whether this category is clearly distinct from the other existing categories of contempt of court. It is suggested that it may not have been necessary to create the category of contempt in the face of the court record as there appears to be an overlap between this category and the other categories of contempt of court. Keywords: contempt of court, contempt in the face of the court record.

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