scholarly journals Migration, Boundaries and Differentiated Citizenship: Contested Frameworks for Inclusion and Exclusion

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Wotherspoon
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Citizenship Regimes ◽  
Differential Categories

Contemporary migration across borders is beset by contradictory pressures and challenges. Some borders remain relatively open, especially for potential immigrants with valued skills and assets or for humanitarian reasons, but in many other cases borders are becoming increasingly more regulated or impermeable. The differential capacities for mobility that accompany these developments are contributing to new categories and hierarchies of citizenship and belonging which are being shaped by and exacerbate significant social, economic and political inequalities. This editorial highlights core relationships that have emerged in the process of regulating geographical and social boundaries in different national contexts, focusing on the intersections between dynamics of social inclusion and exclusion and the construction of differential categories of citizenship. The editorial establishes a framework for the articles that follow in this thematic issue, emphasizing the contested, fragmented, variable and highly uneven nature of borders and citizenship regimes.

scholarly journals Inclusive Universities in a Globalized World

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Liudvika Leišytė ◽  
Rosemary Deem ◽  
Charikleia Tzanakou
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Theoretical Thinking ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Country Specific

This thematic issue of Social Inclusion focuses on universities as inclusive organisations in a variety of different countries and higher education (HE) systems. It explores how these institutions aim, succeed or fail to become inclusive organisations, what policies and processes help achieve these goals and how academics and students can become agents of change through inclusive teaching and research cultures. The contributions in this thematic issue point to the multi‐level as well as multi‐faceted challenges and characteristics of inclusion in HE in general and in universities in particular, based on both student and academic points of view. They offer innovative conceptual ways of thinking as well as measuring inclusion. Further, they point out the importance of context in understanding the challenges of achieving equality and inclusion in universities through country‐specific as well as cross‐country comparisons of various aspects of diversity and inclusivity. We hope this thematic issue will inspire theoretical thinking, support practitioners and encourage policy‐making about more responsible ways of defining and fostering inclusive universities in a globalised world.

scholarly journals Institutions of Inclusion and Exclusion

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-183
Author(s):  
J. Cok Vrooman ◽  
Marcel Coenders
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Shed Light

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.

scholarly journals 3rd ICTs and Society Meeting; Paper Session - Inequalities: social, economic, political; Paper 1: Information Society Policies 2.0. A Critical Analysis of the Potential and Pit-falls of Social Computing & Informatics in the Light of E-inclusion

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter Verdegem
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Computing ◽  
Paper Session ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Society Meeting

In this paper we reflect on how research and policies can and/or should help in the development of a sustainable information society for all. More specifically, we critically investigate how social computing & informatics can entail both potential and pitfalls, especially with regard to the difficult relationship between digital and social inclusion. First of all, traditional information society policies are scrutinized. Furthermore, we point at the existence of digital inequalities and we reflect briefly on policy intervention on this (e-inclusion). In addition, we also evaluate the raise of social computing & informatics. Finally, attention is given to the challenge of how research can contribute to the participation of all in the information society.

Using Social Quality as a Framework for Analyzing Social Development in Taiwan

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Lih-Rong Lillian Wang ◽  
Yun-Tung Wang ◽  
Peishan Yung
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Social Quality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Quality Framework ◽  
Social Empowerment

This study applies social quality framework to analyze the current social development of Taiwan by utilizing governmental database as secondary dataset and using meta-analysis as further check in data collection. This study found that the social development of current Taiwan society basically keeps progressing along with requirements and indicators of social quality. Among them, Taiwan’s performance of social development in dimension of social economic security goes best. And in social inclusion and social empowerment dimensions, the indicators obviously show much progressive. However, the biggest room for further improvement and development is in social cohesion.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Nicole Carpentieri ◽  
Carol Symes
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Written Responses

The seven articles in this thematic issue address written responses to different periods of turmoil that impacted Muslim and Christian societies in the western Mediterranean from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries. By highlighting the complexities of the literary artifacts produced in Sicily, al-Andalus, and North Africa, it offers new perspectives on the interactions between Islam and Christendom at a time of traumatic transition from one political and religious hegemony to another, as reflected in a variety of genres: apologetic and hagio-graphical works, interreligious polemics, military and diplomatic dispatches, historiography, travel narratives, and romance. These analyses reveal a cultural panorama in which "internal otherness" and religious rivalry are both generative forces within a Mediterranean of fungible linguistic and social boundaries, where traditional genres are inflected and re-invented and new vernacular forms arise from multicultural and multi-confessional encounters.

The Rural-Urban Interface: New Patterns of Spatial Interdependence and Inequality in America

2017 ◽  
Vol 672 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel T. Lichter ◽  
James P. Ziliak
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Spatial Inequality ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Geographic Disparities ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Institutional Forces ◽  
Urban People

America’s rural-urban divide seemingly has never been greater, a point reinforced by large geographic disparities in support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. But it is also the case that big cities and rural communities are more tightly integrated than ever and are increasingly interdependent, both economically and socially. This new rural-urban interface is highlighted in this collection of articles, which are organized and developed around the general concept of changing symbolic and social boundaries. Rural-urban boundaries—how rural and urban people and places are defined and evaluated—reflect and reinforce institutional forces that maintain spatial inequality and existing social, economic, and political hierarchies. This volume makes clear that rural-urban boundaries are highly fluid and that this should be better reflected in research programs, in the topics that we choose to study, and in the way that public policy is implemented.

scholarly journals PROFESSIONAL MASTER AND ITS CHALLENGES

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Lydia Masako Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
The Other ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Evaluation Form ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Intellectual Production

Objective: To describe the history, origin, objectives, characteristics, implications, the questions of the evaluation form and some examples of the Professional Masters (MP), to differentiate the Academic Master, and identify the challenges for the next quadrennial assessment. Methods: The CAPES site on Professional Masters and documents and meeting area of reports from 2004 to 2013 of Medicine III were read as well as the reports and the sub-page of the area in Capes site. The data relating to the evaluation process and the Scoreboard of the other areas were computed and analyzed. From these data it was detected the challenges of Medicine III for the next four years (2013-2016). Results: The creation of the Professional Master is very recent in Medicine III and no Professional Master of Medicine III course was evaluated yet. Were described the objectives, assumptions, characteristics, motivations, the possibilities, the feasibility, the profile of the students, the faculty, the curriculum, funding, intellectual production, social inclusion, the general requirements of Ordinance No. 193/2011 CAPES and some examples of proposals, technological lines of scientific activities, partnerships and counterparties. The evaluation form of the MP was discussed, the need for social, economic and political intellectual production and the differences with the MA. It was also reported the global importance of the MP and its evolution in Brazil. From the understanding of the MP, Medicine III outlined some challenges and goals to be developed in the 2013-2016 quadrennium. Conclusion: Medicine III understood the MP as a new technological scientific horizon within the strict sensu post-graduate and full consistency with the area.

scholarly journals Migrant Capital as a Resource for Migrant Communities

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 164-170
Author(s):  
Sanna Saksela-Bergholm ◽  
Mari Toivanen ◽  
Östen Wahlbeck
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
Transnational Migrants

This thematic issue explores the processes and dynamics involved in how different forms of migrant capital are employed and how these relate to processes of social inclusion. Leaning on a Bourdieusian approach, we wish to move beyond existing descriptive studies and theorise the role migration plays in the accumulation, conversion and utilisation of various forms of capital by migrant communities and their members. The articles demonstrate how migrant capital can function as a resource created by migrants during the migration process, or as an outcome of it, and are potentially available to their family members. The articles illustrate via case studies from different national contexts how transnational migrants or members of migrant communities create, accumulate and employ diverse forms of capital in their efforts to achieve inclusion in destination and sending societies.

scholarly journals 3rd ICTs and Society Meeting; Paper Session - Inequalities: social, economic, political; Paper 1: Information Society Policies 2.0. A Critical Analysis of the Potential and Pit-falls of Social Computing & Informatics in the Light of E-inclusion

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter Verdegem
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Computing ◽  
Paper Session ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Society Meeting

In this paper we reflect on how research and policies can and/or should help in the development of a sustainable information society for all. More specifically, we critically investigate how social computing & informatics can entail both potential and pitfalls, especially with regard to the difficult relationship between digital and social inclusion. First of all, traditional information society policies are scrutinized. Furthermore, we point at the existence of digital inequalities and we reflect briefly on policy intervention on this (e-inclusion). In addition, we also evaluate the raise of social computing & informatics. Finally, attention is given to the challenge of how research can contribute to the participation of all in the information society.

scholarly journals Digital Inclusion as a Core Component of Social Inclusion

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Reisdorf ◽  
Colin Rhinesmith
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Core Component ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
What Works ◽  
Different Types

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 scholarship on digital inclusion initiatives and research from over 20 countries and in the context of numerous aspects, including different types of initiatives as well as different types of target audiences for these initiatives. Each article provides unique insights into what does and does not work in various communities, making recommendations on what could be done to improve the examined initiatives. We hope that the breadth and depth of articles presented here will be useful not just for academic audiences seeking to broaden their understanding of digital inclusion and ‘what can be done’ rather than focusing on ‘what is amiss,’ but also for policymakers and digital inclusion initiatives who are eager to expand and advance their digital inclusion work within their communities.

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