scholarly journals LATIN AMERICAN, AFRICAN AND ASIAN IMMIGRANTS WORKING IN BRAZILIAN ORGANIZATIONS: FACING THE LANGUAGE BARRIER

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (55) ◽  
pp. 87-101
Author(s):  
Antonio Carvalho Neto ◽  
Fernanda Versiani ◽  
Kelly Pellizari ◽  
Carolina Mota-Santos ◽  
Gustavo Abreu
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Language Barrier ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
The South ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Hiring Process

Since 2010 around half a million immigrants entered Brazil. This paper aims to describe their experience facing the Portuguese language barrier in the Brazilian labor market. Language here is understood as spoken, written and body language. The South-to-South approach here proposed differs from most of the literature, based mainly on studies South-to-North oriented. During six field visits the research group observed the arrival in Brazil, the hiring process and the experience of 34 immigrants from Haiti, Bolivia, Venezuela, Angola, Nigeria, Togo, Iraq and Yemen working within ten Brazilian firms that hired them. Besides the observation technique, these immigrants, social workers, employers and Brazilian co-workers were interviewed. The employers emphasized the immigrants` enthusiasm, willingness to learn and dedication to work. The immigrants said they were well received and emphasized the use of Google Translator, mimicry and drawings to communicate. The employers said they used these same creative ways to teach the work activities to the immigrants as well as placing the immigrant next to another Brazilian worker who performed the same set of tasks so that the immigrant would learn by looking. Few complaints about lack of patience of Brazilian co-workers and lack of dedication of the immigrants to learn Portuguese were registered.

scholarly journals La plaza laboral como espacio de legitimación del sociólogo. Apuntes para el caso chileno

2017 ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Nicolás Gómez Núñez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
The South ◽  
Palabras Clave

ResumenLo que se encuentra bajo análisis es la estructura posible de las relaciones sociales que logran dotar de poder material y simbólico a los mecanismos de inclusión del sociólogo en el Mercado de Trabajo. El artículo fue presentado en el II Workshop sobre Dependencia Académica: “El desafío de construir Ciencias Sociales autónomas en el Sur”, organizado por la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo de la ciudad de Mendoza en Argentina, el Programa Sur-Sur del Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, SEPHIS, PIDAAL y SRIIRU, y que se realizó entre el 3 y 6 de noviembre de 2010.Palabras clave: Identidad Profesional, Mecanismos de Legitimación y Mercado LaboralAbstractWhat is under analysis here is the possible structure of social relationships that provide material and symbolic power to inclusive mechanisms of sociologists within the Labour Market. The article was presented at the Second Workshop on Academic dependence: “The challenge of building autonomous Social Sciences in the South”, organized by the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza in Argentina, the South-South Program of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, SEPHIS, PIDAAL and SRIIRU, which was conducted between the 3rd and 6th of November, 2010.Key words: Professional identity, Legitimating mechanisms and Labor Market

scholarly journals La plaza laboral como espacio de legitimación del sociólogo. Apuntes para el caso chileno

2017 ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Nicolás Gómez Núñez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
The South ◽  
Palabras Clave

ResumenLo que se encuentra bajo análisis es la estructura posible de las relaciones sociales que logran dotar de poder material y simbólico a los mecanismos de inclusión del sociólogo en el Mercado de Trabajo. El artículo fue presentado en el II Workshop sobre Dependencia Académica: “El desafío de construir Ciencias Sociales autónomas en el Sur”, organizado por la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo de la ciudad de Mendoza en Argentina, el Programa Sur-Sur del Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, SEPHIS, PIDAAL y SRIIRU, y que se realizó entre el 3 y 6 de noviembre de 2010.Palabras clave: Identidad Profesional, Mecanismos de Legitimación y Mercado LaboralAbstractWhat is under analysis here is the possible structure of social relationships that provide material and symbolic power to inclusive mechanisms of sociologists within the Labour Market. The article was presented at the Second Workshop on Academic dependence: “The challenge of building autonomous Social Sciences in the South”, organized by the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza in Argentina, the South-South Program of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, SEPHIS, PIDAAL and SRIIRU, which was conducted between the 3rd and 6th of November, 2010.Key words: Professional identity, Legitimating mechanisms and Labor Market

An Inter-American Episode

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Pablo Neruda ◽  
Jose Marti ◽  
The South ◽  
American Reader ◽  
The North ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
The Us

This chapter focuses on a paradigmatic misencounter between an American experiencer and a Latin American reader. Examining an implicit debate about the sources of Walt Whitman’s poetry and vision of the Americas, I argue that Waldo Frank, one of the twentieth century’s main literary ambassadors from the US to Latin America, positioned Whitman as the representative US writer whose antibookish experiential aesthetics could serve as a model for “American” writers both in the North and in the South. I show how Frank’s framework provided a foil for Borges’s idiosyncratic view that Whitman’s poetry about America derived entirely from his readings of European and US writers. Although much of the best scholarship on Whitman’s reception in Latin America has concentrated on poets like José Martí and Pablo Neruda, who adapted Whitman’s naturalism, I contend that Borges’s iconoclastic portrait of Whitman as a reader profoundly influenced a range of anti-experiential literary theories and practices in Latin America.

Postcolonialism, Decoloniality, and Epistemologies of the South

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
The Political ◽  
The South ◽  
Global Pattern ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
European Colonialism

Postcolonialism, decoloniality, and epistemologies of the South (ES) are three main ways of critically approaching the consequences of European colonialism in contemporary social, political, and cultural ways of thinking and acting. They converge in highlighting the unmeasurable sacrifice of human life; the expropriation of cultural and natural wealth; and the destruction, by suppressing, silencing, proscribing, or disfiguring, of non-European cultures and ways of knowing. The differences among them stem in part from the temporal and geographical contexts in which they emerged. Postcolonial studies emerged in the 1960s in the aftermath of the political independence of European colonies in Asia and Africa. They focused mainly on the economic, political, and cultural consequences of decolonization, highlighting the postindependence forms of economic dependence, political subordination, and cultural subalternization. They argue that while historical colonialism had ended (territorial occupation and ruling by a foreign country), colonialism continued under different guises. Decolonial studies emerged in the 1990s in Latin America. Since the political independence of the Latin American countries took place in the early 19th century, these analytical currents assumed that colonialism was over, but it had in fact been followed by coloniality, a global pattern of social interaction that inherited all the social and cultural corrosiveness of colonialism. Coloniality is conceived of as an all-encompassing racial understanding of social reality that permeates all realms of economic, social, political, and cultural life. Coloniality is the idea that whatever differs from the Eurocentric worldview is inferior, marginal, irrelevant, or dangerous. The ES, formulated in the 2000s, aim at naming and highlighting ancient and contemporary knowledges held by social groups as they resisted against modern Eurocentric domination. They conceive of modern science as a valid (and precious) type of knowledge but not as the only valid (and precious) type of knowledge; they insist on the possibility of interknowledge and intercultural translation. ES share with postcolonialism the idea that colonialism is not over. However, they insist that modern domination is constituted not only by colonialism but also by capitalism and patriarchy. Like decolonial studies, the ES denounce the cognitive and ontological destruction caused by coloniality, but they focus on the positiveness and creativity that emerge from knowledges born in struggle and on how they translate themselves into alternative ways of knowing and practicing self-determination.

scholarly journals Vulnerability of Latin American Migrant Families Headed by Women in Spain During the Great Recession: A Couple-Level Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-138
Author(s):  
Xiana Bueno ◽  
Elena Vidal-Coso
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Family Characteristics ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Job Segregation ◽  
Dual Earner ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Level Analysis ◽  
Emerging Pattern

One of the outcomes of the Great Recession has been the emerging pattern of households maintained exclusively by women. The analysis of intracouple characteristics is crucial in the context of job segregation by gender and by immigrant origin, such as in Spain. Using the panel version of the Spanish Labor Force Survey from 2008 to 2015, we analyze the transition of dual-earner couples to female-earner couples among Latin American and Spanish-born households. Our results suggest that migrant vulnerability is not only a consequence of a segregated labor market by gender and origin but is also the result of the partners’ relative occupational and family characteristics. We show that, unlike Spanish-born couples, the risk of Latin American families becoming female-headed is higher for those couples in which the female partner has the weakest position in the occupational scale and for those with children in the household.

scholarly journals Impacts of Labor Market Institutions and Demographic Factors on Labor Markets in Latin America

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (155) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Kugler
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Market Performance ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Labor Market Institutions ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Payroll Taxes ◽  
The Impact

This paper documents recent labor market performance in the Latin American region. The paper shows that unemployment, informality, and inequality have been falling over the past two decades, though still remain high. By contrast, productivity has remained stubbornly low. The paper, then, turns to the potential impacts of various labor market institutions, including employment protection legislation (EPL), minimum wages (MW), payroll taxes, unemployment insurance (UI) and collective bargaining, as well as the impacts of demographic changes on labor market performance. The paper relies on evidence from carefully conducted studies based on micro-data for countries in the region and for other countries with similar income levels to draw conclusions on the impact of labor market institutions and demographic factors on unemployment, informality, inequality and productivity. The decreases in unemployment and informality can be partly explained by the reduced strictness of EPL and payroll taxes, but also by the increased shares of more educated and older workers. By contrast, the fall in inequality starting in 2002 can be explained by a combination of binding MW throughout most of the region and, to a lesser extent, by the introduction of UI systems in some countries and the role of unions in countries with moderate unionization rates. Falling inequality can also be explained by the fall in the returns to skill associated with increased share of more educated and older workers.

scholarly journals Reflections on an Immersive Virtual Reality Exhibition

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-148
Author(s):  
Pablo Gobira ◽  
Antônio Mozelli
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Exhibition Design ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Immersive Virtual Reality ◽  
Digital Arts

This paper aims to report the experience and challenges of the research group Laboratory of Front Poetics (LabFront, CNPq/UEMG) in exhibiting an immersive virtual reality installation during events and festivals of digital arts in Brazil. In this article, questions are raised regarding traditional exhibition processes and those where digital technologies are used. Although our focus is on the Brazilian context, similar difficulties and problems in exhibition design can be seen in other places, such as Latin American and European countries. We will base the discussion on our experience of exhibiting Olhe para você (2016) [Look at yourself], an immersive virtual reality work developed by one of the teams of the research group LabFront.

scholarly journals Silicon Valley in the South

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 744-762
Author(s):  
MITSUHIRO KAGAMI ◽  
AKIFUMI KUCHIKI
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Brand Names ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
The South ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Production Platform ◽  
It Revolution

ABSTRACT New trends are now taking place within manufacturing industries led by multi-national corporations (MNCs). Globalization and liberalization together with the information technology (IT) revolution has accelerated “fables” industry in the network economy, i.e. outsourcing production processes and global parts procurement by MNCs. As a consequence of this, the primary function of the MNC has changed from that of manufacturer to ‘service’ provider by outsourcing production processes to foreign contract manufacturers (CMs). NAFTA in fact mutated Mexico into a production platform toward the US and Canada as well as Latin American countries. We can observe these dramatic changes, for instance, in Guadalajara in Mexico, now called the “Silicon Valley in the South”. Since MNCs use their brand names to sell products, their business function becomes close to that of the fashion industry. They market their products in the same way as Gucci and Chanel sell products of original design carrying their brand names. Therefore, product design and marketing become highly important for MNCs to achieve success in business while domestic providers have been left behind for their parts and components supply in this new global supply chain.

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