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Advocacy in the South African social welfare sector: Current social work research and possible future directions
No full text“The more things change the more they stay the same”: Decision-making in Zimbabwean transnational families
No full textA methodological approach and conceptual tools for studying migrant belongings in African cities: a case of Zimbabweans in Johannesburg
Get PDF"Many scholars view the relaxation of restrictions to enter and reside in South Africa after the end of apartheid in 1994 as a catalyst for a number of changes in regional human migration. In this article, the author shows that human migration dynamics in post-apartheid South Africa pose theoretical and methodological challenges for studies of belonging among migrants. He argues that the majority of studies of belonging among migrants in South Africa rely on nation-state frames of reference and quantitative approaches. Furthermore, they largely seek to establish general patterns of migration processes. While these studies illuminate macro-level factors which seemingly structure migration experiences, they provide only a partial picture of migration dynamics. Often, they fail to sufficiently attend to context-dependent modes of emplacement among migrants in the urban zones due to the conceptual and methodological tools they use. The purpose of this article, therefore, is to suggest theoretical assumptions, concepts and methodological tools which constitute an alternative design for studying social constructions and practices of belonging among migrants in post-apartheid South Africa. The article draws on my doctoral research of Zimbabweans in Johannesburg for illustrations." (author's abstract)"Viele Forschende erachten die verringerten Restriktionen hinsichtlich des Zuzugs nach und Lebens in Südafrika als einen Katalysator für zahlreiche Änderungen in regionalen Migrationsprozessen nach Ende der Apartheid 1994. In meinem Beitrag zeige ich, dass aus den Post-Apartheid-Migrationsdynamiken wichtige theoretische und methodologische Herausforderungen für Studien zur Zugehörigkeit von Migrant/innen erwachsen: Für die Mehrzahl bisheriger Studien kommen quantitative Ansätze im Rahmen einer dezidiert nationalen Perspektive zum Einsatz, wobei das Interesse meist allgemeinen Mustern in diesen Migrationsprozessen gilt. Auf diese Weise können zwar Faktoren auf der Makro-Ebene identifiziert werden, die Migrationserfahrungen strukturieren, es wird jedoch nur ein begrenzter Ausschnitt an Migrationsdynamiken sichtbar - kaum im Zugriff dieser konzeptuellen und methodischen Ansätze sind kontextabhängige Lebensweisen von Migrant/innen in städtischen Gebieten. Ich schlage deshalb theoretische Annahmen, Konzepte und methodische Verfahren vor, die ein alternatives Design erlauben, um soziale Konstruktionen und Praktiken von Post-Apartheit-Migrant/innen zu erforschen. Ich greife, um dies zu tun, auf meine Doktorarbeit zurück, die sich mit der Situation von Simbabwer/innen in Johannesburg beschäftigt hat." (Autorenreferat
Birth Registration and Perceived Social Exclusion: Insights from Participants' Narratives
No full textBirth registration is becoming an important arena of political mobilisation for human rights. Discourses about civil registration advanced in the civil society and academic circles tend to frame birth registration in citizenship terms, arguing that (a) a birth certificate is indispensable in realising the child’s right to a name, nationality and citizenship, and (b) both the delay in registering and failure to register a child’s birth compound the social exclusion of that child. However, narratives that connect birth registration and social exclusion in a causal relationship are seldom premised on empirical evidence. Drawing on qualitative key informant interviews, this article examines how non-birth registration relates to social exclusion of children. Participants’ narratives generated in Zimbabwe’s Bindura District revealed that non-birth registration is entangled with multiple dimensions of social exclusion, potentially giving rise to marginalisation of children in various spheres of society.</jats:p
Researching the Dynamics of Birth Registration and Social Exclusion for Child Rights Advocacy: The Unique Role of Qualitative Research
Get PDFIn response to the persistent problem of deficient birth registration, NGO-led coalitions in Zimbabwe are seeking to build a strong case for prioritizing universal birth registration. Beside efforts to amplify children's right to birth registration as defined in international rights conventions, these coalitions seek to construct a causal relationship between birth registration and social exclusion outcomes. The idea that the absence of birth registration intensifies social exclusion for children has become something of a mantra in birth registration activism, but despite the surveys conducted in Zimbabwe and other developing countries, data to demonstrate the dynamic interplay of birth registration and social exclusion are lacking. In this article I illustrate that qualitative research can bridge this gap and strengthen birth registration activism.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs170110
Fathering and Gender: Transformation in Zimbabwean Transnational Families
No full textMigration research in Southern Africa has paid little attention to migrant men's involvement in the family, including their emotional and cognitive work, as well as associated gender transformations. Based on a qualitative study of six Zimbabwean migrant fathers in Johannesburg and three non-migrant women in Zimbabwe, this article argues that transnational migration at once presents opportunities for and obstacles to the reconstitution of gender-normative forms of parental involvement in migrant families. The analysis of the narratives of migrant men and their spouses demonstrates that, although maternal and paternal roles may become considerably indistinct in the context of transnational separations, non-migrant women may emphasize gender-normative expectations in their negotiations with distant fathers when faced with huge responsibilities at home. Such negotiations tend to reinforce gender-normative parenting in transnational split families. (author's abstract)Die südafrikanische Migrationsforschung hat der Beziehung von Migranten zu ihren Familien und insbesondere den emotionalen und kognitiven Aspekten dieser Beziehung im Lichte von Gender-Transformation bisher wenig Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Ausgehend von einer qualitativen Studie, an der sechs simbabwische Migranten, die in Johannesberg leben, und drei derer in Simbabwe verbliebenen Frauen teilnahmen, versuche ich zu zeigen, welche Potenziale und Hemmnisse aus transnationaler Migration für die Rekonstitution gender-normativer Beziehungen in solchen Familien erwachsen: Die Analyse der Interviews mit den Migranten und ihren Frauen verdeutlichte, dass Letztere -obwohl mütterliche und väterliche Rollenbilder im Zuge transnationaler Trennung immer verschwommen werden- angesichts erheblicher häuslicher Herausforderungen gender-normative Erwartungen an ihre abwesenden Männer richten. Auf diese Weise werden gender-normative Erziehungsstile in diesen transnational getrennten Familien intensiviert. (Autorenreferat
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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