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{"title":"Volunteering as international mobility: Recent evidence from a post-socialist country","authors":"M. Roman, L. Mureșan, Ioana Manafi, Daniela Marinescu","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2018.1509926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2018.1509926","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Set against the backdrop of socio-economic and political developments in an Eastern European country – post-socialist Romania, a case in point – this paper explores the roles of volunteering as a type of international mobility, over the last two decades. By applying qualitative analysis, the study aims to shed light on new developments of Romanian international volunteering. It has the novel goal of explaining the benefits of international volunteering, as perceived by Romanian youth, and as compared to their initial expectations. The findings, supported by 17 in-depth interviews, prove that the main effects noticed by the great majority of Romanian respondents include “eye-opening” and “personal growth.” Also, most of the young interviewees have mentioned an increasing sense of altruism, the volunteering experience being generally perceived as a positive one, with benefits beyond the respondents’ initial expectations.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124181296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Youth in (times of) crisis: Migration, precarity, and shifting identities in the Southern borders of Europe","authors":"Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2018.1510883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2018.1510883","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article traces youth migration from Greece to Cyprus in the context of the ongoing economic crisis, and reveals the impact of labor conditions, precarity and mobility on the lives and aspirations of young migrants. I interrogate jointly the categories of “youth” and “migrant,” and argue that, far from being fixed, these are produced and redefined by the temporalizing and historicizing effects of the crisis, the former as a protracted state of being, and the latter as a phenomenon of contingency that needs to be addressed through policies of economic recovery and development. At the same time, the article documents the dynamic ways, in which young migrants engage in, reproduce and resist discourses and structures that shape their everyday life and hopes for the future. The intra-Southern European migration from Greece to Cyprus, offers a distinctive ethnographic context to document how new migratory routes develop, especially in a terrain of intersecting economic crises in the southern borders of Europe. Migration in this case is not, as often assumed, a linear, one-way direction, but an ongoing process of decision-making around new opportunities, destinations and mobilities.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133423359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Youth and mobility: Crossroads and emerging issues","authors":"Anastasia Christou, Andreas Herz","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2018.1511364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2018.1511364","url":null,"abstract":"Cross-border geographical mobility in young adulthood is often seen as a process which opens up new perspectives and allows for alternative modes of social positioning and identification, of development and relating to others. Young people are meant to search for new places and social spaces to develop and unfold. While the definition of “youth” (Luedtke, 2016) and the parameters of “mobility” (Cohen & Sirkeci, 2011) continue to be fluid and often contested, as a component of social justice and public policy, the focus on young mobiles in relation to education, training, housing, health, and employment are of particular interest in how youth are shaping their futures and the new societies they are residing in, while others are indeed not mobile. In this sense, mobility understood as movement in geographical space is not independent of social status and social mobility. Reasons for being mobile during youth can be manifold such as studying or doing voluntary work abroad, being on a student exchange, or for employment and entrepreneurial activities. In the European Union (EU), youth mobility policies have been one of the most important objectives that EU institutions have promoted in the past decade. Many programs such as Erasmus or the European Voluntary Service are meant to offer young people opportunities to move abroad. At the same time, the EU is not devoid of geographical, regional, and socio-economic inequalities (Amelina & Vasilache, 2014). As a result, critical events such as economic crises, high unemployment, and/or socioeconomic inequality between countries also foster youth mobility. Specifically amongst this constellation of social, political, and economic crises challenging and shaping European societies, the region has recently experienced one of the most significant influxes of migrants and refugees in its history. In this context, it is indeed difficult to compartmentalize youth mobiles as a general population given the inherent diversity of their ages, genders, race, ethnic and family backgrounds, status, class, socio-economic and regional origin, sexuality, dis/ability, aspirations, etc. Given such complexity of diversities involved in the discussion of youth mobiles, by extension, the specific issues, challenges, and policy implications arising from their mobilities and processes of settlement in new destinations undoubtedly vary vastly.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116782368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Situated agency in mobility: Korean–Chinese children from transnational families in China","authors":"Ruixin Wei","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2018.1511962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2018.1511962","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented outflow of Korean Chinese migrating from the People’s Republic of China (hereafter China) to the Republic of Korea (hereafter South Korea), leaving increasing numbers of Korean–Chinese families separated. Existing research predominantly depicts the Korean–Chinese children of transnational families as a vulnerable group that lacks parenting and is prone to problematic behavior. Based on in-depth interviews with Korean–Chinese university students, this article investigates the extent to which mobility represents a burden or enrichment for the children from transnational families. By adopting the conception of situated agency, children’s role in maintaining cross-border family bonds and embracing the practical and symbolic value of mobility for self-development are uncovered.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123818708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Racialized youth mobilities in European nightlife cultures: Negotiating belonging, distinction and exclusion in urban leisure","authors":"K. Kosnick","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2018.1509927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2018.1509927","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines comparatively the modalities of mobility as they relate to the ethnic club scenes that have emerged as leisure contexts for ethnic minority youth in different European metropolitan centers. Based on a four-year ethnographic research project that collected data in ethnic minority queer and heteronormative nightlife scenes, the article presents findings from Paris, London and Berlin that point to diverse articulations through which mobilities matter and can be realized by racialized young people with migrant backgrounds when “going out.” However, what these differences simultaneously illuminate is the overarching importance of intersectional spatialized inequalities that are transformed in the context of neoliberal urban restructuring in metropolitan centers. Thus, moving through nighttime metropolitan city spaces is fraught with challenges that are themselves classed, racialized and gendered.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124612396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Youth mobilities, crisis, and agency in Greece: Second generation lives in liminal spaces and austere times","authors":"Domna Michail, Anastasia Christou","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2018.1511032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2018.1511032","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores various dimensions of “mobility” and “agency” among second-generation immigrants in Greece who have experienced the economic crisis throughout their studies at Higher Education Institutions. Following their studies in Greece, second-generation youth migrants graduated at a time when the crisis had already been leading hundreds of thousands of mostly highly skilled Greeks to emigration, resulting in a severe “brain drain” for Greece. First-generation immigrants’ investment in their children’s education has been vital as an integration strategy and as a means of achieving social mobility. It has also been an asset during crisis times when the prospect of re-migration seems more than a possible option setting new challenges for youth mobility on a local, global, and transnational level. Nevertheless, the vast majority of our participants manifest their will to remain in Greece and struggle for their future in the host country. Through in-depth interviews with 130 participants, all second-generation Albanian, Bulgarian, and Romanian immigrants in Greece, 30 born in the host country and the rest in the country of origin, the paper addresses youth agency in relation to geographical mobility, education, and personal development.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121799828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Doing grassroots: The organization of local communities in development cooperation","authors":"A. Wagner","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2018.1482695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2018.1482695","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The recent decades have seen an increased demand for the particpition of local communities in developmental projects. This has lead to greater transnational support for and growth of ›grassroots‹ organizations. The aim of this research paper is to analyze how cooperation between local communities and global development organizations is practically made possible and to contribute toward an understanding of the underlying processes and practices that are applied in such cooperations. In order to do so, this study examines an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that is working with local communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. The information used in this paper was collected during an ethnographic field study in 31 community projects in Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique, Kenya and Ethiopia, including 18 key informant interviews and 77 focus group discussions. The study suggests that transnational social support leads to the establishment of grassroots organizations through a range of organizational practices. It also illustrates that local social support structures are dynamic and flexible, responding to a range of issues within their environment and from external conditions. In the development context, community-based organizations thus need to be understood as structures that are interactively created through complex social interactions between development organizations and local support networks.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"145 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124146559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Liberal universalism in crisis: The nationalist populist challenge of transnational political standards","authors":"O. Kuhn","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2018.1505590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2018.1505590","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The explanation of the right-wing populist attack on transnational standards of pluralism and cooperation as caused by unsolved problems of the economic structure is often disputed by regarding populism a “cultural backlash” supported by groups now deprived of their former predominant position by new universalist standards. However, the “cultural” explanation disregards the historical fact that antiliberal backlash in the direction of authoritarianism, nationalism, scapegoating, anti-migration has frequently followed severe economic crises and the preceding erosion of integrating political legitimacy sources. The weakness of the liberal political discourse position is at its core a knowledge crisis in the face of the failure of its own universalist agenda, while the transnational populist regression to particularism is rather its effect.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"198 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116350085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping international social work education: A research proposal toward rethinking social work education and professional practice in Nigeria","authors":"Theo Osaheni Osawe","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2018.1504159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2018.1504159","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT It is universally accepted that the principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversities are central to social work. My thesis aims to investigate the values of “human rights,“ “social justice,” ”respect for diversities,” and its relevance to the practice of social work in Nigeria. This research examines existing paradigms within the domains of law and social sciences that frame the basis for human rights and social justice in social work. Within the sub-fields of international social work and globalization I interrogate the core foundations of social work’s commitment to equality, social justice and human rights as expressed and practiced in social work education (within the socio-economic realities of imperialism and historical context of colonialism) in Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114924122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exiled for love: The journey of an Iranian queer activist","authors":"Kathleen Dixon","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2018.1482696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2018.1482696","url":null,"abstract":"Arsham Parsi, a gay Iranian who was forced to flee his country in 2005, has teamed up with Marc Colbourne to write a memoir of his early life in Iran, later in Turkey, and finally in Canada, where ...","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121369506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}