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Representations of Communism among Romanian Teenagers: A Research Note 共产主义在罗马尼亚青少年中的表现:研究笔记

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scr-2021-0006

A. Gheorghiță

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Predictors of Adolescent Motherhood in Romania 罗马尼亚青少年母亲的预测因素

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scr-2021-0002

E. Stativă, A. Rus, Valeria Filip, N. Suciu, Alma Stefanescu, J. Pennings, S. Parris, Delilah Joiner, S. Stoicescu

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The Role of Confucius Institute in Shaping China’s National Image in Botswana: Case of CI Students 孔子学院在博茨瓦纳塑造中国国家形象中的作用——以孔子学院学生为例

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scr-2021-0005

Lesego Alicia Keimetswe

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Social work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Administrative and personal response to new challenges COVID-19大流行期间的社会工作。行政和个人对新挑战的反应

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.2478/scr-2021-0004

C. Bacter, S. Săveanu, C. Marc

{"title":"Social work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Administrative and personal response to new challenges","authors":"C. Bacter, S. Săveanu, C. Marc","doi":"10.2478/scr-2021-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/scr-2021-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic implied specific intervention measures in all areas worldwide. Social workers from the social care system and health services, along with other specialists, have played an extremely important role in providing support to vulnerable groups, in order to manage social and psychological issues that have emerged in this period. This paper presents the results of a study involving 94 social workers from Romania. The aim of the research was to identify the main changes in the activity of social workers from public and private social services during pandemic, a period characterized by restrictive measures in order to limit the transmission of the virus. The paper focuses on vulnerabilities and challenges imposed by these changes in order to continue to provide social services for those in need. Recommendations on social policies are outlined based on the lessons learned in this period. The results show that communication and the maintenance of the relationship with beneficiaries are the parts where most changes occurred. The limitation of direct contacts has led to a decrease in field activity, online work, increased workload, or changes in working schedule, and also sometimes (mainly in public institutions) increased bureaucracy. Based on the results of the study, some recommendations for policy makers are identified, taking advantage of the lessons from this period of crisis: the need for the authorities to prioritize the allocated resources and to impose stricter rules to follow, provide funding for specific resources, intensifying the collaboration between all social actors involved, developing and implementing unitary intervention models, greater interest and understanding from authorities and responsiveness to new intervention methods, maintaining the online activity where the situation allows it in order to reduce bureaucracy in public institutions.","PeriodicalId":83295,"journal":{"name":"The Urban & social change review","volume":"58 1","pages":"50 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74236628","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}

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A critical analysis of anarchist critiques of the Field of “Solidarity and Cooperative Economy” in Greece 无政府主义者对希腊“团结与合作经济”领域的批判分析

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.2478/scr-2021-0003

Vaggelis Gkagkelis

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Ethno-racialisation at the intersection of food and migration regimes: Reading processes of farm-labour substitution against the grain of migration policies in Italy (1980-present) 食品和移民制度交叉点的民族-种族化:阅读意大利农业劳动力替代与移民政策的过程(1980年至今)

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scr-2020-0006

I. Peano

{"title":"Ethno-racialisation at the intersection of food and migration regimes: Reading processes of farm-labour substitution against the grain of migration policies in Italy (1980-present)","authors":"I. Peano","doi":"10.2478/scr-2020-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/scr-2020-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper puts the food regime model, as elaborated by scholars such as Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, into articulation with the analysis of migration/border regimes, as proposed by critical migration scholars. If by now it is well established that the policies that regulate the mobility of migrant labour play a crucial role in enabling capitalist accumulation in contemporary global agriculture, few analyses have delved into the actual mechanisms which make this possible, and into their histories. The argument is developed by reference to the Italian case, showing how subsequent waves of substitution of Italian labourers with migrants, that began in the 1980s, have followed different patterns. It argues that these can be understood by reading them against the grain of the changes accruing in the transnational migration regime. Thus, precarisation and segmentation of the labour force in the farming sector are shown to have been actively fostered by policies which have made of undocumented or differentially included labour one of the pillars upon which globally integrated food production has relied for the past three decades. Whilst based on national-scale statistics and secondary literature, the analysis also builds upon a sustained presence and engaged participant research in some of the Italian agroindustrial enclaves that record the highest presence of migrant labour.","PeriodicalId":83295,"journal":{"name":"The Urban & social change review","volume":"7 1","pages":"78 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82215557","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}

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“I wanted to see how to make money there too”: Mobility strategies of Romanian seasonal workers in the agricultural sector abroad “我也想看看如何在那里赚钱”:罗马尼亚季节性工人在国外农业部门的流动策略

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scr-2020-0003

Alexandra Voivozeanu

{"title":"“I wanted to see how to make money there too”: Mobility strategies of Romanian seasonal workers in the agricultural sector abroad","authors":"Alexandra Voivozeanu","doi":"10.2478/scr-2020-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/scr-2020-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Drawing on interviews with key informants and seasonal workers in Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria and the UK, and on non-participant ethnographies, this paper demonstrates that, despite various limitations associated with work in the agriculture sector, migrants strategically choose the times and destinations of their trips abroad, taking into account a variety of factors, including family commitments, economic goals at the origin, wages and working conditions, health issues and welfare opportunities. The findings illustrate that, depending on their commitments and economic objectives, Romanians who work in agriculture develop different mobility practices. While some work abroad only occasionally, when they need to supplement their home-country income, others engage in circular migration or extend the periods of time they spend abroad. In host countries, most workers try out various jobs and typically get involved in repeated migration once they have found a suitable arrangement. Some workers combine seasonal work in one or more countries of destination, over the course of the same year, with the aim of securing income for longer periods of time, while others opt for long-term migration or move into sectors that offer better opportunities.","PeriodicalId":83295,"journal":{"name":"The Urban & social change review","volume":"18 1","pages":"13 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77822926","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}

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Recruitment infrastructure within the agricultural and agrifood sector: Post-Soviet and neocolonial entanglements between “Eastern” and “Western” Europe 农业和农业食品部门的招聘基础设施:“东欧”和“西欧”之间的后苏联和新殖民主义纠缠

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scr-2020-0005

Dina Bolokan

{"title":"Recruitment infrastructure within the agricultural and agrifood sector: Post-Soviet and neocolonial entanglements between “Eastern” and “Western” Europe","authors":"Dina Bolokan","doi":"10.2478/scr-2020-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/scr-2020-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic brought into focus how nationstates manage to shut down borders while maintaining flexible labor recruitment. This challenging situation provoked more public discussion around inequalities within the agricultural and agrifood sector. However, reflections around labor conditions have remained limited. I argue that instead of merely pointing to certain aspects of the current labor conditions and demanding more regulations, a different point of departure is urgently needed. Through a genealogical approach to recruitment and rotation, this article aims to further politicize the discussion around the current recruitment infrastructure in the agricultural and agrifood sectors in Europe. I do this with my research on labor migration from Moldova to the European Union and Switzerland, where I consider the hypermobile life trajectories of workers within the agricultural sector. I am interested in the structures, goals and biopolitical implications as well as the involved ideologies that accompany the laws and regulations of the legal framework of such hypermobility between “Eastern” and “Western” Europe. I show how the involved citizenship laws and circular migration policies reveal entanglements through time and space that lead to neocolonial and post-Soviet regimes of labor control within Europe.","PeriodicalId":83295,"journal":{"name":"The Urban & social change review","volume":"2013 1","pages":"39 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88183502","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}

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Introduction to the Special Issue. Migration, food and agriculture: Insights into what we eat and how our food is produced at the beginning of the third millennium 特刊简介。移民、粮食和农业:在第三个千年之初，洞察我们吃什么以及我们的粮食是如何生产的

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scr-2020-0002

Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau, Monica Șerban, Alina Croitoru

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Food sustainability, healthy eating, on-trend diets: media representations of nutrition in Romania and Germany 粮食可持续性、健康饮食、流行饮食:罗马尼亚和德国媒体对营养的报道

The Urban & social change review Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/scr-2020-0004

V. Marinescu, Simona Rodat

{"title":"Food sustainability, healthy eating, on-trend diets: media representations of nutrition in Romania and Germany","authors":"V. Marinescu, Simona Rodat","doi":"10.2478/scr-2020-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/scr-2020-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The importance of nutrition as a research topic is linked not only to healthy eating and different types of medical conditions, such as obesity, allergies, malnutrition, but also to the relationship between nutrition and physical activity, to state’s and large food companies’ commercial activities, as well as to the sustainability of food production. On that basis, numerous studies have analyzed media content related to food and nutrition, their basic assumption being that (new and old) media have the ability to change the audience’s perceptions, behaviors and attitudes towards various values which are accepted in contemporary societies. This paper presents the results of a comparative study of the way in which Romanian and German media cover the topic of nutrition. The research method used was the content analysis, applied to a sample of articles published on online media from the two countries between 2014 and 2016. Having as research objective the identification of the most relevant aspects regarding the content and shape of nutrition’s coverage in media, this article discusses the similarities and differences recorded in the online press of the two countries on the topic of interest. According to the findings, the similarities are mainly related to some topics and subjects addressed, as well as to the ways of covering them, in particular through analysis articles, while the differences could instead be ascertained regarding the content of the articles, including the ways in which the journalists assume social roles in approaching, informing, debating, and educating concerning issues of public interest.","PeriodicalId":83295,"journal":{"name":"The Urban & social change review","volume":"77 1","pages":"105 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83323152","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}

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