Sick of Your Poor Neighborhood?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linea Hasager ◽  
Mia Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Poor Neighborhood

scholarly journals When the Road Is Covered in Nails: Making Sense of Madness in an Urban Mosque

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela J Prickett
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
The Road ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Repeated Interaction ◽  
Poor Neighborhood ◽  
Interactionist Approach

Abstract This study returns to the classic interactionist approach of earlier work on mental illness to understand how communities attribute nonconforming behaviors as symptoms of mental illnesses and how their informal labels shape the ways in which they interact with people perceived as ill. It draws on six years of in-depth fieldwork in a low-income urban mosque community, where members frequently interacted with fellow Muslims they labeled “crazy.” Through repeated interaction, members come to understand madness as part of living in a poor neighborhood and then perceive themselves as also at risk of developing mental health problems. Many members avoided getting close to people with mental illnesses, but their shared religious identities meant that at the end of life someone who had previously been excluded from social networks could receive burial care. I discuss the implications of their responses for understanding the role of community care.

scholarly journals Community Participation in Housing and Urban Development in Poor Urban Communities,Case Study of Umbadda, Khartoum

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Muna M. Eltahir
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Voluntary Action ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Poor Neighborhood

Community participation represents a voluntary action carried out by community members who participate with each other in different kinds of work to achieve desired goals. Participation includes people's involvement in decision-making, in implementing programs, sharing in the benefits of development programs and their involvement in efforts to evaluate such programs. (Cohen, D. and Prusak). According to Muhammad, community participation, known locally as nafeer or fazaa, is a deeply rooted ancient phenomenon in the Sudanese culture and has been common especially among traditional people in rural areas and villages, where it is usually men's domain (Muhammad, 1975). Community participation is affected by religious beliefs, ethnic and cultural backgrounds as well as laws, political environment, economic situation. Social relations (social capital), history and age of the neighborhood. The present paper discusses community participation in Umbadda, Harra 14, a newly planned poor neighborhood in Greater Khartoum the capital of Sudan, which has a population of 5.5 million inhabitants growing at an annual rate of 5.6% per year. Data collection was based on a filed research carried out by the author in the summer of 2002 through intensive interviews with community leaders, and a structured household questionnaire.

Is Current Depressive Symptoms Associated with the Perception of Poor Neighborhood Quality in Childhood? A Population-based Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Guo ◽  
Yingxue Zhu ◽  
Liming Fang ◽  
Mingqi Fu ◽  
Min Li
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Neighborhood Quality ◽  
Significant Interaction Effect ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Multivariable Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Poor Neighborhood

Abstract Background Elderly depressive symptoms are an increasing important issue worldwide. Poor neighborhood quality in childhood may increase the risk of depressive symptoms in old age from the perspective of life span theory. The aims of this study were to examine the association between the perception of neighborhood quality during childhood and depressive symptoms in older age.Methods Data was taken from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), and a total of 7207 individuals aged 60 years or older were included. Robust multivariable linear regression analysis was applied to estimate the association between the perception of childhood community quality and depressive symptoms, and to examine the interaction effects of education and childhood community quality on depressive symptoms.Results This study suggested that individuals who perceived the childhood community as unsafe, deficient in close relationship, unclean demonstrated higher risk in suffering from depression. Furthermore, a significant gender difference has been found. However, no significant interaction effect of education revealed.Conclusion This study proposed that the perception of neighborhood quality during childhood is an important factor associated with depressive symptoms in old age. We urge that older adults’ mental health issues could be examined from a childhood neighborhood quality perspective, and call for further steps to promote neighborhood quality lived by Chinese citizens.

scholarly journals Human and dogs Toxocara canis infection in a poor neighborhood in Bogota

1990 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Agudelo ◽  
E. Villareal ◽  
E. Caceres ◽  
C. Lopez ◽  
J. Eljach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Toxocara Canis ◽  
Poor Neighborhood

scholarly journals Design for design - design by community

2018 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 01015
Author(s):  
Thi Hanh Nguyen Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Design Concept ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Common Method ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Poor Neighborhood

Like many other countries in the world, Vietnam is facing the problem of housing for the poor. Though, a lot of money and effort have been poured into these projects, but often it falls into a very bad situation, which is unstable: the community rapidly come back to poverty, people cannot self-recover and develop on their own after withdrawal of project teams, ect. In the field of Architecture and Planning, there is a fairly common method, which is "participatory methods". But by failing to understand the essence and not knowing how to operate the method in practice, the projects for the poor have little success. This paper introduces the following two areas: The Community "Participation Design" concept we have just implemented in a poor neighborhood of Tam Ky, Vietnam. Through the lessons of Tam Ky, the shift of participation concept is summarized: from passive to active community. In this way, the Community initiates and implements its initiative to change its habitat, make it better and more sustainable.

scholarly journals Are Youth at Risk, Juveniles or Just Kids? Analysis of the Current Educational Resistance of Minors from Attendance Centers in Culturally Diverse Societies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Sawicki ◽  
Urszula Markowska-Manista ◽  
Dominika Zakrzewska-Olędzka
Keyword(s):  
School Curriculum ◽  
Dysfunctional Families ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Youth At Risk ◽  
Poor Neighborhood ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Poor Infrastructure

The phenomenon of educational resistance shown by minors from disadvantaged backgrounds and placed in attendance centers is the main subject of interest in this article. This is a special group of students, because their attitude towards education is shaped by factors determined by dysfunctional families, antisocial pressure from peers, poor neighborhood, poor infrastructure, experience from the foster care institutions and a school curriculum, implemented without taking into account their specifics. Resistance is a reaction to their educational experience and perceived as a manifestation of a dominant culture associated with a form analyzed by Paul Willis. According to this concept, the connection between the hegemonic culture and subordinate groups is created not only by ethnic or national, but also by socio-cultural and economic factors. Young people from the underclass, shaped by various cultural patterns, norms, values, language and socio-economic conditions, reject the educational offer of the cultural hegemon, generating behaviors leading to school abandonment and truancy. Based on the research material collected during in-depth interviews, the educational resistance of minors was analyzed with particular attention to its causes, patterns and trajectories. Keywords: educational resistance, juveniles, multicultural societies, social diversity, in-depth interview

scholarly journals Complexity Beyond Intersections: Race, Class, and Neighborhood Disadvantage among African American Muslims

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Prickett
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Neighborhood Disadvantage ◽  
American Muslims ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Muslim Immigrants ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
Poor Neighborhood ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
First And Second Generation

This study uses the case of African American Muslims to examine the intersection of religious inequality with other forms of disadvantage. It draws on more than six years of ethnographic and historical research in an African American Muslim community in a poor neighborhood in Los Angeles, comparing the experiences of community members with existing research on first- and second-generation Muslim immigrants. It addresses the three most prominent axes of difference between African American and immigrant Muslims—race/ethnicity, class, and neighborhood disadvantage—to explicate the ways in which religion may compound existing inequalities, or in some cases create new forms of difference. It also shows how identifying as native-born Americans allows African American Muslims to claim religion as a cultural advantage in certain situations. Religion is complex not only when different forms of inequality intersect but when these intersections create a different way of understanding what religion means for people of faith.

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