scholarly journals Being Away from Home in Australia: The Indonesian Diaspora in Canberra

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Wasisto Raharjo Jati
Keyword(s):  
Social Bonds ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
Second Home ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Sensitive Issues ◽  
Permanent Residents

The study of diasporas has been given relatively little attention by Indonesian scholars. A likely reason is the high cost of funding diaspora research in the host countries, motivating scholars to instead focus on other, less resource-intensive topics. Although the significance of this research on the Indonesian diaspora may not be immediately evident, its importance lies in how Indonesians maintain their nationalism when living overseas. Two problems particularly felt by them are homesickness and anxiety. Using an ethnographic approach, this research therefore sought to highlight how the Indonesian diaspora based in Canberra, Australia, make social bonds with each other. These bonds serve to make Canberra a second home for Indonesians, especially students and their families, permanent residents, and even naturalised citizens who have Indonesian backgrounds. A main finding was that there are various senses of Indonesianess between groups in the Canberra-based diaspora. While students are much more likely to maintain a feeling of nationalism due to scholarship policies, other groups in the diaspora, such as permanent residents and naturalised citizens, appear to hold onto their Indonesianess less tightly. Although they still engage with Indonesia, they view the country more critically, including on sensitive issues that are labelled as taboo in Indonesia. Despite the existence of these two different conceptions of Indonesianess, Canberra is their home away from home in Australia. These results consequently aid in our understanding of the significance of family ties to shaping most Asian diaspora communities living abroad.

Education Ethnography of Sensitive Issues

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bittner
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Physical Punishment ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Sensitive Issues

Ethnography and sensitive issues come together by way of the question, “What can someone know?,” which is a situational dilemma. An ethnography of sensitive issues creates a particular perspective of knowing. It distresses the overall social assumption that persons, practices, actions, structures, and institutions are based on their re-negotiation of stabilization and their safety of different forms of knowing. The ethnography of sensitive issues addresses the fluidity and fragility of the social and observes the vulnerability of persons, practices, fields, and settings. Sensitive issues of the social situate beyond the sociological and historical divide of (intimate) privacy and the public sphere. Sensitive issues touch on the violation of intimacy within public and private institutions by neglect, punishment, maltreatment, violence, bullying, and sexual violence. The problematizing perspectives on such disruptive social practices are particularly relevant for pedagogy and education. An education ethnography of sensitive issues thus asks for the risk of violation within pedagogical arrangements and describes the how and what of the vulnerability of the child and the indicated transgression of or within education practices. However, education settings—children engaging in institutions like the family, the school, and social care services—are constructed through the (unconscious) boundless aim of well-being, pedagogy for good, and positivity by education in its normativity. How do children learn to believe that what others say or do is for their good? How do educational arrangements cover vulnerable situations? Where are the borders or limitations within practices of education in pedagogical institutions? An education ethnography of sensitive issues problematizes the implicit, tacit, and practical knowledge of pedagogical arrangements and questions how those involved perform violence and, within the practices, at what stages of vulnerability. Questioning violence and vulnerability points out that children sadly are not always recognized as equals and are equated by the other (child or adult). Sensitive issues in education and care situations define a greater net of responsibilities and its totality of practices of the powerful. Thus, it seems socially and educationally mandatory to gain descriptions and theories about the circumstances of sensitive issues in the examples of neglect of the individual in his or her rights and psychological and emotional situatedness, as well as physical punishment and sexual violence against children. Focusing on violations and problematizing educational practices through research has ethical and moral restrictions that seem to contradict an ethnographic approach. It is (normatively) impossible for the ethnographer to participate in situ in situations of sensitive issues of violence and maltreatment against children. Additionally, seeing ethnography as a methodological and theoretical approach, an ethnography of sensitive issues could not be restricted to those who (autoethnographically) experience violations and maltreatment by themselves. Instead of arguing for a constrained ethnography of sensitive issues, the particular perspective on sensitive issues highlights the ethnographic approach. This goes along with understanding borders and transgressions as well as the taboos in the field and the challenging task of positioning oneself as an observer to be trusted in the uncertainty, unsafety, and instability of the nearest possible worlds. Hence, an education ethnography of sensitive issues considers researching intimacy at its boarders, limits, heterotopia, and transgressions of pedagogical practices within educational institutions and care situations.

scholarly journals Transnational Cross-Border Family Ties: Diasporic Lives of Bangladeshis in Italy and Beyond

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Mohammad Morad
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Transnational Connections ◽  
Bangladeshi Migrants ◽  
Bangladeshi Families ◽  
Depth Interviews

The scope of this paper is to gain a better understanding of how Bangladeshi migrants in Italy maintain transnational family attachments, across multiple destinations, with the home country as well as with several host countries. The data comes from fieldwork in Northeast Italy. Research methods include in-depth interviews and participant observation. The findings reveal that a high proportion of Bangladeshi migrants maintain a variety of transnational and diasporic ties with their family and friends living in the country of origin and different European countries. These include family obligations, remittances, establishing businesses back home, visits and communication. They also preserve their national identity in this host society by maintaining cultural ways of belonging and through religious practices and involvement in Bangladeshi politics. The findings have also shown that Italian Bangladeshi families work to foster transnational family ties among the new generations born in Italy, who have little knowledge of their ancestral country. On a final note, this paper argues that transnational connections with the homeland play an important role in shaping the diasporic lives of Bangladeshis in Italy.

scholarly journals Migraciones “Al Margen”: grupos rumanos, diversidad y control social

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
José López Riopedre
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Property Crime ◽  
Organised Crime ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Youth Groups ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Migratory Movement ◽  
Biographical Approach ◽  
Criminal Groups

Introducción: Este artículo propone una aproximación socio-etnográfica a aquellos grupos de la circulación migratoria rumana que quedan relegados “al margen” y ubicados estratégica y simbólicamente “al otro lado”, esto es, al margen de la ley, la sociedad y fuera del foco de atención de las ciencias sociales. Así, nos detendremos en las brigadas, formaciones de jóvenes que organizan sus actividades en torno a los delitos contra la propiedad y la práctica de la prostitución trasnacionales; y los clanes romaníes, grupos con vínculo familiar que desempeñan actividades como la recogida y venta de chatarra, las tareas agrícolas de temporada o la mendicidad.Método: El enfoque biográfico se sustenta en la etnografía “multi-situada” (España/Rumanía), dando especial relieve a la construcción de contextos de convivencia e intimidad con los actores. Estos se hallan agrupados en diferentes núcleos familiares procedentes de las regiones de Valaquia, Moldavia y Transilvania, y que hoy participan de una experiencia migratoria trans-nacional.Resultados: Se trata de una investigación iniciada en 2013 y que se encuentra en curso, por lo que los resultados son provisionales. En el caso de la minoría romaní se observa una notable discriminación por parte de los Estados, que produce una injustificada alarma social. En relación con el delito y la prostitución trans-nacionales, las políticas de control social tienden al pánico moral y se concentran en grupos delictivos de baja intensidad, buscando la permanente legitimación en una lucha simbólica (e ineficaz) frente a los fantasmas del “crimen organizado”.Discusión: El paradigma de la victimización criminalizadora contribuye a ahondar en el proceso de estigmatización de estas poblaciones, cuya esperanza emancipadora pasa necesariamente por des-afiliarse de los discursos dominantes. No obstante, evidenciar el carácter heterogéneo de las migraciones rumanas no debe llevarnos a ignorar la influencia de las estructuras socio-políticas ni el peso de la historia. Introduction: This article proposes a socio-ethnographic approach to those groups of the Romanian migratory movement that are reduced to living "on the Margins" and strategically and symbolically located "on the other side", that is, outside the law, society and the attention of the social sciences. Therefore, we will focus on the brigadas, youth groups that organise their activities around property crime and transnational prostitution; and the Roma clans, groups with family ties that survive through the collection and sale of scrap, seasonal agriculture or begging.Method: The biographical approach is based on the "Multi-sited" Ethnography (Spain / Romania), with special emphasis on the building of close and personal relationships with the participants. These are grouped in different family nuclei originated from the regions of Valaquia, Moldavia and Transilvania, and that today participate in a trans-national migratory experience.Results: This research was initiated in 2013 and is still in progress, so the results are provisional. In the case of the Roma minority, there is a considerable discrimination on the part of the state, which feeds an unjustified social alarm. In relation to trans-national crime and prostitution, the social control policies are driven by moral panic and concentrate on low-intensity criminal groups, seeking a permanent legitimisation of a symbolic (and ineffective) struggle against the ghosts of "organised crime".Discussion: The paradigm of criminalising victimisation contributes to deepening the process of stigmatisation of these populations, whose emancipatory hope requires an escape from the dominant discourses. However, illustrating the diversity of the Romanian migrations should not lead us to ignore the influence of socio-political structures or the weight of history.

scholarly journals Social networks and creation of social capital in second-home localities

Geografie ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 122 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-256
Author(s):  
Tereza Kůsová ◽  
Dana Fialová ◽  
Marta Hučínová
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Geographical Proximity ◽  
Home Owner ◽  
Second Home ◽  
Permanent Resident ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Permanent Residents

Second home tourism has major economic, environmental and social impacts on the localities in question. The aim of the presented study is to find out how second home tourism influences the social environment of a municipality, and whether and how it contributes to the creation of social capital and the knowledge transfer. It ensues from the use of relational data that links appear in the localities primarily on the neighbourly basis. In some cases, the contacts are also used in the place of permanent residence. As a result, the social networks and the knowledge that appear among the participants also have an impact outside a locality in question. The connection to permanent residents of a municipality is rather weak. One can see here an obvious link primarily to major actors or permanent residents living near second-home owners. When establishing contacts, this points out the importance of geographical proximity rather than the often accentuated role of the relationship “second-home owner versus permanent resident”.

Constructing Identities through Multilingualism and MultiscriptualismThe Linguistic Landscape in Dutch and Belgian Chinatowns多元语言文字中的认同建构——以荷兰、比利 时唐人街的语言风貌为例

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaomei Wang ◽  
Hans Van de Velde
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Landscape Studies ◽  
International Language ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Language Area ◽  
The Hague

This paper examines characteristics of the linguistic landscape (ll) in Chinatowns in Belgium and the Netherlands. Fieldwork was conducted in four cities in the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, and Rotterdam) and two in Belgium (Brussels and Antwerp). All these cities are situated in the Dutch language area, but Brussels is officially bilingual French-Dutch. In the study, the traditional approach in linguistic landscape studies was combined with an ethnographic approach, in which shopkeepers were interviewed about language and script choice in their signs. The quantitative analysis shows that Chinese shows up in more than three quarters of all signs and that in almost 60 per cent of the signs Chinese is the dominant language. Dutch (the language of the region) and English (the international language) show up in almost half the signs. French shows up almost exclusively in Brussels, where Dutch is less used in signs. The analysis also shows interesting differences in script types between the cities. The presence of different types of Chinese character and pinyin systems indexes the Chineseness of the community, the origin of the local Chinese population, the position of the different establishments in the host countries, and the tendency of these Chinese immigrants to localize. We will show how these small overseas-Chinese communities construct and express their new identity by means of multilingualism and multiscriptualism.

Bounded Solidarity and Mobile Technology: The Decline of Core Networks in Kerala

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-214
Author(s):  
Jiabin Fan ◽  
Oliver Garretson ◽  
Antony Palackal ◽  
Paige Miller ◽  
Wesley Shrum
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Network Size ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Interaction Ritual ◽  
Core Networks ◽  
Ritual Theory

We examine whether the widespread adoption of mobile technology is associated with changes in core social networks over the main decade of mobile diffusion in India. We focus primarily on network size, as well as the type and location of relationships. Grounded in interaction ritual theory, Ling’s bounded solidarity thesis suggests that mobile communication may reconfigure social bonds, leading to a focus on family and friends over workmates and acquaintances, as well as more local networks. This study analyses data from three waves of data (2002–2013) from the state of Kerala. Our key findings are generally consistent with bounded solidarity: family ties increased at the expense of work ties, and there was a shift away from regional and international ties towards local relationships.

Factors Predicting Homeowners’ Attitudes toward Tourism

2010 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 627-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huili Hao ◽  
Patrick Long ◽  
James Kleckley
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Local Resident ◽  
Second Home ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Coastal County ◽  
Permanent Residents ◽  
Life Factor

This study assessed factors predicting local resident and second home property owners’ attitudes toward tourism development and its impacts in a second home–intensive coastal county. A total of 860 respondents (468 permanent residents and 392 second home property owners) contributed information about their perceptions of the impacts of tourism and second home development on various dimensions of community life. Factor analysis was used to identify the primary attitude dimensions. Factors that predicted local resident property owners’ attitudes toward tourism include length of residence, land use, and quality of life, while only the land use factor predicted second home property owners’ attitudes toward tourism.

scholarly journals Motivations and Emotions Behind Guru Seeking: A Case Study of Thakur Anukulchandra in Bhubaneswar, Odisha

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 65-71
Author(s):  
Soumya Mohapatra
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Purpose In Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
Personal Connection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Meaning And Purpose

This article explores why people seek out a religious guru, with special reference to Thakur Anukulchandra and his followers in contemporary urban settings of Bhubaneswar, Odisha in India. Through an ethnographic approach, this article examines the expectations of the devotees while seeking out spirituality and what kind of emotions people go through in this process, i.e. their hopes, disappointments, social bonds created with the guru and other followers. It looks at why the followers of this tradition are attracted to this particular ideology, philosophy and its relevance in an urbane setting. The study’s rationale is to explore the complex emotional bond between the guru and the followers, the narratives of devotion, accounts of miracles performed, indices of anxiety, and the nature of well-being. Findings suggest that Thakur’s sect provides people with a meaning and purpose in life and a personal connection with the charismatic guru that helps them tide over various existential crises. By making connections between the past and the present, the organization tries to anchor people’s lives and experiences.

scholarly journals Route to Destruction? Second Home Tourism in Small Island Communities

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Roger Marjavaara
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Second Homes ◽  
Second Home ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Island Communities ◽  
Stockholm Archipelago ◽  
Displacement Theory ◽  
Permanent Residents

It is widely argued that second home demand causes the displacement of permanent residents. This study examines the displacement theory by looking at three case islands in the Stockholm archipelago, scrutinizing the development of population figures and second homes. Results show that the individuals migrating from these islands are improving their situation compared to prior to their migration; there are also signs that the decision to migrate is associated with major events in life such as studies, job opportunities and family formation. Hence, this study questions the simplified suggestion that there is a widespread displacement of people due to outside demand for second homes.

scholarly journals Turning points and returning points: Understanding the role of family ties in the process of desistance

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 603-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Cid ◽  
Joel Martí
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Criminal Career ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Interpersonal Factors

The objective of this article is to identify the interpersonal factors that explain narratives of desistance among offenders who have been sentenced to prison. Through narrative interviews, we have studied a purposeful age-graded sample of men convicted of acquisitive crimes. Although the results confirm the leading research of Laub and Sampson (2003) about the importance of social bonds as a change catalyst, they also suggest that changes in narratives may depend not only on participation in new social institutions but also on the new meaning that institutions present during the criminal career of offenders, such as family relationships, may acquire in adulthood.

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