scholarly journals The impact of the guest-worker system on poverty and the well-being of migrant workers in urban China

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Du ◽  
Robert Gregory ◽  
Xin Meng
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Guest Worker ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals COVID-19: A STUDY OF CHALLENGES FACED BY DAILY WAGE WORKERS AND MIGRANTS IN INDIA.

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Aparna H
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
The Government ◽  
Daily Wage ◽  
The Impact

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the daily wage workers and migrants has been largely unsettling and it has pushed our economy to recession. Wages have an important role in maintaining the livelihood and the well-being of the work force. According to Jules Backman, a fluctuation in wage rates stands as a great concern to everyone in the economy. To a worker, wage is an important source of livelihood, to a businessman wage symbolizes cost and in the eyes of the government, wage is represented as potential taxes. Therefore, any alterations in the worker’s livelihood can cause an adverse impression on the economy. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has drained the livelihoods of millions of daily wage workers and migrants and their socio-economic conditions have also been shaken. This study will elucidate the disputes confronted by the daily wage workers and migrants. Two surveys have been conducted for this study. Study 1: A survey was taken among 130 daily wage workers to understand the Problems encountered by them. Study 2: To highlight the difficulties faced by the migrants, a survey was taken among 100 migrants. The research work is based on primary source of data collected by interviewing the daily wage and migrant workers of Coimbatore and Tirupur districts of Tamil Nadu.

A study of the impact of environmental surroundings on personal well-being in urban China using a multi-item well-being indicator

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Smyth ◽  
Ingrid Nielsen ◽  
Qingguo Zhai ◽  
Tiemin Liu ◽  
Yin Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Urban China ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on displaced populations and migrants around the world

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alifa Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Public Health Centre ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
The Impact

My practicum placement was completed with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health Centre for Global Health. I have contributed to the work of a team of student and faculty members developing a review of the literature and environmental scan to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant populations. I worked with colleagues to design and run a search strategy on the Medline (OVID) and Scopus bibliographic databases. The findings showed that crises including the COVID-19 pandemic act as magnifying lens and expose existing inequities within society as the impact of the pandemic is not equally felt by all population groups. Migrant populations are particularly impacted due to their intersectional identities that marginalize and disempower them and severely impact their health outcomes. Even though migration is the engine of the globalized economy and migrant workers make significant contribution to agricultural and economic prosperity, their precarious living conditions have worsened during the pandemic and they are being excluded from relief packages and income support. Furthermore, racism and xenophobia are fuelling hostility and prejudice towards migrants as governments are controlling the movement of migrants by closing their borders to asylum seekers and existing refugee camps are having outbreaks due to cramped and overcrowded living conditions and limited healthcare access. It is evident that migrant populations are very diverse groups that are facing unique challenges and thus, require distinct forms of protection particularly during this pandemic. The results of this work are currently being summarized in a manuscript that recognizes how determinants of health impact the health and well-being of migrants, the need to develop a road map for recovery using a health equity lens, and inform health policies. To eradicate COVID-19, it is imperative to leave no one behind including migrant populations and re-evaluate how inequities are addressed globally.

scholarly journals The Dynamics of Online Activities and Its Impact on Well-Being in Urban China

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinxuan Huang
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
Online Activities ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, this study examines the socioeconomic characteristics of Internet users, as well as the relationships between the dynamics of different forms of online activities and the subjective well-being of urbanites and rural migrants in urban China. The study finds that online behaviour may clearly reflect differences in individuals’ personal traits and socioeconomic positions. Patterns of the association between online activities and subjective well-being tend to differ among rural migrants and urbanites, especially in terms of depression. A difference-in-differences model is employed to estimate the impact of intensified engagement in online activities on depression and life satisfaction from 2010 to 2016. The results show that increased frequency of online entertainment exhibits a comparatively positive effect on depression and life satisfaction. Spending more time on online social networking has a similar impact on rural migrants, but not on urbanites. These findings suggest that the rapid development of urban China’s online community has important implications for residents’ subjective well-being.

scholarly journals A STUDY ON THE LIVELIHOOD SECURITY OF MIGRANT CHILDREN YADGIR DISTRICT, KARNATAKA STATE

YMER Digital ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 416-425
Author(s):  
Anandamaya Dasa ◽  
◽  
P Murugesan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Livelihood Security ◽  
Global Connections ◽  
Household Risks ◽  
The Impact

Migration shapes children and the world. It is accomplished by boosting individuals who may be more acceptant of transformation and variation and who are less observant and much more exposed and recognizing of the others, and those who have the most hurdles to overcome, like learning a foreign language, adapting to changing culture, and establishing more global connections. Based upon the origin and the social assistance provided by a host nation, children from migrant families had diverse experiences in life and possibilities. The academic achievement of migrant children and their psychological condition, social inclusion, and family responsibilities are all boosted by parental participation and action. Furthermore, it is essential for the migrant children parents should motivate their children to accept the current culture and acquire a new language, thereby maintaining their practices and culture at family. While migrant children go over the migration process, they confront various problems. The biggest issue affecting their well-being is changing surroundings, which has also become a barrier to intellectual growth and childhood happy memories. This study aims to explore the survival strategies and livelihood of migrant children. Also, it illustrates and evaluates the forces that drive children’s migration and their experiences and feelings as they try to adjust to their new surroundings. This study examines migrant workers’ household capital status and risk and the impact on their children. The conceptual framework is presented to understand migrant children’s livelihood security. Keywords: Capital, Household risks, Migrant Chil

scholarly journals Protection of Economic Rights in Eastern European Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 561-572
Author(s):  
Olha Kulynych ◽  
Oksana Kurylina ◽  
Nataliia Serdiuk ◽  
Serhii Bashlai ◽  
Olena Nesterenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Impact

Current problems in the protection of economic rights in Eastern Europe (the impact of the oil industry on the environment and human health, discrimination in employment, including the abuse of the rights of migrant workers and women) determine the potential for economic development. This scientific article based on: qualitative and quantitative methodology; combination of comprehensive and systematic approaches; case method; analysis of statistical indicators. The aim of the research is to analyze the protection of economic rights in Eastern European countries and their negative impact on the lives of citizens. It has been found that in addition to unresolved issues of non-payment of salaries and discrimination against various social groups, these countries have new problems in the field of protection of intellectual property rights through the development of the digital economy. The legal system carefully and slowly integrates the practice of developed countries to provide guarantees for the most vulnerable (women, migrant workers). As a result, Eastern European countries are characterized by slow structural changes in the economy and an average level of GDP per capita. Discrimination, which is characterized by differences, is among the main problems. Discrimination does not ensure equal access for women to all spheres of public life. The revealed connection between gender equality and the economic well-being of the population proves the importance of protecting economic rights as a tool to ensure the formation of a socially oriented market economy. In Eastern European countries, there is no consistent concept of equality regardless of the social-economic characteristics of the citizen. Judicial practice remains quite cautious in sentencing and there are cases of return to formal equality.

scholarly journals The Impact of Childhood Left-Behind Experience on the Mental Health of Late Adolescents: Evidence from Chinese College Freshmen

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2778
Author(s):  
Huajun Wu ◽  
Zhiyong Cai ◽  
Qing Yan ◽  
Yi Yu ◽  
Ning Neil Yu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Late Adolescents ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Single Child ◽  
The Impact

A paucity of public service afforded to migrant workers often begets a wide range of social problems. In China, hundreds of millions of migrant worker parents have to leave children behind in their hometowns. This paper investigated the long-term effects of the childhood experience of being left behind on the mental well-being of late adolescents. Mandatory university personality inventory (UPI) surveys (involving psychosomatic problems such as anxiety, depression, and stress) were conducted at a university in Jiangsu, China, during 2014–2017. The study sample consisted of 15,804 first-year college students aged between 15 and 28 years. The PSM method and the OLS regression model were employed. Controlling for the confounding factors (gender, age, single-child status, hometown location, ethnicity, and economic status), our empirical investigation demonstrated that childhood left-behind experience significantly worsened the mental health of the study sample, increasing the measure of mental ill-being by 0.661 standard deviations (p < 0.01). Moreover, the effects were consistently significant in subsamples divided by gender, single-child status, and hometown location; and the effects were greater for females, single-child students, and urban residents.

Rural–urban migration and its multidimensional impact in China

2020 ◽  
pp. 271-292
Author(s):  
Dan Meng ◽  
Yan Gao ◽  
Xiaoyang Li
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
The People ◽  
Rural Urban Migration ◽  
The Impact

This chapter will begin by giving a clearer definition and classification of China’s migrant workers, a rather diversified and complex social group in China, and then explore how such a large-scale rural–urban labour flow taking place in this country in the past few decades has influenced (1) the well-being, both objective and subjective, of China’s rural–urban migrant workers; (2) the regional economies of the labour outflow and inflow areas; (3) the impact of rural–urban migration on the development of China’s primary, secondary, and tertiary industries; (4) China’s national policy regarding these third industries and the people engaged in them.

Measuring Impact of Stress in Sandwich Generation Caring for Demented Parents

GeroPsych ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 171-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence M. Solberg ◽  
Lauren B. Solberg ◽  
Emily N. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Resource Availability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sandwich Generation ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Adult Caregivers ◽  
The Impact

Stress in caregivers may affect the healthcare recipients receive. We examined the impact of stress experienced by 45 adult caregivers of their elderly demented parents. The participants completed a 32-item questionnaire about the impact of experienced stress. The questionnaire also asked about interventions that might help to reduce the impact of stress. After exploratory factor analysis, we reduced the 32-item questionnaire to 13 items. Results indicated that caregivers experienced stress, anxiety, and sadness. Also, emotional, but not financial or professional, well-being was significantly impacted. There was no significant difference between the impact of caregiver stress on members from the sandwich generation and those from the nonsandwich generation. Meeting with a social worker for resource availability was identified most frequently as a potentially helpful intervention for coping with the impact of stress.

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