Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1221206
Carmen Van Praet
Abstract With the advent of industrialization, the question of developing adequate housing for the emergent working classes became more pressing. Moreover, the problem of unhygienic houses in industrial cities did not stop at the borders of a particular nation-state, as pandemic diseases spread out “transnationally.” It is not a coincidence that, in the nineteenth century, the number of international congresses on hygiene and social topics expanded substantially. However, the historiography about social policy in general and social housing in particular has often focused on individual cases because of the different pace of industrial and urban development, and is thus dominated by national perspectives. In this paper, I elaborate on transnational exchange processes and local adaptations and transformations. I focus on the transfer of the housing model of a French house building association, the Société Mulhousienne des Cités Ouvrières (SOMCO) in Mulhouse, during social international congresses. I examine whether cross-national networking enabled and facilitated the implementation of ideas on the local scale. I will elaborate on the transmission and the local adaptation of the Mulhouse Model in Belgium, taking into account convergences, divergences, and different factors that influenced the local transformations (personal choice, political situation, socio-economic circumstances).
随着工业化的到来，为新兴的工人阶级开发足够的住房问题变得更加紧迫。此外，工业城市不卫生的住房问题并没有局限于某一民族国家的边界，因为大流行疾病会“跨国”传播。在19世纪，关于卫生和社会主题的国际会议数量大幅增加，这并非巧合。然而，由于工业和城市发展的步伐不同，关于一般社会政策，特别是社会住房的历史编纂往往侧重于个别情况，因此受到国家观点的支配。在本文中，我详细阐述了跨国交换过程和本地适应和转型。在国际社会大会期间，我关注的是法国住宅建筑协会的住房模式的转移，该协会是位于米尔卢斯的societytous Mulhousienne des cit ouvri (SOMCO)。我研究了跨国网络是否能够在地方范围内实现和促进思想的实施。我将详细阐述米卢斯模式在比利时的传播和地方适应，同时考虑到趋同、差异以及影响地方转型的不同因素(个人选择、政治形势、社会经济环境)。
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1222762
Xiaobei Chen
Abstract This paper examines two sets of transnational child welfare practices connecting Canada and China: Christian missionaries’ work with children in China and contemporary transnational adoptions, highlighting the problematizations of culture and identity in each situation. The purpose is to bring critical consciousness to issues related to transnational child welfare practices that have been obscured or taken as self-evident. I draw on historical research to discuss three ways in which ideas and practices related to culture and identity in contemporary transnational adoptions reveal the making of the Canadian nation and its racialized and Eurocentric order. Social work responding to transnational challenges and possibilities cannot be separated from hegemonic social and political projects of nation-building. However, we may be able to rework assumptions about the nation and its order, to repurpose its programs, and to contest its subjectivizing power.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1222759
J. Gal, S. Köngeter
Abstract This article explores the transnational exchange of knowledge of ideas in social work in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing upon the notion of transnational translation of knowledge, the study presented here sheds light on the interaction between the knowledge and ideas brought to Palestine in the early 1930s by German social worker refugees, and the dominant perceptions, values, and conditions of the Jewish community in that country. The case study follows the efforts to introduce a German model of social work education into Palestine and, particularly, the struggle of leading German-Jewish social worker Siddy Wronsky and others to legitimize the approach of social work developed in Weimar Germany in the 1920s. While a system of local social work institutions did eventually emerge during the period studied, the effort to effectively introduce the German social work approach into Palestine was less successful. The failure to gain legitimacy of the German approach to social work in a social context where the labor movement dominated with a contrasting notion of social welfare was the reason that the translation of knowledge to Palestine was only partially successful.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1229930
A. Müller
“Living and Working in Paradise: The Rise of the Digital Nomad” (Hart, 2015) is the title of an article in The Telegraph about a new generation of location-independent freelancers, young entreprene...
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1229942
Michele Manocchi
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1222764
Aiqun Hu
Abstract This article provides a historical analysis of the transnational diffusion of social insurance ideas in the People’s Republic of China (1949–present). Based on rich primary documents, this article argues that China’s social insurance policies in the 1950s were heavily influenced by Soviet ideas and institutions of social insurance, which were nevertheless abandoned with the prevailing of Mao’s ideas of “continuing revolution” in the 1960s and 1970s. After China reopened to the world in the late 1970s, China’s social security reforms were first influenced by social insurance ideas of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in the 1980s, then by neoliberal social security models (Singapore’s Central Provident Funds and the World Bank’s three-pillar system) promoted by the World Bank in the 1990s, and finally by the ideas of “social security for all” promoted by the ILO in the new century.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1222781
Vadim Moldovan, E. Rotari, Alina Zagorodniuc
Abstract Jane Addams (1860–1935) was an American feminist, pacifist, social reformer, and community organizer who defined social work through her deeds, words, and personality. Considered one of the most influential women in American history, she was a tireless innovator whose considerable talent and energy were dedicated to the mission of helping the needy. Addams began her social activist career by founding a community center in the poor section of Chicago and providing impetus to the Settlement House Movement in the United States. Gradually her activities transcended local community organizing to acquire national and international impacts. In 1931 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her formidable post-World War I antiwar activities. Addams was driven by a combination of religious passion and ethical inquiry that has informed her judgments and actions. Leo Tolstoy, who was acknowledged by Addams as the greatest influence on her mind and spirit, was one of several contemporary Russian thinkers and social reformers who impacted Addams’ own philosophy. She had personal encounters with some of them, studied their writings, and selectively adopted their ideas. This paper briefly explores Russian influences on the social philosophy of Jane Addams.
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Pub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1222788
S. An, A. Chambon, S. Köngeter
Social work and social welfare emerged as institutions of modern nation-states, circumscribed by nation-state borders and inscribed in specific local and regional contexts; as such they have been examined traditionally as institutions confined to nation-state borders. While social work has constantly been searching for its domain and identity (Dominelli, 2007), more recently social work has been facing a number of new challenges on a national and global scale. First, the collapse of state socialism in the 1990s, interpreted as proof of the singularity of modernization and development, facilitated the dismantling of socialist welfare systems and the emergence of social work as a post-socialist welfare institution (Beblavý, 2008; Iarskaia-Smirnova, 2011). Second, the neoliberal logic continues to shape the ongoing restructuring and downsizing of Western welfare states, increasing the burden for social work (Baines, 2010). Third, welfare institutions of nation-states appear to be inadequate when dealing with global and transnational issues and processes (Chambon, Schröer, & Schweppe, 2012). Fourth, national welfare institutions are becoming increasingly interconnected and influenced by global policy actors (Deacon, 2007) and by cross-border processes of policy translation (Good Gingrich & Köngeter, in press; Lendvai & Stubbs, 2007). While these transnational developments have multiple and profound effects on social work, they have been only tangentially addressed by social science and historical research. Much of the conventional research into social work and social policy has suffered from “methodological nationalism” – the implicit assumption of nation-states as natural entities of investigation bounded by territorial borders (Wimmer & Glick Schiller, 2002). Nation-statecentric perspectives fall short in examining the dynamic and intrinsically transnational welfare institutions and processes (Kettunen & Petersen, 2011). Moreover, “methodological nationalism” built in social policy analysis has been intertwined with nationalism underlying the practice of designing social policies and contributes to the growing disjuncture between sedentary welfare systems and transnational citizens (Baines & Sharma, 2002). Similarly to contemporary analyses, historical accounts of social work and social welfare often exhibit methodological nationalism. Kettunen and Petersen’s (2011) critique of nation-centric historical analyses pointed to three common types of historical research on welfare states: (1) history as national specificities, when welfare institutions are studied as formations bearing nation-specific and intrinsic characteristics; (2) history as origins, exemplified by research concerned with identifying the origin of welfare states; and (3) history as
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Pub Date : 2016-08-22DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1218176
Raluca Bejan
The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS), an alternative higher education institution, organized its first Global Conference, Democracy Rising: From Insurrections to ‘Event,’ which took place ...
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Pub Date : 2016-07-13DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1277864
L. Baldassar, R. Wilding, Paolo Boccagni, L. Merla
This Focus Topic brings together an analysis of cross-cutting fields of critical importance for the future: aging, migrant transnationalism, and new media. While each of these fields has prompted vast literatures, their intersections remain surprisingly under-acknowledged. Yet, it is at these intersections that a significant social transformation is currently underway that requires attention from researchers, policy makers, and service providers engaging with older populations. It is now common knowledge that population aging is a significant and growing issue for many developed nations around the world, raising important questions about how to best accommodate the needs and opportunities of large numbers of older people, comprising a larger proportion of the population (Ezeh, Bongaarts, & Mberu, 2012; Lutz, Sanderson, & Scherbov, 2008). One common response to this issue by policy makers has been to explore strategies to promote and support “aging in place,” by improving the ability of older people to remain living independently in their own homes and local communities, regardless of age, income, or ability level (Hillcoat-Nalletamby & Ogg, 2014; Vasunilashorn et al., 2012). Studies of aging in place have demonstrated the benefits that can be gained from facilitating people’s engagement in their local neighborhoods and communities, including the prevention of social isolation that might result from reduced physical mobility. This has the advantage of reducing the costs of aged care and fulfilling the goals and aims of many older people to remain in their own homes, especially those living in western countries. However, the emphasis on what services and facilities are required in local neighborhoods or communities to support healthy aging in place tends to overlook the increasing role of migration, mobility, and new media in the lives of older people. It is now clear that more and more people are living “mobile lives” (Elliott & Urry, 2010) as a result of international and intra-national, permanent and temporary forms of migration and movement. Indeed, many of the developed nations that are experiencing population aging also have large – and aging – migrant populations. Aged migrants include both people who arrived in countries of settlement as young adults in the twentieth century as well as those relocating to establish new lives in their retirement in the twenty-first century. For these populations, “aging in place” is not a simple formula. It is not always clear in which “place” older migrants are willing or able to live as they age. While many elderly migrants
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