Pub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2148726
Yei-Whei Lin
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2141847
Rui Zhao, S. To
ABSTRACT Through the theoretical lens of bounded agency in the life course, this qualitative study explores Chinese rural-to-urban migrants’ experiences in pursuing future possibilities. Based on qualitative interviews with 42 migrants working in three cities of mainland China, the findings show that the participants seemed to regard starting a business as a ‘panacea’ that could ‘cure’ almost all the negative aspects of their lives as manual labourers. However, when discussing how to put this plan into practice, their agency was bounded by their disadvantages in social support, related knowledge and abilities, and entrepreneurial personality. The researchers conclude that it is better to understand doing business as a ‘stimulant’ that can provide migrants a spiritual respite from time to time in their frustrating lives, rather than a ‘panacea’ that can solve their practical problems. Some policy and practice suggestions have also been made to help rural-to-urban migrants achieve a better future.
{"title":"The bounded agency of Chinese rural-to-urban migrants in pursuing future possibilities: implications for social policy and social work practice","authors":"Rui Zhao, S. To","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2141847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2141847","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Through the theoretical lens of bounded agency in the life course, this qualitative study explores Chinese rural-to-urban migrants’ experiences in pursuing future possibilities. Based on qualitative interviews with 42 migrants working in three cities of mainland China, the findings show that the participants seemed to regard starting a business as a ‘panacea’ that could ‘cure’ almost all the negative aspects of their lives as manual labourers. However, when discussing how to put this plan into practice, their agency was bounded by their disadvantages in social support, related knowledge and abilities, and entrepreneurial personality. The researchers conclude that it is better to understand doing business as a ‘stimulant’ that can provide migrants a spiritual respite from time to time in their frustrating lives, rather than a ‘panacea’ that can solve their practical problems. Some policy and practice suggestions have also been made to help rural-to-urban migrants achieve a better future.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89093250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2117240
John Paul B. Magalang, M. I. Carvalho
ABSTRACT This article reports the results of a survey sent to 52 Filipino social workers to measure the level of their work-related quality of life (WRQOL). The results show that professionals who work in the private sector have a higher level of WRQOL than those who work in the government, and more autonomy in decision-making. Professionals with regular or permanent positions have also a higher level of WRQOL than those who work on contractual basis whether in the public or private sector. We conclude that work-related quality varies between the status of employment, stability in the workplace and professional autonomy.
{"title":"An exploratory study on quality of life of Filipino social workers: stability and professional autonomy","authors":"John Paul B. Magalang, M. I. Carvalho","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2117240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2117240","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article reports the results of a survey sent to 52 Filipino social workers to measure the level of their work-related quality of life (WRQOL). The results show that professionals who work in the private sector have a higher level of WRQOL than those who work in the government, and more autonomy in decision-making. Professionals with regular or permanent positions have also a higher level of WRQOL than those who work on contractual basis whether in the public or private sector. We conclude that work-related quality varies between the status of employment, stability in the workplace and professional autonomy.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83605412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-13DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2131615
Linh P. Dinh, T. T. Nguyen
ABSTRACT Adopting conventional content analysis, our article seeks to address advantages and disadvantages of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic from perspectives of 186 social work students in an educational institution in Vietnam. Accordingly, though being appreciated mainly for its convenience in terms of travelling, time schedule and learning venue, online learning shows significant shortcomings regarding technical operation, interaction and learning effectiveness. From which, we discuss the opportunities and challenges for online social work education in Vietnam post-COVID-19.
{"title":"Convenient and Comfortable, yet Limited in Many Ways: Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic from Perspectives of Social Work Students in Vietnam","authors":"Linh P. Dinh, T. T. Nguyen","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2131615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2131615","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Adopting conventional content analysis, our article seeks to address advantages and disadvantages of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic from perspectives of 186 social work students in an educational institution in Vietnam. Accordingly, though being appreciated mainly for its convenience in terms of travelling, time schedule and learning venue, online learning shows significant shortcomings regarding technical operation, interaction and learning effectiveness. From which, we discuss the opportunities and challenges for online social work education in Vietnam post-COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84142846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-10DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2128861
R. Dehury
ABSTRACT The janani surakhya yojana (JSY), a flagship programme of the national health mission (NHM), was implemented to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among marginalised pregnant women in India. This study provides an account of the challenges faced by tribal pregnant women in accessing reproductive health care services. Primary data was collected from various maternal health stakeholders and expectant mothers using qualitative methods. The study adopted data collection methods like focus group discussions (FGDs) and in-depth interviews regarding the programme implementation of JSY at Jaleswar. Secondary data were analysed to understand the effectiveness of government policy in improving maternal health. The study indicates that despite an elaborate programme of action, there is low community perception and trust in bio-medical (mostly) procedures among the tribal population. The government programmes rarely compliment the tribal cultural construction of pregnancy and child birthing with existing medical and professional discourse.
{"title":"Access and barriers to maternal health program: a community perspective in a tribal area of Odisha, India","authors":"R. Dehury","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2128861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2128861","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The janani surakhya yojana (JSY), a flagship programme of the national health mission (NHM), was implemented to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among marginalised pregnant women in India. This study provides an account of the challenges faced by tribal pregnant women in accessing reproductive health care services. Primary data was collected from various maternal health stakeholders and expectant mothers using qualitative methods. The study adopted data collection methods like focus group discussions (FGDs) and in-depth interviews regarding the programme implementation of JSY at Jaleswar. Secondary data were analysed to understand the effectiveness of government policy in improving maternal health. The study indicates that despite an elaborate programme of action, there is low community perception and trust in bio-medical (mostly) procedures among the tribal population. The government programmes rarely compliment the tribal cultural construction of pregnancy and child birthing with existing medical and professional discourse.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78040358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2136235
Zhifeng He, Yuanlin Xiang, Congpeng Qi, Xiaohe Liu, Sisi Li
ABSTRACT COVID-19 provides a window of opportunity for observing community resilience initiatives. Based on the Community Resilience Initiative Framework, we adopt a qualitative approach to investigate a Chinese urban community, focusing on community initiatives with regard to fighting the COVID-19 epidemic. The findings highlight several primary factors, including the agency of community actors, the grid management system, and the utilisation of WeChat groups.The collective experience of fighting against COVID-19 has boosted community interaction, understanding and trust, and has further promoted the capacity of problem solving in the community, and thus established community self-organisation. These findings have important implications for community development in the post-epidemic era.
{"title":"The emergence and impact of community resilience initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic: an exploration study from a Chinese urban community","authors":"Zhifeng He, Yuanlin Xiang, Congpeng Qi, Xiaohe Liu, Sisi Li","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2136235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2136235","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT COVID-19 provides a window of opportunity for observing community resilience initiatives. Based on the Community Resilience Initiative Framework, we adopt a qualitative approach to investigate a Chinese urban community, focusing on community initiatives with regard to fighting the COVID-19 epidemic. The findings highlight several primary factors, including the agency of community actors, the grid management system, and the utilisation of WeChat groups.The collective experience of fighting against COVID-19 has boosted community interaction, understanding and trust, and has further promoted the capacity of problem solving in the community, and thus established community self-organisation. These findings have important implications for community development in the post-epidemic era.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87515788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2135017
Kyoko Suzuki, Shuhei Naka
ABSTRACT This study focuses on female self-employed workers in Japan, evaluating their position in the labour market and access to social protection. It also investigates the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and their responses to it. We find that female self-employed workers are in a better position than female employees working on non-standard contracts, with less gender disparity. However, they lack social protection against sudden income loss, which caused them more serious damage during the COVID-19 crisis. Although the segment is relatively free from gender discrimination, it cannot escape the gender biases embedded in the social security system.
{"title":"Being doubly disadvantaged or escaping gender discrimination?: female self-employment in Japan and their responses to the COVID-19 crisis","authors":"Kyoko Suzuki, Shuhei Naka","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2135017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2135017","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study focuses on female self-employed workers in Japan, evaluating their position in the labour market and access to social protection. It also investigates the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and their responses to it. We find that female self-employed workers are in a better position than female employees working on non-standard contracts, with less gender disparity. However, they lack social protection against sudden income loss, which caused them more serious damage during the COVID-19 crisis. Although the segment is relatively free from gender discrimination, it cannot escape the gender biases embedded in the social security system.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82386855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2135588
Chung-Yang Yeh, Pei-Yuen Tsai, Yeun-Wen Ku
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to study public attitudes towards government provision of financial support. By focusing on Taiwan, we find that financial concern is a crucial determinant in explaining public attitudes towards government financial support, and trust in government capacity to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic effectively moderates the impact of financial concerns. We conclude that trust in government capacity is not only the key to the legitimacy of government financial support, but also helps mitigate citizens’ sense of economic insecurity and uncertainty during the COVID-19 crisis.
{"title":"Public attitude towards government financial support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan","authors":"Chung-Yang Yeh, Pei-Yuen Tsai, Yeun-Wen Ku","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2135588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2135588","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to study public attitudes towards government provision of financial support. By focusing on Taiwan, we find that financial concern is a crucial determinant in explaining public attitudes towards government financial support, and trust in government capacity to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic effectively moderates the impact of financial concerns. We conclude that trust in government capacity is not only the key to the legitimacy of government financial support, but also helps mitigate citizens’ sense of economic insecurity and uncertainty during the COVID-19 crisis.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86510703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2136234
Tauchid Komara Yuda, Mina Kim, Aungsumalee Pholpark, Hamzah Nor Bin Aedy Rahman
ABSTRACT This article aimed to compare the social policy responses to COVID-19 in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand using an institutionalist’s perspective. So far, the crisis expanded social protection through temporary schemes, with rare reforms, and opened greater possibilities for future institutionalisation of new policies. We argue that the COVID-19 policy responses must be viewed as an unfinished agenda of expansion-driven policy responses to the 1997–1998 financial crisis. Still, these are different sets of measures from the previous crisis, which have been characterised by minimal systemic changes. The variegated responses of countries reveal hitherto unexplored policy implications for the Southeast Asian region.
{"title":"Unmasking the social policy responses of COVID-19 in four Southeast Asian Nations: institutional patterns and policy adjustment","authors":"Tauchid Komara Yuda, Mina Kim, Aungsumalee Pholpark, Hamzah Nor Bin Aedy Rahman","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2136234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2136234","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aimed to compare the social policy responses to COVID-19 in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand using an institutionalist’s perspective. So far, the crisis expanded social protection through temporary schemes, with rare reforms, and opened greater possibilities for future institutionalisation of new policies. We argue that the COVID-19 policy responses must be viewed as an unfinished agenda of expansion-driven policy responses to the 1997–1998 financial crisis. Still, these are different sets of measures from the previous crisis, which have been characterised by minimal systemic changes. The variegated responses of countries reveal hitherto unexplored policy implications for the Southeast Asian region.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90316172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02185385.2022.2140703
Lan Nguyen, Minh Bui
ABSTRACT COVID-19 is not merely a global health crisis, but a comprehensive socio-economic disaster worldwide due to its multidimensional impacts and wide-range consequences for most countries. As a middle-income country in Southeast Asia, Vietnam has been suffering from the multifaceted consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and has made the most significant effort to respond. In response to challenges caused by Covid 19, Vietnam has been trying to introduce social protection policies to support the COVID-19 affected groups. The study conducted 58 in-depth interviews with different representatives from policymakers, policy implementors at different levels, and beneficiaries (the poor, persons with disabilities, informal/freelance workers and so on) to draws a picture of the pandemic impacts via the voices of different stakeholders. It then describes how the government and community’ social protection policies are responding to manage the pandemic and its multidimensional impacts. The paper highlights and discusses the lessons from Vietnamese experiences.
{"title":"Social protection response to COVID-19: Experiences and lessons from Vietnam","authors":"Lan Nguyen, Minh Bui","doi":"10.1080/02185385.2022.2140703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2022.2140703","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT COVID-19 is not merely a global health crisis, but a comprehensive socio-economic disaster worldwide due to its multidimensional impacts and wide-range consequences for most countries. As a middle-income country in Southeast Asia, Vietnam has been suffering from the multifaceted consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and has made the most significant effort to respond. In response to challenges caused by Covid 19, Vietnam has been trying to introduce social protection policies to support the COVID-19 affected groups. The study conducted 58 in-depth interviews with different representatives from policymakers, policy implementors at different levels, and beneficiaries (the poor, persons with disabilities, informal/freelance workers and so on) to draws a picture of the pandemic impacts via the voices of different stakeholders. It then describes how the government and community’ social protection policies are responding to manage the pandemic and its multidimensional impacts. The paper highlights and discusses the lessons from Vietnamese experiences.","PeriodicalId":44820,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76557353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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