Search Results - "social exclusion"

A great share of literature on social exclusion has been based mainly on the analysis of official survey data. Whereas these efforts have provided insights into the characteristics and conditions of those people living at the margins of mainstream social relations, they have however failed to e...

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The United States has had a wavering acceptance of immigrants throughout itshistory, from eager invitations to violent and immediate forced removals. Presently, immigrants from Central America are in the spotlight, who have been dehumanized into that of the"other" and subjected to harsh de...

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Social vulnerability is often defined as a life-situation characterized by a multi-dimensional combination of disadvantage and advantage, of inclusion and exclusion factors. Its distinctive characteristic is that the weak and unstable integration in the main mechanisms of resources distribution in c...

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Poverty and social exclusion are intricately linked and can lead to profound health and social repercussions. Participation in voluntary sport clubs (VSCs) could help counteract these consequences, but those affected by poverty are underrepresented.

Articles Being socially connected is a universal human need, but a substantial number of older men and women are or become excluded from these connections in later life. Exclusion from social relations (ESR) is unwanted as it undermines people's ability to lead a healthy, active, and independen...

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Elderly people as an important part of society may sometimes be neglected, while age related issues become more and more important as their population grows. Social exclusion of the elderly is likely to increase with disease and disability. Problems and costs resulting from the neglect of the elderl...

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The volume published in 2024 and written by a team of researchers from the Quality of Life Research Institute covers a very complex issue, that of poverty and social exclusion, on the one hand, and social protection policies, focused on poverty reduction, on the other hand. Even if the proposed ana...

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This paper examines the issue of poverty and social exclusion of Roma in Slovakia. It highlights the problem of poverty among Roma communities, which together with segregation leads to absolute poverty and social exclusion. Based on ethnographic research the paper examines conditions in which inhabi...

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The decline of traditional social welfare mechanisms has increased the threat of social exclusion for marginalized populations in the United States, a threat that is reinforced by the recent wave of anti-immigrant mobilization and enforcement.The threat of increased social exclusion is particularly...

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Within a Czech socially excluded locality,street violence is recognized as a serious securitythreat. This paper deals with several interpretationsof this phenomenon which is oftentimessymbolized as the ‘Gypsy fair fight’. It is analyzedvia the dialectical method structured around thethesis–antithesi...

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The concept of social exclusion is widely used in academia and social policy discourse in European countries. However, one of the constituents of social exclusion, namely, exclusion from social relationships, remains unclear and underdeveloped both conceptually and empirically. Moreover, knowledge o...

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During the four decades, rural territories have experienced a major transformation due to the settlement of the neoliberal archetype in the agricultural ways of production. The consolidation of the agro industrial model implied deep transformations – productive, demographic and territorial, meaning...

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The purpose of this article is to provide insights into the lives of children in an elementary school classroom in the Slovak Republic. Special attention is paid to the social position of pupils with special educational needs. The text also includes a reflection on the roles of researchers in educati...

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the barriers to remarriage among women. Research hypotheses were formulated using economic theories of marriage, social exclusion, changing roles and cultural values. The research method was descriptive and the data were collected by survey method and que...

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This empirical research makes use of the capability approach and the structural perspective to analyse the biographical narratives of 15 young boys and girls of Ecuadorian background in three different institutions: secondary schools, remedial vocational centres and juvenile detention centres in Spa...

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<b>Background</b>: Child poverty is a critical issue that affects millions of children worldwide and represents a global issue. This article focuses on exploring the risk of child poverty and social exclusion across Europe, with Serbia being in a comparable position with respect to other...

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Introduction. The article describes the impact of the global trend of digitalization on the most vulnerable category of the population. The study of the digital divide is a fairly new area of research in the social sciences. Modern technologies are a part of our lives that influence social processes...

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Every human being strives for a dignified life, which is a basic human right and conscious efforts have been made for so long to work towards achieving equality in Indian society. This struggle has given rise to the concept of inclusiveness which has become an integral part of the development paradi...

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The article argues that we should study social exclusion not only in one particular locality, but rather through a multi-sited approach, which would take into account the various sites of the directing system (in governmental and non-governmental organization) and the labor market in one field of re...

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This article analyses the public housing policies implemented in Chile using the Bruno Jobert theoretical elaboration with regard to the functions of the public policies. From this analysis we draw conclusions upon the life and the associative processes presently generated in the territory of a comm...

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