https://thesis.eur.nl/col/4328/ List of Publications en https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9341/ Fri, 01 Dec 1989 00:00:01 GMT <div>Quist, Cornelie</div> The central theme of this study is mobilisation of poor rural women in Sri Lanka. 'Mobilisation' is defined as the process of people bringing together resources needed for action to achieve a common interest (Tilly 1.978). The purpose of this study is to analyse opportunities for mobilisation on class and gender based interests in the rural society of Sri Lanka. 'Opportunities' indicate facilitating factors as well as limitating factors which occur. Class and gender based interests are observed to be the major interests of poor rural women, although not the only ones. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/13681/ Tue, 10 Dec 2002 00:00:01 GMT <div>Promyarat, Suwannee</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/13516/ Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:00:01 GMT <div>Promyarat, Suwannee</div> SIF, a crisis management programme, uses the Social Capital concept in community development expecting that the sub-project implementation by the community will help increase social capital and lead to community awareness raising and bring about political engagement. SIF introduces communities to the processes of Social Capital identification, community linkage and civil society. (Social Fund Office 2002) SIF works directly with the grassroots. What is needed is a formulation which will respond to women's long-term needs and thereby lead to gender equity. The 37 month- progress report showed that women highly benefited from SIF. However, a high number of women as beneficiaries is not a sufficient indicator for success. It is important to look into how gender was considered in the project implementation, and how women's participation can contribute to an enlargement of their power base and political resources to change gender relations in the long run. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/32475/ Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:00:01 GMT <div>Naukongo, Kakukuru Elizabeth</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9250/ Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Sanchez, Josephine Alava</div> The labour export policy of the Philippines is a means to overcome the country's chronic financial crisis. The remittances of overseas Filipino workers constitute a significant part of the foreign exchange earnings of the government. The link between labour export programs and increasing dependency on migrant remittance fostered by faileddevelopment policy and prolonged crisis in the country, has turned development policy into a form of 'feminisation of survival'. In the Netherlands as a recipient country, The Dutch government, has no explicit policy on the import of domestic workers nor a clear bilateral agreement with the Philippine government. The state is not acknowledging the need for domestic workers and not legally recognizing domestic work as work and the state does not take its account-abilities to protect undocumented migrant domestic workers, it doesn't even recognize their existence. Therefore, undocumented migrant domestic workers are left without any basis for claiming their rights as workers. The aims of this study is to gather empirical data regarding the experiences and situations of undocumented Filipina migrant domestic workers in the Netherlands. Results of the research will be used as basis for evaluating, revising or developing intervention programs for the undocumented Filipina migrants. The data may be used for advocacy, education, and consciousness-raising both in the Netherlands and in the Philippines bynon-government organisations (NOO's), peoples' organisations (PO's), and other agencies concerned with migration issues. The international migration of women as domestic workers may be analyzed within the frameworks of the gendered international division of labour in the global capitalist system where developing countries like the Philippines supply cheap labor to developed countries so that human reproduction will not suffer while the latter engages in "productive" work and the pursuit of more profits. The problems and difficulties confronted by undocumented migrant domestic workers have a structural roots. Domestic work is not recognized as work and those who perform it are not considered as objects of legislation as workers. They face triple discrimination for performing a type of work that is not recognized by the state, for being undocumented migrant workers whose contributions and presence does not acknowledge by the Dutch government and for being citizens of a country that cannot protect their rights and well-being despite their being the family breadwinners and the modem-day heroes. The invisibility of domestic work, the absence of the social obligations of the host country, the lack of protection from the home country and the strict and harsh migration policies of the Netherlands compound the vulnerability and insecurity of undocumented Filipina migrant domestic workers. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9386/ Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Mwiinga, Rhoda Mutema</div> Zambia is one of the countries that have been hit hard by the HIV I AIDS pandemic. As parents die, they are leaving behind a huge number of orphans, because the pandemic is affecting mostly those in the productive age (15-45 years). Traditionally, the extended family has been absorbing orphans, but now it is getting overwhelmed since the problem has reached the level of a crisis. This is due to the fact that HIV/AIDS is eroding both the nuclear and extended family. However, even where members of the extended family are still there, it is extremely difficult for them to help due to high poverty levels in the country. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9715/ Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Fukuda, Yuki</div> Bulgaria has one of the highest numbers of children in institutional care among CEECs. Population at age from 0 to 17 has been decreasing after the collapse of communist regime - from 2,273 thousands in 1989 to 1,459 thousands in 2003 (UNICEF Innocenti 1 This document does not mention the year publishing. Research Center, 2004:56). Yet, the rate of children in institutional care has been increasing from 1,281.4 per hundred thousands populations at age from 0 to 17 in 1990 to 1,466.6 per hundred thousands in 2002 (UNICEF Innocenti Research Center, 2003:84). While the total number of children in Bulgaria may have decreased, the rate of children who are not cared by their parents has increased. This trend indicates that there may be systematic failure in the domain of care for children and youth in Bulgaria. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/11187/ Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:01 GMT <div>Fukuda, Yuki</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/9205/ Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Conteh, Michael Linso Lawrence</div> This research paper is based on a study of the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (hence forth SDFN), a network of housing saving schemes which aims to improve the living conditions of low-income people living in shacks or rented rooms and those without' any accommodation, and simultaneously to promote women's participation. SDFN was formed in October 1998 consisting of 30 housing groups that had been formed in Namibia since the late eighties. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/76254/ Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Musdawati</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/36894/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Apoll, Tracy</div> The following research examines the key issues that emerge in gender mainstreaming as a transnational strategy for achieving gender equality, acknowledging that gender mainstreaming occurs within the context of differing and changing values and norms. The primary focus of this research is on Interkerkelijk Vredesberaad (IKV) a peace and democracy building organization working in the context of the Netherlands and thus in the European Union. The research examines the extent to which gender mainstreaming 'trickles-down' to organizations and the amount that organizations define their own strategies within a larger gender mainstreaming paradigm. The research also discusses the debate between cultural relativism and universalism, as these are used as key areas of contestation and debate within gender mainstreaming as a transnational strategy and specifically within IKV as they attempt to mainstream gender concerns in the different regions where they work. Finally the research attempts to identify various anchoring points on which IKV can build its gender mainstreaming strategy, in order to have a firm grasp of concepts yet at the same time a flexible ability to analyze the different gender regimes that guide policies and practices within their own organization and their partner agencies. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/36911/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Laisang, Maureen Gloria</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/52117/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT <div>Brezovich, Elizabeth Johanna</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/52119/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:01 GMT https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/13515/ Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:01 GMT <div>Abella, Anjani Francisco</div> Many factors influence the shaping and reshaping of welfare policy — among these include state ideas and interpretation of social justice. With a focus on policy shifts on state-led elderly home care since the 1980s, The Netherlands has progressively championed citizen participation and solidarity to rescue Dutch welfarism. Earlier efforts by the state found that economistic strategies alone were incapable of offering viable cost-cutting solutions capable of safeguarding the dignified life of its citizens. Through the introduction of participatory citizenship, no longer were the elderly regarded as passive, helpless and dependent individuals. The elderly began to be approached as active and productive citizens, boosting elderly morale, self confidence and independence. Despite this positive turn however, secondary and primary data point out to a worrying trend of deteriorating quality care and social relations. The purpose of this study is to offer potential pathways to consider for ongoing research on social justice, welfare restructuring and public policymaking. Reflections on changes in state-led elderly home care arrangements are informed by the work of feminist care ethicists and gender analysis on the public-private divide. Through the application of Roy’s two-strand methodology of interrogating policy planning and “the ideal of the public”, the study observes the pernicious effects of policy planning based on a conception of individuals as autonomous blocks (practice), and the limits of liberal ideas encompassed by mainstream and alternative conceptions of social justice (discourse). https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/11147/ Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:01 GMT <div>Thaddius, Besiga Agapto</div> This study examines the issue of child neglect from the perspective of children's rights to participation as stipulated by Uganda's Children statute 1996. The study situates child participation in the proceedings of the probation and welfare office in Kanungu District financial year 2001-2002. Drawing from published and unpublished literature - including individual case reports of child neglect handled by the welfare office - my personal reflection and experience as the head of probation and welfare office Kanungu district, the study shows a clear tension between the universal norms of children's rights as stipulated in the UN-CRC - integrated in the Ugandan Children Statute - and the diverse meanings of child participation derived from the social construction of childhood and gender, both of which are embedded in local power structures and norms. The paper delineates the key principles that underpin the concept of child participation as adopted in the probation and welfare office and traces the ways in which practices have adhered to, adjusted or resisted these principles. Decision makers at the local level do not always respect the principles stipulated in the Children's Statute - being overwhelmed by the diverse community needs and e~pectations. Children's participation remains the showpiece of many campaigns for children's rights. Neither childhood nor gender are natural, but products of society, cultural and history. If 'childhood' and 'gender' are taken as the artefacts of the creation of meanings by human societies, then intervention in child neglect cases must discern these meanings and situate them in families and in society. Understanding participation from the perspectives of children can help develop more critical reflections among adults concerned with child neglect, and can promote reflexive debates about formal standards in order to find ways to improve practices of child participation. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/33452/ Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:01 GMT <div>Hillenbrand, Emily</div> This paper explores multiple dimensions of ageing and gender inequalities in rural Romania, in the context of failed market transition and EU integration. Articulated through different policy discourses and structures of inequalities, market transtion has shaped the lived experiences of aging and livelihood, and has restricted the struggle of the elderly to defend particular meanings of rurality. The reconfiguration of practices and meanings of rurality obliterates other aspects of market-led transition- including the patterns of caring for the elderly, the caring practices of the elderly themselves, and the symbolic meanings of aging and care. Following Bourdieu's concepts of doxa, symbolic violence, and habitus, textual analysis of rural development and social policy shifts reveals that, in the absence of a strategic vision of its own rurality, Romania's social field of transition has been pe1meated by the doxa of Neolib~ralism, which enforces a middle-aged, androcentric, and urban-oriented transition process. This doxa distorts many meanings and practices of rurality, and obscures or usurps heterodox opinions calling for a more humane and culturally contextualized transition. Distilling from the narratives of the elderly in a high-migration village in Transylania, the fieldwork analysis will show how the elderly's notions of livelihood and wellbeing are embedded in a culturally specific habitus of rurality, which is based on an eco-centered worldview, centered around interrelationships (caring for and about others, the land, and the community). Juxtaposing this cultural habitus with the instrumental framing of the elderly in EU-led rural development policy illustrates how the power of representation misrecognizes some of the detrimental effects of migration and de-peasantization on the well-being of the elderly. https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/31887/ Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:01 GMT <div>Malaki, Betty Saimon</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/11367/ Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:01 GMT <div>Fortin, Paelta Dechavez</div> https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/11369/ Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:01 GMT <div>Musgrave, George Benjamin Elono</div> This research is concerned with meanings of Zwarte Piet for school children in The Hague, in the context of racist, colonial and multicultural traditions of Dutch society and more specifically, the ways these traditions appear in children's textual and visual narratives of Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet in three schools. The existence of a character such as Zwarte Piet contradicts the Dutch selfperception of tolerance with the denial of racism in its defence symptomatic of a systemic denial of racism within the Netherlands that is reinforced through policy makers and homogenous systems of research dominated by white Dutch males. Thus, racism is reworked as discrimination and everyone that does not fit the necessary criteria of Dutch ness is labelled, in a process of 'other- ing', as being 'allochtoon'. Zwarte Piet in turn appears to be symptomatic of this 'othering' process in which he as a black subordinated character reinforces Sinterklaas's identity as a white Master in the process implying mis recognition of black people within Dutch society that is reinforced through a denial of racism. Children are the focus of this paper because they are responsible for transmitting the tradition from to the next generation and the findings show that the children's parental background influences the meanings that the children derive from the festival. Any progress of the festival requires self- examination from Dutch people rather than a banning of the character so that one day Dutch society may wake up sick of the pain and invent a new tradition that fits the diversity within the society better.