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The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India's migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour, migration, and gender that were thrown up as a result of this forced migration. The book examines the failings of the public health systems and the state response to address the humanitarian crisis which unfolded in the middle of the pandemic. It highlights how the pandemic-lockdown disproportionately affected marginalised social groups - Dalits and the Adivasi communities, women and Muslim workers. The book reflects on the socio-economic vulnerabilities of migrant workers, their rights to dignity, questions around citizenship, and the need for robust systems of democratic and constitutional accountability. The chapters also critically look at the gendered vulnerabilities of women and non-cis persons in both public and private spaces, the exacerbation of social stratification and prejudices, incidents of intimidation by the administration and the police forces, and proposed labour reforms which might create greater insecurities for migrant workers. This important and timely book will be of great interest to researchers and students of sociology, public policy, development studies, gender studies, labour and economics, and law.
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Sur fond d'insécurité sociale, des jeunes à l'allure étrange envahissent les espaces publics des centres-villes. Qui sont-ils ? Des délinquants ? Des drogués ? Des vagabonds ? Des hippies ? Ils sont nommés « punks à chien » par tout un chacun, défraient la chronique, génèrent autant de peur et de rejet que de compassion, mais surtout imposent une interrogation : pourquoi des jeunes vivent-ils dans la rue ? Pourquoi revêtent-ils une présentation de soi si marginale ? Cet ouvrage est le fruit de la plongée d'une chercheuse dans un univers qui lui était étranger, son cheminement ethnographique dans la Zone, la communauté des zonards, dans une famille de rue, la Family. Ensemble, la scientifique et ces jeunes ont tenté d'éclairer les trajectoires biographiques zonardes ainsi que leur mode de vie en juxtaposant deux types de savoirs : l'un sociologique, l'autre expérientiel. L'image d'un parcours miséreux type laisse place à quatre façons d'être zonard, quatre rapports à la Zone et à la société conforme. Les zonards ne sont pas tous squatteurs, certains vivent en camion, en appartement. Ils sont adeptes des Free parties, de musique punk, soutiennent des pensées anarchistes, prônent l'anti-consommation, le retour à la forme tribale, à la nature pour certains. Loin des représentations anomiques d'une jeunesse désœuvrée sans foi, ni loi, ce livre ouvre une fenêtre sensible sur le fonctionnement d'une famille de rue et sur les trajectoires de vie de ses membres, qui jonglent entre rêves, révoltes, solidarité, jouissance, violence, émancipation, fatalité et souffrance.
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Les questionnements que posent aujourd'hui les « sans domicile fixe » n'ont jamais été aussi saillants, et symbolisent de façon aiguë la fracture sociale. Quel est leur nombre, leur profil socio-économique, leur trajectoire biographique, leur vie quotidienne ? Quels sont les modes d'intervention mis en place pour leur venir en aide ? Autant de points qui donnent lieu à schématisation et idées reçues que cet ouvrage s'attache à déconstruire. Résultat d'une étude ambitieuse mêlant recherche et terrain, ce livre donne à voir la réalité du monde de la rue. Car c'est en observant ce qui se cache derrière le mot SDF que l'on pourra ajuster l'action sociale aux transformations contemporaines de la pauvreté. Thibaut Besozzi est docteur en sociologie et chercheur associé au Laboratoire lorrain de sciences sociales (2L2S : Université de Lorraine) et au Centre d'études et de recherches sur les emplois et les professionnalisations (CEREP : Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne). Ses recherches ethnographiques portent sur l'espace urbain, la marginalité urbaine et le travail social.
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Cette édition numérique a été réalisée à partir d'un support physique, parfois ancien, conservé au sein du dépôt légal de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, conformément à la loi n° 2012-287 du 1er mars 2012 relative à l'exploitation des Livres indisponibles du XXe siècle.
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‘School was nothing but a taboo for me’ concludes Johannah, a young South African, after recounting her life story. Johannah is one of the early school leavers who features in this book. Figures on participation in education in Africa show that despite government agreements and policies developed under the banner of Education for All this remains a remote goal. In several countries, programmes on Universal Primary Education have improved access to education, but do those who enter school remain there until they have reached a suitable level? Do they acquire enough competences at primary and secondary school to survive the tough daily life in sub-Saharan countries? What happens to children and young adults who leave school early? What measures can be taken to prevent them from doing so? This book is based on research carried out in Eastern and Southern Africa by scholars from Africa and the Netherlands who cooperated within the framework of the ESLA project. The contributions to this book reflect the exchanges and discussions which took place in this research group, initiated by staff of Mzumbe University in Tanzania, Uganda Martyrs University and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The group aims to go beyond figures and uncover the causes, effects and stories of the young people involved, as well as explore promising new strategies with which to address their needs. As early school leaving is not exclusively an African problem, a contribution on the Dutch situation is also included. The book concludes that exclusion from education has far-reaching effects, not only for the young people involved, but also for the society in which they live. The burden of educational exclusion should be the joint responsibility of developing and developed countries. The authors hope the book will contribute not only to a greater understanding of the phenomenon of early school leaving, but also challenge it in terms of developing policies and programmes that can prevent educational exclusion and support those who already find themselves in such a situation.
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This is an impassioned and controversial book from two leading sociologists in the field of social exclusion. They argue that social exclusion is not simply seen in ghettos or sink estates, but also in exclusive gated housing developments, the vacuous non-places of the shopping mall, the deadening reality of low-level service work, and in the depressing uniformity of our political parties.
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By bridging the gap between theory and practice, Theorizing Folklore from the Margins confirms that engaging with oppressed communities is not only relevant, but necessary.
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This work critically examines the Indian higher education system from the perspective of marginalized communities and recommends measures to make higher education inclusive.