Transformative Homes

ABSTRACT

In the era of global workflows and massive migrations, it has been suggested that the notion of home is breaking free from its material aspects to become a set of exportable routines and practices. On the other hand, it is argued that the materiality of spaces and objects can support migrants' well-being in the new destination. Drawing on the ethnography of a Moroccan household in Rome, Italy, we illustrate how actions pertinent to the material home can favor identity development and the exercise of agency. First, we discuss squatting as a collective action of appropriation and transformation, which led to the identification with a transnational, intercultural category of migrant. Second, we illustrate the activities of furnishing as the locus of syncretic and reflexive processes, in which elements of the host country and themes from the migratory experience are mixed and reinterpreted in novel ways. Our analysis supports the view that the materiality of the home and the actions it affords play a major role in the socio-psychological adjustment of migrants and—on a wider scale—in processes of cultural dynamism and renovation.     

Living in displacement context: Coping strategies,changing attitudes and family dynamics among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Mindanao,Philippines

ABSTRACT

The main objective of the paper is to critically examine and document the living conditions of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Marawi City. Forcibly displaced more than a year ago due to armed conflict, these IDPs managed to find their way to an unoccupied building in the outskirt of Iligan City, Lanao del Norte Province, Philippines. Results show their range of main concerns such as the supply of electricity and water, health services and medicines and more importantly, food. Disruptions on children’s schooling and most especially the discontinuation of their parents’ livelihood were also documented. The community is waiting for their “turn” to access better temporary shelters provided by the government. The study utilized key informant interview (KII) among 10 household heads (from among the 75 families living in the building). Their narratives reveal several coping strategies amidst insufficient government assistance and community feeling of isolation, the most glaring of those, is the dependency to social network, capitalizing on the social ties with relatives and friends for assistance. The IDPs admitted however that the same assistance is not enough. Additionally, the reduction of food consumption and selling of food relief packs remain unsustainable in coping with their destitute condition. Moreover, the article also touches on the consequence of their displacement context on socio-familial dynamics.     

‘They More or Less Blended in with Society’: Changing Attitudes to European Migrant Workers in Post-war Lancashire

European volunteer workers have received comparatively little attention in the history of British post-war immigration, with greater coverage given to, for example, demobilised members of the Polish Resettlement Corps. This paper is based upon oral history interviews with a group of European immigrants, predominantly European volunteer workers, and local Lancastrians who started work in the Lancashire cotton industry between 1946 and 1951, and examines perceptions of how they integrated into British life in a variety of domains. The paper emphasises that ‘blending-in’ was context-dependent, with a sense of being welcomed and fitting-in applying to certain domains and in certain situations but not necessarily in others. It argues that migration fosters particular cultural attitudes and practices amongst both migrants and hosts as social identities are produced and reproduced, changed and challenged.     

State and Regional Variation in the Effects of Trade on Job Displacement in the US Manufacturing Sector, 1982–1999

Worker-level data from the 1984–2000 Displaced Worker Surveys are employed to examine the effects of trade on manufacturing workers’ probabilities of job displacement. Observed changes in import and export penetration rates yield increases in displacement probabilities for the North Central, Middle Atlantic and South Central regions yet lower displacement probabilities for the Plains/West and Pacific regions. Changes in import and export price indexes lead to increases in displacement probabilities for the Pacific, Southeast and Northeast regions and decreases for the South Central and Middle Atlantic regions. However, while the influences of imports and exports on job displacement vary considerably across states and regions, the estimated net effect of trade on displacement probabilities is minor, generally speaking, when compared to the combined influence of other factors.

粘弹性稠油的驱替特征及其影响因素分析

在粘弹性稠油一维两相驱替数学模型基础上,考虑影响稠油松弛特性的两个因素：温度和胶质-沥青质含量(体积分数）,进行了数值求解,分析了松弛特性的影响因素及其对水驱稠油的影响。分析表明：温度越高,松弛特性越弱;胶质-沥青质含量越高,松弛特性越强,粘弹特性越显著;松弛特性可以降低驱替压力梯度,提高含水饱和度,推迟见水时间,延长开采时间,提高采收率,改善水驱粘弹性稠油的开发效果,但其影响随着温度的升高或胶质-沥青质含量的降低而减弱。研究成果为粘弹性稠油的驱替特征及其开发效果的研究提供了理论指导。     

从《春秋》看“神话历史”

在对"神话"与"历史"的双重反思与参照下,华夏文明的历史叙事有其独特的发生形式,它们不仅受神话思维的支配,而且呈现出与所谓神话"历史化"不同的"神话历史"特征.文章以此为切入点,通过理解<春秋>的性质与特征,论证有关神话与历史对立与分道扬镳的观点,不但有助于解释中国文化基因,而且会造成新的遮蔽;重新理解神话概念的穿透性和生成性,是重新进入中国式神话历史的必要途径.     

《苦闷的象征》:西方文化思潮的创造性整合

《苦闷的象征》深受西方文化思潮的影响,它吸收精神分析心理学中“冲动——压抑——转化”说的理论框架,但对其具体内容加以改造(一)用柏格森哲学中的“生命力”代替其冲动之根源——“性本能”,并赋予“生命力”现实性、创造性内涵;既与柏格森划清了界限,又把“生命力”与克罗齐的“创造性”联系起来。(二)用“生命力”代替被压抑之物——“本我”,用“社会外界约束”代替压抑之力——“超我”,把偏狭的“性苦闷”拓展为深广的“人间苦”,并借鉴康德、席勒的学说,使其中的文艺活动获得“性宣泄的快感”变成“自由创造的欢喜”。(三)用“象征”代替其转化方式——“改装打扮”,又借立普斯的“移情说”作为获得自由心境的保障,并把创造的欢喜扩延到鉴赏领域,认为鉴赏是一种创造性活动,从而实现了对西方文化思潮的创造性整合。     

Mothers' perception of their relationship with their children during displacement: A six month follow-up

The data presented in this work were gathered within the framework of the psychosocial assistance programme for families with children in one of the oldest displacement shelters in Croatia. Over a period of 6 months, the mothers (N = 58) assessed the psychosocial adjustment difficulties of their children and how displacement affected their relationship with their children (N = 109). The study revealed that as time passed in displacement, mothers talked significantly less with their children and were generally more nervous. The most common difficulties manifested by children were appetite disorders, night fears, sleeping disturbances in general, increased sweating, fear of separation from their mother, despondency and general fearfulness. Over time the reported incidence of stress-related reactions in children significantly decreased. However, after a year spent in displacement, 12% of the children still manifested five or more stress symptoms. Children with a higher incidence of disorders had mothers whose adaptation to displacement was poorer and whose relationship with their children was less favourable. Their families were more often separated. Particularly apparent was the importance of providing psychological assistance for mothers and children who are unable to cope with the stress of displacement.     

联络及其在现代物理中的解释

本文从曲线坐标、曲面上向量平移入手,导入了联络,继而引入协变微分、短程线及曲率张量,最后指明联络在广义相对论中的意义。