Unaccompanied migrant children and indebted relations: Weaponizing safeguarding

UK statutory guidance for practitioners suggests that indebtedness is an area where safeguarding red flags should be raised and action taken to minimize the risk of exploitation. Yet, our research shows that unaccompanied migrant children have complex indebted relationships, which can range from extractive to connective. Drawing on interviews with unaccompanied children, we show that these indebted relationships can include financial debt to smugglers, responsibilities to support transnational families, as well as social obligations to peers and others. Their accounts present a nuanced understanding of the taboo nature of indebted relationships, not to be shared with the practitioners in their lives. This is due, in part, to the potential threat of reporting to the Home Office, which might jeopardize their immigration status. In response to this weaponization of social care, we demonstrate how children turn to peer networks of support, creating their own alternative forms of social protection. In so doing, we complicate critiques of adultification, which traditionally highlight the ways that racially minoritized children may be treated as adults—to their detriment. In so doing, we show that because indebtedness is normatively linked to adulthood, unaccompanied children's hopes and fears may be rendered unsayable and therefore unsupportable in social care, all in the name of safeguarding.     

《大西洋宪章》再现英美论战——评述历史对中美构建新型大国关系的启示

《大西洋宪章》是二战期间英美两国首脑首次会晤最重要的成果,它的诞生不仅标志着英美两国政治同盟的形成,也对后来反法西斯大同盟和联合国的建立产生了重要影响。但英美两国的战略处境不同,致使所抱的预期目标差距甚大。罗斯福的主要目标是想发表一个能阐述战争目的和重建战后世界和平秩序构想的联合宣言,而丘吉尔则期望通过会晤来解决英国当时所面临的一系列现实问题。然而,作为求援者来参会的丘吉尔最终不得不屈从于罗斯福,二人会晤后所发表的《大西洋宪章》也主要体现了罗斯福的思想和意志。重温这次英美首脑会晤以及《大西洋宪章》在战后所产生的作用,对当下中美两国在太平洋地区构建新型大国关系颇有启示。     

Extending social security coverage to the rural sector in China

In late 2009 China launched an innovative, voluntary programme that by 2011 had extended pension coverage to 326.4 million people in the rural sector, including contributors and beneficiaries. It requires one contribution per year and provides a flat‐rate benefit and a contributions‐related benefit through a contributory individual account, with a government guarantee that the benefit will continue for life. The programme encourages participation of persons who do not pay income taxes, and thus have no tax incentive to participate, by providing substantial government subsidies. As a further incentive, old‐age benefits are provided to older parents when all their adult children participate in the contributory programme.     

Enhancing the capacity of kin caregivers and their families to meet the needs of children left behind

Based on qualitative research of the experiences of 23 kin caregivers and five school personnel, this article explores the role of informal kinship care in addressing the needs of school-age children left behind in rural China. The findings of this study suggest that kin caregivers' child-rearing capacity is limited in the rural context, and they are often overwhelmed by children's diverse and complex needs, particularly their emotional ones. In view of the huge population and their vulnerability, it is imperative for the state to take up its responsibilities and develop specific social work services and other support for children left behind and their families.     

Macroeconomic asymmetry in the Eurozone before and after the Global Financial Crisis: An appraisal of the role of the ECB

The launch of the euro in 1999 was assumed to enhance macroeconomic convergence among EMU economies. We test this hypothesis from a comparative perspective, by calculating different indices to measure the degree of macroeconomic dispersion within the Eurozone, the UK and the USA (1999–2019). We use common factor models to produce a single index for each monetary area out of different measures of dispersion. These indices can be used to inform on the degree of optimality of a monetary area. Our results show that macroeconomic dispersion in the Eurozone increased notably even before 2007 and it took significantly longer to return to pre-crisis levels, as compared to the UK and the USA. The paper shows the critical role played by the ECB’s asset purchases programmes in reducing macroeconomic divergences among EMU member states since 2015.     

中国传统文化中的和谐社会观及其当代意义

和谐思想是中国传统文化中的一个重要哲学命题,而和谐社会观是中国传统和谐思想的重要组成部分。中国传统的和谐社会观主要体现在儒家、道家、墨家等代表人物的思想体系中。他们的和谐社会思想为我们今天构建社会主义和谐社会提供了重要的理论依据。     

河南省农村基层党组织建设的改革创新

近年来,河南省紧紧围绕党的先进性建设和执政能力建设,不断推进农村基层党组织建设改革创新,取得了如“三级联创”、“四议两公开”、“金桥工程”、“红色家园”、“双联双增”和“党员关爱”等成果。农村基层党组织建设面临的环境考验和新挑战,要求我们必须牢固树立以人为本理念、进行工作机制和制度创新、构建大党建格局,不断探索新方法、新途径,开创农村党的基层组织建设新局面。     

以性统情，裱丽婉至--杨慎“主情”诗学观念及其创作实践研究

杨慎在哲学上主张“合性情”,反对将“性”“情”割裂来谈,同时又强调“以性统情”,使情欲在性的指引下得到合理发展与满足。杨慎“约情合性”“缘情绮靡”“含蓄蕴藉”的诗学主张便是这种“性情”观的体现。他还以自己的创作部分地实践了这种诗学观念,从而形成一种“穰丽婉至”的诗风。     

从马郎妇故事的改写看观世音菩萨的中国化

与马郎妇相关的佛教故事的流传与改写,具有广泛深远的影响,它其实还与观世音菩萨的中国化关系密切。马郎妇故事的不断被改写,无论在宗教、文学还是文化上都有重要意义。中国古代社会各阶层在接受观音信仰过程中对其形象解读的分歧是马郎妇故事不断被改写和形象演变的深层原因。中国僧人的主动适应对文化融合起到了重要作用,这使得佛教文化更加广泛传播且具有民间信仰特征。     

Socioeconomic inequality and adjustments in children’s perceptions of their agency as they age in South Korea

This paper explores how children's perceptions of their agency, as something that is closely associated with its exercise, appear in relation to social structural factors, especially their socioeconomic positions, as they age. Using data from 862 10–18 years old in South Korea, we examine how children's expressed optimism about their ability to achieve their occupational choices can conceal the impact of structural factors on their ‘choices’ and dispositions for (non‐)action over time. Based on the findings, we argue for a more careful interpretation of children's sense of agency that recognises its propensity to continuously adjust in contexts of structural inequality.