Changing work environments: Innovative coping responses to occupational stress

To what degree do individuals adapt their work environments in response to occupational stress? The research reported below addresses this question through a qualitative questionnaire survey that assesses the extent to which innovation is used as a stress coping strategy amongst health care professionals (community and hospital nurses, administration workers and paramedics; N = 333). Overall, 32% of these workers reported a coping response subsequently coded as innovative, and significant between-occupational group differences in the frequency of usage were found. Overwork, procedural difficulties and dealing with others were the stressors eliciting the greatest number of innovative coping responses. The study indicated that such responses were perceived as an effective and important way of dealing with occupational stress. It is concluded that stress management programmes that encourage individuals to change workplace factors through innovation, would be a worthwhile addition to interventions that emphasize individual adaptation to stressful work environments.     

The Experiences of Frontline Staff Working with Children Seeking Asylum

The focus of this paper is welfare professionals’ accounts of their work with children who are seeking asylum. The empirical basis is a commissioned study of children seeking asylum in Wales. As well as qualitative research with children (which is not discussed in this paper), 62 professionals took part in interviews and focus groups. This sample included staff from social services, health, housing, education, police and the voluntary sector. Research findings are presented in relation to the experience of these frontline staff. We attempt to identify some of the sites of tension and the nature of the professional dilemmas, as well as discussing the potential for the exercise of discretion to be exercised. We conclude that there is very little room for manoeuvre within the asylum system for welfare professionals, but that there is evidence of questioning and even minor challenge of current policy from frontline staff. We discuss the extent to which the professional dilemmas raised by the asylum system are of a different order from those experienced throughout social welfare work.     

企业国际化:中国企业面临的挑战

企业国际化 ,企业的跨国管理和无国界管理是 2 1世纪企业生存和发展的关键。中国企业成功地实现国际化 ,实现由国内经营向国际经营的转变 ,必须面对全球经营环境变化的挑战 ,必须面对经营观念、管理职能领域和经营领域变革的挑战     

跨国社会运动动员的限制性因素分析——以全球替代运动为例

作为跨国社会运动,全球替代运动的跨国动员存在诸多限制,空间距离、心理距离以及政治机会这些因素都会影响到其跨国动员的效果。为了实现在全球层面的跨国动员,全球替代运动一方面采取网络抗议、社会论坛、新议题建构等方式来克服运动实践中空间距离与心理距离所带来的各种障碍,另一方面,还灵活运用国际社会与国内社会所提供的双重政治机会,规避政治机会因素对全球替代运动跨国动员的限制。     

创新型国际营销本科人才培养的课程设置研究

在传统国际营销本科人才培养的课程设置中,理论课和实践课比例失调,专业教学内容重复率过高,国际营销课程不能满足国际化的需求,因此,必须创新国际营销本科人才培养的课程体系.而创新型国际营销人才课程设置可通过模块教学和嵌入式实践教学实现.     

Overcoming interruptions in educational trajectories: Youth in Ghana with international migrant parents

Literature on the effects of parental migration on the education of children who stay at origin, what we call ‘stayer’ youth, mainly focuses on educational outcomes without looking at the process leading to such outcomes. This article addresses this gap by showing how the educational trajectories of stayer youth unfold. Stayer youth may encounter a range of obstacles and interruptions to their education when their parents move overseas, and we explore the agency these youth exert and the support networks they activate to try to overcome them. We employ a youth-centric methodology, based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in three cities in Ghana, with young people whose parents migrated internationally. We find that frequent changes in residence, limited financial means, and lack of academic support cause interruptions in educational trajectories. In response, the young people mobilize support from local social networks to compensate for what they lack from their transnational connections.     

On not ‘being there’: Making sense of the potent urge for physical proximity in transnational families at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper investigates transnational families’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and the accompanying sudden and unexpected travel restrictions. Our data consist of written stories collected in April–June 2020 from migrants with ageing kin living in another country. For many respondents, the situation provoked an acutely felt urge for physical proximity with their families. By analysing their experiences of ‘not being there’, we seek to understand what exactly made the urge to ‘be there’ so forceful. Bringing into dialogue literature on transnational families with Jennifer Mason's recent theoretical work on affinities, we move the focus from families’ transnational caregiving practices to the potent connections between family members. We argue that this approach can open important avenues for future research on families—transnational or otherwise—because it sheds light on the multisensory and often ineffable charges between family members that serve to connect them.     

Queering reproductive justice: Framing reproduction of gay men from a transnational perspective—Taiwan as a case

This article uses Taiwan as an example to argue that reproductive justice for gay men should be conceptualised within social, legal, and political contexts. Taiwan is the first Asian country to legalise same-sex marriage, yet the law favours heterosexual couples and denies LGBTQ+ reproductive rights. Thus, Taiwanese gay men seek third-party reproduction overseas to become parents. This article exemplifies gay men's unequal conditions from a non-Western perspective. I re-examine scholarly literature on the interlocking concepts of reproductive justice, stratified reproduction, and queer reproduction to answer what reproductive justice gay men need and how their injustice position situates within and beyond the nation-state borders. Drawing on the reproductive justice framework and studies of queer reproduction, this article proposes a transnational perspective to understand queer reproductive justice through the case that elucidates the specific context of Taiwanese gay men. This article aims to make two contributions. Firstly, it reconsiders the reproductive framework from a transnational perspective to argue that gay men's reproductive justice should be conceptualised at the intersection with other dimensions of injustice. Secondly, this article suggests that the transnational approach could be applied as a critical lens for future research in queer reproduction and reproductive justice.     

留美科学家的国内参与及其社会网络——强弱关系假设的再探讨

关于社会网络在求职过程中的作用有两个假设：弱关系假设和强关系假设。本研究通过对30名留美中国科学家的深入访谈发现,是社会网络中人际强弱关系的互相协调、共同发挥作用,才成功促成了双方的跨国合作。强关系的作用是作为关系节点,将双方连接起来,提供沟通平台和信誉保证;而弱关系的作用是互通信息,为留美科学家的国内参与提供体制资源支持。强弱关系在求职网络中的优势互补是本研究的重要发现,充实了强弱关系假设的理论内涵,丰富了求职网络的研究传统,对人才的跨国参与具有指导意义。
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