Stuck in Place: Investigating Social Mobility in 14 Bangalore Slums

This study of 14 Bangalore slum communities, including detailed interviews with 1,481 residents, represents an initial effort to study social mobility in India's largest cities, where opportunity and inequality have both been rising. The results show that slum dwellers have advanced economically, but the extent of improvement is small in the majority of cases, and there are many reversals of fortune. Sons tend to follow fathers or uncles into informal and mostly low-skilled occupations. The majority have lived in slums for many generations. These restricted-entry low-exit situations are brought about in large part on account of multiple institutional disconnections.     

Stuck in Mobility? Interrupted Journeys of Migrants With Precarious Legal Status in Europe

Abstract

Due to lack of access to work and support services migrants with precarious legal status engage in onward mobility within EUrope and thus contest the migration regime that aims to control and limit their mobility. This article highlights the ambiguous nature of mobility from a critical mobilities perspective based on multi-sited ethnographic research and interviews with migrants in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. By focusing on their interrupted journeys, the article shows how migrants use mobility to secure basic needs and avoid migration control attempts and how this enhanced mobility aggravates emotional instability.     

Populations on the move

"This article sets out the broad nature of population movements and changes in distribution which are taking place in the major continental areas of the Third World, while making comparisons and contrasts. It outlines the differing approaches to these movements, and the interpretations of varying ideological and disciplinary points of view. It describes contemporary practical problems and indicates possible future developments." The primary focus is on internal migration.     

亲子双方对儿童权利的认同差异

儿童权利保护在我国家庭中的落实还存在许多现实困境.细致地了解现阶段家长和孩子如何看待儿童权利,以及亲子间的对儿童权利的认同有何异同.对宣传与落实儿童权利保护意义重大.通过对475名儿童和448位家长进行调查,我们发现:(1)家长对儿童发展权的认同显著低于孩子,具体表现在交友选择、娱乐活动和时间安排权利上;家长对儿童参与权的认同显著低于孩子,具体表现在自主管理和参与决策权利上;家长对儿童受保护权中隐私权的认同显著低于孩子;(2)总体而言,随着年龄增长.孩子对各项权利的认同度都有上升趋势;(3)亲子双方对彼此关于儿童权利的认同度的感知存在偏差.孩子普遍低估了家长对儿童权利的认同度,而家长低估了孩子对参与权和发展权的认同程度.     

对未成年人宵禁的立法思考

宵禁是指禁止夜间外出或限制夜间进入某种场所的一种法律制度,是在某特殊时期或某一地区,为维护社会秩序或为防止犯罪的发生所实施的一种强制性的法律手段,但我国的宵禁立法仅散见于各部门法中,并没有完整系统的立法。本文对宵禁的意义和可行性进行分析论证,进而提出我国宵禁立法的构想。     

A note on the effects of graduation under the US GSP on Africa

The Trade and Tariff Act of 1984 includes a new measure, country graduation, designed to shift a greater share of the benefits of the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) from the more advanced developing countries to poorer beneficiary countries. This note presents estimates of the effects of graduating Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan on the poorest countries of Africa. Our results show that the removal of these four countries will do little to increase the GSP benefits of the African beneficiary countries.     

论校园安全建设

近几年有关校园的中毒事件、踩踏事件、暴力事件、交通安全事件屡见报端，而且每年的安全数字呈上升趋势。校园作为社会的重要组织机体，应以和谐为目标，加强校园安全建设是和谐社会的具体要求。进一步加强校园安全建设过程，需要贯彻以人为本、预防为主、综合治理和科学管理四项原则，突破存在的几个难点。