Social Work with West Indian Families

SUMMARY

This conceptual analysis explores the psychosocial and cultural experiences of English-speaking West Indians in the United States. Relevant factors include family role changes; parent/child conflicts; prolonged separation from and reunification with parents; finding suitable employment and education-related issues. The challenge for social work is to develop programs for these families that contribute to their social and economic integration. Given the extent to which social, economic and related policies impact on the needs of this population, the author suggests that a multilevel approach which utilizes the micro skills associated with individual intervention and the macro strategies of intervening at the societal and institutional levels is needed. This approach necessarily includes activities such as advocacy and empowerment.     

Impact of the 1996 Welfare Reform and Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Acts on Caribbean Immigrants

SUMMARY

This paper examines the impact of the 1996 Welfare Reform and Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Responsibility Acts on Caribbean immigrants in the United States. Drawing from the conceptual framework posited by Dye's (1984) Elite Preference Modelof policy analysis, the author argues that the three laws have created enormous economic and psychological difficulties among families in the United States. Developing countries in the Caribbean region have been severely impacted by the law since they have had to accommodate returning citizens when they are deported under provisions of immigration policies. The question for consideration by this paper is how may the legal and human rights of deportees be balanced against the rights of the U.S. government to secure its borders and ensure the security of its citizens? The paper also addresses issues of immigration, and international relations particularly the north-south dialogue between powerful developed countries such as the United States and small developing states of the Caribbean.     

Immigration to Portugal

Abstract

A peripheral West European country with a medium-sized population, Portugal experienced since the late 1990s a radical change in its migration trends, with growing and constant immigration flows. Not only the number of legal immigrants duplicated, but also the profile of immigrants changed and diversified. As a result, Portugal's public policies were challenged, and new social questions emerged. In particular, both public and private bodies have to deal with an increasing segmentation of the composition of immigration and of the labor market employing immigrants. Portugal still has not opted clearly for a model of immigration, and adaptation to these changes promises not to be easy, especially because the Portuguese society is simultaneously facing tensions deriving from its own     

Foreign Aid and Illegal Immigration

Abstract

Gaytán-Fregoso and Lahiri (2000) claim that foreign aid may increase the level of illegal immigration. This comment reconsiders their perverse findings under endogenous as well as exogenous income repatriation. Furthermore, modifying Gaytán-Fregoso and Lahiri's model, in which aid is allotted in a lump-sum fashion, it is suggested that the actual amount of foreign aid should depend on the source country's performance, i.e., on the number of illegal immigrants, since such a policy will further reduce the number of illegal immigrants.     

我国农村劳动力流动中的人力资本趋势分析

在市场经济条件下,农村劳动力的流动已逐步显示出其资本化的趋势。这集中表现在农村劳动力流动的广泛化,形成的多样化,使用的社会化及管理的法制化,适应农村劳动力流动中的人力资本趋势需要加强竞争中的平等权,流动的合法权,权益的保护权,社会保障中的享受权,政治的参与权的研究,增强农民工的维权意识、法制意识、信用意识和社保意识。     

论深化劳动价值论研究所形成的一个悖论

程恩富先生在劳动价值论的深化研究中提出了“新的活劳动价值一元论”观点 ,在学术界引起了很大的反响。但根据程先生的“生产劳动”内涵 ,程先生的“新的活劳动价值一元论”存在“劳动既创造价值又不创造价值”的逻辑悖论。因此 ,笔者希望通过该文与程先生商榷。     

论深化劳动和劳动价值论的有关问题

坚持马克思劳动价值论,全面正确理解生产劳动的含义及其外延,将科学劳动、管理劳动纳入创造价值的生产劳动范畴中来,发展马克思劳动价值论,是承认科学劳动、管理劳动作用的科学认识之路,这样做无论在理论上或实践上都是行得通的。     

科学地描述和展现马克思关于劳动和劳动价值理论的发展轨迹

江泽民在“七一讲话”中提出“应该结合新的实际,深化对社会主义社会劳动和劳劝价值理论 的研究和认识”。要搞清楚这个问题,必须借助当代科学最新的研究成果,用新的视角和眼光,对马 克思关于劳动价值理论进行新的剖析,科学地展现劳动力的内在要素,就会更清晰、深刻、全面地把 握劳动力问题,弄清它的过去、现在和未来。     

论社会主义和谐社会的劳动者与劳动力

社会主义和谐社会的劳动者是构建和谐社会的主体,劳动者权利的健全与完善是构建和谐社会的主要内容。劳动者最主要的权利是劳动力所有权。社会主义强调劳动者权利,市场经济注重劳动力价值,社会主义和谐社会要求劳动者权利与劳动力价值相统一。劳动者权利主要是通过国家实现的,而劳动力价值则主要是通过企业与市场实现的。     

恩格斯城乡融合思想及其当代价值

一百多年过去了,恩格斯在《反杜林论》一书中论述的城乡融合思想在今天仍有显著的价值,其理论源于18世纪空想主义者,又实现了对空想主义的扬弃。城乡融合思想回答了人为什么会发生异化,并且从人与自然和谐的角度出发,提出了生态平衡的思想。对于消除我国多年存在的城乡二元对立的结构有重要指导意义。