This study explores the health and well-being of eight racialized and Indigenous women between the ages of 21 and 28, who live in Victoria, BC. Participants use Photovoice, a participatory research strategy, to examine and discuss their intersecting everyday realities in the contexts of health, well-being and identity. Through this project, I aim to provide an in-depth understanding of social exclusion, as a social determinant of health, and investigate the micro-social processes that occur at the intersections of race, class and gender, among many other social relations. I draw upon transnational feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial theories to shed light on the complexity of our shifting and emergent identities. The stories that participants share indicate that historical processes of colonization, daily forms of racism, migration, nationalism, citizenship and cultural essentialization are key contributors to their processes of identity formation and subsequently, their experiences of health and wellness.

The aim of this paper is to present the living conditions of homeless people and to explore the reasons which promote the social exclusion of homeless men and women.

Sport is a cultural phenomenon that has spread throughout the world (Harvey & Houle, 1994). For youth, sport is perceived as a context that can play a major role in person’s psychosocial development across their life-span (Danish, Petitpas, & Hale, 2007). However, despite the increase in research in this field, very little work has examined how sport may play a role in the psychosocial development of youth with intellectual disabilities (ID). Moreover, an area of study that has also grown related to the lived experiences of individuals living with a disability including ID is social inclusion (SI). Similar to research related to psychosocial development, very little research has been conducted to examine whether the context of sport can foster social inclusion for youth with ID. Special Olympics Canada (SOC) is an organization “dedicated to enriching the lives of Canadians with an intellectual disability through sport” (SOC, 2010, “SOC Mission Statement”, para.1) and may be an organization that has the potential to positively impact the lives of its youth participants. Thus, the purpose of this research was to examine whether stakeholders perceived SO as impacting the psychosocial development and social inclusion. The results indicated that SO, by all stakeholders, is perceived as an organization that is facilitating the psychosocial development of its athletes through the incorporation of strong social support networks and the development of life skills. In addition, SO was perceived as facilitating social inclusion for youth, particularly in the context of school and their surrounding community.

The South Australian Rann Labor government elected in 2002 became the first in the nation to address ‘social exclusion’ through the implementation of a Social Inclusion Initiative. The increasingly popular term ‘social exclusion’ was first used overseas in the early 1970s to describe serious symptoms of socio-economic disadvantage linked with global economic restructuring. Taking the South Australian policy initiative as a point of departure, this thesis provides a multi-layered analysis of social exclusion discourses and policy approaches, exploring their significance in the context of Australia’s shifting welfare state terrain. In so doing, the thesis seeks to break new ground both at general theory and specific case study levels by utilising a regulation approach (RA) to test the research hypothesis that ‘social inclusion’ policies are reflective of a transitional neoliberal (or, in some instances, Third Way) mode of social regulation which is inadequate to arrest rising socio-economic inequality linked to the collapse of the post-war ‘Fordist-Keynesian’ consensus. The cross-disciplinary regulation approach is a method of inquiry used to analyse spatially and temporally specific shifts in phases of capitalist accumulation and the different policy and institutional arrangements that support accumulation in each phase. The complex and interrelated institutional shifts at the Australian national level are critical to understanding the origins and impact of ‘social inclusion’ policies. Hence the adoption of this type of policy approach at the South Australian state level is considered in a broader national political economic context where the phenomenon of social exclusion is located within national welfare to work reforms. By applying a regulationist lens to examine the global concept of social exclusion in a local and broader national setting, the thesis offers empirical evidence to one of the ‘missing links’ in the ‘post-Fordist’ literature. That is, it contributes to the debate about whether nascent neoliberal or Third Way modes of social regulation have potential to stabilise capitalism’s inherent crisis tendencies, or whether they merely extend a period of institutional searching. The thesis concludes that the South Australian Social Inclusion Initiative in various ways appears to be not only partial and inadequate in its own terms, but fundamentally in conflict with the South Australian government’s broader policy objectives. In short, it shows that the Initiative has inadequate capacity to address the impact of global structural changes that have caused the polarisation of wealth and increasing poverty. Furthermore, it is argued that this approach attempts to suppress class dissent by silencing potential critics, and fails to intersect with or compensate for national level policies which have served to depress wages and simultaneously reduce the welfare safety net. It is concluded from these findings that these policies do not have the capacity to contribute to an equitable or sustainable new mode of social regulation. The thesis argues that a more comprehensive approach to ‘social inclusion’ is required in the post-Keynesian era and proposes further research to this end. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1348509 / Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, 2008

This study explores the health and well-being of eight racialized and Indigenous women between the ages of 21 and 28, who live in Victoria, BC. Participants use Photovoice, a participatory research strategy, to examine and discuss their intersecting everyday realities in the contexts of health, well-being and identity. Through this project, I aim to provide an in-depth understanding of social exclusion, as a social determinant of health, and investigate the micro-social processes that occur at the intersections of race, class and gender, among many other social relations. I draw upon transnational feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial theories to shed light on the complexity of our shifting and emergent identities. The stories that participants share indicate that historical processes of colonization, daily forms of racism, migration, nationalism, citizenship and cultural essentialization are key contributors to their processes of identity formation and subsequently, their experiences of health and wellness.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-11-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:27:22Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ohe_apt_me_sjrp.pdf: 1361550 bytes, checksum: 47d1d2c0d7d41873435febcd946a2cd8 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar a relação entre identidade, estigmatização e exclusão social em contos de Caio Fernando Abreu. Entendemos, aqui, que a exclusão está vinculada ao processo de estigmatização das personagens, projetando-lhes uma identidade social estigmatizada. O corpus do trabalho é constituído por onze contos, organizados em quatro núcleos temáticos em que exclusão se faz em relação: à orientação sexual; ao estrangeiro; à mulher e, por fim, ao estilo de vida não integrado ao status quo. / The objective of this work is to investigate the relation among identity, stigmatization and social exclusion in stories of Caio Fernando Abreu. We understood here that the exclusion is associated with the stigmatization process of the characters, projecting them a social identity stigmatized. The corpus of this work is composed of eleven short stories, organized in four thematic nucleus where exclusion is relative to: the sexual orientation; the foreigner; the woman and, finally, the lifestyle not integrated into the status quo.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:38:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 3934.pdf: 873984 bytes, checksum: eade9f111cceb401d639eaef10e6d1e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-29 / The frequency of young in conflict with the law sets up with a social problem, whose solution is usually thought only from a process of education at the familiar scope. In the modernity, therefore, this responsibility turned out to be shared with the State. This research had, as general goal, to know according to the investigated youngster´s perception, the reasons and effects that took them to commit some infraction acts and others not to commit them. The study compared a group of young people that reported they had conflicts with the law with the other ones that, in the same research, reported not to commit this conflict, rebuilding their trajectory of life in their environment of socialization. These young people made part of a previous research made in the municipality of Botucatu in 2002, over the Public Health Department of Unesp / Botucatu. The interviews at the current job were made according to the young people´s history of life and their familiar, who were indicated by them like the biggest affective link: mother or father. It was tried to realize what differed the two groups from the point of view of the effects and dispositions. This is important to verge that the narratives were illuminated by a detachment of eight years from the moment of the first research, that is, the past was updated and rebuilt according to the new experiences. From the fifteen young people who were interviewed, eleven were male and four were female; two were at the prison and one had been murdered (these people´s histories of life were rebuilt based on the testimony of the family: mother or stepmother). Most of them were working (ten) and only three hadn´t concluded high school. From eight youngsters who related the conflict in the first interview, four didn´t have it anymore and the other four still had the conflict; from these, one was at the prison at the epoch of the current research and one had been murdered. From the seven youngsters who didn´t relate the conflict, four kept in this situation, three started having the conflict and one was at the prison. The trajectory of life of the youngsters was marked by situations that, for ones, had the role of protection and for others was factor of vulnerability, for example: the family, school, religion and friends. What differed the youngster´s choices was the meaning given by them for the experiences that they had lived. / A frequência de jovens em conflito com a lei se configura como um problema social, cuja solução é pensada costumeiramente somente a partir de um processo de educação no âmbito familiar. Na contemporaneidade, essa responsabilidade, porém, passou a ser compartilhada com o Estado. A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo geral conhecer, de acordo com a percepção dos jovens investigados, as disposições e as propriedades que levaram alguns a cometer atos infracionais e outros a não os cometerem. O estudo comparou um grupo de jovens que relatou ter tido conflito com a lei com outros que, na mesma pesquisa, informou o não cometimento de tal conflito, reconstruindo suas trajetórias de vida e seu ambiente de socialização. Esses jovens fizeram parte de uma pesquisa anterior realizada em 2002 no município de Botucatu, pelo Departamento de Saúde Pública da UNESP/Botucatu. As entrevistas no trabalho atual foram realizadas no molde da história de vida com os jovens e com seus respectivos familiares, os quais foram indicados por eles como de maior vínculo afetivo, pai ou mãe. Buscou-se perceber o que diferenciou os dois grupos do ponto de vista de suas propriedades e disposições. É importante ressaltar que as narrativas foram iluminadas pelo distanciamento de oito anos do momento da primeira pesquisa, isto é, o passado foi atualizado e reconstruído segundo as novas experiências. Dos 15 jovens entrevistados, 11 eram do sexo masculino e 4, do feminino; dois estavam presos e um havia sido assassinado, sendo que a história de vida destes foi reconstruída com base no relato dos familiares, mãe ou madrasta. A maioria deles estava trabalhando - 10 - e apenas três não haviam concluído o ensino médio. Dos oito jovens que relataram o conflito na primeira pesquisa, quatro deixaram de tê-lo e quatro continuaram tendo. Desses, um estava preso na época da atual pesquisa e um havia sido assassinado. Dos sete jovens que não relataram o conflito, quatro permaneceram nessa situação e três passaram a tê-lo e um desses encontrava-se preso. As trajetórias de vida dos jovens foram marcadas por situações que, para uns, serviu de proteção e para outros foi fator de vulnerabilidade, como por exemplo: a família, a escola, a religião e os amigos. O que diferenciou as escolhas dos jovens foi o significado dado por eles para as experiências vividas.

På dagens arbetsmarknad har det blivit allt vanligare att arbetsgivare begär utdrag ur belastningsregistret vilket hämmar före detta kriminellas möjligheter att få en nystart och integreras i samhället. Tidigare forskning visar på att de som finner ett arbete efter avtjänat straff löper mindre risk för att återfalla i brott samtidigt som arbetsgivarnas benägenhet att begära utdrag ut belastningsregistret ökar. Med utgångspunkt i detta har vårt syfte varit att undersöka och belysa hur före detta kriminella ser på sina möjligheter att få ett arbete i relation till belastningsregistret och dess effekt samt hur arbete och social inkludering/exkludering har inverkan på varandra. För att besvara vårt syfte har vi genomfört en kvalitativ studie baserad på semistrukturerade intervjuer med medlemmar i organisationen KRIS (Kriminellas Revansch I Samhället). Resultatet från vår studie har påvisat att belastningsregistret försvårar möjligheterna för före detta kriminella på arbetsmarknaden och bidrar till känslor av social exkludering. Det har framkommit att arbete kan ha en positiv inverkan på social inkludering men likväl kan en individs sociala inkludering skapa möjligheter att finna arbete. Den slutsatsen vi dragit är att arbete är en av de viktigaste faktorerna för före detta kriminellas inkludering i samhället och möjligheten till arbete skapas främst genom kontakter. Vi har även funnit att belastningsregistret är kontraproduktivt då det får en indirekt negativ brottsförebyggande verkan på samhällsnivå, då de utan arbete lättare återfaller i brott. Således bidrar belastningsregistrets användning till att fler människor exkluderas och att risken för att fler brott begås ökar, i strävan efter att skydda människor från brottslighet. / At today's labor market it has become increasingly common for employers to request a criminal background check and get access to the employees criminal record. This impedes the potential of former criminals to get a new start and integrate into society. Previous research show that those who find work after they finished their penalties runs a lower risk of recidivism in crime at the same time as employers tendency to request for criminal records have increased. On the basis of this, our aim has been to examine and illustrate how former criminals experience their opportunities to find a work in relation to the criminal record and its effect, as well as how work and social inclusion/exclusion have an impact on each other. To answer our aim, we have conducted a qualitative study based on semistructured interviews with members of the organization KRIS (criminals comeback in society). The results of our study have shown that a criminal record makes it difficult for former criminals on the labor market and contributes to feelings of social exclusion. It has been found that work can have a positive impact on social inclusion, as well as an individual's social inclusion can create opportunities to find a work. The conclusion we’ve made is that work is one of the most important factors for the inclusion of former criminals in society and the possibility of work is mainly created through contacts. We have also found that the criminal record is counterproductive since it has an indirectly negative crime prevention effect at community level, since those who don’t find work more easily return to crime. Thus, the use of the criminal register contributes to the exclusion of people and the risk of more crimes being committed, in order to protect people from crime.

Orientador: Everaldo Santos Melazzo / Banca: Arthur Magon Whitacker / Banca: Neio Lucio de Oliveira Campos / Resumo: O processo de urbanização da sociedade tem conduzido a construção de cidades em padrões de desenvolvimento que impelem à desigualdade entre grupos sociais distintos; a mobilidade, em sua presença ou ausência, emerge como importante aspecto deste modelo de urbanização. Nesta pesquisa são estudadas as relações entre a população residente de áreas de exclusão social de Álvares Machado - dos bairros Bela Vista, Novo Horizonte e Jd. Panorama/Pq. dos Pinheiros - em suas interações com o espaço urbano formado por Álvares Machado e Presidente Prudente. Busca-se o entendimento da mobilidade como condição sob a qual grupos de indivíduos interagem com os espaços, configurando-a tanto como uma das entradas possíveis para a apreensão do fenômeno urbano como também uma ferramenta de empoderamento e superação das desigualdades. Não apenas ligada ao instrumental técnico de transporte, a mobilidade é aqui entendida numa realidade complexa e multifacetada, produzida pelo processo de desenvolvimento desigual da sociedade e do espaço numa ordem espacial que não prescinde das intensas interações espaciais, ao mesmo tempo em que se mostra tanto condicionante quanto reforçadora e reveladora de desigualdades entre espaços e grupos sociais / Abstract: In its urbanization process, society has leaded to development patterns and cities construction that impel to inequality between different social groups; mobility rises as an important feature of this development model, in its presence or lack. In this research, we had studied the relationship interplayed by Alvares Machado social-exclusion areas inhabitants. We aim to understand mobility as a condition by what those groups interacts with urban space composed by his city with Presidente Prudente; moreover, it is such as one of the various ways we have to apprehend the urban phenomena: mobility as a tool of empowerment of people. We cannot see it just as a transportation technical issue, but also as a complex and multisided quality of reality, produced by uneven development process and in a certain spatial order, as a result of society and space inability to leave aside intense spatial interaction. Meanwhile, mobility can be conditioning, enhancing and disclosing of spaces and social groups unevenness / Mestre

Children who grow up in dysfunctional families where they do not have required educational care and model are nowadays focused as frequented. The number of reasons why is a child on the edge of parents´ interests is increasing. Those children are exposed to risky factors much more than the others, because they lack of protection and an educational model. Society´s reaction to this situation is building Low Threshold Institutions which offer ambulatory or filed services to children or youngsters who are endangered by social exclusion. In a theoretical part, there is a comprehensive introduction of issues connected with these building Low Threshold Institutions for children and youngsters (NZDM further). These issues are clearly arranged into chapters which represent legislative fixing of NZDM, its rules and standards. A history of NZDM which has been developed in the Czech Republic dynamically since the 90s to a present form is a part of another chapter. Principles of NZDM, inner rules of provided services, employees and their personal dispositions, education and ethical norms are also describes, as well as services and activities of NZDM which are mainly of advisory and preventive character. The last chapter deals with a target group, which is affected by inner factors primarily developmental psychology of potential clients and outer factors which are socialization ones. A research is based on a qualitative approach where a point of view of the target group on NZDM Srdíčko Jiloro was found out with the aid of data fixing. Another points of interest was employees´ point of view, their professional perception of provided services. Last but not least, subjective view of NZDM from some clients´ parents was put into the research, too. The first aim of the thesis was to find out whether and which relevance the services of NZDM Srdíčko Jiloro have got for the clients. The second one was to identify how the work with clients is going on (e.g. contact work, work with educational situations, motivational dialogues and work with drug themes). Under the terms of an empirical thesis part are introduced data which were gathered into following results NZDM Srdíčko Jiloro has got its own irreplaceable role in the area of Okružní, but the clients are not aware of the fact that NZDM has got any influence on them. They do not use any other alternatives for spending their free time. There are 40 clients and only 2 social workers every day. Clients do not talk about their problems, they say they do not need help. Advantages are that social workers learn with them, help them with their homework, etc. They are also aware of using of leisure time activities and workshops. Social workers and information in files and records of services and activities prove that clients have got problems. These are mostly very grave and that is another reason why Okružní has got its important role. Social workers provide especially consulting, information and situational service, preventive and educational programmes, work with close relatives, etc. Professionals in NZDM and Rehabilitation and Activation Service Sasanka work with whole families and they try to offer complex support and help. Social workers guide clients through their childhood and maturing, they are becoming their guides and mentors, they lead them to positive changes and have got mainly socialization and educative effect. Work with the clients in Okružní is more hectic than in other NZDMs. I think it is primarily because the social workers want to offer services to a maximal number of clients but with the lack of employees and time. Leisure time activities are going on in an ordinary way, but work with children and youngsters in a social unacceptable area needs specific professional and human attitudes and approaches. Because of poor personal sources are social workers forced to a negative trend provide services rather in a quantitative than in a qualitative way.