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Domestic violence, deportation, and women’s resistance: notes on managing inter-sectionality

01/02/1999

6 pages long

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Domestic violence, deportation, and women’s resistance: notes on managing inter-sectionality

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This Practical note describes the work of the Southall Black Sisters, a group, based in London, England, which provides a variety of assistance to, mainly Asian, women who have been victims of domestic violence and abuse. The author discusses how the UK legal system fails to help some of these women, as well as how […]

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Whose terms? Observations on ‘development management’ in an English city

01/02/1999

5 pages long

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Using the example of a project in Sheffield intended to promote user-involvement and participation in planning healthcare services, the author criticises the failure of the project to actually provide any forum for user-participation. The structures used to set up these partnerships are often too prescriptive, he argues, setting out a framework in which consultation may […]

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Discussion paper

Gender Training for Development Policy Implementers

01/01/1999

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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The failure of many projects to address gender inequalities has led development organisations to provide gender training courses for staff, as a strategy for addressing the problem. This paper is based on the findings of research commissioned by the Department for International Development (DFID) into gender training in some UK-based development organisations. This paper gives […]

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Poverty Social Exclusion and Microfinance in Britain

01/01/1999

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192 pages long

Languages: English

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In recent years, some of the most innovative economic responses to poverty have been developed in countries in the South, such as Bangladesh and Mexico. In favourable circumstances, ‘microfinance initiatives’ can enable poor people to build up security through savings and insurance, and obtain credit to cover times of hardship or to establish small businesses. […]

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Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

01/11/1998

7 pages long

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Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

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Tower Hamlets has a sizeable Somali community, who maintain close links to their culture and country of origin. About 80 per cent of Somali women are estimated to have undergone ‘female circumcision’. The authors carried out research to assess whether British health services meet Somali women’s health-care needs. Interestingly, they found that reasons given to […]

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Gender training for development practitioners: only a partial solution

01/07/1998

6 pages long

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Gender training for development practitioners: only a partial solution

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The authors investigated the scope and impact of gender training in Oxfam GB and concluded that to be fully effective, gender training must be part of a broader strategy for organisational transformation. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this […]

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Institutionalizing gender in UK NGOs

01/05/1998

14 pages long

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Drawing on recent research, it has been explored how far and in what ways UK NGOs have tried to incorporate gender into the policies and procedures of their international development work, and how far a formal recognition of gender issues is shaping the way each organization functions. The strengths and weaknesses of different strategies are […]

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Journal article

Gujurati migrants’ search for modernity in Britain

01/03/1998

8 pages long

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Gujurati migrants’ search for modernity in Britain

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In this article we consider international migration by drawing on the life stories of Gujaratis presently living in Wellingborough, to illustrate the varied and complex reasons for migration, and the contrasting experiences of men and women migrants. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this […]

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Journal article

Mental illness and social stigma: experiences in a Pakistani community in the UK

01/03/1998

7 pages long

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Mental illness and social stigma: experiences in a Pakistani community in the UK

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Through an examination of the role of women in the family, and concepts of mental illness within the Pakistani community and the British context, this article discusses the reasons why the experiences of hospitalisation and subsequent treatment with drug therapy in the community is so stigmatising for Pakistani women. This article is hosted by our […]

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Discussion paper

The International Dimensions of Work: Some implications for the UK

01/01/1998

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70 pages long

Languages: English

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Globalisation, or the expansion of international trade and investment experienced since the early 1980s, has brought gains to some countries and groups of workers, while marginalising and excluding others. This paper argues that some of the causes of and the solutions to the UK’s recent employment problems lie at the international level. Such problems as […]

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