Migration trajectories of ‘highly skilled’middling transnationals: Singaporean transmigrants in London

10.1002/psp.569Population, Space and Place171116-12

Measuring capacity building in communities: a review of the literature

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Although communities have long been exhorted to make efforts to enhance their own health, such approaches have often floundered and resulted in little or no health benefits when the capacity of the community has not been adequately strengthened. Thus being able to assess the capacity building process is paramount in facilitating action in communities for social and health improvement. The current review aims to i) identify all domains used in systematically documented frameworks developed by other authors to assess community capacity building; and ii) to identify the dimensions and attributes of each of the domains as ascribed by these authors and reassemble them into a comprehensive compilation.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Relevant published articles were identified through systematic electronic searches of selected databases and the examination of the bibliographies of retrieved articles. Studies assessing capacity building or community development or community participation were selected and assessed for methodological quality, and quality in relation to the development and application of domains which were identified as constituents of community capacity building. Data extraction and analysis were undertaken using a realist synthesis approach.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Eighteen articles met the criteria for this review. The various domains to assess community capacity building were identified and reassembled into nine comprehensive domains: "learning opportunities and skills development", "resource mobilization", "partnership/linkages/networking", "leadership", "participatory decision-making", "assets-based approach", "sense of community", "communication", and "development pathway". Six sub-domains were also identified: "shared vision and clear goals", "community needs assessment", "process and outcome monitoring", "sustainability", "commitment to action" and "dissemination".</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The set of domains compiled in this review serve as a foundation for community-based work by those in the field seeking to support and nurture the development of competent communities. Further research is required to examine the robustness of capacity domains over time and to examine capacity development in association with health or other social outcomes.</p

NADIE SABE, NADIE SUPO: EL PROGRAMA FEDERAL H2A Y LA EXPLOTACIÓN DE MANO DE OBRA MEDIADA POR EL ESTADO

Este estudio de los trabajadores agrícolas latinos en Carolina del Norte analiza las trayectorias de poder hacia arriba y hacia abajo, haciendo hincapié no sólo en los puntos de vista de los de arriba o de los de abajo, sino en los discursos y prácticas en la intersección de las relaciones entre el poder corporativo, la mano de obra migrante y el Estado. Documenta un hecho contencioso: la ausencia histórica de compensación justa, seguridad y condiciones de trabajo adecuadas son los factores centrales que posibilitan programas de trabajadores transmigrantes así como la presencia de intermediarios para la contratación y control de mano de obra latina en el programa H2A. El mercado de trabajo transmigrante no opera según los procesos de un mercado económico sino que depende de los arreglos entre el gobierno norteamericano y las corporaciones de agronegocio

Colonialismo fósil: Los nexos energía / deuda detrás del largo apagón de Puerto Rico

After Hurricane Maria half of the Puerto Rican population remained in the dark for 4 months or more, an unprecedented situation for a developed state.  This paper, based in part on interviews on the island in winter-spring of 2018, analyzes the reasons for the longest (and for some ongoing) blackout in US history.  It also questions the island government’s proposal to privatize the island’s public electrical utility as a solution to the problem of a fragile electric system.  The paper traces roots of the current crisis to “fossil-colonial” assumptions behind “la Operación Manos a la Obra,” Puerto Rico’s Cold War development program, exploring the relationship between oil-dependent infrastructure, extracted profits, declining jobs, and growing debt. The debt grew rapidly as US tax incentives were phased out during the high oil price years of 2005 – 2007.  Grassroots and energy advocates are working together today on the island to articulate an alternative future, based on reduced dependence on fossil fuels and more democratic management of energy and other public resource