Pertenças identitárias de jovens do Casal da Boba

Resumo - O trabalho que aqui se apresenta centra-se numa reflexão sobre as pertenças identitárias de jovens descendentes de imigrantes cabo-verdianos. O objectivo principal do estudo é o de contribuir para compreender como é que estes jovens definem e afirmam as suas pertenças identitárias. Os jovens em estudo estabelecem relações com dois códigos culturais, um transmitido no seio familiar e outro pelo contacto com a sociedade portuguesa e nessa medida a sua gestão identitária é complexa. Os descendentes de imigrantes cabo-verdianos ou novos portugueses têm múltiplas referências e pertenças identitárias e representam parte da juventude portuguesa de hoje.

Networking among female ethnic minority entrepreneurs

The labor market in the multicultural society is a major arena where the interrelation of gender and ethnicity is expressed in processes of discrimination, sexism and racism. For women from ethnic minorities, one way to avoid these problems is to work in migrant enterprises. As this may ease tensions related to ethnicity, it does not solve gender-related problems like the subordination of women and the perception of female migrants as ‘just’ daughters, mothers and wives by male co-migrants. Female ethnic minority entrepreneurship may be the way to escape such processes. In the Netherlands, 25% of all ethnic minority entrepreneurs are female. However, little is known about their socio-economic background and the way they perceive their businesses. Moreover, there is a theoretical haphazardness concerning the phenomenon female ethnic minority entrepreneurship. Although recently researchers have opted for an integral theory called the ‘mixed-embeddedness’ approach as to explain ethnic minority entrepreneurship through a combination of personal, sociocultural and structural factors, the role of gender still seems to be underexposed in this theory. Likewise, the literature concerning entrepreneurial networking has hardly interfered with both gender and ethnicity. Therefore, this paper provides a state of affairs concerning the research and literature on ethnic minority entrepreneurship, gender and networks. It argues that a better understanding of female ethnic minority entrepreneurship requires further scientific attention and that a contribution needs to be made to theory development regarding the interrelation of ethnicity and gender in entrepreneurship and in entrepreneurial networks particularly.

Encouraging majority support for immigrant access to health services:multiple categorization and social identity complexity as antecedents of health equality

Health disparities between groups remain even after accounting for established causes such as structural and economic factors. The present research tested, for the first time, whether multiple social categorization processes can explain enhanced support for immigrant health (measured by respondents’ behavioral intention to support immigrants’ vaccination against A H1N1 disease by cutting regional public funds). Moreover, the mediating role of individualization and the moderating role of social identity complexity were tested. Findings showed that multiple versus single categorization of immigrants lead to support their right to health and confirmed the moderated mediation hypothesis. The potential in developing this sort of social cognitive intervention to address health disparities is discussed.

Comparison of Brazilian spiritist mediumship and dissociative identity disorder

We studied the similarities and differences between Brazilian Spiritistic mediums and North American dissociative identity disorder (DID) patients. Twenty-four mediums selected among different Spiritistic organizations in Sao Paulo, Brazil, were interviewed using the Dissociative Disorder Interview Schedule, and their responses were compared with those of DID patients described in the literature. The results from Spiritistic mediums were similar to published data on DID patients only with respect to female prevalence and high frequency of Schneiderian first-rank symptoms. As compared with individuals with DID, the mediums differed in having better social adjustment, lower prevalence of mental disorders, lower use of mental health services, no use of antipsychotics, and lower prevalence of histories of physical or sexual childhood abuse, sleepwalking, secondary features of DID, and symptoms of borderline personality. Thus, mediumship differed from DID in having better mental health and social adjustment, and a different clinical profile.

"Public on the outside, private on the inside": the organizational hybridization, sense of belonging and identity strategies of the employees of a public unemployment insurance fund in Switzerland

A number of studies show that New Public Management reforms have altered the current identity benchmarks of public officials, particularly by hybridizing values or management practices. However, existing studies have largely glossed over the sense of belonging of officials when their organization straddles the concerns of public service and private enterprise, so that the boundary between public and private sector is blurred. The purpose of this article is precisely to explore this sense of belonging in the context of organizational hybridization. It does so by drawing on the results of research conducted among the employees of a public unemployment insurance fund in Switzerland. On the one hand, the analysis shows how much their markers of belonging are hybrid, multiple and constructed in negative terms (with regard to the State), while indicating that the working practices of the employees point to an identity that is nevertheless closely bound with the public sector. On the other hand, the analysis shows that the organization plays strategically with its State status, by exploiting either its private or public identity in line with the needs related to its external image. The article concludes with a discussion of the results highlighting the strategic functionality of the hybrid identity of the actors.

Novel testis germ cell-specific transcript of the CREB gene contains an alternatively spliced exon with multiple in-frame stop codons.

The gene encoding the cAMP-responsive transcription factor CREB consists of multiple small exons some of which undergo alternative RNA splicing. We describe the finding of a novel transcript of the CREB gene expressed at high levels in the germ cells of the rat testis. The transcript contains an alternatively spliced exon inserted within the sequence encoding the transcriptional transactivation domain of CREB and this exon contains multiple in-frame stop codons. Furthermore, the exon is conserved in both rat and human genes (75% nucleotide identity). Although the function(s) of this RNA or the truncated CREB protein predicted to result from the translation of this unusual transcript is unknown, the high level of expression in the testicular germ cells and remarkable conservation of sequences in rat and human suggests that it may have a unique biological function in these cells.

Education as a mirror of Spanish society: challenges and policies towards multiple diversity

The ways in which the dominant cultural majority frames the educationalsystem determine perceptions of its own identity and understandings ofthe ‘other.’ In this article I take a political approach, by examining themanagement of cultural diversity within Spanish education policies, treating“education as the mirror of society”. This article analyzes Spanish challengesand policies approaches towards the management of immigrationrelated diversity in education. The main finding is that there is not one approach,but several, due to both the decentralized character of the educationsystem and the multiplicity of diversity that is at stake (i.e. language,religion, culture etc.)

Group mentoring for women starting a PhD: a "duty free zone" to build professional identity

Despite increasing numbers of women attaining higher level academic degrees, gender disparities remain among higher education and among university faculties. Some have posited that this may stem from inadequate academic identity development of women at the doctoral level. While existing gender differences may stem from multiple and variable origins, mentoring has been proposed as a viable means to promote academic identity development and address these gender gaps. This study used a qualitative, narrative case study design to evaluate "StartingDoc" a structured mentoring program launched among Swiss Universities aimed at promoting networking and academic identity development among female doctoral students. Herein we describe the 9 emergent themes which arose from the small-group mentoring program and suggest that such an approach is both feasible and beneficial for young female academics. Further work is needed to elucidate the most effective strategies for developing and retaining women in academia.

Identidad nacional, lengua y escuela = National identity, language and school

La globalización cuestiona la existencia de una relación mimética entre ciudadanía y Estado-nación. Las identidades homogéneas, sustentadas ideológicamente en nociones como «lengua nacional», plantean problemas en sociedades en las que ha crecido espectacularmente la diversidad lingüística e identitaria. Cataluña es un territorio en el que una parte de la población afirma una identidad catalana distinta a la española y viceversa. Además, se ha teorizado que la identidad catalana y la lengua catalana coexisten mutuamente. Por eso, se suceden voces que defienden la presencia del catalán en la educación escolar como fuente de la identidad nacional catalana, mientras que otras voces defienden su presencia simplemente como una buena manera de aprender el catalán cuando no se puede aprender en el medio social y familiar. En los últimos años, Cataluña ha recibido casi un millón de personas extranjeras que han modificado notablemente su situación sociolingüística. Las últimas encuestas manifiestan que un 6,3% de la población utiliza habitualmente una lengua distinta del catalán y del castellano. En este marco, mostramos las construcciones identitarias de un grupo de adolescentes de origen extranjero que están en el segundo ciclo de la ESO. Los datos fueron recogidos mediante dos grupos de discusión de seis-siete estudiantes de distinto origen, lengua propia y tiempo de residencia en Cataluña. Los resultados muestran la importancia del lugar de origen en la construcción de la identidad. Además, los participantes que afirman sentimientos catalanes o españoles no los relacionan con la lengua sino con los intercambios sociales que han establecido con sus iguales de origen naciona. Las intervenciones muestran también las dificultades para promover identidades múltiples desde el contexto escolar que eviten actitudes racistas y xenófobas y sirvan para promover proyectos colectivos de futuro en los que se pueda vivir desde una cierta diferencia

Les escriptores a Galicia: subversio, gramatica violeta i identitat multiple

La literatura gallega dels darrers anys s"ha vist profundament transformada per la irrupció de les escriptores i una «gramàtica violeta», una literatura concebuda en femení, que ha afectat també l"escriptura d"autoria masculina. Les seves propostes no se situen, doncs, en el marge del camp literari, malgrat que numèricament són menys. A la narrativa han engegat ambiciosos projectes de subversió de gènere amb una bona recepció. A la poesia s"han convertit en models literaris per la seva capacitat d"experimentació i renovació integral de l"escriptura, fent quallar una gramàtica violeta. I l"espai virtual, convertit en laboratori públic del llenguatge, s"experimenta amb l"escriptura i la identitat múltiple.

Creating and Internalizing Corporate Brand Identity, Case Wärtsilä

Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli paremmin ymmärtää yritysbrandin identiteetin käsitettä sekä tutkia, miten brandi-identiteetti voidaan luoda ja sisäistää globaalissa konsernissa. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli myös selvittää mahdollisia eroavuuksia case-yritys Wärtsilän todellisen ja toivotun brandi-identiteetin välillä. Kattavan kirjallisuuskatsauksen avulla tarkasteltiin yritysbrandin käsitettä ja sen merkitystä liiketoiminnassa sekä sitä, minkälaisen prosessin avulla yritysbrandi voidaan rakentaa. Myös brandi-identiteetin sisäistämiskeinoja pyrittiin löytämään kirjallisuuskatsauksen avulla. Wärtsilän toivottua brandi-identiteettiä tutkittiin teemahaastattelujen avulla. Henkilöstön mielikuvia eli todellista sisäistä brandi-identiteettiä selvitettiin kvantitatiivisella kyselytutkimuksella. Tutkimus osoitti, että yritysbrandin identiteetti on käsitteenä monitahoinen ja että sillä on yhtymäkohtia useisiin rinnakkaisiin käsitteisiin, kuten yrityksen identiteettiin, uskottavuuteen, maineeseen, liiketoimintastrategiaan, visioon ja missioon. Tämä tutkimus esittääkin, että yritysbrandin identiteetin käsittelyn tulisi aina olla kokonaisvaltaista, jotta saavutettaisiin jotakin rakentavaa ja arvokasta. Tutkimuksessa todetaan myös, että yritysbrandin rooli tulee tulevaisuudessa kasvamaan, koska kestävän kilpailuedun saavuttaminen tulee entistä vaikeammaksi. Tutkimus tähdentää myös henkilöstön roolin merkitystä yritysbrandin kehittämisessä. Tämän tutkimuksen mukaan yritysbrandin identiteetti voidaan luoda portaittaisen mallin avulla: Ensin tehdään strategiset brandianalyysit, määritellään toivotut mielikuvat ja positiointi, toisin sanoen brandin olemus, ja lopuksi nämä kaikki yhdistetään brandilupaukseksi. Yrityksen henkilöstön tulee sisäistää brandilupaus, jotta sen viestiminen ulospäin olisi mahdollisimman yhdenmukaista. Sisäistämistä voidaan edesauttaa mm. luomalla brandikirja, video, yritystarina, roolimalleja, käyttämällä yrityksen Intranettiä sekä pitämällä seminaareja ja ”workshopeja”. Tutkimuksessa havaittiin, että luomisprosessiin vaikuttavat monenlaiset tekijät, kuten muuttuva globaali liiketoimintaympäristö, organisatoriset asiat sekä moninaiset sidosryhmät.

Les escriptores a Galicia: subversio, gramatica violeta i identitat multiple

La literatura gallega dels darrers anys s"ha vist profundament transformada per la irrupció de les escriptores i una «gramàtica violeta», una literatura concebuda en femení, que ha afectat també l"escriptura d"autoria masculina. Les seves propostes no se situen, doncs, en el marge del camp literari, malgrat que numèricament són menys. A la narrativa han engegat ambiciosos projectes de subversió de gènere amb una bona recepció. A la poesia s"han convertit en models literaris per la seva capacitat d"experimentació i renovació integral de l"escriptura, fent quallar una gramàtica violeta. I l"espai virtual, convertit en laboratori públic del llenguatge, s"experimenta amb l"escriptura i la identitat múltiple.