M J Lubbers
Biographic Data
| ID | 13363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M J Lubbers |
| GIVEN NAMES | M J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lubbers |
| SIGNATURE | LUBBERS M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8398-6044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 236 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Employment in precarious times
The social sciences and humanities have devoted considerable attention to the growing precariousness of labour relations, as well as to its wider implications for the culture of everyday life. Precarity is increasingly understood not only as a condition of employment but also as a broader social experience that shapes people's identities, aspirations, interpersonal relations, and sense of security. The common concern that brought together the con…
From hidden populations to social structure
Unequal relational gains in a sport intervention for asylum seekers
Sport-for-development (SFD) programs are seen as inclusive intervention tools for promoting social integration and well-being among vulnerable groups. This article examines a basketball SFD initiative for asylum seekers in a mid-sized Italian city, designed to improve participants’ social capital by providing new leisure and socialization opportunities. Drawing on a panel survey that included a detailed social network module, we use descriptive n…
The Impact of Social Norms on Cohesion and (De)Polarization
In recent years, political and social polarization has increased across many societies, evolving from mere issue‐based disagreements into affective polarization, in which citizens dislike and distrust members of opposing groups. This trend undermines social cohesion and the effective functioning of democratic institutions. Despite extensive interdisciplinary research into polarization, the role of social norms—shared expectations about typical an…
Social networks in migration and migrant incorporation
Migration cannot be understood without comprehending the social networks that surround and sustain it. Research over the past several decades has increasingly shown that social networks are crucial to explain what causes migration, how migration takes place, and what its consequences are for migrants, their families, and their sending and receiving communities. Reflecting this growing awareness, scholarship at the network-migration nexus has stea…
The Measurement Properties of Aggregated Relational Data and NSUM-Estimated Network Size
Aggregated relational data (ARD), derived from questions of the form “How many people do you know who [belong to subpopulation X]?” are widely used to estimate the size and composition of social networks, often adopting the network scale-up method (NSUM). However, their measurement properties are insufficiently studied. The authors address this gap by assessing (1) the test-retest reliability of a large set of ARD questions and NSUM-estimated net…
The Relational Toll of Political Involvement in Polarized Times
Active political participation and engagement in collective action are generally thought to expand activists' social networks. However, the potential negative relational consequences of political activism have seldom been examined. This article addresses this gap by assessing whether activists are more likely to experience politically motivated interpersonal conflicts with social contacts who hold different political views, and if so, why and wit…
Toward a Unified Conceptualization of Social Capital
Social capital is among the most broadly used concepts in social science. Despite its shared understanding as beneficial resources available from the connections between people, authors vary widely in their conceptualizations of social capital. To extract clarity from these disparate perspectives, we offer a systematic framework for conceptualizing social capital, which identifies three primary theoretical dimensions of scholars' conceptualizatio…
The role of social networks in institutional trust during economic downturns
Citizens' trust in institutions is crucial for the proper functioning of societies. While national economic performance is a key predictor of institutional trust, individuals' perceptions of the economy-through which this influence is thought to operate- vary widely, suggesting that additional factors play a role in shaping these perceptions. One largely ignored factor is social networks. This paper argues that acquaintanceship networks expose in…
Evaluación de la integración relacional de los inmigrantes en uniones mixtas a partir del análisis de redes personales
Desde principios de la última década el número de matrimonios mixtos ha crecido considerablemente. En este artículo presentamos resultados que intentan clarifi car la relación entre uniones mixtas e integración social, a partir del análisis de datos primarios de entrevistas en profundidad con delineación de redes personales. Los resultados sobre composición y estructura de las redes muestran una presencia más numerosa de españoles en las redes de…
Automated Name Selection for the Network Scale-up Method
To estimate the distribution of the number of acquaintances of the members of a society, the network scale-up method asks survey respondents about the number of people they know with features for which national statistics are available. While many features have been used for this purpose, first names have been suggested to produce particularly low levels of transmission error and recall bias. For this method to be precise, a set of names needs to…
Choose, buy, pay – Paradoxes of shame-relieving processes among impoverished Spaniards after 2008’s great recession
Purpose The aim of the paper is to ethnographically detail the poverty-shame nexus in contemporary Spain, and to highlight the contradictions of the newly adopted consumption-based models of inclusion led by charities. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on 39 cases out of a sample of 78 gathered through two long-term research projects, the paper employs a mixed-methods approach that mainly draws on a multi-sited ethnographic approach and intervi…
Migrant entrepreneurs in the ‘Farm of Europe’
The so-called ‘sea of plastic’ in Almería, Spain, is a 450km2 area devoted to intensive greenhouse farming managed by 10,000 small farmers who employ a labour force of 50,000 workers, mostly immigrants from Africa and eastern Europe. Romanian immigrants arrived at the beginning of 2000s and have occupied various positions within this agro-industrial district. Some started their own businesses in greenhouse reparation and construction employing fe…
Belonging here and there
Following the economic crisis of 2008–2014, the number of Spaniards in Iceland has quintupled. This study explores how young, highly qualified Spanish migrants in Iceland adopt social media to become embedded in Iceland and to maintain relationships in Spain, and how it affects their sense of belonging. For this aim, semi-structured interviews were held in 2017–2018 with 29 Spaniards residing in Iceland, and their personal networks were analyzed.…
Labour Mobility and Informality
Post-Weberian definitions see the state–individual relationship as a “do ut des” one. The state grants protection, education, medical care, and its citizens contribute labour, compliance, and taxes. When this does not occur, it is generally accepted that the citizens are deviating from state goals. However, there are cases where lack of compliance stems from the fact that society members do not feel protected by formal structures, and they rely o…
Short Take
Thanks to the latest developments in network-oriented sampling, it is now possible to measure "transnational social fields," or emergent social structures that connect places or regions in different countries. These structures are instrumental in explaining sociocultural phenomena like the emergence of ethnic or demographic enclaves, social and economic remittances, and ethnic identifications. Nevertheless, they have only been mentioned metaphori…
The Relational Vulnerability of People Experiencing Multiple Exclusion Homelessness (MEH) in Spain
This paper draws on research analyzing the emotional and relational impacts of poverty and exclusion on charities' clients in Spain since the 2008-2009 economic crisis, including people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH). The study adopts a mixed-methods approach in which twenty in-depth cases were collected in different geographical locations, including twelve cases experiencing MEH. Unlike other disadvantaged groups, those affec…
Structural Embeddedness in Transnational Social Fields
In this article we focus on individuals’ structural embeddedness in transnational social fields (TSFs) and examine how this is related to patterns of international mobility. The main argument is that the structure of TSFs matters for (im)mobility trajectories, and thus all actors (migrants, non‐migrants, and returnees) need to be examined as a whole to obtain a deeper understanding of the role of social networks in processes of transnational mobi…
In Good Company? Personal Relationships, Network Embeddedness, and Social Inclusion
How do individuals’ networks of personal relationships affect their social in‐ and exclusion? Researchers have shown that micro‐level, informal relationships can be highly consequential for social inclusion, but in complex, contradictory ways: Personal networks reflect the degree of relational exclusion and protect against (other forms of) exclusion, but they also erode in conditions of exclusion and reproduce exclusion. While network researchers…
She’s Surrounded by Loved Ones, but Feeling Alone”
Loneliness poses one of the significant problems of our modern post‐industrial societies. Current research on loneliness has been developed primarily by psychology, biomedicine, nursing, and other health‐related disciplines, showing a surprising number of variables and risk factors involved in the experience of loneliness, along with positive correlations with premature mortality and morbidity. However, most of these analyses overlook the social …
The networked character of migration and transnationalism
How do migrants' processes of social embedding unfold over time
In this article we investigate how migrants' processes of social (dis-) embedding in local and transnational contexts unfold over time and illustrate their driving forces. Drawing on unique longitudinal, mixed-methods social network data of 77 transnational migrants in Barcelona, Spain, we were able to capture changes in social relationships at a micro-level. We found that migrant embedding is far from a linear process. In many regards, the obser…
Social Networks and Transnational Social Fields
Scholars of transnationalism have argued that migrants create transnational social fields or spaces that connect their place of origin to destination areas. Despite the centrality that social networks have in the definition of these concepts, quantitative and mixed-methods social network research is rare in research on transnationalism. This situation, however, has changed over the last decade, and the transnational social networks of migrants ha…
Relationships Stretched Thin
Research on how the poor "make ends meet" typically shows that they are able to do so by relying on dense support networks of family and close friends. Recent research suggests, however, that these networks play a limited role. This article examines the role of informal networks in how sixty-one households in Barcelona, Spain, cope with poverty. We use a mixed-methods design that combines structured network delineation with semistructured intervi…
Do Networks Help People To Manage Poverty? Perspectives from the Field
poverty; social exclusion; social networks; social support; relational mechanisms; coping strategies; network poverty
Personal Networks and Ethnic Identifications
This article investigates whether personal networks influenced ethnic self-identifications of migrants in Spain. During the years 2004-6, data were collected about personal networks of migrants in Spain ( N = 294) through a questionnaire and a structured interview. The networks were classified into five network profiles on the basis of both variables about structure (e.g. density, betweenness and number of cohesive subgroups) and composition (e.g…
Preference and prejudice
This paper challenges the idea – rooted in classic assimilation theory – that intermarriage clearly erodes social and ethno-racial boundaries and negative attitudes between groups. Drawing on narratives from 58 immigrants of seven different origin countries residing in Catalonia, Spain, who are in romantic partnerships with Spanish-born people, we focus on preferences and prejudices related to mixing. We find that the members of exogamous couples…
When networks speak volumes
Contesting the Nexus between Intermarriage and Integration
This article examines the nexus between intermarriage and sociocultural dimensions of the integration of immigrants in Spain. The data presented draw on ninety-four in-depth interviews conducted with immigrants of seven different origins in exogamous (mixed) and endogamous (same-origin) unions in Catalonia, the region with the highest rate of immigration and ethno-racial diversity in Spain. We apply a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitativ…
The networked character of migration and transnationalism
Do Networks Help People To Manage Poverty? Perspectives from the Field
poverty; social exclusion; social networks; social support; relational mechanisms; coping strategies; network poverty
Social Networks and Knowledge Transmission Strategies among Baka Children, Southeastern Cameroon
The dynamics of knowledge transmission and acquisition, or how different aspects of culture are passed from one individual to another and how they are acquired and embodied by individuals, are central to understanding cultural evolution. In small-scale societies, cultural knowledge is largely acquired early in life through observation, imitation, and other forms of social learning embedded in daily experiences. However, little is known about the …
How do migrants' processes of social embedding unfold over time
In this article we investigate how migrants' processes of social (dis-) embedding in local and transnational contexts unfold over time and illustrate their driving forces. Drawing on unique longitudinal, mixed-methods social network data of 77 transnational migrants in Barcelona, Spain, we were able to capture changes in social relationships at a micro-level. We found that migrant embedding is far from a linear process. In many regards, the obser…
Predicting Peer Acceptance in Dutch Youth
This article uses an ecological approach to predict students’ peer acceptance within junior high school classes. The authors investigate whether various characteristics (self-perception of physical attractiveness and athletic competence, cognitive ability, agreeableness, extraversion, age, parents’ education, number of siblings, siblings at same school, parental control, percentage of classmates who attended the same primary school, ethnicity) pr…
The embeddedness of social capital in personal networks
Name generators (NGs) and position generators (PGs) have been used to measure resources embedded in personal relationships, namely social support and social capital, respectively. Comparisons of these measures adopted NGs that only elicit a small number of alters (max. 5). In this paper we explore whether the measurement of social capital with NGs eliciting larger personal networks (say 15 to 20 alters) gives more comparable results to the PG in …
Charities under austerity
In an era of growing inequality, poverty and marginality are among the gravest challenges in the political agendas of many so-called "developed" countries. However, neoliberal policies and welfare state retrenchment imply that poverty alleviation, formerly one of the main duties of welfare states, increasingly relies on non-profit and charity organizations. In contrast to the attention that such organizations in the global south have attracted am…
Dynamics of Peer Relationships Across the First Two Years of Junior High as a Function of Gender and Changes in Classroom Composition
This article examines the dynamics of peer relationships across the first 2 grades of Dutch junior high schools (average age 13-14). Specifically, we studied how gender and compositional changes in classrooms structured the changes in peer relationships between the 2 grades. Expectations were derived from past research, and we tested whether these held when methods for data analysis were applied that control appropriately for the dependence struc…
Social comparison with friends versus non‐friends
This paper investigates whether several aspects of social comparison in school classes differ as a function of the type of relation between the student and his or her target. Participants were 9612 students in the first grade of secondary education in the Netherlands (equivalent to Grade 7 in the US). Results indicated that (1) 78% of the students who had at least one friend also compared with a friend; (2) social comparison with friends was much…
Relationships Stretched Thin
Research on how the poor "make ends meet" typically shows that they are able to do so by relying on dense support networks of family and close friends. Recent research suggests, however, that these networks play a limited role. This article examines the role of informal networks in how sixty-one households in Barcelona, Spain, cope with poverty. We use a mixed-methods design that combines structured network delineation with semistructured intervi…
The Cowl Does Make The Monk”
In order to contribute to the debate about social entrepreneurship, we take an empirical perspective and describe the phenomenon in Catalonia, Spain, during the financial crises of the early twenty-first century. For this aim, we conducted 43 in-depth interviews with social entrepreneurs, launched a web-based survey with 90 responses, and built a database with 347 organizations and/or ventures settled in Catalonia with an explicit social/environm…
Cooperation and competition in social anthropology
The emergence of cooperation in human societies has received ample academic attention from different disciplines, and is usually considered as an adaptive response to competition over scarce resources. In this article, the authors review the specific contribution that social anthropology has made to this field of research. They propose that social anthropology has contributed to this field through the description of systems that have regulated bo…
On Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Networks in a Multilayered Reality
Over the last decade, the tourist destination of Lloret de Mar (Gerona, Spain) has experienced an increasing concentration of souvenir stores owned by a population of Indian origin. Although Lloret de Mar is already a multicultural spot, Indians represent a small minority in Spain. In order to explain such a remarkable concentration and economic specialization in a low profit sector, we suggest the emergence of an ethnic enclave based on a triple…
Social networks in migration and migrant incorporation
Migration cannot be understood without comprehending the social networks that surround and sustain it. Research over the past several decades has increasingly shown that social networks are crucial to explain what causes migration, how migration takes place, and what its consequences are for migrants, their families, and their sending and receiving communities. Reflecting this growing awareness, scholarship at the network-migration nexus has stea…
Evaluación de la integración relacional de los inmigrantes en uniones mixtas a partir del análisis de redes personales
Desde principios de la última década el número de matrimonios mixtos ha crecido considerablemente. En este artículo presentamos resultados que intentan clarifi car la relación entre uniones mixtas e integración social, a partir del análisis de datos primarios de entrevistas en profundidad con delineación de redes personales. Los resultados sobre composición y estructura de las redes muestran una presencia más numerosa de españoles en las redes de…
Short Take
Thanks to the latest developments in network-oriented sampling, it is now possible to measure "transnational social fields," or emergent social structures that connect places or regions in different countries. These structures are instrumental in explaining sociocultural phenomena like the emergence of ethnic or demographic enclaves, social and economic remittances, and ethnic identifications. Nevertheless, they have only been mentioned metaphori…
Bulgarian Migrants in Spain
We analyze the Bulgarian migrant social networks in two localities (Roses and Barcelona) of Northeastern Spain (Catalonia), in order to determine the sociodemographic profile of Bulgarian migrants in these localities and assess the different patterns of adaptation (which means selective cultural changes to fit better with dominant practices) and community dynamics developed in each place. The methodology used is the structured interview supported…
The Measurement Properties of Aggregated Relational Data and NSUM-Estimated Network Size
Aggregated relational data (ARD), derived from questions of the form “How many people do you know who [belong to subpopulation X]?” are widely used to estimate the size and composition of social networks, often adopting the network scale-up method (NSUM). However, their measurement properties are insufficiently studied. The authors address this gap by assessing (1) the test-retest reliability of a large set of ARD questions and NSUM-estimated net…
Migrant entrepreneurs in the ‘Farm of Europe’
The so-called ‘sea of plastic’ in Almería, Spain, is a 450km2 area devoted to intensive greenhouse farming managed by 10,000 small farmers who employ a labour force of 50,000 workers, mostly immigrants from Africa and eastern Europe. Romanian immigrants arrived at the beginning of 2000s and have occupied various positions within this agro-industrial district. Some started their own businesses in greenhouse reparation and construction employing fe…
Belonging here and there
Following the economic crisis of 2008–2014, the number of Spaniards in Iceland has quintupled. This study explores how young, highly qualified Spanish migrants in Iceland adopt social media to become embedded in Iceland and to maintain relationships in Spain, and how it affects their sense of belonging. For this aim, semi-structured interviews were held in 2017–2018 with 29 Spaniards residing in Iceland, and their personal networks were analyzed.…
Structural Embeddedness in Transnational Social Fields
In this article we focus on individuals’ structural embeddedness in transnational social fields (TSFs) and examine how this is related to patterns of international mobility. The main argument is that the structure of TSFs matters for (im)mobility trajectories, and thus all actors (migrants, non‐migrants, and returnees) need to be examined as a whole to obtain a deeper understanding of the role of social networks in processes of transnational mobi…
Group composition and network structure in school classes
Predicting Peer Acceptance in Dutch Youth
This article uses an ecological approach to predict students’ peer acceptance within junior high school classes. The authors investigate whether various characteristics (self-perception of physical attractiveness and athletic competence, cognitive ability, agreeableness, extraversion, age, parents’ education, number of siblings, siblings at same school, parental control, percentage of classmates who attended the same primary school, ethnicity) pr…
A comparison of various approaches to the exponential random graph model
Personal Networks and Ethnic Identifications
This article investigates whether personal networks influenced ethnic self-identifications of migrants in Spain. During the years 2004-6, data were collected about personal networks of migrants in Spain ( N = 294) through a questionnaire and a structured interview. The networks were classified into five network profiles on the basis of both variables about structure (e.g. density, betweenness and number of cohesive subgroups) and composition (e.g…
Social comparison with friends versus non‐friends
This paper investigates whether several aspects of social comparison in school classes differ as a function of the type of relation between the student and his or her target. Participants were 9612 students in the first grade of secondary education in the Netherlands (equivalent to Grade 7 in the US). Results indicated that (1) 78% of the students who had at least one friend also compared with a friend; (2) social comparison with friends was much…
Longitudinal analysis of personal networks. The case of Argentinean migrants in Spain
Dynamics of Peer Relationships Across the First Two Years of Junior High as a Function of Gender and Changes in Classroom Composition
This article examines the dynamics of peer relationships across the first 2 grades of Dutch junior high schools (average age 13-14). Specifically, we studied how gender and compositional changes in classrooms structured the changes in peer relationships between the 2 grades. Expectations were derived from past research, and we tested whether these held when methods for data analysis were applied that control appropriately for the dependence struc…
Bulgarian Migrants in Spain
We analyze the Bulgarian migrant social networks in two localities (Roses and Barcelona) of Northeastern Spain (Catalonia), in order to determine the sociodemographic profile of Bulgarian migrants in these localities and assess the different patterns of adaptation (which means selective cultural changes to fit better with dominant practices) and community dynamics developed in each place. The methodology used is the structured interview supported…
El proceso de reconstrucción de la red personal de los inmigrantes
Past studies indicated that the personal networks can be a source of social support for immigrants, but it is not a static entity. In this article, we describe a longitudinal study into the change in personal networks of immigrants, performed between 2004-2008 in four groups of immigrants with relatively recent residence in Catalonia, Spain (in total N = 70). The networks were measured twice, both waves post-migratory, with a period of 1,0-3,3 ye…
Life Behind the Lobby. Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream
Life Behind the Lobby. Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37(5), pp. 907–908
On Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Networks in a Multilayered Reality
Over the last decade, the tourist destination of Lloret de Mar (Gerona, Spain) has experienced an increasing concentration of souvenir stores owned by a population of Indian origin. Although Lloret de Mar is already a multicultural spot, Indians represent a small minority in Spain. In order to explain such a remarkable concentration and economic specialization in a low profit sector, we suggest the emergence of an ethnic enclave based on a triple…
Las redes sociales de la economía social
A partir del trabajo de campo en curso llevado a cabo en Cataluña (proyecto de investigación ENCLAVE - CSO2012-32635), se sugiere la existencia de al menos tres tipos de los llamados "empresarios sociales": los profesionales desplazados por los recortes en el gasto público en los sectores de la salud, los servicios sociales y la cooperación; las cooperativas y las asociaciones tradicionales, re-etiquetados como "empresarios sociales" o "empresas …
Contesting the Nexus between Intermarriage and Integration
This article examines the nexus between intermarriage and sociocultural dimensions of the integration of immigrants in Spain. The data presented draw on ninety-four in-depth interviews conducted with immigrants of seven different origins in exogamous (mixed) and endogamous (same-origin) unions in Catalonia, the region with the highest rate of immigration and ethno-racial diversity in Spain. We apply a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitativ…
Preference and prejudice
This paper challenges the idea – rooted in classic assimilation theory – that intermarriage clearly erodes social and ethno-racial boundaries and negative attitudes between groups. Drawing on narratives from 58 immigrants of seven different origin countries residing in Catalonia, Spain, who are in romantic partnerships with Spanish-born people, we focus on preferences and prejudices related to mixing. We find that the members of exogamous couples…
The Cowl Does Make The Monk”
In order to contribute to the debate about social entrepreneurship, we take an empirical perspective and describe the phenomenon in Catalonia, Spain, during the financial crises of the early twenty-first century. For this aim, we conducted 43 in-depth interviews with social entrepreneurs, launched a web-based survey with 90 responses, and built a database with 347 organizations and/or ventures settled in Catalonia with an explicit social/environm…
Becoming Part of an Eco-Community
Studying grassroots initiatives which aim to respond to environmental and social crisis is of renewed importance nowadays, in the aftermath of the 2008-9 financial crisis in southern Europe. This paper studies people's motivations for becoming part of an eco-community in Catalonia, Spain, through interviews with 29 informants. The research is part of a larger study, based on ethnographic data collected between 2013 and 2015 in 27 eco-communities.…
Cooperation and competition in social anthropology
The emergence of cooperation in human societies has received ample academic attention from different disciplines, and is usually considered as an adaptive response to competition over scarce resources. In this article, the authors review the specific contribution that social anthropology has made to this field of research. They propose that social anthropology has contributed to this field through the description of systems that have regulated bo…
The missing link
A personal network approach to the study of immigrant structural assimilation and transnationalism
This paper proposes a personal network approach to the study of structural assimilation and structural transnationalism among international immigrants. Structural assimilation and transnationalism are defined as embeddedness in native social networks of the host society, and in co-national social networks of the origin society, respectively. Data on the personal networks of international immigrants, each including 45 alters, are obtained from two…
When networks speak volumes
Social Networks and Knowledge Transmission Strategies among Baka Children, Southeastern Cameroon
The dynamics of knowledge transmission and acquisition, or how different aspects of culture are passed from one individual to another and how they are acquired and embodied by individuals, are central to understanding cultural evolution. In small-scale societies, cultural knowledge is largely acquired early in life through observation, imitation, and other forms of social learning embedded in daily experiences. However, little is known about the …
The embeddedness of social capital in personal networks
Name generators (NGs) and position generators (PGs) have been used to measure resources embedded in personal relationships, namely social support and social capital, respectively. Comparisons of these measures adopted NGs that only elicit a small number of alters (max. 5). In this paper we explore whether the measurement of social capital with NGs eliciting larger personal networks (say 15 to 20 alters) gives more comparable results to the PG in …
Mixed embeddedness of immigrant entrepreneurs in microstates. The case of Andorra
The theory of mixed embeddedness has been empirically tested in several countries showing how immigrant entrepreneurs utilize network resources coming from both the country of origin and residence, including institutions. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to the networks of immigrant entrepreneurs residing in a microstate. Specific features of microstates may affect the way in which migrant entrepreneurs develop their ventures. Therefo…
Emprendimiento Social. Autoempleo y extracción del valor en la era post-crisis
El fenómeno del emprendimiento social surgido en Cataluña a partir de la crisis del 2008 se presenta como una alternativa ocupacional promovida por actores financieros y administraciones públicas para responder a dos problemas agravados por la crisis financiera: la necesidad de crear empleo estable y los retos sociales y medioambientales. Este tipo de emprendimiento, liderado por una clase creativa auto-empleada, se enfrenta a las tensiones surgi…
Charities under austerity
In an era of growing inequality, poverty and marginality are among the gravest challenges in the political agendas of many so-called "developed" countries. However, neoliberal policies and welfare state retrenchment imply that poverty alleviation, formerly one of the main duties of welfare states, increasingly relies on non-profit and charity organizations. In contrast to the attention that such organizations in the global south have attracted am…
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