Browsing by Sponsor "School of Social Work and Social Policy"
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Navigating multi-locality in rural-urban and return migration: a study of young migrant mothers' experience in Beijing
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2023)During the past decades, China has witnessed one of the biggest waves of rural-urban migration in human history. Despite the ever-rising prevalence, theorisation of rural-urban migration still largely lacks specification ... -
The self at work: Understanding the experience of community placement in activation schemes in a post-recession context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2021)This thesis aims to explain how long-term unemployed welfare recipients taking part in activation schemes made sense of their experiences of unemployment, job-seeking and placement as they deliberated their past, present ... -
Work/Retirement, Family Relations, and Perceptions on the Pension Regime of Middle-aged Citizens in Urban China
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2020)Focusing on urban areas of contemporary China, this thesis interrogates the interactions between the pension and retirement policy and the pathways of middle-aged citizens to retirement. At present, the pension regime in ...