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Pemenuhan Hak-Hak Asasi Anak Tenaga Kerja Indonesia Di Perkebunan Sawit Di Wilayah Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia, Cicilia Anggi Sholina
Pemenuhan Hak-Hak Asasi Anak Tenaga Kerja Indonesia Di Perkebunan Sawit Di Wilayah Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia, Cicilia Anggi Sholina
Jurnal Pembangunan Manusia
Protection of children is a guarantee that has been agreed globally. The form of protection that can be provided is to ensure that children's rights are fulfilled wherever they are, including when they are not in Indonesia. Children of Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) experience multiple vulnerabilities, especially when children have to be born and live in the country where PMI works. The most obvious problem is the emergence of stateless children. Child without a birth certificate or citizenship certificate, has limited access to basic needs and government services. Guarantees for the protection of children has become the responsibility of all …
For The Children: Accounting For Careers In Child Protective Services, Joan M. Morris
For The Children: Accounting For Careers In Child Protective Services, Joan M. Morris
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
This paper analyzes autobiographical essays from women who work as social service workers in child-protection agencies. Working long hours in relatively low-paying jobs, these women have limited prestige and autonomy and increasingly, come under close scrutiny and public criticism. They are clearly exploited in terms of the emotional and "mothering" labor they are expected to perform and are held personally accountable for daily decisions that could have dire consequences for the children they serve to protect. This paper is an investigation of how their narratives explain and justify their willingness to continue working in these situations and how their professional …
Losing The "Eyes In The Back Of Our Heads": Social Service Skills, Lean Caring, And Violence, Donna Baines
Losing The "Eyes In The Back Of Our Heads": Social Service Skills, Lean Caring, And Violence, Donna Baines
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Violence in the social services work place in general, and the developmental services in particular,h as increased in the last several years. Findingsf rom an ethnographic study suggests that new, lean forms of work organization remove opportunities to use or learn many of the tacit or practice skills workers previously used to keep themselves and their clients safer in the work place. This article describes many of these skills and the new management schemes that remove the possibility to develop or transmit these praxis skills. The article concludes by analyzing the convergence between the new labour processes and the competency …