In the big cities of Pakistan, peri-urban dairy production plays an important role for household income generation and the supply of milk and meat to the urban population. On the other hand, milk production in general, and peri-urban dairy production in particular, faces numerous problems that have been well known for decades. Peri-urban dairy producers have been especially neglected by politicians as well as non-government-organizations (NGOs). Against this background, a study in Pakistan’s third largest city, ...

This book sheds light on the role that migrant union members and their transnational connections play in unions' cross-border work. By bringing together concepts from (international labor) solidarity theory and transnational migration research, it shows that migrants organized in labor unions and their manifold cross-border ties and networks, transnational ways of belonging, and the social remittances and cultural knowledge they bring, can help overcome some major obstacles to international labor solidarity. Based ...

With globalization and increased connectedness, migration has become a political issue. Nevertheless, without citizenship participation in the political system in the host society is limited. Based on a neo-institutionalist approach and referring to political opportunity structure theory, this paper analyzes differences in means of political participation by migrants in two cities, one in the U.S. and one in Germany. Specific focus is put on the welfare state as one factor potentially influencing forms of participation ...

Seit Anfang 2007 wird Nicaragua wieder von Daniel Ortega und der FSLN regiert. Trotz weit verbreiteter Skepsis auch innerhalb der Nicaragua-Solidaritätsbewegung, erhoffte man sich zumindest einige soziale Verbesserungen. Das vorliegende Working Paper beschäftigt sich mit der Politik der FSLN in den Bereichen Sozialpolitik und ländliche Entwicklung. Dabei wird insbesondere das unter dem Namen ‚Hambre Cero’ (Null Hunger) bekannt gewordene Programa Productivo Alimentario (PPA) genauer untersucht und im Kontext des sich ...

In recent decades there has been a transformation of two central concepts of modernity – labour and the household. Ela Bhatt – the founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association of India (SEWA), has made an important contribution to this transformation. Through the emergence of unions such as SEWA, the notion of who represents labour is being broadened; the marginalised are finding an institutional voice. Increasingly, the household is being recognised as a site of both production and reproduction. SEWA is ...

Seit Januar 2007 und sind in Nicaragua wieder die Sandinisten unter dem ehemaligen Revolutionsführer Daniel Ortega in der Regierungsverantwortung. Am 12. und 13. Juni 2009 veranstalteten das NicaNetz - Freiwilligen-Netzwerk Nicaragua e.V. und das Entwicklungspolitische Netzwerk Hessen in Kooperation mit dem Fachgebiet für Internationale und intergesellschaftliche eine Fachtagung, um gemeinsam mit ExpertInnen aus Wissenschaft, Solidaritätsbewegung und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit einen differenzierten Blick auf die ...

Even though there have been many studies on the impact of trade liberalisation on labour standards, most of the studies are at national level, and there is a lack of research at industry level. This paper examines the impact of free trade on labour standards in capital- and labour-intensive industries in a developing country. For empirical findings, I take the case of the garment industry, representing labour-intensive industry, and automotive industry, representing capital-intensive industry, in Indonesia in the ...

The rejection of the European Constitution marks an important crystallization point for debate about the European Union (EU) and the integration process. The European Constitution was envisaged as the founding document of a renewed and enlarged European Union and thus it was rather assumed to find wide public support. Its rejection was not anticipated. The negative referenda in France and the Netherlands therefore led to a controversial debate about the more fundamental meaning and the consequences of the rejection ...