Review: Transport and Social Exclusion in Scotland

Poverty and social exclusion in urban and rural areas of Scotland Poverty and Social Exclusion UK Survey 2012 Working Paper

The Effects of Social Exclusion and Transport in South Africa

This paper presents the finding of the qualitative survey commissioned by the Department of Transport to understand the effect of poor transport on the lives of the socially marginalised. To a great extent there is not enough knowledge about how and why people are excluded. The aim of this research is to identify the transport and accessibility concerns of people living on low incomes and at th...

'The Cup of Kindness’? Dominant Social Norms and Muslims’ Social Integration in Scotland

Since the 9/11 bombings in New York, and the 7/7 bombings in London,Muslims’ integration in the UK has been under intense scrutiny. Muslimintegration, however, has long been a matter of debate in Britain, revolvingaround the maintenance of Muslims’ distinctive identity and practice. Forinstance, David Cameron (Cameron, 2011), Britain’s then Prime Minister,announced...

Experiencing Social Exclusion: Case Study of Hawramis in Marivan City

The purpose of the present research is to intervene and change the condition of social exclusion of Hawrami people from Souranis. In doing so we benefited from an approach embedded within the intellectual tradition of France (the relational) using Bourdieu's and Silver’s concepts which are based on three paradigms (integration, specialization and the monopoly) to explain the exclusion. The meth...

Social Exclusion and Social Norms

Being excluded and ignored has been shown to threaten fundamental human needs and cause pain. Such reflexive reactions to social exclusion have been conceptualized as direct and unmoderated (temporal need threat model, Williams, 2009). Here we propose an extension and argue that reflexive reactions depend on how social exclusion situations are construed. If being excluded is understood as a vio...