Serving diverse communities: The role of community initiatives in delivering services to poverty neighbourhoods

Ahmadi, Donya

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2017.07.017

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“…Community research models may be particularly useful in diverse and deprived settings occupied by so-called “hard to reach” communities. Community researchers who are multilingual and have access to and knowledge of their own communities may improve recruitment and retention efforts [ 4 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Researching health in diverse neighbourhoods: critical reflection on the use of a community research model in Uppsala, Sweden

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ObjectiveA community research model developed in the United Kingdom was adopted in a multi-country study of health in diverse neighbourhoods in European cities, including Sweden. This paper describes the challenges and opportunities of using this model in Sweden.ResultsIn Sweden, five community researchers were recruited and trained to facilitate access to diverse groups in the two study neighbourhoods, including ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities. Community researchers recruited participants from the neighbourhoods, and assisted during semi-structured interviews. Their local networks, and knowledge were invaluable for contextualising the study and finding participants. Various factors made it difficult to fully apply the model in Sweden. The study took place when an unprecedented number of asylum-seekers were arriving in Sweden, and potential collaborators’ time was taken up in meeting their needs. Employment on short-term, temporary contracts is difficult since Swedish Universities are public authorities. Strong expectations of stable full-time employment, make flexible part-time work undesirable. The community research model was only partly successful in embedding the research project as a collaboration between community members and the University. While there was interest and some involvement from neighbourhood residents, the research remained University-led with a limited sense of community ownership.

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confidence: 99%

Researching health in diverse neighbourhoods: critical reflection on the use of a community research model in Uppsala, Sweden

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“…We treat linking social capital as a property of neighborhood organizations that can be used to (indirectly) benefit individual members. Neighborhood organizations generally need linking social capital to obtain funding and other essential resources in order to survive and conduct their daily operations (cf., Ahmadi, 2017;Vermeulen et al, 2016). Since we assume that neighborhood organizations provide services that positively contribute to the lives of their members, individuals indirectly gain from the organization's linking social capital.…”

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“…However, having linking social capital can be a source of precarity for volunteer and welfare organizations. This precarity can be expressed in several ways, such as short-term and incidental funding, tokenistic state support (lack of funds for fundamental work such as administration) and state support leading to co-optation and undermining of autonomy (Ahmadi, 2017).…”

Section: Volunteer and Welfare Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Linking social capital and organizational ties: How different types of neighborhood organizations broker resources for the urban poor

Custers

Engbersen

2022

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Recent studies have called attention to how neighborhood organizations can help people in low-income neighborhoods who face risks of social exclusion. This study examines how different types of neighborhood organizations broker resources for the urban poor. We investigate how neighborhood organizations employ linking social capital (vertical networks) and organizational ties (horizontal networks). Furthermore, we discuss the process of organizational brokerage and through which mechanisms neighborhood organizations make resources accessible. Qualitative field work was conducted in a faith-based organization, a professional welfare organization and a volunteer organization. Our findings demonstrate that organizations broker resources in different ways, and that mechanisms of organizational brokerage complement each other. We further show how neighborhood organizations play an important role in connecting people from lowincome neighborhoods to main institutions such as the labor market and welfare bureaucracies. We conclude with a discussion of the implications for neighborhood effects studies and policy, and what the study's limitations are.

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“…Toronto is also host to more than one-third of the Canadian newcomer population. As evidenced in the recent work of Ahmadi (2017Ahmadi ( , 2018, the rhetoric of a multicultural and diverse Toronto has continued to serve political parties in power whilst also limit the authentic impact (especially as realized through economic redistribution, social justice, and anti-racism) on marginalized communities. The emergence of St. James Town and Regent Park, as one such material illustration, occurred in reaction to (i) the federal/provincial government desire to (appear to) prioritize public housing; and (ii) the de-racialization of Canadian immigration policy (Boudreau et al 2009).…”

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Playing in the Shadow of Event Urbanism: Newcomer Youth, Neighborhood Change, and TO2015

Lisio¹,

Yerashotis

Fusco

2019

Int J Sociol Leis

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There has been recent academic attention focused on youth geographies. This literature has worked to emphasize youth experiences in urban life. Concomitantly, there has been a bourgeoning body of research directed at the evaluation of the sport mega-event as a catalyst of urban-spatial reform that has questioned the role of sport in the design of socially-equitable and environmentally-sustainable cities. In this paper, we examine the intersection between geographies of youth and the sport mega-event. Specifically, through a qualitative document analysis of relevant sport mega-event documentation, we compare and contrast written material with a thematic analysis of qualitative data collected with a small sample of newcomer youth in Toronto, Canada. Ultimately, we aim to explore the manner in which event-linked development priorities (and associated ideologies) manifest transnational (elite) representations of space through sport, and in turn, reconstruct urbanspatial fantasies of citizenship in the supposed diverse and inclusive Bhostĉ ontext. Our qualitative data demonstrate the extent to which the everyday places of newcomer youth, so filled with their own hope for the future, are most readily experienced as a perpetual negotiation between strategic exclusion and repressive inclusion-or the future otherwise envisioned for them.

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Serving diverse communities: The role of community initiatives in delivering services to poverty neighbourhoods

Cited by 11 publications

References 28 publications

Researching health in diverse neighbourhoods: critical reflection on the use of a community research model in Uppsala, Sweden

Researching health in diverse neighbourhoods: critical reflection on the use of a community research model in Uppsala, Sweden

Linking social capital and organizational ties: How different types of neighborhood organizations broker resources for the urban poor

Playing in the Shadow of Event Urbanism: Newcomer Youth, Neighborhood Change, and TO2015

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