The difference of voluntarism: the place of voluntary sector care homes for older Jewish people in the United Kingdom

Valins, Oliver

doi:10.1332/policypress/9781861346322.003.0008

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“…One aspect of this work has sought to illustrate how voluntary effort can both shape and change the physical landscape of the city. Lalich's (2006) study of Sydney, Australia, and Valins’ (2006) work on Jewish care homes in the London in the UK, for example, reveal how, specific cultural groups have sought to develop communal facilities in the city that address culturally specific needs that would otherwise go unmet. Over time, these become manifest in the emergence of voluntary and community landscapes that mirror the cultural communities they represent.…”

Section: Locating Voluntary Activitymentioning

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Geographies of Voluntarism: Mapping the Terrain

Milligan

2007

Geography Compass

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In the last decade or so a body of geographical work has begun to emerge that examines, in various ways, the interrelationship between people, place, volunteering and the voluntary sector. Work in this field is spread across a number of geographical subdisciplines, from social, health and development to political geography. As a body of work it is increasingly being referred to as ‘geographies of voluntarism’. Focusing specifically on voluntary activity around health and welfare, this article reviews how geographers have begun to critically engage with issues of voluntary activity and space. It draws out how geographical perspectives on voluntarism are contributing to a wider understanding of how and why disparities in voluntary activity occur and the implications for people and places at a range of spatial scales from the global to the local.

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Section: Locating Voluntary Activitymentioning

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Geographies of Voluntarism: Mapping the Terrain

Milligan

2007

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“…There are a number of studies in the geographies of volunteerism literature that investigate the uneven spatial patterns of volunteering (Mohan et al ; Skinner and Rosenberg 2006; Milligan 2007), but many of these studies focus on contextual factors that underlie the rate of volunteering rather than the motivations for volunteering. Also, while some qualitative studies provide detailed narratives of volunteers' motivations, many of these studies have a focus on religious motivated volunteering (Cloke et al ; Valins ). Ours is one of the first studies to investigate contextual determinants of employment‐related motivations for volunteering with inferences drawn from a large random sample, and therefore represents an original contribution to the geographies of volunteerism literature.…”

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“…These studies investigate how the motivation to volunteer is differentiated by such variables as individual income, age, education, and immigration status (Clary et al 1992;Okun et al 1998;Clary and Snyder 1999;Yeung 2004;Burns et al 2006;Shye 2010). In addition, qualitative work on faith-based volunteering has shed light on individuals' impetus for volunteering (Cloke et al 2005;Valins 2006). Cloke et al (2005) point out that religious volunteers may be motivated by faith, the desire to serve people in need, and the desire to create converts for their religion.…”

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Does geographic context influence employability‐motivated volunteering? The role of area‐level material insecurity and urbanicity

Chum

Carpenter

Farrell

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Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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There is a growing public discourse that volunteering increases the likelihood of finding a better job because it improves social and human capital. While previous studies have largely treated volunteers' motivations as individualistically determined, contextual determinants of volunteers' motivations are relatively neglected. The purpose of this study is to understand the individual and contextual characteristics in which individuals are more likely to volunteer as a means of improving their employability. Using a random sample of 768 volunteers across Canada, we estimate the independent effects of a) municipal‐level material insecurity, b) urbanicity, and c) individual characteristics on the odds of “volunteering to improve employability.” Our findings show that living in municipalities with high economic insecurity and in urban settings independently increases the odds of volunteering to improve employability. Our study points to evidence of model misspecification, by omission of unobserved geographical covariates, in previous studies of volunteers' motivations.

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The Changing Geography of Care

Milligan

Power

2009

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

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The difference of voluntarism: the place of voluntary sector care homes for older Jewish people in the United Kingdom

Cited by 4 publications

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Geographies of Voluntarism: Mapping the Terrain

Geographies of Voluntarism: Mapping the Terrain

Does geographic context influence employability‐motivated volunteering? The role of area‐level material insecurity and urbanicity

The Changing Geography of Care

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