SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT ›› 2024, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (4): 1-8.

• SHEHUI GONGZUO •     Next Articles

Research on the Promotion Mechanism of Social Integration of Migrant Workers in Enterprises from a Transdisciplinary Perspective: Experience from Changzhou Wellness Project

SUN Xiaoming1, Linda Neuhauser2   

  1. 1. School of Sociology and Population Studies, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Jiangsu, Nanjing,210023, China;
    2. Research Center for Health Actions, University of California, Berkeley, California, 48072, USA
  • Received:2023-09-26 Online:2024-07-15 Published:2024-07-15

Abstract: Large-scale population migration has become a defining characteristics of China’s population development. This has led to complex challenges in social integration for migrant workers, requiring both theoretical guidance and practical innovation. Based on the authors’ long-term technical support and follow-up evaluations for Changzhou Wellness Project, this study has drawn its conclusions on both academic and practical levels from a participatory approach and a transdisciplinary framework. Empirical research in Changzhou has shown that the local government has established a multi-sectoral cooperative social support system for migrant workers through transdisciplinary thinking and highly participatory operation with social partners. As a result, policies for migrant workers have been improved, leading to enhanced health status and social adaptability among migrant workers. This has also offered migrant workers with better access to civic services and integration into society.

Key words: transdisciplinary, enterprise migrant workers, social integration, promotion mechanism

CLC Number: 

  • C916
[1] 国家统计局.第七次全国人口普查公报(第七号)[EB/OL]. (2023-02-06).https://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/tjgb/rkpcgb/qgrkpcgb/202302/t20230206_1902007.html.
[2] 常州市统计局. 常州市统计年鉴 [M]. 北京: 中国统计出版社, 2022: 5.
[3] GIBBS P, NEUHAUSER L, FAM D. Introduction, the art of collaborative research and collective learning: transdisciplinary research, practice and education [M]. Dordrecht: Springer, 2018: 5-21.
[4] POHL C, HADORN GH. Principles for designing transdisciplinary research[M]. Munich: OEKOM, 2007: 28-40.
[5] BAMMER G. Disciplining interdisciplinarity: integration and implementation sciences for researching complex real-world problems [M]. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2013: 251-266.
[6] NEUHAUSER L, RICHARDSON D, MACKENZIE S, et al. Advancing transdisciplinary and translational research practice: issues and models of doctoral education in public health[J]. Journal of research practice, 2007, 3(2): 1460-1471
[7] NICOLESU B. Methodology of transdisciplinarity-levels of reality, logic of the included middle and complexity[J]. Transdisciplinary journal of engineering &science, 2010, 1(1): 19-38
[8] LUBCHENCO J. Entering the century of the environment: a new social contract for science[J]. Science, 1998, 279(5350): 491-497
[9] PHELAN J C, LINK B G, THERANIFAR P. Social conditions as fundamental causes of health inequalities [J]. Journal of health and social behavior, 2010, 51(1 suppl): S28-S40.
[10] STOKOLS D. Toward a science of transdisciplinary research[J]. American journal of community psychology, 2006(38): 63-77
[11] NEUHAUSER L, POHL C. Integrating transdisciplinary and translational concepts and methods into graduate education [M]//GIBBS P T. A transdisciplinary study of higher education and professional identity. New York: Springer, 2014: 97-103.
[12] MINKLER L, WALLERSTEIN N. Community based participatory research for health: process to outcomes[M]. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008: 155-169.
[1] ZHANG Yanting, CHENG Wei, HUANG Junhui. The Role and Measures of Social Work in Promoting Social Integration among Migrant Population [J]. SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT, 2017, 17(6): 20-26.
Viewed
Full text


Abstract

Cited

  Shared   
  Discussed   
No Suggested Reading articles found!