Foreign Community Research Articles

지역사회 노인 대상 마음챙김 명상 중재에 관한 체계적 문헌고찰

Objectives This study is a systematic review that examines the intervention research based on mindfulness meditation for the elderly in the community to confirm the research method and the effects and characteristics of mindfulness meditation. Methods This study is based on the literature published up to February 2022, CPubMed, Cochrane Library, Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and electronic databases were used overseas, and DBpia, KISS, RISS, NDSL and KMbase were searched in Korea. The final 19 papers were used for analysis based on the selection criteria and exclusion criteria. Results Most of the studies operated intervention programs face-to-face(73.6%), Mainly, an 8-week intervention period study(68.4%) and more than 120 minutes of intervention were provided(47.4%). Mindfulness meditation intervention had positive effects on blood pressure, fatigue, pain, cortisol levels, immunity, stress, and life satisfaction. The results were inconsistent for anxiety, depression, cognitive function, mindfulness, sleep quality, and quality of life. Conclusions This study identified the effects of promoting physical, mental, and social health, including mindfulness meditation intervention studies for the elderly in domestic and foreign communities. It is meaningful in that the proper level of the period and number of times of intervention was presented by analyzing the characteristics of arbitration and matters to be considered when operating the program.

PENGEMBANGAN PROGRAM DESA WISATA BERBASIS JEJARING BISNIS DI DESA TAMANSARI KABUPATEN BANYUWANGI

A tourism village is an integrated tourism concept in an area that combines local tourism potential in the form of art-culture products and natural beauty, accommodation, and other supporting facilities. Tourist villages have great potential, especially for the tourist segment who is interested in exploring the rich arts and culture of the foreign community. This study analyzes the development of a business network-based tourism village program in Tamansari Village, Banyuwangi Regency, namely by cooperating with the private sector to improve the community's economy through the concept of a tourist village. Using corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds from private companies, several tourist sites in Tamansari village were developed, starting from the milk village (Dusun Ampel Gading), the mining village, to the flower village (Dusun Jambu). Qualitative descriptive method is carried out with data collection techniques used are observation, interviews with village heads and Pokdarwis, as well as literature study. The results showed that the development of a business network-based tourism village program in Tamansari Village had a significant impact on boosting the residents' economy, and could be used as additional village income through APBDes. The village government in supporting the development of tourist villages collaborates with Pokdarwis (Tourism Awareness Groups), which have an important role and contribution to explore new potential in tourism development. thorough.
 
 Keywords: Development; Tourism Village Program;, and Business Network

The motivational disposition of international students learning foreign languages in Hungary: Testing the L2 motivation self system in the Hungarian context

Abstract While the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) (Dörnyei, 2005, 2019) has been researched extensively in the Hungarian context, it has not been used to test international students' motivational dispositions towards learning foreign languages. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to report a study that aimed to test the L2MSS on 34 international students who learned Hungarian or English as a foreign language (EFL) during their studies in Hungary. The pilot questionnaire contained nine scales adapted from Taguchi, Magid, and Papi (2009). Besides the ideal L2 self and ought-to L2 self, the scales measured other influential learning and environmental impacts that exert their influence on the L2 learning experience, the third constituent of the model, with a view to better understanding what motivates international students to learn foreign languages. The findings of the pilot revealed that the adapted instrument worked in the Hungarian context and that international learners' motivational dispositions were mostly affected by learners' attitudes towards the foreign language community. Linear regression analysis revealed that the participants' motivated learning behavior could be predicted by their intrinsic and instrumental motivation. Significant differences were found between male and female respondents regarding their L2 ought-to selves and instrumental motivation. Besides explaining the attitudes that the learners have towards the foreign language community, the findings can be utilized to further enhance learners' motivation once the results are fed back to the community of professionals teaching similar students.

The Valparaíso (Chile) Anglophone Periodical Press: Voices from the Borders of Empire

Whenstudying the anglophone periodicals produced in Valparaíso, Chile, the mainport on the South American West Coast of the Pacific in the 19th century and apoint of connection and transoceanic transit before the opening of the PanamaCanal, we stand face to face with the reality of multilingualism in a specificgeo-cultural space. This place ⸻  theHistoric Quarter of the Seaport of Valparaiso, recognised by UNESCO as a WorldHeritage Site for its cultural diversity, since ‘the city was populated and influencedby people from around the world’⸻ was co-inhabited by immigrant colonies fromdifferent European countries and linked to navigation, industry and globaltrade. Alongside the group belonging to the British diaspora, there were otherforeign communities established in this city: German-speaking, French-speaking,Italian-speaking (among others less numerous). Beyond their occupations, eachof these groups of settlers had its own social, educational and culturalinstitutions, and, of course, its own print media. Each newspaper was a keyinstrument in maintaining the cohesion of these foreign language communities,around a common identity cultivated in reference to their homeland. 

Formation of the scientific potential of domestic scientists in the context of the communication gap between Russia and the West: a sociological review of foreign and domestic sources

The tension that arose between the Russia and the Western led to the disruption of international communications in the economic, political and socio-cultural spheres. This situation led, accordingly, to breaks in scientific contacts between Russian Russian and foreign scientists and significantly limited the possibilities of teamwork with international participation. Under these conditions, the Russian scientific community presumes to capitalize on human potential and transform the models of functioning of scientific communities taking into account the gaps in international scientific communications. The paper actualizes the current state and the changes that are coming in the production of scientific capital and in global scientific communications. Besed on the review of recent media publications and the experience of managing the human potential of foreign and domestic communities, the author provides a vision of the development of capital of the scientific sphere and gives the layout of the structure of the human potential of researchers formed in the process of R&D activity.

Sri Lankans’ residential segregation and spatial inequalities in Southern Italy: an empirical analysis using fine-scale data on regular lattice geographies

Sri Lankans constitute one of Italy's oldest foreign communities. A comparative geographic study of Sri Lankans’ settlement patterns in three main municipalities of South Italy (Naples, Palermo, and Catania) is performed in the present work. The uniqueness of the analysis relies on the fact that, to the authors’ knowledge, no other existing studies comparatively examine the spatial segregation of Sri Lankan communities in different southern European municipalities. Moreover, implementing a single geographic reference grid allowed the homogenisation of different areal unit arrangements and the comparison between urban contexts. Original results have emerged from the empirical analysis, detecting peculiar and similar residential behaviour in Sri Lankans’ settlement patterns across the three municipalities analysed, jointly influenced by work specialisation and variations in the local cost of living. In particular, the high levels of Sri Lankan concentration detected in the wealthiest neighbourhoods revealed complex dynamics underlying the urban spatial segregation, beyond the mere centre-periphery dichotomy.

The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health Among Older Adults From Different Communities in Chengmai County, China: Cross-sectional Study

BackgroundDue to the strict measures employed to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the extent of COVID-19 goes beyond morbidity and mortality and affects individuals’ mental health in the long term.ObjectiveThis cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and its contributing factors among older people in Chengmai County, China.MethodsA web-based survey was administered through WeChat between March and April 2020. Older people (ie, >50 years) from local and foreign community groups completed the survey, which included items on sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7), and the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). Independent t tests and a multiple linear regression analysis were used to investigate differences between anxiety and depression and the factors associated with these symptoms across the 2 groups.ResultsOverall, 469 responses were received; 119 responses (25.4%) were from male participants and 202 (43.1%) were from those older than 65 years. Of the 469 responses, 245 (52.2%) were from the local community group and 224 (47.8%) from the foreign group. The mean GAD-7 (P=.003) scores were significantly higher in the local group. Anxiety was significantly more present in the local group (61/245, 24.9% compared to 35/224, 15.6% in the foreign group; P=.01). A total of 6 respondents presented severe anxiety and 2 presented severe depression.ConclusionsThis study demonstrated that both community groups of older adults from the Chinese “Hometown of Longevity” presented anxiety or depressive disorders during the first months of the pandemic. Local community groups presented significantly more mental health disorders, which were associated with a history of previous psychological disorders.

Happy Valley heterotopia: representing colonial order in a Hong Kong “other space”

PurposeThis paper aims to trace the development of Hong Kong's Happy Valley from a space associated with dangerous miasmas to the site of a racecourse, recreation ground and a series of cemeteries for the colony's foreign communities while examining the relationship between the exclusion of Chinese from Happy Valley and the notion of colonial order.Design/methodology/approachThis paper makes use of empirical evidence from historical documents, such as newspapers and government records, and applies Michel Foucault's notion of the heterotopia as a theoretical model.FindingsThis paper provides insights into the relationship between space and power in the colonial setting. It demonstrates that the imposition of colonial order in Happy Valley was a process that involved the exclusion of Chinese and that the various ways in which this order was reinforced, contested and negotiated revealed it to be shallow and incomplete.Originality/valueThis paper sheds light on an underexamined but important colonial space in 19th and early 20th century Hong Kong and complicates the notion of colonial control.

İstanbul’da Gurur ve Önyargı: Bir Hollanda-Yunan Kontesinin Kişisel Eşyaları (1730)

Upon his death, Count Jacobus Colyer (d. 1725), the Dutch Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, left his Greek wife Catterina de Bourg in a state of debt. The countess appears to have struggled to survive after a life of conspicuous consumption and extravagant luxury in the Ambassadorial palace. Possibly because of her seemingly proud attitude, she was often met with prejudice and malice by her husband’s relatives, travelers to the Ottoman Empire, the new Dutch Ambassador, other members of the foreign communities of Istanbul, and even her own servants. When she died in 1730, an inventory of her remaining possessions was drawn up, and most of her belongings were auctioned off to cover her debts. The records of her possessions and their auction as well as her private correspondence offer a rare glimpse into the ‘world’ of this Dutch-Greek countess. These records bear witness to her exquisite taste in commodities brought to Istanbul from all over the world, but also of her destitute situation after the demise of her husband.

Music and the Identity Process: The National Churches of Rome and their Networks in the Early Modern Period M. Berti E. Corswarem.

In the last decades, early modern Rome has attracted increasing and increasingly diverse attention from scholars of various disciplines. (A recent and accessible guide to such interdisciplinary scholarship can be found in the Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492–1692, ed. Pamela Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield (Brill, 2019).) New musicological investigations and research projects too have contributed to this growth of Roman studies. Among the most stimulating recent enterprises on Roman musical life in the early modern era is the one that produced, inter alia, the present volume on ‘the national churches and their networks’. Its special and perhaps most intriguing character lies in its double, centripetal and centrifugal, perspective. The national churches—that is, the churches established, maintained, and frequented by foreign communities in the papal city—were, in fact, cultural safe havens and reference points for alien residents and visitors, but at the same time places where romanità was absorbed and assimilated by foreign cultures. They were both outposts and thresholds.

For the defence of Florence: site-specific urbanism versus sanitary planning

ABSTRACT This paper focuses on reactions to the modernization and hygienist plans that transformed the city centre of Florence during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Particular attention is paid to the Associazione di Difesa di Firenze Antica, founded in 1898 to counter the second phase of the risanamento (sanitary planning) of the historic centre, and in close collaboration with the foreign communities living in the city. The protest against the destruction of ancient buildings gave rise to a new awareness, with the notion of heritage going beyond individual monuments to include the city as a whole. The article studies both the arguments advanced and the political and cultural context which were favourable to the preservation of the old urban fabric. Beyond conservation, the fight to save Florence provided an opportunity to outline an urban project based on the historical analysis of the existing buildings and the enhancement of local characteristics. The specificities of Florence – one of the first ‘art cities’, considered in the peninsula to be the Athens of Italy and linked early on to international tourism – made it one of the laboratories of a heritage urbanism linked to the international Art Public movement.

Innovative Research on Urban Community Governance Decision-Making Relying on Distributed High-Performance Computing Blockchain Key Algorithms.

Since the country began to go global, the country's economy has developed rapidly, cultural exchanges between countries have become more and more frequent, and foreign cultures have begun to gradually spread to the country. At the same time, through the absorption of foreign community governance experience, domestic research on community governance has also begun to be put on the agenda. This paper aims to study the innovative exploration of urban community governance mechanisms through key high-performance computing algorithms. To this end, this paper proposes a combination of the Bayesian algorithm and distributed high-performance computing to analyze and explore the governance and management methods of the community through its efficient and stable computing power, and derive the most suitable community governance mechanism. An experiment was also set up for comparative analysis. The experimental results show that the community governance mechanism derived from the key distributed high-performance computing algorithm improves the community governance capability by 19.4%, effectively improving the community governance and management issues.

Student migration from Nepal to Japan: Factors behind the steep rise

Nepali student migration to Japan is a relatively new phenomenon, but one that has accelerated in recent years. The number of Nepali students increased from fewer than 1,000 in 2008 to over 29,000 in 2019, making them the third largest foreign student community in Japan. They migrate despite the exorbitant cost, with each student migrant usually paying 1.4 million Nepali rupees (USD 14,000) to a Japanese language institute (JLI) in Japan through an international educational consultancy (IEC) in Nepal to enter Japan on a student visa. Based on my ethnographic fieldwork in Japan and Nepal conducted from 2013 to 2019, this article examines the role of JLIs in Japan and IECs in Nepal in channeling students from Nepal to Japan. The paper shows the relationship among JLIs, IECs, student migrants and both states, and displays how push and pull factors operate between Japan and Nepal. The article shows the interconnection between the JLIs’ and IECs’ migration businesses and Japan’s side door policy for bringing in unskilled labor. The different actors do not compete with one another but are mutual beneficiaries, a reality that challenges the existing literature on the relationship between the states and the migration industry in both countries.

HOUPHOUET-BOIGNYS INTEGRATIONIST POLICY AND THE INTEGRATION OF LEBANESE IN COTE DIVOIRE (1960-1993)

Felix Houphouet-Boigny was President of the Republic of Cote dIvoire between 1960 and 1993. During his reign, he undertook a policy of openness which encouraged a large number of foreign immigrants, including Lebanese from the Middle East. According to the 1988 Population and Housing Census, foreign communities, dominated by West Africans, represented 28% of the total population. Alongside these, there is a minority from the Middle East, the Lebanese. In fact, present in the country since the beginning of colonisation, they are rooted and have strengthened their economic and social position during the post-colonial period. Drawing on oral and printed sources, books and articles, this study analyses the actions of Felix Houphouet-Boigny on the Levantine community from 1960 to 1993. This work first presents the actions of President Felix Houphouet-Boigny and then their economic and social consequences on the Lebanese in Cote dIvoire.

Relevansi Pupuh Durma Pada Mocoan Lontar Yusup dan Kultur Masyarakat Osing Banyuwangi

Banyuwangi is a district located on the eastern tip of Java Island which has a unique cultural diversity. This is reflected in the diverse arts. One of the arts in Banyuwangi is macapat which is called Mocoan. The most popular Mocoan performed by the Osing tribal community is the Mocoan Lontar Yusup where the literary work read tells the story of the prophet Yusuf. This art material, which is the focus of research, is studied and analyzed and its relevance is sought for the culture of the people who hold this culture.This study uses a qualitative approach and the data are presented descriptively. Using logical analogies, analyzed based on interactive techniques and based on arguments. Based on the data obtained, it was found that there is a special approach to the expression of the Banyuwangi macapat art, namely in text and song melodies. The special approach is that there are special terminology, meter rules and mining rules. The three data are relevant to the culture of the foreign community, namely exclusive, open, and bound. Keywords: Mocoan Lontar Yusup, osing culture, relevance, pupuh durma

Possible Impacts of COVID-19 on Foreign Communities in Turkey

At the start of the year 2020 humanity found itself facing a new pandemic that eventually impacted the whole world on various levels. Many countries are already facing difficulties as well as many marginalized groups in these countries. In the present research, attention is focused on the possible impacts of COVID-19 and vulnerabilities of foreign groups in Turkey, especially those who came from the Levant region and Egypt after 2011. The research applied a survey suggested by the World Health Organization office for the European Union, and used other observational tools such as official reports and media coverage to evaluate the situation of the target community. It was determined that the effects of COVID-19 on this group can be seen already and this research is very important in order to document these effects. It was concluded that a good portion of the foreign community was impacted heavily by the pandemic both socially and economically, and the possible methods that can be used in order to accelerate their recovery were noted.

The Immigration of Tradition: A Qualitative Study on Gender Differentiation and Cultural Parenting in West African Immigrant Households

In recent years, there has been an influx of West African immigrants into the United States and European countries. By the end of the twentieth century, 1 million African immigrants were living in the United States, of which 50 percent arrived and settled between 1990 and 2000. By 2004, 35% of the total African immigrant population were West African immigrants. As more West Africans migrate away from their native lands, a new challenge arises in adapting to life within a different, less traditional environment—the Western society. This research focuses on the extent to which West African culture and tradition impact the way these immigrant families build their family structure and incorporate their cultural identities into these new environments. I examine the historical construction of gender-differentiated parenting in West African culture and how it has shaped familial, societal, and political structures over time. Through this historical framework, I then analyze the influence of traditional values in West African immigrant households and how they shape the continuation and discontinuation of certain West African practices in the new society. I also examine how these families carry aspects of their culture through their adaptation journey and their cultural parenting practices as a way to keep the West African identity from dying out and as a way to secure stability in Western society. From my research I have found that by leaving certain traditional values of their culture back home, such as certain marriage practices or gendered education, West African immigrants work to find a balance between their native culture and the cultural expectations of Western society. As Western society becomes more progressive and less accepting of traditional gender roles, as depicted in media and entertainment, being true to one's identity conflicts with the ability to "start new" in a foreign community in the face of different societal norms.

ТУРИЗМ В СОЦІАЛЬНИХ МЕРЕЖАХ ЯК СКЛАДОВА SMART POWER В СУЧАСНИХ ПОЛІТИЧНИХ ПРОЦЕСАХ

The article considers tourism as a component of the concept of soft power within the framework of implementation of the smart strategy by political actors power. Special attention is focused on the influence of tourism on modern political processes. The heuristic potential of tourism as a policy tool is outlined. an explanation is offered that tourism in social networks is defined as a component of smart power in modern political processes. Tourism represents communicative practices that can be successful in attracting billions of people around the world, and therefore is an ideal platform for positioning the state, its culture, and brand. It is substantiated that tourism is a component of a package of tools used by states that are actively developing in order to mark their soft power in the context of the smart strategy power. Therefore, tourism is an ideal form for the implementation of this strategy, because it is characterized by an appeal to universal values and the ability to «glue» divisions in society. It is determined that the tourism industry fits within the concept of public diplomacy since such events become modern state-centric affairs, providing unique opportunities for states to be under the close attention of television audiences around the world. Tourism is the personification of the image of the purpose and content of public diplomacy, which includes the construction, mass communication of the positive use of the history and culture of the state, political actors. The article is devoted to the study of tourism as one of the socio-cultural mechanisms of maintaining international prestige, establishing feedback with the foreign community, a tool for improving the effectiveness of public diplomacy, increasing its influence on the international space through its cultural, historical and political values. Tourism is examined as a constituent of the soft power concept within the realization of the smart power strategy by political actors. The special attention is paid to the influence on modern political processes by the events. The heuristic potential of tourism as a political tool is outlined. Competent connection of domestic tourist potential as an important complement to the country’s foreign policy will help increase the efficiency of its so-called «soft power». Tourism as a constituent of modern political processes.

5. Now is the time to consider ! - Leave no migrants behind, 5-1 Why now? - migration and health, 5-2. Global situation on migration and health, 5-3. Migration and health for ‘Leave no one behind’: real situation of those under provisional release, asylum seekers, and undocumented migrants in Japan, 5-4. The historical transition of Japanese Immigrants and elderly care

5. Now is the time to consider ! - Leave no migrants behind, 5-1 Why now? - migration and health, 5-2. Global situation on migration and health, 5-3. Migration and health for ‘Leave no one behind’: real situation of those under provisional release, asylum seekers, and undocumented migrants in Japan, 5-4. The historical transition of Japanese Immigrants and elderly care

Traditions of the Old Believers and the Fate of the Russian World in the XXI Century: Cultural and Philosophical Aspect

Introduction. Questions of continuity and cultural conservatism of the Russian society of the Modern era are one of the problems of the research in this article. The author suggests that the Old Russian religious and moral heritage was not completely destroyed by the Nikon church reforms in the Moscow state. The purpose of the article is to consider the diversity of forms of Russian religiosity in the context of the development of traditions of Russian society. Materials and Methods. In modern conditions, interest in religion and Old Believers continues to grow, as a rich cultural heritage of Russian society. Therefore, the appeal to the texts of the past in the philosophical method of dialogicality, hermeneutics, and a comprehensive analysis of the works of the Old Believers allows us to identify all the features of the heritage of the past of Russia. Results. The positions of the ethical and aesthetic consciousness of the schism teachers worried many Russian philosophers of the “Silver Age” era. The dramatic nature of the situation was that there was no complete reconciliation between the parties to the split in Russian spiritual thought. Discussion and Conclusion. Many of the ideas of Protopop Avvakum, one of the leaders of the Old Believers in Russia, continue to be relevant to the present day. The questions of the moral and socio-cultural identity of the Russians as the “last Orthodox kingdom” are of an eschatological nature. Many aspects of ritualism and rite-believing are preserved among the Russian people and among many Russian and foreign communities of believers. The confessional culture of the Old Russian epoch remains a mystery for many modern researchers and is of an actual nature, since many aspects of this problem remain poorly studied. The subject of the analysis of the influence of Old-Belief traditions on the fate of the spirituality of the Russian people is important.