Identity Management Issues Research Articles

Microaggressions Experienced by LGBTQ Students With Disabilities

While research on microaggressions has exploded, most scholarship explores singular dimensions of identity, including race, gender, or sexual orientation. To date, little work has considered the experiences of LGBTQ students with disabilities. We compared microaggressions reported by 25 LGBTQ students with disabilities to existing taxonomies, revealing 126 disability microaggressions and 53 LGBTQ microaggressions. Microaggressions not corresponding to taxonomies were grouped into eight categories. Participants noted identity management issues that influenced their experience of microaggressions.

Legal Issues of Identity Management in eGovernment

A key aspect of eGovernment is identity management, since the processes that are involved in the provision of public services rely profoundly on secure identification policies; it presents a challenge to create the framework for identity management that will promote digital inclusion, be efficient and privacy-friendly. In this paper, the legal issues regarding electronic identification management systems are presented and solutions to key problems are proposed, on the basis of the EU Legal Framework.

Liminal Spaces and the Transgender Experience

INTRODUCTIONThis research explores the experiences of a sample of gendernonconforming individuals who are attempting to achieve independence in a society that dictates identity based on genitalia and a rigid binary conception of male/female and woman/man. The expression of alternative forms of often meets with disdain and in some instances, violence. Individuals who change rules and refuse to conform in socially prescribed ways of expression often fall somewhere between female or male. In other words, they enter a liminal space. The term liminality was first coined by Victor Turner based on his field research in Zambia during the 1950s. We argue that at least for a time, some non-conforming individuals experience liminality as they transition from one identity to the other. Others may embrace this space and still others accept their liminal status with at least some amount of trepidation (Nestle, Howell, & Wilchins, 2002, pp. 98-99). For the purposes of this research project, liminality refers to an in-between status or what occurs before/during identity transition. In some cases, transitional liminality may result in a personal transfonnation that is helped along by ritual processes and the formation of supportive communities. In other cases, more permanent, socially imposed liminality may produce insecurity and/or vulnerability; especially for individuals who exhibit ambiguity in their presentation and may or may not be transsexual.We examine the experiences of a non-random sample of 21 individuals who identify with the transgender community but may not necessarily be transgender. For example, several participants identified specifically as genderqueer but not transgender. One young woman, Olivia, identified as 'cisgender' which is technically a term for people who identify as the they were assigned at birth. However, she also identified with the transgender community in that she liked to play with her and explore other ways of being. Her expression/presentation is somewhere in the middle of the binary and her sexual orientation is bisexual. Borrowing from Bornstein (1994), Olivia might just be a gender outlaw as are some of the other individuals who shared their stories with us. For the purposes of this study we apply the term transgender to every category not covered by the words man, woman, female, and male. Borrowing from Stone's categorizations (1991) we include the following in our working definition of transgender: transsexuals, transvestites, cross-dressers, individuals with an intersex condition, individuals who have chosen to perform ambiguous social genders, and people who have chosen to perform no at all.During the time of the interviews, some of our participants were in varying stages of physical transition while others were coming to tenus with complex identity management issues that did not involve surgical/hormonal intervention. Some participants were attempting to step outside of the binary and identified in either bi-gender or multi-gender ways. Others chose to transition from either male to female (MTF) or female to male (FTM) and integrate into society by adhering to traditional ideas about sex and gender. The stories they share provide an opportunity to understand how a sample of non-conformists make sense of the world as they achieve and manage their identities.Of particular interest to the researchers is the exploration of how individuals who do not conform to normative rules negotiate their identities either with the help of surgical/hormonal intervention or by moving between categories in pursuit of freedom. Transgender individuals are often in-between traditional binary labels or they may inhabit 'outside boundaries' of what is defined as male and female in Western culture. Many transsexuals make a break with existing expectations resulting from their sex at birth and forge new identities based on who they really are. …

Tokai Academic Cloud: an experimental intra and inter-institutional cloud infrastructure among national universities in the Tokai Region of Japan

This paper describes the current experiences of Tokai Academic Cloud being developed under the collaboration with researchers of information technology centres (ITC) in six national universities located at the Tokai Region in Japan. At first, we describe the background and the vision of Tokai Academic Cloud. Currently, we have been trying to implement various services using open source-based solutions developed by Jasig and Sakai Foundations on top of a single sign on mechanism using Jasig Central Authentication Service (CAS). Secondly, we propose a Shibboleth Authentication Handler in CAS server implementation by letting CAS server act as user’s proxy to address the issue of identity management for inter-institutional consolidation. Thirdly, we present our latest activities on the use of VCL for teaching and learning at Nagoya University. Through these activities, we clarify the cultural aspects on implementing intra and inter-institutional cloud infrastructure based on open source solutions.

A Consolidated Process Model for Identity Management

Recently, identity management has gained increasing attention from both enterprises and government organisations, in terms of security, privacy, and trust. A considerable number of theories and techniques have been developed to deal with identity management issues within and between organisations. In this paper, the authors reviewed, assessed, and consolidated the research and development activities of identity management in 14 privately and publicly funded organisations. Furthermore, the authors developed a taxonomy to characterise and classify these identity management frameworks into two categories: processes and technologies. The authors then studied these frameworks by systematically reviewing the whole lifecycle of an identity management framework, including actors, roles, security, privacy, trust, interoperability, and federation. This paper aims to provide the reader with the state of art of existing identity management frameworks and a good understanding of the research issues and progress in this area.

Personal identity management and electronic government

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to unpack some of the socio‐technical relationships inherent in contemporary notions of personal identity management. For this purpose it considers the issue of personal identity management in terms of a framework, which distinguishes between the related processes of authentication, identification and enrolment.Design/methodology/approachThe conceptual model described in this paper is reflected against an important recent case in which issues of personal identity management are being enacted: the introduction of a UK national identity card. Both this issue and case are particularly examined in the light of the growth of e‐Government in the UK.FindingsThe paper relates issues associated with the technical infrastructure of e‐Government with some of the costs and benefits associated with the social infrastructure of e‐Government. This device offers a useful framing for a whole range of issues surrounding individual‐organisation interaction in the Information Society that rely on elements of personal identity management.Research limitations/implicationsIn the paper the issue of personal identity management is under‐represented in the Information Systems and Information Management literature. The conceptual approach adopted in the paper is used to identify areas of further research in terms of issues relevant to the technical infrastructure of e‐Government.Practical implicationsThe paper identifies a number of personal identity management issues embedded in the technical infrastructure required for effective e‐Government.Originality/valueThis paper raises the importance of personal identity management to the success of the e‐Government agenda. It also links classic information management issues to the issue of personal identity management and identifies the challenges for e‐Government within this.

Insights into the strategic ways in which two bilingual children in the early years seek to negotiate the competing demands on their identity in their home and school worlds

This paper reports on the results of a small‐scale study into the ways in which two bilingual boys attempt to manage the discontinuities between their identities at home and as members of an early years class at a mainly white primary school in the UK. To do this, a number of semi‐structured interviews were undertaken with the boys and their parents. The results reveal that while the children generally attempt to assume the pupil identity options afforded them at school, the differences between these and those they take up in their home environment generally lead them to seek to keep the world of the home and of the school separate in ways that disrupt the school’s attempts to develop home/school partnership initiatives. We argue that a focus on identity management issues for children in the early years allows new and more critical understandings to emerge that can usefully inform the practices that educators can develop to enhance their learning experiences.

The Politics of Identity in Lesbian and Gay Anthropology

This paper provides a review of the anthology Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (Lewin and Leap 1996a). In discussing their experiences as gay men and lesbians involved in anthropological work, the contributors to this volume address issues of identity management, ethical dilemmas, questions of representation, and the implications that their sexual identity has on the way they conduct fieldwork, particularly on how they relate to their subjects. The authors argue that lesbian and gay anthropologists have a different subject position, a different perspective on their work, and different ways of practicing anthropology than their heterosexual colleagues. The focus of this paper is an examination and critique of these claims and the politics of identity on which they are based. I argue that this politics is based on a problematic understanding of identity that remains trapped within a binary construction of sexual identity and uncritically applies labels such as 'gay' or 'lesbian' to people who do not understand themselves in these terms. Its emphasis on sameness obscures significant differences between researchers and researched and avoids dealing with questions of power in research. I conclude with a brief outline of a 'queer' commentary on such lesbian and gay identity politics and its failure to provide an effective critique of heterosexism and normative identity constructions.

Social Service Needs of Lesbian and Gay Adolescents:

Lesbian and gay adolescents begin to explore their social and sexual identities in environments which are generally unfavorable to the development of positive self-esteem. Little is known about how these adolescents face this challenge. This survey of lesbian and gay adolescents explores the nature and extent of their psychosocial problems and the persons and resources to whom they turned for help. Social service needs centered on the issues of identity management, depression, limited resources for getting help, and getting along with family members.

Religion, Identities, and Politics: Defining Muslim Discourses in the Nuba Mountains of the Sudan

The author discusses the increased importance of Islam in religious and social life in the Sudan, exemplified by a discussion of the interplay between an indigenous, non-Arab, non-Islamized Sudanese people, the Lafofa Nuba, and their interaction with the Arab and Islamic traditions of Sudanese society at large. An understanding of this interaction will require types of analysis that deal with issues of belief as well as broader issues of identity management. People do not take over Islam as one unified system and in one process of conversion; rather they take up Muslim customs and practices that become symbols of such a conversion. The process of conversion must therefore be linked to the socio-economic and political status of the people involved. The author points out that theoretical contributions by Talal Asad on Islam as a “discursive tradition” and Robert Launay on Muslim communities as “moral communities” provide interesting avenues for exploring this complexity.