The Importance of Being Ethnic: Minorities in Post-Soviet States—The Case of Russians in Kazakstan

Davis, Sue; Sabol, Steven

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“…Research has indicated that an awareness of social oppression (critical consciousness) relates to lower HIV viremia 7 and fewer psychological symptoms, 69 and that a strong ethnic identity can lead to internalized feelings of hope and personal strength. 70 Similarly, the narrative of the ''strong black woman'' includes caretaking and self-efficacy and may be protective for health. However, the issue is complex because the narrative of the ''strong black woman'' may also prevent help seeking and expression of vulnerability as adaptive coping strategies.…”

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Life Lessons from Women with HIV: Mutuality, Self-Awareness, and Self-Efficacy

Brody

Jack

Bruck-Segal

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AIDS Patient Care and STDs

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Women with HIV in the United States cope with multiple traumas that influence adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and well-being. Narrative themes from three life turning points and a projective story task were compared for two groups of women with HIV (HIV well-managed vs. HIV not well-managed, matched on demographics and narrative word count) to understand predictors of successful outcomes. The well-managed group (n = 10) was virally suppressed and reported ≥95% ART adherence; the not well-managed group (n = 10) had detectable viral load and reported <95% ART adherence. Women were predominantly African American with low socioeconomic status and averaged 46.51 years. A three-stage coding process (with coders blind to group status in stages 1 and 2) involved (1) line by line thematic analyses that generated 155 subthemes reflecting six content areas (interpersonal relationships; culture and community; sense of self; relationship to past, present, and future experiences; self-care; and motivators for change); (2) absence/presence of the 155 subthemes was compared for the two groups; the frequency of 37 subthemes was found to significantly differ; and (3) the 37 differentiating subthemes were conceptually integrated, revealing that the well-managed group's narratives more frequently reflected (a) mutuality (growth-fostering relationships involving reciprocal care and empathy); (b) self-awareness (recognition of personal strengths and weaknesses and multiple factors contributing to life choices and trajectories); and (c) self-efficacy (active coping, self-advocacy, and utilizing resources). Implications for treatment and interconnections among themes are discussed, emphasizing the factors that enable women to care for themselves and others.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life Lessons from Women with HIV: Mutuality, Self-Awareness, and Self-Efficacy

Brody

Jack

Bruck-Segal

et al. 2016

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

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“…Thus groups of European origin, more advanced on the path of the fertility transition, are also the part of Kazakhstan's population that was made particularly vulnerable by the disintegration of the Soviet empire. Although Central Asia's Europeans were not a politically and economically privileged group in Soviet times, at least not in the two decades leading to the empire's demise, the Soviet State did ensure them relative ethnic equity and stable livelihoods (Tishkov 1994;Davis and Sabol 1998). The collapse of the Soviet Union and the mounting claims of the indigenous elites upset the ethnopolitical balance and exposed Europeans to growing hostility and discrimination.…”

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Reproduction in upheaval: Ethnic-specific fertility responses to societal turbulence in Kazakhstan

2008

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This study contributes to the literature on demographic adjustments to societal crises by examining ethnic-specific probabilities of having first, second, and third marital births in late-twentieth-century Kazakhstan. Discrete-time logit models, employing data from the 1995 and 1999 Kazakhstan Demographic and Health Surveys, are fitted. The results show that the probability of a first birth responded to societal cataclysms of the post-Soviet transition, but this response was most manifest and enduring in the ethnic group that had been most demographically advanced and that also found itself most politically and economically vulnerable. While ethnic differences in the probability of second and third births were generally more pronounced than in the probabilities of first birth, the pace of their post-Soviet decline was relatively uniform across all ethnic groups.

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“…The most intimate form of trust is identity-based trust, which is established when individuals know each other's hopes, dreams, ambitions, and fears and thus unlocks a higher level of productivity (Conley, 2012). Higher productivity enables the shuttle traders to reap larger monetary gains, thus they continue to participate in the shuttle trade and continue to construct a tightly-knit common identity.…”

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Shuttling More than Goods: Collective Support among Turkish-Bulgarian Shuttle Traders

Stoykova¹

2016

URCEU

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Given that the European Union is a free trade, market-oriented economic zone that should, theoretically, eliminate market distortions that fuel the informal economy, why are we seeing continued participation in the informal economy, specifically, the shuttle trade between Bulgaria and Turkey? Many scholars frequently cite price distortions, market gaps, lucrative exchange rates, and economic survival as prominent reasons, however, these explanations do not suffice in explaining why the shuttle trade thrives 25 years after the communist collapse in Bulgaria. Through the use of meta-linguistic analysis of the interviews and analysis of the individuals that I interviewed, I argue that, in addition to being a viable method of income supplementation, the shuttle trade also serves as a platform for social support and identity reconciliation for Turkish-Bulgarian participants. Collective nostalgia about the communist past and similar post-communist experiences and a strong sense of interpersonal trust serve to integrate shuttle traders, who invest in social capital via the shuttle trade.

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The Importance of Being Ethnic: Minorities in Post-Soviet States—The Case of Russians in Kazakstan

Cited by 14 publications

References 1 publication

Life Lessons from Women with HIV: Mutuality, Self-Awareness, and Self-Efficacy

Life Lessons from Women with HIV: Mutuality, Self-Awareness, and Self-Efficacy

Reproduction in upheaval: Ethnic-specific fertility responses to societal turbulence in Kazakhstan

Shuttling More than Goods: Collective Support among Turkish-Bulgarian Shuttle Traders

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