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The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perceiving Vegetation From Social Positions: Discourses on Plants in a Mediterranean Landscape

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how vegetation is perceived, named and valued requires attention to the social positions from which these perceptions are produced. This article analyses vegetation perception from different social positions based on qualitative research conducted in the province of Jaén (Andalusia, Spain), a Mediterranean landscape characterized
Javier Jurado‐Pardeiro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seven Decades of Demographic Trends at the Hugo Awards From 1953 to 2023: How the Award Recipients Reflect Actual and Aspirational Demographic Trends in Society

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses the demographic trends at the Hugo Awards, with a focus on the authors' genders, languages, nationalities, and uses of pseudonyms. This research uses publicly available information published by the World Science Fiction Society and the Hugo Awards to determine demographic trends in nominated and winning authors for the Best
Grace Boglev
wiley   +1 more source

Precarious Employment, Individualization Processes, and Professional Cyclists in France

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between the experience of precarious employment and individualization processes. Drawing from the historical‐sociological approach of Norbert Elias, we explain how and why individualization processes advanced in France over the course of several centuries and how this shaped the employment experiences of ...
John Connolly, Mojca Doupona
wiley   +1 more source

How Alternative Management Ideas Are Realized for the Public Good: Performative Fabrics of Humanistic Practices

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Repurposing management for the public good involves realizing alternative ideas to serve societal interests. Humanistic management is centred on such ideas as human dignity and well‐being. Realization refers to the generation and maintenance of social realities corresponding to these ideas.
Oliver Laasch   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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