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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research examines the Hill‐Valley divide in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India, where Nepali‐speaking hill communities coexist with Bengali‐speaking valley populations. It argues that this division is a colonial construct, shaped by British policies that romanticised the hills as a ‘mini‐England’ while separating them from the valley
Yalember Dewan
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Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
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Gentrification and Marginalization
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Daniel Guillery, Tyler Zimmer
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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.This paper examines how the politics of water governance intersected with germ suppression during US colonial rule in the Philippines. Drawing on historical materials and policy documents, we critically trace two interrelated processes of hydroterritorialization through which cholera outbreaks in the early 1900s spurred the production of sanitary ...
Rhomir S. Yanquiling +2 more
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Periods, Pains, Pills, and Performance—Fighting Blood, Bodies and Biology
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper draws on various data from long‐term immersion in combat sports to explore the period experiences of cis women fighters. We blend theoretical ideas from the social scientific literature on menstruation and the sociology of medicalization, pain and injury.
Reem AlHashmi +2 more
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Food insecurity as an underexplored pathway linking ethnic enclave contexts and anxiety among Dominicans in the United States. [PDF]
Front NutrFlórez KR +7 more
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract Recently, spatial sorting of well‐being at the neighbourhood level has received attention. As most studies merely focus on the distribution itself or one neighbourhood aspect in relation to well‐being, this study examined well‐being by neighbourhood type, and how residents’ attitudes to the neighbourhood might influence this relationship.
Gijs Westra, Karen Haandrikman
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Survey data show that people generally prefer mixed neighbourhoods when given free choice. Neighbourhood preferences reflect preferences for homophily, but also mirror individual background and associations with current neighbourhoods. Being foreign‐born is associated with elevated ethnic preferences, especially when living in the most diverse or urban
Karen Haandrikman, Eva K. Andersson
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Immigration and Social Factors, Tumor Stage, and Risk of Contralateral Breast Cancer in Asian American and Hispanic Women. [PDF]
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers PrevJohn EM +11 more
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Geographical Analysis, Volume 58, Issue 4, October 2026.ABSTRACT The spatial distribution of economic activities is central to regional economics. However, empirical tools for comparing industries based on the similarity of their spatial distributions remain limited. Traditional cluster analysis typically ignores geographical distance and connectivity, while spatial methods focus on clustering places rather
Gilvan Santos do Rosario Junior +2 more
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