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The construction of the category of unemployed young people with no qualifications in Switzerland

Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2012
This paper explores the process of the rationalization of activation policies towards unemployed young people in Switzerland. It aims at analysing the mechanism of normalization for the criterion of “unqualified” among unemployed young people with no ...
Eva Nada
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Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
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Opening dialogue and fostering collaboration: Different ways of knowing in fisheries research

South African Journal of Science, 2014
We set out to explore some of the impediments which hinder effective communication among fishers, fisheries researchers and managers using detailed ethnographic research amongst commercial handline fishers from two sites– one on the southern Cape coast ...
Greg L. Duggan, Jennifer J.M. Rogerson, Lesley J.F. Green, Astrid Jarre   +3 more
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Transfer and counter-transfer in ethnographic research [PDF]

Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2010
A researcher and his/hers informants stand as the key players in a fieldwork discourse, thus their interaction is a key problem of fieldwork performed by eth­nologists and anthropologists.
Zlatanović Sanja
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Intensified Manufactured Non‐Belonging: Working Holiday Makers in Australia During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nations manufacture non‐belonging of temporary migrants through policy frameworks that produce exclusion. This precarity maximises the economic benefit of temporary migrant labour by minimising their political, social and legal rights. In this paper, we examine how non‐belonging targeting Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) is manufactured in ...
Donna James, Alanna Kamp
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Framework for Islamic education in Muslim minority countries: experiences from Finland

Cogent Education
Finland has garnered considerable global attention for having one of the world’s best education systems. As a secular Nordic country, Finland has seen the number of Muslim students interested in Islamic education (IE) almost triple over the past few ...
Akhmad Nurul Kawakip, Moch. Khafidz Fuad Raya, Nur Chanifah, Lailiyatul Azizah, Munirul Abidin, Ali Ridho   +5 more
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Essential work, invisible workers: The role of digital curation in COVID‐19 Open Science

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 703-717, April 2025.
Abstract In this paper, we examine the role digital curation practices and practitioners played in facilitating open science (OS) initiatives amid the COVID‐19 pandemic. In Summer 2023, we conducted a content analysis of available information regarding 50 OS initiatives that emerged—or substantially shifted their focus—between 2020 and 2022 to address ...
Irene V. Pasquetto, Amina A. Abdu, Natascha Chtena   +2 more
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Spazi rituali e influenza del turismo nel Barong a Bali: una ricerca etnografica

Antropologia e Teatro
This article is a report on preliminary ethnographic research conducted in Bali in 2024 on Barong performances. The Barong mask nowadays is used in various performance contexts, ranging from ritual spaces in temples to shows designed for tourist ...
Giulia Sala
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Holding Up a Democratic Facade: How ‘New Work Organizations’ Avoid Resistance and Litigation When Dismissing Their Managers

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
New work is used as a general term to summarize professional developments in contemporary work style, structure and modus of organizations and society—this means collaborative work and flexible working hours on individual levels, and flat hierarchies and
Johanna L. Degen, Massih Zekavat
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