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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz +7 more
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Landlord responsiveness to eviction filing fees: evidence from northern New England
Regional Studies, Regional ScienceUS landlords file millions of evictions per year. Eviction is associated with numerous negative outcomes including economic hardship, residential instability, disrupted educational attainment among children, and physical and mental health issues. Despite
Oluwafisayo Ajayi +2 more
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Politique de déguerpissement et processus de restructuration des territoires de Libreville [Gabon]
L'Espace Politique, 2014 Evictions are plentiful in sub-Saharan Africa. Libreville, capital of Gabon, does not make an exception to this rule. Since the 1970s, eviction appears as a fundamental step in the restructuring process of Libreville’s space where built up areas are ...
Rano-Michel Nguema
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi +6 more
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Études Caribéennes, 2016 The arrest in May 2013 of Amade Oueremi, the emblematic leader of mont Peko national park infiltrators, opened the way to a public policy of conservation and tourism development of this 34 000 ha protected area almost entirely colonized by cocoa farms ...
Kouamé Walter Kra
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State Crime Journal, 2016 Israel is engaged in a systematic and illegal scheme of forced evictions against Palestinians. Forced evictions of Palestinians, and the human rights abuses they suffer as a result, are known, and yet largely ignored by the international community. In this article, Penny Green and Amelia Smith expose this crime by documenting the key methods adopted by
GREEN, PJ, Smith, A
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Losing a home : does the current housing possession process provide effective access to justice? [PDF]
, 2014 In brief: • There is a lack of joined up thinking within the housing possession process. • The amount of time and resources devoted to these cases fails to recognise the importance that occupiers attach to the prospect of losing a home, as well as the ...
Bright, Susan, Whitehouse, Lisa
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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A Theory of Urban Squatting and Land-Tenure Formalization in Developing Countries [PDF]
This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal residents compete for land within a city.
Harris Selod, Jan K. Brueckner
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Short-Lived Relief: The Racial Geography of Rebounding Eviction Rates in Postmoratorium St. Louis
SociusThis visualization examines time series and spatial trends in eviction case filings in St. Louis and St. Louis County before, during, and after the federal eviction moratorium.
Anne Brown, Samuel H. Kye, Yi Wang
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