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The Egyptian journey from having the highest prevalence of hepatitis C virus to being the first to achieve "gold tier" in conquering the disease. [PDF]

open access: yesProc (Bayl Univ Med Cent)
Abosheaishaa H   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Haunted by Houses: Built and Lived Absences in a Transnational Mexican Community

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globally, millions of migrants have sent money home to build a house. In early phases of migration, remittance houses are aspirational objects that materialize the continuous belonging of migrants to a community. In later stages, experiences of loss, estrangement, deportation, and death increasingly challenge these attachments.
Julia Pauli
wiley   +1 more source

Circular Carescapes in South Korea: The Migration–Care–Policy Circuit Developed During Urbanisation and Globalisation

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how outsourcing household care in modern South Korea has shaped gendered migration from both rural areas and abroad. To clarify the interplay between macro‐level power and individual lives—an aspect often treated piecemeal in earlier research—it introduces the concept of circular carescapes. This notion captures the looping
Junyoung Park, HaeRan Shin
wiley   +1 more source

Fecal Steroids as Tracers of Human Population and Waste Management Practices at the Ancient Maya City of Ucanal, Guatemala

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Geochemical data compiled from dried sediments from three water reservoirs at the ancient Maya city of Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala, reveal low to undetectable fecal biomarker concentrations. These low concentrations may be the result of the aerobic decay of sterols combined with well‐managed waste disposal practices.
Jean D. Tremblay   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mediating atmospheric bordering: Migratory journeys in hostile environments

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract The main claim of the paper is that displaced people mediate affective processes that aim to shape their movements, and that such mediations are critical for understanding: the importance of sensory relations and spaces of movement that might otherwise remain obscure; the ways to challenge affective politics; and the relationship among ...
SUZAN ILCAN
wiley   +1 more source

The geographies of the Information Research Department: Intelligence, diplomacy and the British secret state

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a historical and political geographical analysis of the UK Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD). Empirically it is grounded in archival study of IRD files concerning operations in Ghana and South Africa during the Cold War and specifically the 1960s and 1970s.
Ben Gowland
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a feminist geo‐legal reading: US country‐of‐origin information in asylum adjudication

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we offer what we call ‘a feminist geo‐legal reading’ of documents used in spaces and practices of law. Legal cases and decisions are often based on different legal and non‐legal documents, including laws, explanatory memorandums, testimonies, medical reports, and so forth. In contemporary asylum adjudication, country‐of‐origin
Malene H. Jacobsen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Real-time PCR assay for robust detection and global surveillance of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Haarlem genotype. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Tkachuk D   +32 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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