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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

The Social Image of the Czech Housing Estate in Selected Films from the Socialist Era

Adeptus
The article concerns the representation of the space of Czech housing estates in selected films from the socialist era: Domy z panelů [Prefabricated Houses] (Jiří Menzel, 1959), Moderní byt [Modern House] (Jan Moravec, 1971) and Panelstory [Prefab Story]
Adam Zygmunt
doaj   +1 more source

Gentrification et résistances ordinaires des quartiers populaires. Élaboration théorique et illustration empirique sur un terrain bruxellois

Espace populations sociétés, 2021
Usually, exploring neighbourhoods affected by gentrification processes does not reveal spaces entirely devoted to middle- or upper-class housing, consumption practices or modes of sociability, even in metropolitan contexts wherein urban change pressures ...
Mathieu Van Criekingen
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Caregiver Reports on the Needs and Experiences of Children Impacted by Parental Incarceration: Results From an Australian Survey

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children experiencing parental imprisonment are known to be among the most overlooked in our community. They often experience multiple and compounding disadvantages, with long‐term consequences, but receive no specialised assistance. Knowledge about these children and their families is lacking in Australia and is required to inform policy ...
Catherine Flynn, Lana Battaglia, Lorana Bartels, Susan Dennison, Susy Harrigan, Lee Huggins, Sofia Grage‐Moore   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Spatially Extended Model for Residential Segregation

, 2006
In this paper we analyze urban spatial segregation phenomenon in terms of the income distribution over a population, and inflationary parameter weighting the evolution of housing prices.
Aguilera, Antonio, Ugalde, Edgardo
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Measuring the geography of opportunity [PDF]

, 2016
Quantitative segregation research focuses almost exclusively on the spatial sorting of demographic groups. This research largely ignores the structural characteristics of neighborhoods – such as crime, job accessibility, and school quality – that likely ...
Lens, Michael C
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Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings, Art Cotterell, Farzana Bruce   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology 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
wiley   +1 more source

Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
wiley   +1 more source

Housing Benefit reform and the private rented sector in the UK : on the deleterious effects of short-term, ideological "knowledge" [PDF]

, 2015
This paper draws on the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias in understanding the current housing crisis in the UK: one which emphasizes the social interdependencies between individuals and groups, and the power relations that characterise them, in ...
Allen C., Beatty C., Beatty C., Beatty C., Beatty C., Bourdieu P., BSHF, Chang H. J., Cole I., Crisp R., Crook T., DCLG (Department for Communities and Local Government), DCLG (Department for Communities and Local Government), Dunning E., DWP (Department for Work and Pensions), DWP (Department for Work and Pensions), Elias N., Elias N., Elias N., Fenton A., Geremek B., Goudsblom J., Green D. G., Harvey O., Hull A., Jacobs K., Kemp P. A., Kilminster R., Lees L., Mennell S., Ryan Powell, Scanlon K, van Wel F., Wacquant L., Wacquant L.   +34 more
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