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From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how actors perceive and anticipate future states of the world is gaining traction in climate change governance scholarship and related calls for sustainability transformations. However, smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and local communities, who are expected to bear disproportionate burdens of loss and damage from climate ...
Joel Persson +4 more
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The global economic crisis and international migration: An uncertain outlook [PDF]
This article investigates the impact of the global economic crisis on international migration. Empirical evidence is scarce and mainly captures short-term consequences. The study covers (1) international migration theory, (2) the impact of past financial
Gijs Beets, Frans Willekens
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
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European Integration and Labour Migration [PDF]
The present paper studies how European integration might affect the migration of workers in the enlarged EU. Unlike the reduced-form migration models, we base our empirical analysis on the theory of economic geography à la Krugman (1991), which provides ...
d'Artis Kancs, Julia Kielyte
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
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Wage Formation, Regional Migration and Local Labour Market Tightness [PDF]
Economic theory predicts that local labour market tightness affects local wage setting as well as individuals’ migration decisions. But how should we measure local labour market tightness? In this paper we show that the common practice of using the local
Kåre Johansen +2 more
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Türkiye has experienced a notable increase in juvenile delinquency in recent years, raising serious concerns about child welfare and juvenile justice systems. This qualitative study examines the socio‐economic and structural dimensions of recidivism based on the field experiences of 20 social workers working with children drawn into crime ...
Hüseyin Batman +3 more
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Work as a crime, a resource and a relationship: the confiscation of wages as proceeds of crime. [PDF]
Crime Law Soc ChangeNiezna M.
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Illegal Immigration into Italy: Evidence from a field survey [PDF]
The Survey on illegal migration in Italy (SIMI henceforth) aims to analyse the phenomenon of clandestines migrating to or through Italy. SIMI contains information concerning the main demographic, economic and social characteristics of a sample of 920 ...
Giuseppe De Arcangelis +3 more
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Migrant Motherhood and Child Protection: The Ecuador–Genoa Case
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant motherhood is often accompanied by a dual stigma, both in the country of origin and that of migration, where migrant mothers are frequently associated with a failure to parent adequately. Drawing on a case study of Latin migration in Genoa (Italy), this article examines the phenomenon in relation to the dynamics of the globalised ...
Francesca Lagomarsino, Chiara Lanini
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