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Unveiling Vulnerability: Analyzing Insecurity among Asylum Seekers at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Growing numbers of families and children arrive at the U.S-Mexican border seeking asylum and facing a process that profoundly impacts individuals in search of safety, prosperity, and new beginnings beyond their homeland. U.S.
Rodriguez Leal, Karina
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How South Asians achieve education: a comparative study of Bangladeshis, Indians and Pakistanis in Birmingham schools and colleges [PDF]

The educational achievements of South Asians have been shaped by economic, social and political developments in the post war history of British race relations. Social class background of individual students and the school effect have been shown to be the
Abbas, Tahir
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CENSUS UNDERCOUNTS, DIGITAL DISPLACEMENT, AND DATA JUSTICE: What Social Scientists and Data Users Need to Know About the 2020 US Census

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Census data are foundational to democracy, research and equitable urban policy. In addition to supporting political reapportionment and redistricting, census data serve as the backbone of the federal statistical data system and are often considered the highest quality data—the ‘gold standard'—for scholarly and policy research.
Jason R. Jurjevich
wiley   +1 more source

Objective and perceived neighbourhood walkability: population-average associations with transportation and recreational physical activity in urban-dwelling Canadian adults. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Frehlich L, Lang JJ, Prince SA, McCormack GR.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Civil society in urban sanitation and solid waste management: The role of NGOs and CBOs in metropolises of East Africa

, 2011
Urban sanitation and solid waste management are among the most significant factors that affect the poor in developing countries and contribute to their sustained poverty.
Tukahirwa, J.
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WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
wiley   +1 more source

Care and COVID 19: Lessons for liberals and neoliberals

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Within the liberal political traditions, care is regarded as a private matter, a problem of ethics rather than justice. Social justice is framed as an issue of economics (re/distribution), culture (recognition) and/or politics (representation).
Kathleen Lynch
wiley   +1 more source

"It's Unjust to Treat Pregnant People this Way": Obstetric Violence Among Pregnant and Postpartum Asylum-seekers at the Mexico-U.S. Border. [PDF]

J Immigr Minor Health
Goldenberg S, Martinez SanRoman I, Ramage K, Ramos NE, Bojorquez I.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

PLACE‐FRAMING URBANITY: The Case of Kalasatama, Helsinki

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Narratives, visuality and symbolic representations are increasingly important in contemporary urban planning and development. This article seeks to understand how urbanity, one of the key goals of Helsinki's recent planning, has been constructed in the Kalasatama regeneration area. The construction of urban image and identity is viewed as soft
Tuomas Ilmavirta
wiley   +1 more source

The health consequences of politically-induced trauma. [PDF]

PLOS Ment Health
Horwitz RI.
europepmc   +1 more source