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INFORMAL SECTOR CITY TOURISM: CROSS-BORDER SHOPPERS IN JOHANNESBURG [PDF]

open access: yesGeo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, 2018
Informality is a distinguishing trait of economic life across much of the global South. In terms of the tourism sector several researchers examine the informal sector of leisure tourism.
Christian M. ROGERSON
doaj   +1 more source

B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Urban-Spatial Analysis of the Women in the Informal Sectors of Greater Guwahati City of Assam, India

open access: yesSpace and Culture, India, 2013
This article reflects the use of urban space by women in urban informal sectors in the city of Guwahati located in North East India. The population influx from across the borders in the aftermath of the partition has huge implications both on polity and ...
Zona Bhuyan
doaj   +1 more source

How to Design Qualitative Research with NVivo 12 Plus for Local Government Corruption Issues in Indonesia?

open access: yesJurnal Studi Pemerintahan, 2020
This paper utilizes NVivo 12 Plus, a type of qualitative data analysis software, for qualitative document content analysis as a means of understanding informal fiscal policymaking practices, including bribery, corruption, collusion, lobbying, negotiation,
Salahudin Salahudin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

L’impact des inégalités d’accès aux transports collectifs dans les quartiers informels sur le quotidien des habitants : cas de Batna

open access: yesCybergeo, 2022
The rapid urban growth of the city of Batna since the post-independence period has led to an increase in the distances between the city center, where activities and jobs are concentrated, and the outskirts, where informal settlements have proliferated ...
Amina Fantous, Farida Naceur
doaj   +1 more source

Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

CONFLICTS IN PLANNING IMPLEMENTATION ON THE INFORMAL CITY

open access: yesBollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2019
The growth of Latin American cities in recent decades has happened mainly on the sidelines of formal planning, producing an “informal city” which does not follow the urban model defined and promoted by institutions.
CARLOS JIMÉNEZ ROMERA   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Informal City

open access: yes, 2018
This paper proposes a theory of urban land use with endogenous property rights. Socially heterogeneous households compete for where to live in the city and choose the type of property rights they purchase from a land administration which collects fees in inequitable ways.
Tobin, Lara, Selod, Harris
openaire   +2 more sources

Becoming resilient: Community‐driven change and the civic capacity index

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the principal features of successful community governance is that it is collaborative and thus dependent on a community's ability to work together. However, there are no valid, comprehensive means to assess a community's capacity to respond to civic challenges in collaborative ways, and that are predictive of community resilience and ...
David MacPhee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Essential, Yet Precarious, Mistreated, Sick and Medicalized: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed‐Methods Study on Homecare Aides in Spain

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Homecare aides (HCAs) are professional non‐family caregivers, who support dependent individuals to live at home with dignity; yet in Spain they remain understudied and vulnerable, often facing precarious working conditions. We aimed to characterize HCAs’ employment, living conditions, health, and exposure to workplace violence and ...
Albert Navarro‐Giné   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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