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Contours of Urban Violence and Insecurity: Digital Media Technologies and Mitigation of Urban Violence Among Undocumented African Migrants in South Africa

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022
This is a qualitative exploratory investigation into the use of digital media technologies in the mitigation of security concerns among undocumented migrants in the informal settlements within urban South Africa.
Thabiso Muswede
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Experience of food security – vulnerability analysis. WWW i.e. Who, Why, Where

open access: yesWieś i Rolnictwo, 2015
The article takes as its starting point a discussion of “conventional wisdom” that asserts there is an equation that “poor = vulnerable”, i.e. “to be poor” means necessarily “to be vulnerable” and vice versa, and provides several examples confuting the ...
Paolo Santacroce
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Reality of insecurity in Psalm 7 and Christian mission in Nigeria

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2021
The psalmists in their expressions of anguish, firm trust in God and entreaties conveyed varied aspects of insecurity in their lives. They were threatened by fellow human beings and inexplicable natural disasters.
Mary J. Obiorah
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Occupations at risk and organizational well-being: an empirical test of a Job Insecurity Integrated Model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
One of the more visible effects of the societal changes is the increased feelings of uncertainty in the workforce. In fact, job insecurity represents a crucial occupational risk factor and a major job stressor that has negative consequences on both ...
Callea, A.   +4 more
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Brazilian insecurity

open access: yesBrasil/Brazil, 2018
The position papers below formed the basis for a roundtable on “Brazilian Insecurity,” sponsored by the American Portuguese Studies Association at the Convention of the Modern Language Association of America, in New York City, January 4-7, 2018, in response to the presidential theme for the convention, “States of Insecurity.” The papers deal with such ...
Valente, Luiz Fernando   +2 more
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Policing Insecurity

open access: yesAmerican Political Science Review, 2022
In environments of seemingly intractable conflict, how should we understand the role of state capacity building and security-sector reform in transitions to peace? Prevailing wisdom suggests that a strong state security apparatus mitigates cyclical violence and aids in transitions to predictable, rule-governed behavior.
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Insecurity

open access: yesInternational journal of health sciences, 2022
The main purpose of the present research was to study the insecurity of involvement and Non-Involvement pregnant women at the Tapovan Center operated by Children's University. Involvement and area in the Tapovan center was incorporated here as an independent variable. 200 pregnant women were selected by the simple random method.
Sunilkumar S. Jadav, Vrundan Jayswal
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Economic insecurity during the Great Recession and metabolic, inflammatory and liver function biomarkers: analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Background: Economic insecurity correlates with adverse health outcomes, but the biological pathways involved are not well understood. We examine how changes in economic insecurity relate to metabolic, inflammatory and liver function biomarkers ...
Auston   +26 more
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Psychological empowerment, job insecurity and employee engagement

open access: yesSA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2010
Orientation: The psychological empowerment of employees might affect their engagement. However, psychological empowerment and employee engagement might also be influenced by job insecurity.
Marius W. Stander, Sebastiaan Rothmann
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Security and skills: the two key issues in health worker migration [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2014
Background: Migration of health workers from Africa continues to undermine the universal provision of quality health care. South Africa is an epicentre for migration – it exports more health workers to high-income countries than any other African country
Posy Bidwell   +7 more
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