Missing Binds: How Absent Ties Unleash Migrant Worker Activism Under an Authoritarian Regime
ABSTRACT Migrant workers are considered less militant in collective action than locals, partly because they lack social ties in the receiving community. However, in China's Pearl River Delta, I find the opposite. Comparing five cases of labor protest from 2014 to 2016 drawing on ethnographic observations, interviews, and labor activists' records, I ...
Zheng Fu
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Precarious work and its impact on health: a study of female textile workers in Lahore and Faisalabad. [PDF]
Khan M, Amir-Ud-Din R, Atif RM.
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ABSTRACT This article expands the sociological scholarship on the development of academic programs in intellectual fields tied to social movements. After briefly reviewing this literature, which has especially focused on fields like ethnic studies and women's studies, it examines the development of the smaller field of peace and conflict studies.
Elise Wolff
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Contesting an exclusive citizenship regime: the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and its electoral mobilisation in Batman in the late 1970s. [PDF]
Jongerden J, O'Connor F.
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Faith in the Marketplace: Christian Legal Narratives and the Refusal to Serve Gay Customers
ABSTRACT In June 2023, the US Supreme Court in 303 Creative v. Elenis held that an anti‐discrimination statute could not force a Christian business owner to provide certain business services to gay people. The decision has created a slew of legal and social uncertainties, which require a deeper investigation of the contemporary conflict between the gay
Mantas Grigorovicius
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Renting political violence: A political economy of rents, access and violence delegation. [PDF]
Fubara M.
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Preventing Erasure and Seeking Accountability in Sri Lankan Diasporic Fiction
ABSTRACT Sixteen years after the end of the military conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009, there has been no real accountability for the atrocities that took place during the 26‐year war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan state. Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens and V. V.
Maryse Jayasuriya
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Risk assessment of pesticide residues ingestion in food offered by institutional restaurant menus. [PDF]
da Silva TM +5 more
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Abstract Introduction The feeding of raw meat diets (RMDs) to dogs has become increasingly popular in the UK in recent years. A major concern surrounding RMDs is the potential risks to humans and animals posed by the presence of potentially pathogenic bacteria, particularly for transmission of antimicrobial‐resistant (AMR) bacteria.
Tamzin Furtado +4 more
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Does war moderate the association between mental wellbeing and its predictors among children? A multi-country cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Chen S, Rotenberg S, Kuper H.
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