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The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty +3 more
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Last Empress Fiction and Asian Neo-Victorianism [PDF]
, 2019 This article claims that ‘Last Empress’ fiction about the Empress Dowager Cixi reveals the postcolonial ethics of Anglophone neo-Victorianism. ‘Last Empress’ texts naturally tend to be bookended by the narrative of a naïve yet ambitious teenage
Ho, HLE
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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
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El neoextractivismo y el neodesarrollismo en los contextos latinoamericano y colombiano
Revista Controversia, 2017 El presente artículo analiza la relación que existe entre en el desarrollo convencional impulsado por los gobiernos latinoamericanos de derecha y el extractivismo convencional como su base económica fundamental, y las diferencias que presenta ese modelo ...
Freddy Freddy Díaz
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, 2000 Latin America is in a political crisis, yet Bolivia is still widely recognized as a beacon of hope for progressive change. The radical movements at the beginning of the 21st century against neoliberalism that paved the road for the election of Bolivia ...
Rodriguez Fernandez, Gisela Victoria
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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Using ethnographic vignettes from my doctoral research, this article contextualizes and analyses Britain's Black maternal health crisis— a crisis of reproductive racism— through a Black feminist lens. The inequities Black mothers face has a strong Black (and) feminist history of being analyzed in relation to the politics of anti‐Black racism ...
Princess Banda
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Contemporary European Politics, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how the EU frames problems and solutions regarding the current interconnected crises of climate change, inequality and other social, economic and environmental problems. The EU's main strategic priorities are summarised in the EU Strategic Agenda, but the latest agenda was published in 2024 and has not yet been ...
Viktor Lovén
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Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société, 2023 AbstractMining has been at the forefront of coloniality for hundreds of years in Brazil, representing one of the main threats to the integrity and health of Indigenous lands. The 1988 Brazilian Constitution recognized Indigenous peoples’ rights to the lands they occupy, and their natural resources, according to their traditions, uses, beliefs, and ...
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Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 476-490, June 2026.ABSTRACT Deforestation and its social impacts are an enduring challenge in agrarian frontiers, especially in the tropics. Fueled by global demand for commodities, this process is mediated by ideas, concepts, meanings, and policies that uphold socioenvironmental degradation. A key and understudied—arena in which this mediation occurs is the sub‐national
Gabriela Russo Lopes, Fabio de Castro
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