Results 1 to 10 of about 64,805 (235)

Multifaceted precarity: pandemic experiences of recent immigrant women in the accommodation and food services sector [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected those who face historical and ongoing marginalization. In centering pandemic experience of recent immigrant women in the accommodation and food services sector in Canada, we examine how their precarious ...
Alice Mũrage, Julia Smith
doaj   +2 more sources

Housing Precarity in Russia: Measurements in Regions and Federal Districts

Changing Societies & Personalities
Housing precarity has become an increasingly prominent issue over the past two decades, attracting sustained attention from researchers across multiple disciplines.
Denis B. Litvintsev
doaj   +3 more sources

Longitudinal analysis shows possible distinct patterns of associations between conspiracy beliefs and either institutional distrust or the sense of precarity. [PDF]

Br J Soc Psychol
Adamus M, Šrol J, Ballová Mikušková E, Adam-Troian J, Chayinska M.   +4 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Introduction: Urban Precarity [PDF]

City & Society, 2021
AbstractCities have long been associated with precarity. This link seems to have intensified under contemporary global regimes of capitalism, with both popular and academic discourses noting the risks that come with building and inhabiting urban environments.
Brian Campbell, Christian Laheij
openaire   +2 more sources

Precarity of Self: Identifying the Liminal Borders of Self in Shahnaz Bashir’s The Half Mother [PDF]

Litinfinite, 2023
This research paper explores the liminal state of existence and self-identity of ordinary people in the militarised state of Kashmir. In doing so, it aims to conceptually examine the precarity of self and the sequential element, vulnerability in Shahnaz ...
L. Swathi
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of COVID-19 shocks, precarity and mediating resources on the mental health of residents of share housing in Victoria, Australia: an analysis of data from a two-wave survey

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives COVID-19 lockdown measures have challenged people’s mental health, especially among economically vulnerable households. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of exposure to COVID-19 shocks (defined as job loss, living cost ...
Rebecca Bentley, Katrina Raynor, Laura Panza   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Precarity

, 2021
Precarity
Kalyani Chadha, Linda Steiner
openaire   +5 more sources

Precarization via Digitalization? Work Arrangements in the On-Demand Platform Economy in Hungary and Slovakia

Frontiers in Sociology, 2020
The concept of precarity is increasingly used for an analysis of standard and non-standard (atypical) employment forms—yet among atypical employment forms, platform-driven work is rarely included.
Marta Kahancová, Tibor T. Meszmann, Mária Sedláková   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Living through Precarity: A Butlerian Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2021
This article aims to explore Judith Butler’s concept of precarity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland. The questions this study seeks to find answers to are: What are the various manifestations of Butler’s notion of precarity in The Lowland?
Alireza Farahbakhsh, Peyman Hoseini
doaj   +1 more source

Qu’est-ce que la précarité ?

Socio, 2013
This contribution aims to clarify the term ‘precarity’. Indeed, precarity is often employed to mean poverty or new forms of poverty. In this article, the author distinguishes between precarity and poverty.
Régis Pierret
doaj   +1 more source