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Financial precarity and mental health among French health students: a nationwide cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMJ OpenObjectives This study aimed to describe the prevalence and determinants of financial precarity and examine its associations with mental health, healthcare avoidance and academic outcomes among French health students.Design Nationwide cross-sectional ...
Marie-Pierre Tavolacci +5 more
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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
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Restoring the Holistic Practice of Academic Work:
Workplace, 2021 Without diminishing the importance and significance of mobilization efforts in support of academic workers who hold part-time contracts, we want in this paper to make a strategic intervention into this struggle by shifting the focus from academic workers
Janice Newson, Claire Polster
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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
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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 +2 more
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Studies in Social Justice, 2020 This article explores precarity as a conceptual framework to understand the intersection of migration and low-waged work in the global south. Using a case study of cross-border migrant domestic workers in South Africa, I discuss current debates on ...
Zaheera Jinnah
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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
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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
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BMJ Open, 2020 Objectives To investigate the association between maternal employment precarity and infant low birth weight (LBW), and to assess if this association differs by race/ethnicity.Methods Data were collected from 2871 women enrolled in the National ...
Anjum Hajat +4 more
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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 +2 more
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