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Screening Precarity Scenes [PDF]

, 2022
Anders Marklund
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Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of employment precarity on social integration of migrant populations in urban China

Redai dili
Facilitating the social integration of the migrant population is a pivotal task in the comprehensive advancement of new urbanization. Nevertheless, this significant task is currently confronted with formidable challenges arising from the prevailing trend
Huang Gengzhi, Yang Jitong, Chai Lixing
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Caste, Social Capital and Precarity of Labour Market Intermediaries: The case of dalit labour contractors in India [PDF]

, 2023
Vivek Soundararajan, Garima Sharma, Hari Bapuji   +2 more
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Conceptual colour: race, economic knowledge, and the anthropology of financialization De la couleur comme concept : race, connaissances économiques et anthropologie de la financiarisation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
wiley   +1 more source

Anthropologies of Unemployment: New Perspectives on Work and Its Absence [PDF]

, 2016
[Excerpt] Anthropologies of Unemployment offers accessible, theoretically innovative, and ethnographically rich examinations of unemployment in rural and urban regions across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Kwon, Jong Bum, (Ed.), Lane (Ed.), Carrie M.   +1 more
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Between the empowerment and the precarity: the female entrepreneurship in the cosmetics direct sales sector [PDF]

, 2023
Mayco Lima da Silva
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US State Policy Contexts and Mental Health Among Working‐Age Adults

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points States’ overarching policy contexts are a meaningful yet overlooked predictor of adults’ mental health, with more conservative contexts associated with worse mental health outcomes over a 30‐year period. Counterfactual analyses suggest that widespread policy shifts could meaningfully alter the national prevalence of mental distress ...
ILIYA GUTIN, JENNIFER KARAS MONTEZ, EMILY WIEMERS, SHANNON M. MONNAT, DOUGLAS A. WOLF   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating platform work through solidarity and hustling: the case of ride-hailing drivers in Nairobi, Kenya

Online Media and Global Communication
Scholarship about worker precarity, economic insecurity, and individualized risk in platform work tends to ignore that these trends are common features of informal economies in countries like Kenya, which has a culture of hustling rooted in economic ...
Ekdale Brian, Aidoo Ebenezer
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Measuring economic precarity among UK youth during the recession

, 2014
What are the key aspects of economic precariousness and which are most relevant to analysing young people’s lives? In this study we use data from the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) to identify the proportion of men and women aged 18 ...
Berrington, Ann, Roberts, Steven, Tammes, Peter   +2 more
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