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Bangladeshi Migrants of Italy and Their Precarity [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2019
Over the past years much attention has been placed on the ordeal of migrants as they leave their home countries and seek refuge or better lives in others.
Nilanjana Roy, Amy Verdun
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Precarity and Physical Education [PDF]

open access: yesRevista da ALESDE, 2018
This paper explores the concept of precarity and its relevance for physical education. I argue that precarity is closely related to neoliberal practices of privatization and free-markets, and that these practices have been exerting an influence on physical education for some time.
Kirk, David
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”A Debt on your Heart”: Exploring the impact of student precarity on Education Studies students at a UK university [PDF]

open access: yesEducational Futures
Drawing on Guy Standing’s theory of ‘precarity’ (2021), this article addresses a gap in the research around the experience of student precarity on UK Education Studies courses and how this precarity impacts their perceptions of the education system they ...
Andrew Edgar, Ben Johnson, Stephen Dixon
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Precarity and migration : Thai wild berry pickers in Sweden [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This chapter analyzes the precarity of migrant workers. International migrants tend to be precarious due to the unequal distribution of resources along lines of ethnicity, race and citizenship.
Hedberg, Charlotta,
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Don’t work for free: online discursive resistance to precarity in commercial photography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
While increasing academic attention has been paid to the precariousness of contemporary work, less research has examined how workers organise in response.
Kranert, Michael, Patrick-Thomson, Holly
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Doing online collaborative auto-ethnography during the pandemic to research academic precarity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
In this entry, we provide a self-reflexive account of our experience of doing online collaborative autoethnography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We came together to share our respective experiences of precarity as academics and as researchers who study ...
Sedgwick, Claire   +3 more
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Precarity/Coloniality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This paper explores the intricate relationship between precarity and coloniality. It argues that discussions and experiences of precarity—defined as the increased vulnerability to exploitative working and living conditions—are historically steeped in ...
Van Milders, Lucas   +1 more
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Qu’est-ce que la précarité ?

open access: yesSocio, 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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Precarization via Digitalization? Work Arrangements in the On-Demand Platform Economy in Hungary and Slovakia

open access: yesFrontiers 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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‘Press-ganged’ Generation Rent: youth homelessness, precarity and poverty in East London [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper examines youth homelessness, precarity and poverty via a critical account of ‘Generation Rent’ – that young people are living in the private rental sector (PRS) in perpetuity having been locked out of both homeownership and social renting. The
Paul Watt, Watt, Paul
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