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Precarious livelihoods: Examining the intersection of fish work and ecological change in coastal Jamaica

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2020
Precarity has not been applied in the context of fisheries‐based work, even as working conditions in fisheries are emerging to be a real issue. There has been limited analysis of fish work outside the media spotlight or how changing ecological and ...
Melissa Marschke   +2 more
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Precarity and migration : Thai wild berry pickers in Sweden

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,
core   +1 more source

Technoprecarious [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
An analysis that traces the role of digital technology in multiplying ...
Lab, Precarity
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Urbanity, Precarity, and Homeland Activism. Burmese Migrants in Global Cities

open access: yesMoussons, 2013
This article interrogates the link between urbanity and “precarity of place” for non-citizen populations, relying on evidence drawn from the transnational homeland activities of Burmese migrants in two global cities (Bangkok and Tokyo).
Susan Banki
doaj   +1 more source

The making of precarity: an ethnography on precarious workers in Auckland, New Zealand

open access: yesKōtuitui
The following article focuses on the everyday struggles of precarious workers in Auckland, New Zealand. As an excerpt from an ethnography on lived precarity in Auckland City, it reveals structural constraints that precarious workers face daily.
Marko Galič
doaj   +1 more source

From Battery Hens to Chicken Feed: The Perceived Precarity and Identity of Australian Journalists [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
There is an industrial revolution taking place in the media sphere, and it is a result of digitalisation. Between mass layoffs and falling word rates, Australian journalists are exposed to multiple potential sources of precarity.
Elks, Kate, Patrick, Holly
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Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Women Escape From Precarity in the Gig Economy: Evidence From Labor Market, Labor Process, and Labor Reproduction in China

open access: yesSAGE Open
Using survey data from Chinese gig workers, this study employs OLS regression, mechanism analysis, and instrumental variable methods, supplemented by semi-structured interviews, to explore female gig workers’ precarity in the labor market, labor process,
Qi Zheng, Zitong Qiu, Weiguo Yang
doaj   +1 more source

Housing Precarity in Russia: Measurements in Regions and Federal Districts

open access: yesChanging 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   +1 more source

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