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Urbanity, Precarity, and Homeland Activism. Burmese Migrants in Global Cities
Moussons, 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
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The making of precarity: an ethnography on precarious workers in Auckland, New Zealand
KōtuituiThe 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
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Precarity, Permits, and Prayers: “Working Practices” of Congolese Asylum-Seeking Women in Cape Town
Africa Spectrum, 2022 This paper provides an ethnographic reading of how Congolese women, in particular aslyum seekers with temporary permits, navigate Cape Town's informal urban economy.
Henrietta Nyamnjoh +2 more
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Creating personas for political and social consciousness in HCI design [PDF]
, 2018 Personas have become an important tool for Human-Computer Interaction professionals. However, they are not immune to limitations and critique, including stereotyping.
De Paoli, Stefano +3 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder in Australia have increased considerably in recent years. The current study investigated how the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) impacts quality of life (QoL) among carers of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Jesse Gerhard, Sharon L. Grant
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Precarious Employment Relations as a Factor of Social Pollution [PDF]
, 2016 The paper discusses the assessment of precarious employment relations as one of the systemic factors of social pollution. The social pollution phenomenon in employment relations is caused by employers who use a strategy for the reduction of labour costs ...
Dvorakova, Z. +2 more
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East Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2020 Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological method has mostly been applied to epistemological questions. However, it also has great potential for analysing phenomena of social and political relevance. This text outlines a phenomenology of social precariousness, showing how it impacts the experiential, temporal, perceptual and self-perceptual structures of the ...
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Comparative Migration StudiesPrecarity is a term capturing the migrants’ situation under globalization and migration-driven uncertainties. Many have attempted to explain the precarity in terms of employment changes, but fewer in terms of non-employment ones.
Suet Lin Hung +2 more
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Mobility Strategies of Precarious Employees and the Formation of Precarious Habitus [PDF]
Социологический журнал, 2019 This article considers the social mobility trajectories for vulnerable employees involved in precarious employment. The authors define two types of justifying involvement in precarity — forced or voluntary choice.
Irina N. Tartakovskaya +1 more
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