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A systematic review of migrants’ non-employment precarity–conceptualizations by scholars and migrants’ narratives

open access: yesComparative Migration Studies
Precarity 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
doaj   +1 more source

Immigrant mental health, safe work, discrimination, and state policies: From racism and xenophobia to health equity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract An ecological model was developed to examine the pathways linking immigration state policies to physically safe work conditions and work volition, interpersonal discrimination, and mental health distress. The ecological framework was tested among two subsamples totaling 529 Latinx immigrant participants: (1) immigrants who resided in states ...
Germán A. Cadenas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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.
openaire   +3 more sources

Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Looking back on childhood experiences of homelessness: Stories of ongoing residential instability and resilience

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Families' experience of homelessness is typically examined from the perspective of parents during or shortly after a shelter stay. Parents complain about rules, surveillance, crowding, and challenges to parenting in both homeless shelters and in doubling up with other households (sharing the others' homes), and relief when they attain their ...
Marybeth Shinn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Federal Protections for Farmworker Health in the United States: A Scoping Review of Three Decades of Research

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This scoping review characterizes the scope, methods, and framing of empirical research evaluating the Field Sanitation Standard (FSS) and Worker Protection Standard (WPS) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Labor respectively.
Kaitlyn Alvarez Noli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Precarious Patriarchs in Toni Morrison’s Paradise: A Butlerian Study

open access: yesComparative Literature: East & West
The present article aims to explore the Butlerian notion of precarity in Morrison’s Paradise in an attempt to realize if and in what ways Butler’s conception of the term can be read into the novel.
Ladan Farah Bakhsh
doaj   +1 more source

Information Vulnerability Amid The COVID-19 Pandemic: Syrian Refugees In Turkey

open access: yesSiyasal: Journal of Political Sciences, 2022
States were caught unprepared by the COVID-19 pandemic. This caused a hitch in briefing the public with true and sufficient information. Refugees may be exposed to these drawbacks more due to the language barrier and social isolation.
Burak Ağalday, Mehmet İhsan Özdemir
doaj   +1 more source

A democratic critique of precarity

open access: yesGlobal Discourse, 2015
The term ‘precarity’ has become increasingly popular as a way to capture the material and psychological vulnerability resulting from neoliberal economic reforms. This article demonstrates that such precarity is incompatible with democracy. More specifically, it makes two arguments.
Näsström, Sofia, Kalm, Sara
openaire   +3 more sources

Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

open access: yesAustralian 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
wiley   +1 more source

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