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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., Fyodorova, А. E., Katashinskikh, V. S.   +2 more
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The rain feels different under the same umbrella: Experiences with poverty across LGBTQ subgroups

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Population‐based survey data have demonstrated that LGBTQ communities report varying rates of economic insecurity, yet very little research directly assesses how pathways into and experiences with poverty look different among subgroups at the intersections of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).
Bianca D. M. Wilson, Lillian Nguyen
wiley   +1 more source

Phenomenology of precarity

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

American 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, Jill Hanley, Élise Bourgeois‐Guérin, Pénélope Boudreault   +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

SAGE 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

Changing 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

Issue 15: Economic Precarity among Syrian Refugee Families Living in Lebanon: Policy Recommendations to Restore Hope in the Context of Displacement [PDF]

, 2019
The conflict in Syria has been described as the largest humanitarian crisis to date. Ongoing for over eight years, the conflict has resulted in over five million refugees and 6.6 million people internally displaced within the borders of Syria.
Akesson, Bree, Badawi, Dena
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Understanding the Housing and Support Experience of People With Complex Disability in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis of Submissions to the Disability Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz, Fiona Carey, Libby Witts, Jessie Spence, Peter Mulherin, Megan Topping, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Comparative 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, Chi Yuen Lai, Kwok Kin Fung   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Suzanne Hall, Liza Rose Cirolia   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source