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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Refugees

open access: yes, 2015
openaire   +1 more source

BEYOND ‘BAD DENSITY’ AND TERRITORIAL STIGMA: An Infrastructure Access Lens on Suburban Exclusion

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Segregation and social exclusion in postwar suburban housing estates are typically addressed as problems of residential location. For decades, postwar suburbs in all corners of the world have been targeted as designated sites of punitive urban intervention, grounded in territorial stigma and normative notions of density.
André Klaassen, Greet De Block
wiley   +1 more source

Screening for coercive control with refugee women accessing settlement services. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Spence N   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Refugee's Return [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, 2015
openaire   +4 more sources

CARING FOR CATS IN CAIRO: Urban Grammars of Compassion

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract At first sight, Cairo is a cruel and harsh city, marked by extreme inequality and offering few resources for the poor. Like other metropolises, Cairo can easily numb its residents to the suffering of others. But it is also a city in which quiet, barely noticeable acts of compassion occur every day.
Amira Mittermaier
wiley   +1 more source

POWER AND PREJUDICE: The Micropolitics of Electricity Access in Uganda's Urban Informal Settlements

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I examine the micropolitics of electricity access in informal settlements in Kampala, Uganda, by drawing on field research conducted in 2022. I argue that local dynamics shape and variegate household‐level experiences with electricity and urge consideration of these micropolitics for effective energy provision.
Penlope Yaguma
wiley   +1 more source

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