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Skilled for Whom? Immigration Policy, Racial Capitalism, and the Reproduction of Inequality in Britain

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the UK's 2025 Immigration White Paper as a critical site for understanding how immigration policy functions as an instrument of racial capitalism. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the theory of social reproduction, and intersectionality, it interrogates how the state's construction of the ‘skilled migrant’ operates as a ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Umar, Deborah Hamer‐Acquaah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Speech Intelligibility Index: Tutorial and Applications for Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing. [PDF]

Am J Audiol
Wiseman KB, Sapp C, Stiles D, Walker EA, McCreery RW.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux, Steffen Mau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speech intelligibility and hearing acuity assessments of N95/P2 respirator with under-mask elastic band beard cover. [PDF]

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Ng I, Kave B, Paynter C, Bodas C, Roberts M, Hung S, Williams DL.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
wiley   +1 more source

Poverty as Biography in Motion: Agency, Emotion, and the Limits of Contemporary Poverty Theory

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research, poverty remains theoretically under‐explained. Dominant approaches oscillate between structural, resource‐based models that conceptualise poverty as a measurable condition, and behavioural or responsibilisation accounts that locate persistence in individual conduct.
Suzanne Butler
wiley   +1 more source

Large language model-based prediction of speech intelligibility after Vibrant Soundbridge implantation using multidimensional outcome data: Part 2 of a prospective study. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Müller C, Seidler H, Tsypina A, Kuch J, Zahnert T, Lailach S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Self‐Description and the Agro‐Industry's Response to Environmental Crises

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how self‐descriptions can orient organisations towards trajectories that sustain activities that contribute to environmental crises while simultaneously acknowledging both the crises themselves and the need for transformative responses.
Sharon Kishik, Morten Knudsen
wiley   +1 more source

Automated Scoring of the Speech Intelligibility Test Using Autoscore. [PDF]

Am J Speech Lang Pathol
Stipancic KL, Barrett TS, Tjaden K, Borrie SA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
wiley   +1 more source