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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Exploring legal tenure security in Malaysia: does formal titling ensures rights to land owners?
Cogent Social SciencesOne of the main objectives of establishing a land management system is to acquire land tenure security. Although there are several layers to the idea of tenure security, the most widely held opinion is that obtaining such security has frequently been ...
Shahrul Natasha Halid, Jady Zaidi Hassim
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Innovative Customary Land Governance in Zambia: Experiences, Lessons Learned and Emerging Impacts
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020 In Zambia, security of tenure for communities residing under customary land tenure settings has in recent years increasingly come under threat owing to the pressures of high rate of urbanization, speculation, subdivision and conversion to state land ...
DAVID KATUNGULA
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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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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Culturally responsive early childhood education (ECE) environments can increase child and family participation, enhance service quality, and improve developmental outcomes for children. Educators from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds contribute to inclusive ECE and are crucial for addressing workforce shortages.
Sene Gide +4 more
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To own or not to own? Land tenure security and production risk in small-scale farming
, 2023 While the impact of land tenure security on farm yield has been extensively investigated in the literature, little is known about the role tenure security plays in mitigating risk exposure.
Olagunju, K. A. +4 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke +3 more
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Tenure Security and Urban Squatting
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1984 While recent studies have shown that up to 35% of the total urban population of the Third World live in squatter settlements, there is a dearth of economic analysis on the phenomenon of squatting. This paper attempts to fill this gap. The equilibrium model argues that the difference in unit housing prices between the non-squatting (formal) sector of a ...
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Tenure Security and Land-Related Investment: Evidence from Ethiopia
, 2003 The authors use a large data set from Ethiopia that differentiates tenure security and transferability to explore determinants of different types of land-related investment and its possible impact on ...
Jin, Songqing +9 more
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