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Societies, Volume 13, Issue 3

2023 March - 28 articles

Cover Story: Countering human trafficking at a statewide level requires a combination of knowledge from lived experience, inter-sector collaborations, and evidence-based tools to measure progress. Since 2010, the nonprofit Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking (LCHT) has collected and analyzed data on how partners and organizations across the state work toward ending human trafficking. This paper provides a single case study of LCHT’s use of Community-Based Participatory Research and includes an analysis of the three iterations of the Colorado Project from 2013 to 2023. LCHT has provided tools and a roadmap for collaborative design and decision making among academic, nonprofit, and public sector partners seeking to conduct research on social movements utilizing a community-engaged process. View this paper
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Articles (28)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,765 Views
11 Pages

21 March 2023

Education can be important for assisting the psychosocial well-being of marginalized communities such as refugees and contributes to the effective processing of feelings and isolation prevention by mitigating the long-term effects of trauma and devel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Society and Immigration: Reducing Inequalities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,429 Views
12 Pages

21 March 2023

Despite decades of both macro- and micro-level studies showing immigration to be unassociated or negatively linked to crime, research examining the consequences of justice system contact among immigrants has been comparatively underdeveloped. The cur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Immigration and Crime)
  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,224 Views
16 Pages

Strategic Competence Model for Understanding Smart Territorial Development

  • Urška Fric,
  • William O’Gorman and
  • Borut Rončević

20 March 2023

In this paper, the authors propose a multi-level model for the strategic competence of territorial units, which can help explain why some territorial units manage to respond appropriately to global challenges and thrive while others fail. Strategic c...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
29 Citations
27,682 Views
13 Pages

19 March 2023

Skilled immigrants are critical assets to the social and economic dynamism of Canada. However, they are less likely to find employment matching their skillset due to a lack of inclusive post-immigration professional integration policies and support....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Anti-racist Perspectives on Sustainabilities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,730 Views
15 Pages

Planning for Health Equity: How Municipal Strategic Documents and Project Plans Reflect Intentions Instructed by the Norwegian Public Health Act

  • Monica Lillefjell,
  • Siren Hope,
  • Kirsti Sarheim Anthun,
  • Eirin Hermansen and ,
  • John Tore Vik,
  • Erik R. Sund,
  • Bodil Elisabeth Valstad Aasan,
  • Mari Sylte and
  • Ruca Maass
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

18 March 2023

The Norwegian Public Health Act (PHA) mandates municipalities to integrate a systematic, knowledge-based, cross-sectoral approach aimed at levelling the social gradient in health. This study aimed to describe and analyse how the intentions of the PHA...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Equity and Equality, Empowerment, Inclusiveness: The Pillars of Public Health Promotion in Modern Societies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,428 Views
13 Pages

18 March 2023

In recent years, the sustainability of the planet has been undermined. Education is the basis for raising awareness and is the engine for achieving attitudinal change among citizens. In terms of the social dimension, gender inequality is increasing,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender and Social Class Issue in Academic Field)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,837 Views
12 Pages

16 March 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the transformation of digital interactions, a development that has been growing in the last decade. Digital platforms have become indispensable in the institutional communication of public and private organizations....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Political Communication and Public Political Participation in the Digital Societies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,529 Views
13 Pages

15 March 2023

This study investigates, in a sample of journalists, the relationship between meeting job expectations and professional role identity. Specifically, job expectations concerning career development, remuneration, and relationships with users were exami...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,477 Views
15 Pages

14 March 2023

Social media have become key in political communication, playing a crucial role in election campaigns due to their fast, ubiquitous communication. This paper focuses on the comparison of the use of the social network Twitter in Spanish and French pub...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Political Communication and Public Political Participation in the Digital Societies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,903 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2023

Hypothetical thought experiments allow researchers to gain insights into widespread moral intuitions and provide opportunities for individuals to explore their moral commitments. Previous thought experiment studies in virtual reality (VR) required pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,800 Views
19 Pages

13 March 2023

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, platform capitalism has expanded greatly in the delivery sector. The consolidation of an oligopoly controlled by a few corporate platforms has led to precarious working conditions for “gig economy” worke...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
17,084 Views
14 Pages

Family–Teacher Relationships and Child Engagement in Early Care and Education

  • Hillary R. Lewis,
  • Shannon T. Lipscomb,
  • Bridget E. Hatfield,
  • Roberta Weber and ,
  • Beth Green and
  • Lindsey Patterson
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 March 2023

Young children’s positive interactions with teachers and peers in early care and education (ECE) settings support the development of their social and academic skills. Identifying malleable factors that contribute to children’s positive en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,445 Views
20 Pages

Team Approaches to Addressing Sex Trafficking of Minors: Promising Practices for a Collaborative Model

  • Andrea Nichols,
  • Sarah Slutsker,
  • Melissa Oberstaedt and
  • Kourtney Gilbert

11 March 2023

The extant research literature is lacking in its focus on community-based responses (CBRs) to sex trafficking involving minors in the juvenile justice system. To address this research gap, the present study draws from 35 interviews with social servic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Organizing Processes: Collaborating against Human Trafficking/Modern Slavery for Impact and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
50,071 Views
18 Pages

10 March 2023

In today’s working environment, various organizations confront the significant challenges of productivity and performance. However, higher education institutes (HEIs) are also not free from this massive issue. Therefore, the present study inves...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
26,456 Views
16 Pages

9 March 2023

The importance of achieving an inclusive education to ensure parity and equality between genders is a worldwide challenge. Consequently, it is essential to rethink the various places and spaces within the school environment where gender inequalities...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,968 Views
9 Pages

Disability, Rehabilitation, and Assistive Technologies for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy: Policies and Challenges

  • Marco Tofani,
  • Silvia Iorio,
  • Anna Berardi,
  • Giovanni Galeoto and ,
  • Antonella Conte,
  • Giovanni Fabbrini,
  • Donatella Valente and
  • Maurizio Marceca
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

9 March 2023

Good health and well-being for all, including those with disabilities, is one of the main sustainable development goals. Data on refugees and asylum seekers with disabilities are limited. Refugees have poor access to rehabilitation and assistive tech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,331 Views
11 Pages

9 March 2023

Spain has been one of the most severely impacted countries by COVID-19. Vaccination against COVID-19 is one of the most successful preventive strategies. However, some citizens show vaccine resistance, in part due to widespread disinformation that ha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fake News Post-COVID-19)
  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,053 Views
17 Pages

7 March 2023

Prior research has evidenced the importance of collaboration and multi-agency partnership work in responding to human trafficking in both the UK and US. Three previous key studies are synthesized in this paper. We situate multi-agency anti-traffickin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Organizing Processes: Collaborating against Human Trafficking/Modern Slavery for Impact and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,700 Views
8 Pages

6 March 2023

The contribution of action research to teacher education as well as to refugee education has been highlighted in the international literature. Through action research, teachers can link educational theories with everyday school practices. In addition...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Migration and Multilingual Education: An Intercultural Perspective)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,939 Views
18 Pages

5 March 2023

One of the issues facing the field of political behaviour analysis in recent years has been the transformation of political participation among citizens, in a context of increasing change, profoundly marked by the spread of a new digital paradigm. Ne...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Political Communication and Public Political Participation in the Digital Societies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,137 Views
20 Pages

Populism on the Web: Presidential Elections in Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia (2020–2022)

  • Maria-Ines Quevedo-Stuva,
  • Gloria Tovar-Gil and
  • Andrea Mila-Maldonado

5 March 2023

Populism has become one of the main features of political action worldwide. This research aims to characterize the populist discourse in the tweets of presidential candidates in the Andean Community in recent elections (2020–2022). Accordingly,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Political Communication and Public Political Participation in the Digital Societies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,861 Views
13 Pages

2 March 2023

The rise of information and communication technologies has not gone unnoticed in the university context. An increasing number of university faculty members are using technological resources in their teaching. However, the success of technologies in t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation: Social and Educational Perspective)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,930 Views
11 Pages

A Qualitative Study on Barriers in Learning Opportunities in Ecuadorian Higher Education

  • Gardenia Silva-Martínez,
  • Marcos Jesús Iglesias-Martínez and
  • Inés Lozano-Cabezas

27 February 2023

The university context is increasingly complex and diverse. Students’ individual circumstances in particular, whether personal or relating to family and work, are increasingly challenging. They are affecting their academic development or even l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender and Social Class Issue in Academic Field)
  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,558 Views
11 Pages

26 February 2023

In order to adapt to the post-pandemic era, e-recruitment systems should change their requirements to search for a more competitive leader profile. These systems currently search for individual skills specific to leaders, taking into consideration wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Interactions and the Technology Development: Perspectives on E-Societies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,128 Views
20 Pages

25 February 2023

In urban centers around the world, street art has become an unavoidable element of the landscape. Located in west-central Portugal, Aveiro is no exception to this trend, and the art form has been used to enhance the cultural vibrancy of a place where...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Young People’s Constructions of Identities: Global Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,207 Views
17 Pages

Intimate Partner Violence in Vulnerable Contexts: A Case Study

  • Carmen Mañas,
  • María A. Martínez and
  • Francisca Burgueño

24 February 2023

A case study of domestic abuse is presented from the perspective of the socio-structural basis of gender violence. The research analyzes gender violence based on the accounts of a group of 30 women who have suffered abuse and have filed reports at th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender and Social Class Issue in Academic Field)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,535 Views
15 Pages

24 February 2023

With an investment of over 700 million euros, the public sector is the main advertiser in the Spanish market. Altogether, the central, regional, and local governments launch more than 5000 institutional advertising and communication contracts. In Spa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Political Communication and Public Political Participation in the Digital Societies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,359 Views
17 Pages

Lessons Learned from the Colorado Project to Comprehensively Combat Human Trafficking

  • Annie Miller,
  • Julie Laser,
  • Annjanette Alejano-Steele,
  • Kara Napolitano and ,
  • Nevita George,
  • Natcha Connot and
  • Amanda Finger
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 February 2023

Countering human trafficking at a statewide level requires a combination of knowledge from lived experience, inter-sector collaborations, and evidence-based tools to measure progress. Since 2010, the nonprofit Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Organizing Processes: Collaborating against Human Trafficking/Modern Slavery for Impact and Sustainability)
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