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Social Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 2

February 2021 - 49 articles

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Cover Story: In March 2020, the United States government introduced a series of measures designed to dramatically restrict immigration as part of its response to the global health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. These measures worsened an already precarious situation at the US–Mexico border for over 60,000 asylum seekers who were prevented, by an earlier “Remain in Mexico” (aka MPP) policy, from remaining in the United States while awaiting their asylum hearings. In-depth interviews reveal that COVID-19’s primary impact on asylum seekers was a further dismantling of the asylum process and prolonged im/mobility. We explore spatial practices of exclusion and im/mobility that produced the MPP camp in Matamoros, Mexico to understand how legal regimes of exclusion work, the spaces they produce, and how victims of this legal violence use im/mobility as acts of resiliency and contestation. View this paper.

Articles (49)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,180 Views
13 Pages

23 February 2021

Solglimt is the only long-term residential care facility in Denmark for young people with diabetes who, for various reasons, are particularly exposed or vulnerable. This target group is characterized by poorly regulated diabetes and psychosocial chal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,889 Views
14 Pages

22 February 2021

Citizens’ trust of authorities is of general importance, as it can affect trust in society as a whole. The Swedish Transport Agency is a state administrative authority responsible for driving license withdrawal. If withdrawals are experienced as unfa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
12,302 Views
16 Pages

22 February 2021

This paper addresses the transfer of Physical Education to the Gold Coast, focusing on its shifting role in producing ideal subjects and its relationship to the imperial politics of the mid-20th century. It explores the contradictory ways in which, i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,256 Views
18 Pages

Human Values and Religion: Evidence from the European Social Survey

  • Ana Carneiro,
  • Hélder Fernando Pedrosa e Sousa,
  • Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis and
  • Ângela Leite

20 February 2021

Values are guiding constructs of social action that connote some actions as desirable, undesirable, acceptable, and unacceptable, containing a normative moral/ethical component, and constituting a guide for actions, attitudes, and objectives for whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
11,305 Views
25 Pages

Hierarchical Cluster Analysis of Human Value Priorities and Associations with Subjective Well-Being, Subjective General Health, Social Life, and Depression across Europe

  • Ângela Leite,
  • Ana Ramires,
  • Diogo Guedes Vidal,
  • Hélder Fernando Pedrosa e Sousa,
  • Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis and
  • Alexandra Fidalgo

20 February 2021

Human values are a central component in understanding individuals’ choices. Using the Schwartz’s Values instrument, this study aimed to identify patterns of human value priorities of 35,936 participants across 20 European countries and analyse their...

  • Correction
  • Open Access
3,060 Views
1 Page

19 February 2021

The authors wish to make the following change to their paper (Akosah-Twumasi et al [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,851 Views
20 Pages

15 February 2021

This article is the result of ethnographic fieldwork among amateur dancers, mainly among gay adolescents from the outskirts of Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), who label themselves as “flexible”. This self-definition arises out of bodily flexibility techn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,081 Views
16 Pages

13 February 2021

In Australia, as in other multicultural countries, the global Islamophobic discourse linking Muslims to terrorists to refugees results in the belief of an “enemy within”, which fractures the public sphere. Muslim minorities learn to distrust mainstre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
11,355 Views
23 Pages

11 February 2021

In the 21st century, policing of all citizens requires officers to have an increased awareness of minority communities. Yet in the wake of public complaints and mass demonstrations regarding police misconduct, it is clear that police bias toward mino...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,448 Views
15 Pages

10 February 2021

The acknowledgement that asylum systems across Europe are “hostile environments” for migrant groups has increased in academic and practitioner consciousness, particularly in the aftermath of the 2015 refugee reception crisis. However, although the im...

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