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Social Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 2

February 2021 - 49 articles

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.
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Articles (49)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,263 Views
22 Pages

10 February 2021

During the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic (16 March–5 May 2020), the Greek government took measures to close churches in order to protect the public health of the population. In this case, the purpose of this paper is to explore the response...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
37,279 Views
10 Pages

10 February 2021

Historically, countries such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand have witnessed an increased over-representation of minority groups who are exposed to the criminal justice system. For many years in Australia, young First Nations males have been over...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,162 Views
17 Pages

10 February 2021

Sexualized substance use or ‘chemsex’ is a key element in the syndemic of violence and infection in gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. Chemsex is more prolific amongst men who have sex with men but is also associated with high risk b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,786 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
9,129 Views
18 Pages

9 February 2021

As colleges and universities rapidly closed due to COVID-19, students and faculty were faced with unique challenges. The pandemic forced the cancellation of all campus activities, both extra-curricular and program-focused, such as student teaching ex...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
11,930 Views
29 Pages

Intersections of Immigration and Sexual/Reproductive Health: An Umbrella Literature Review with a Focus on Health Equity

  • Violeta Alarcão,
  • Miodraga Stefanovska-Petkovska,
  • Ana Virgolino,
  • Osvaldo Santos and
  • Andreia Costa

9 February 2021

Identifying the opportunities and barriers of promoting and fulfilling the sexual health rights of migrants remains a challenge that requires systematic assessment. Such an assessment would include estimating the influence of acculturation processes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
11,670 Views
36 Pages

9 February 2021

Women’s bodybuilding has attracted attention from gender researchers. However, increasingly popular fitness shows that feature different competitive tracks—bikini and figure—have garnered very limited scholarly consideration. This study draws on inte...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,789 Views
14 Pages

An Exploration of Ethical Decision Making with Intelligence Augmentation

  • Niyi Ogunbiyi,
  • Artie Basukoski and
  • Thierry Chaussalet

8 February 2021

In recent years, the use of Artificial Intelligence agents to augment and enhance the operational decision making of human agents has increased. This has delivered real benefits in terms of improved service quality, delivery of more personalised serv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,549 Views
13 Pages

8 February 2021

Guadeloupe left its status as a colony to become a French department with the “assimilation” law of 19 March 1946. Twenty years later, the promise of republican equality associated with this change is largely disappointed. Affected by the events of “...

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Soc. Sci. - ISSN 2076-0760