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Social Sciences, Volume 14, Issue 12

December 2025 - 55 articles

Cover Story: Migrating people fleeing violence and persecution face narrowing options to seek safety through immigration courts. Social work’s historical and ongoing commitment to immigrant health and immigrant justice supports an enlarged presence within asylum and other immigration processes. In the role of experts, through evaluation and testimony, social work clinicians can play an essential part in communicating the complexity of migrating people’s stories to adjudicators. They support displaced people’s human right to safety and dignity in line with the skills and values of the profession. Our paper is an invitation and roadmap for both new and established clinical social workers to use their mental health expertise to meet our profession’s ethical obligations to the human rights of migrating people. View this paper
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Articles (55)

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Responding to Racism in the Academy: Black Women Professors Engaging in Public Discourse

  • Kelsey Bogard,
  • Ruqayyah Perkins-Williams and
  • Mary Howard-Hamilton

18 December 2025

Perspectives on race and gender from Black women professors in higher education today are shaped by their lived experiences navigating both systemic racism and sexism within academia. These perspectives often reflect a unique intersectional understan...

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  • Open Access
233 Views
15 Pages

Revisiting Social Participation in Hong Kong Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Stephen Cheong Yu Chan,
  • Michael Ka Wai Lai and
  • Chi Chung Wong

18 December 2025

Social participation is vital for older adults’ well-being. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted daily activities, but many adapted using SOC (Selection, Optimization, and Compensation) strategies. This study examines how older adults in Hong Kong n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
426 Views
18 Pages

18 December 2025

Professional women football players have increased in Spain, but the little more than 107,000 licences registered in 2023 are still far from the more than one million for men. Androcentrism, gender roles, and the invisibility of female athletes in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
374 Views
12 Pages

Gender and Sustainability in Higher Education: The Case of Female Leadership at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Colombia)

  • Danny Jean Paul Mejía Holguín,
  • Ana Elena Builes-Vélez,
  • Juliana Restrepo Jaramillo and
  • Juan Diego Martínez Marín

18 December 2025

This study addresses the limited empirical evidence on women’s contributions to sustainable development leadership within higher education institutions. Focusing on Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Colombia, we employed a mixed-methods app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
661 Views
13 Pages

Validating Scales for Measuring Self-Efficacy, Growth Mindset, and Goal Setting

  • Nicole Buzzetto-Hollywood,
  • Leesa Thomas-Banks,
  • Leslie West and
  • Rob Richerson

18 December 2025

Self-efficacy beliefs and mindset influence student success, impacting how a learner experiences and responds to learning situations and setbacks. Accordingly, mindset interventions, are successful at increasing student performance with particular ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
294 Views
18 Pages

Contributing Factors to Cohesion Within Women’s Refugee Networks

  • Siobhán C. McEvoy,
  • Finiki Nearchou and
  • Laura K. Taylor

17 December 2025

This study aimed to understand the contributing factors to cohesion in women’s refugee resettlement networks in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. In 2022, forty women across four networks participated in semi-structured, in-depth in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
280 Views
19 Pages

17 December 2025

Amid escalating attacks on the diversity, equity, and inclusion, Historically Black Emerging Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HBeHSIs) represent overlooked spaces of resistance in U.S. Higher education. This study examines how faculty and administrator...

  • Article
  • Open Access
369 Views
12 Pages

17 December 2025

Given the limited literature on the association between trade unions and mental health, this study aims to analyse differences between unionised and non-unionised workers in terms of psychological well-being, job satisfaction, and overall life satisf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
656 Views
18 Pages

17 December 2025

This article explains why the European Union has not replicated Central and Eastern Europe’s (CEE) transformation in the Western Balkans (WB6). Drawing on the original External Incentives Model (EIM) conditions, the article argues that a differ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
511 Views
20 Pages

17 December 2025

The study investigated the prevalence of gender-based violence, its psychological effects, and coping mechanisms among refugees in Ethiopia’s Kebribeyah Camp, which is believed to be the least recognized issue for female refugees. Owing to the...

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