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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)

  • Article
  • Open Access
574 Views
16 Pages

12 December 2025

Through a series of over 100 bilingual interviews with Hispanic San Antonians, the COVID-19 Oral Historias Project documents the Latino/a/e community’s experiences through the pandemic by sharing individual stories, amplifying local voices, and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
896 Views
13 Pages

12 December 2025

Political rhetoric on immigration has increasingly framed it as a threat to public safety—fueling aggressive immigration enforcement strategies, including the expanded use of federal agents, mass deportations, and strict border controls. In par...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
433 Views
26 Pages

Protective Factors of Resilience and Well-Being Among Natural Hazard Event Helpers: A Rapid Systematic Literature Review

  • Elena Grossi,
  • Silvia Marocco,
  • Michela Cortini,
  • Teresa Galanti and
  • Alessandra Talamo

11 December 2025

The management of natural hazard events has significant consequences for the well-being of the operators who find themselves intervening in these situations. In order to protect their mental health and ensure an effective response in support of the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
450 Views
24 Pages

10 December 2025

Transgender and gender-diverse teachers occupy a precarious position within educational spaces, often facing increased scrutiny and regulation aimed at disciplining their gender expression. This article brings to light original and significant insigh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
332 Views
18 Pages

The Public Perception of Hate Speech Regulation in Unconventional Media

  • Ismael Crespo Martínez,
  • Inmaculada Melero López and
  • María Isabel López Palazón

10 December 2025

This study provides one of the first quantitative analyses regarding citizens’ perception of hate speech regulation in Spain, based on the influential, empirical study of the Torre Pacheco case. The research at hand statistically validates the...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
420 Views
17 Pages

8 December 2025

Achieving education for all and gender parity in education is central to Sustainable Development Goal 4. However, there are still an estimated 78 million primary-school-age children and 64 million lower-secondary-school-age children. Half of these ou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
315 Views
20 Pages

8 December 2025

This study investigates how Italian and American media frame climate change through politically oriented and, in some cases, populist narratives that challenge the principles of the open society. The analysis draws on a dataset of 71 items from eight...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
797 Views
18 Pages

Clinical Social Work’s Place in Migrant Justice: A Call to Act on Our Ethical Commitments

  • Cherra M. Mathis,
  • Mary Lehman Held,
  • Karen E. Latus and
  • Laurie Cook Heffron

5 December 2025

Migrating people fleeing violence and persecution face narrowing options to seek safety through the U.S. immigration courts. Social work’s historical and ongoing commitment to immigrant health and immigrant justice supports an enlarged presence...

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