The objective of this article is to examine how gendered institutional practices constrain the substantive political participation of Amazigh-speaking women elected to local councils in Morocco. Although constitutional reforms, gender quotas, and the...
At present, government-led research and other scientific institutions continue to face challenges in meaningfully weaving Indigenous Knowledge in research, thereby reinforcing the inequalities and exclusion faced by Indigenous Peoples. We found that,...
Women’s leadership development programmes (WLDPs) play an essential role in empowering women to move into leadership positions. Despite the obstacles that limit women’s participation in higher education leadership positions that have been...
This study is part of an evaluation of a restorative circles program for domestic violence. We use quantitative and qualitative data from parties responsible for the violence and qualitative interviews with victim-survivors to examine the impact of r...
Digital technologies increasingly shape children’s sleep, family routines, peer relationships, and school adjustment, creating challenges for school social work. This concurrent mixed-methods study examined associations between digital technolo...
Churches can provide important sources of support, belonging, and resilience for survivors of gender-based violence. However, theological interpretations, organisational cultures, and institutional practices may also contribute to the perpetuation of...
Human trafficking is a pervasive global challenge, with child victims among the most vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. Despite increasing research interest, concepts related to international trade appear to have limited representation in the inde...
This article presents the results of a study on the dilemmas and practices of social work practitioners involved in the Italian return procedure, in particular those working within repatriation centers. Although social work plays an increasing role i...
Work–life balance has become an increasingly important field of research and policy intervention, reflecting profound changes in employment, family life, gender relations and care arrangements [...]
Informal volunteering is widely recognised as an important form of civic participation and community support, yet it remains one of the most difficult dimensions of volunteering to define and measure. Existing frameworks typically describe informal v...
Since 1999, Kosovo has depended on an extremely close partnership with the United States for state-building, security guarantees, diplomatic recognition and Euro-Atlantic momentum. Yet, under Prime Minister Albin Kurti, bilateral relations have hit t...
The 2022 Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa grew from opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates into broader resistance to pandemic restrictions and government authority. Media coverage served as a primary lens through which the protest and its policing...
This experimental study examines how character type and misinformation exposure influence narrative effects on promoting COVID-19 vaccination for children on social media. A 2 (misinformation exposure: present vs. absent) × 2 (character type: p...
Doctoral study is marked by identity disruption, emotional strain, and isolation. Students may benefit from pedagogical support that facilitates identity development. While reflexivity is commonly positioned as a critical competence in doctoral train...
A primary goal of criminally prosecuting corporations that violate federal environmental laws is to promote specific deterrence. The idea is that once a company is successfully prosecuted it should be deterred from committing a new environmental law...
The Community Safety Project, rooted in the commitments and processes of critical participatory action research, studied safety in the most heavily policed neighborhoods of New York City. Communities United for Police Reform, a coalition of more than...
The prison is often discussed as an institution that imposes death, be it physical, social, or spiritual death. Resistance to prison, likewise, is often depicted through processes that affirm life—in “acts of living”, such as creati...
The main objective of this study is to explore how pre-service teachers retrospectively describe differences between their prior and current perspectives following participation in a Human Library. This research begins with a review of the literature...
Background: The distribution of births throughout the year is a widely documented phenomenon in epidemiological and demographic fields, with birth patterns following cyclic distributions characterized by recurring peaks and troughs. In high-income co...
As adults aged 65 years and older are projected to represent 22% of the U.S. population by 2040, the number of older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD)—a group at an increased risk of financial abuse and fraud&md...
Western welfare systems prove structurally inadequate in the face of the polycrisis—the causal entanglement of ecological, economic, health, and democratic crises. This article develops a theoretical reconstructive framework that reframes socia...
This article examines the living experiences, aspirations and attainment of immigrant and non-immigrant pupils in Scotland. Drawing on immigrant optimism theory, the study uses the Scottish subset of PISA 2022, which includes measures of young people...
In Italy, the role of the voluntary legal guardian for unaccompanied foreign minors was introduced by Law no. 47 of 7 April 2017 (the so-called Zampa Law). The article is positioned within the studies on voluntary guardianship, which have explored va...
Unemployment is known to deteriorate physical health through income loss and psychological stress; yet it remains unclear whether racial health disparities stem from differential vulnerability to joblessness or unequal exposure to it. Using a case-cr...
This article reviews the current surveillance, raids, and rescue efforts in response to child trafficking in Nigeria. The article is drawn from an analysis of a broader doctoral study on children’s entry into and recruitment for domestic work,...
Public concern about artificial intelligence and labor markets is documented through surveys, media analyses, and workplace research. This article examines how such concern is organized in sampled Reddit discussions through moral evaluations of fairn...
The world is witnessing an unprecedented surge in children’s exposure to digital technologies across socioeconomic segments. This shift presents both opportunities and challenges for parents, who must navigate the complex interplay between trad...
This critical literature review examines how scholarship in sociology, criminology, law, and geography conceptualizes consent within U.S. sex trafficking, survival sex, and sex work. We identify four recurring socio-legal debates: the choice/coercion...
In the UK, alcohol- and drug-related deaths have surged in recent years. While physical activity, and running in particular, is increasingly recognized as a low cost and accessible aid to recovery, accounts of this are comparatively scarce in the aca...
The 2018 Oxfam scandal brought renewed international attention to sexual violence in international interventions, sparking widespread debate under the hashtags #AidToo and #PSEA. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of two Portuguese newspapers, this ar...
It has been more than 30 years since the principle of Housing First (HF) was first conceptualized as a way of responding to people experiencing chronic homelessness in North America. It has been regarded by many as a trailblazing approach that focuse...
This article analyzes the legal frameworks supporting the Korean Wave (Hallyu), a global cultural phenomenon encompassing K-pop, K-dramas, Korean cinema, and related cultural industries. It examines how Korea’s legal infrastructure institutiona...
This study examines the practical and methodological strengths and limitations of evaluating nature-based interventions (NBIs) with migrant participants when evaluation is integrated into routine social work and service processes. Three short-term in...
TikTok has become an increasingly relevant space for political communication, particularly during electoral campaigns and among younger audiences. This study compares how Kamala Harris and Donald Trump used TikTok during the 2024 U.S. presidential ca...
Native American communities experience persistent health and economic inequities shaped by poverty, systemic barriers, and historical trauma. Within Cherokee Nation, financial instability remains an important social determinant of health and health-r...
Housing access is a decisive but underexamined dimension of immigrant integration, shaping whether newcomers achieve belonging or remain confined to spatial and institutional margins. This study examines informal settlements (campamentos) in Chile, w...
Women with disabilities experience heightened vulnerability to violence due to intersecting forms of discrimination, including sexism, ableism, and socio-economic marginalisation. Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) is an emerging di...
(1) Background: Research on datafied political communication has concentrated on national electoral settings, although local government produces comparable behavioral trace data outside any electoral calculus. This study asks whether smaller local au...
The aim of this study was to analyse the associations between personal and social responsibility in Physical Education classes and bullying-related behaviours, specifically victimisation, perpetration, and active and passive bystander behaviours. A t...
The quality of the grandparent–grandchild relationship has been associated with positive developmental outcomes, including emotional regulation, also during adolescent years. However, available measures often lack psychometric evidence supporti...
Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) constitutes one of the most serious forms of child sexual abuse in the digital environment, causing not only primary harm at the moment of abuse but also prolonged and repeated victimization due to the continued sto...
Weight management has become an important domain of digital health communication, yet how expert authority is constructed and negotiated in associated comment discourse on Chinese social media remains underexplored. Using Sina Weibo as a case study,...
In agreement with the World Health Organization’s active aging advocacy and Taiwan’s 2025 transition to a super-aged society, elder care is shifting towards integrated biopsychosocial models. In this study, we explore integrating craft in...
Violence against women (VAW) is highly prevalent in Kenya and is especially concentrated in informal settlements, where poverty, inadequate infrastructure, and limited protection systems heighten exposure to harm and constrain help-seeking and exit....
Since the late 1990’s unaccompanied minors have crossed the Mediterranean in search of refuge and the possibility of building a viable future, including access to work to support themselves and their families. This paper draws on qualitative re...
Population ageing poses growing challenges to social protection systems, particularly in contexts characterized by informal labour trajectories and uneven pension coverage. This study examines the association between current employment and multidimen...
This case study draws on innovative, collaborative research to demonstrate the benefits and limitations of using mixed methods data collection, including peer-led Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) interviews and Photovoice, and causal analysis. We i...
Research on news framing of sexual violence is constrained by a persistent conceptual problem: analytically heterogeneous categories have often been treated as equivalent frames even though they designate different objects and levels of interpretatio...
Campus sexual violence has been the subject of more than five decades of research, yet prevention on college campuses has repeatedly failed to reflect what feminist theory and scholarship offered as the causes of violence. This historically organized...
This article examines the phenomenological constitution of time in digital work, focusing on how senior IT professionals retrospectively articulate the relation between organizational rhythms, embodied experience, and biographical meaning. Based on a...
