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POLICY BRIEFING: How politics and power create poor health – ‘I think they’re trying to kill folk aff’

POLICY BRIEFING: How politics and power create poor health – ‘I think they’re trying to kill folk aff’

  • By discoversociety
  • April 05, 2016

Mhairi Mackenzie, Chik Collins, John Connolly, Mick Doyle and Gerry McCartney The Policy Briefing section of Discover Society is provided in [...]

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Inequality and Assemblages of Noncitizenship in an Age of Migration

Inequality and Assemblages of Noncitizenship in an Age of Migration

  • By discoversociety
  • April 05, 2016

Patricia Landolt and Luin Goldring Globally, legal status and citizenship are critical determinants of well-being, mobility and immobility, inequality, and stratification. [...]

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Noncitizens Down Under: How Migrant Belonging is Changing in a Nation of Immigrants

Noncitizens Down Under: How Migrant Belonging is Changing in a Nation of Immigrants

  • By discoversociety
  • April 05, 2016

Shanthi Robertson  In 2011, an Australian federal court ruled that the owners of a popular Melbourne dumpling restaurant must pay $AU200 [...]

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Commodifying Noncitizenship

Commodifying Noncitizenship

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  • April 05, 2016

Tendayi Bloom Increasingly, aspects of the construction of the relationships between States and individual noncitizens are being delegated to third parties. [...]

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In Support of Birthright Citizenship

In Support of Birthright Citizenship

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  • April 05, 2016

Michael S. Divine As I am writing this article the country of my birth, the United States, is in the process [...]

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Taxation without Representation: Can Labour Remain an Honest Broker in Northern Ireland?

Taxation without Representation: Can Labour Remain an Honest Broker in Northern Ireland?

  • By discoversociety
  • April 05, 2016

Cillian McGrattan Labour is one of the largest parties in Northern Ireland. Since May 2015 its membership has tripled to around [...]

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‘Do I really wanna waffle on with people who are waffling on?’ Politics and the British working class

‘Do I really wanna waffle on with people who are waffling on?’ Politics and the British working class

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  • April 05, 2016

Tim Jones Across Western democracies there is a clear and well-known correlation between social class and patterns of electoral participation: poorer, [...]

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Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement one year on: The University of Hong Kong as the new battleground

Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement one year on: The University of Hong Kong as the new battleground

  • By discoversociety
  • April 05, 2016

Sik Ying Ho The 79 days of the Umbrella Movement occupation in the Admiralty, Mongkok and Causeway Bay areas of Hong [...]

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Struggling on: Intimacy as an emerging space of political participation

Struggling on: Intimacy as an emerging space of political participation

  • By discoversociety
  • April 05, 2016

Sui-Ting Kong and Sik Ying Ho Academics in Hong Kong have never been as puzzled when making sense of intimate and [...]

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Online sexual harassment as a political weapon in the Post-Umbrella era

Online sexual harassment as a political weapon in the Post-Umbrella era

  • By discoversociety
  • April 05, 2016

Jun Lam I first met Tiffany eight months ago at a café in Mongkok, where I interviewed her for my dissertation [...]

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