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Lucinda Platt, Christine Garrington and Ayse Guveli Migrant women are often portrayed in a negative light. They are shown to be [...]

Giovanni Picker Racism is on the rise. Yet rarely we stop and reflect about its actual characteristics: the key concepts [...]

Ala Sirriyeh When I met Simon, he had not seen his wife Helen for over a year. After living abroad for [...]

Ruth Penfold-Mounce and Nathan Manning 2016 has been a significant year for voting and elections. The UK held a referendum [...]

Katherine Robinson and Monica Krause It looks like she’s smiling; her baby is nestled up close to her, and her soft [...]

Nick J Fox Sociology has much to say about the grand problems facing contemporary society, from climate change to migration to [...]

The Res-Sisters When Theresa May became the UK’s second female Prime Minister in June this year, the British press deliberated whether [...]

Alan Warde and Luke Yates In this edition of Discover Society, Alan Warde and Luke Yates bring together research reports and [...]

Richard Wilk In the last two years events called “trash fish dinners” have been held all over the United States, mostly [...]

Marie Mourad and Alex Barnard By revealing and rescuing the piles of edible food left outside supermarkets, “dumpster divers” have contributed [...]

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