Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Christine Garrington For Stephanie, getting tested for the hereditary breast cancer gene was something of a no-brainer. After [...]
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Welfare as Purgatory: The irrational rationality of activation and sanctions
Tom Boland and Ray Griffin Do policy makers design welfare systems to punish claimants? By making welfare payments depend upon jobseekers [...]
Read moreA Social Scientist Looks at the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Janet Salmons I became a social scientist in my high school biology class. I managed to negotiate conscientious objector status with [...]
Read moreFOCUS: A Critical Understanding of Statelessness
Tendayi Bloom There are stateless persons living in every region of the world. The lack of any recognised formal citizenship can [...]
Read moreViewpoint: End Statelessness or Empower the Stateless?
Katja Swider The biggest problem with contemporary policies on statelessness, including the UNHCR’s campaign to end statelessness by 2024, is the [...]
Read moreON THE FRONTLINE: Photographing stateless people in Italy
Denis Bosnic There's a small door that's open on the right side of Ramadan and Elena's trailer—its aluminium frame barely visible [...]
Read morePolicy and Politics: Improving policy implementation through collaborative policymaking
Christopher Ansell, Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing The Policy and Politics section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal Policy & [...]
Read moreStatelessness, space, security: Somalis in Kenya
Oscar Gakuo Mwangi In this article, I argue that statelessness in the Kenyan context needs to be seen as simultaneously a [...]
Read moreCitizenship, gender and statelessness in Nepal: Before and after the 2015 Constitution
Sara Shneiderman and Subin Mulmi Nepal’s limited definition of citizenship has created a potential population of non-migratory stateless people projected to [...]
Read moreStatelessness and the trouble with citizenship-as-nationality
Katherine Tonkiss Being stateless means lacking citizenship of any country on earth. A stateless person is not a citizen anywhere. But [...]
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