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{"title":"The time of recognition: a time-critical theory of social misrecognition in welfare societies.","authors":"Gottfried Schweiger","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1601359","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1601359","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper analyzes recognition as a temporal phenomenon. It seeks to better understand how the temporality of recognition-that is, when it is demanded, received, and given, and for how long-is structured in modern societies, and what the consequences are when these temporal structures erode or collapse. To this end, the paper focuses on two social processes: poverty and the precarization of work. It argues that both are better understood through the lens of the temporal dimension of recognition-or more precisely, the temporal dimension of non-recognition and misrecognition. This perspective reveals that poverty and precarization are temporally extended forms of non-recognition. It becomes clear that the timing of these experiences within a person's life course, their duration, and the temporal regimes established by welfare states all play a crucial role. These regimes often exclude and disadvantage those affected, reinforcing their marginalization over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1601359"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12392107/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144972362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The ambiguity of working class interests in Brazilian road transport: the case of self-employed truckers.","authors":"Jörg Nowak","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1623186","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1623186","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1623186"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12390803/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144972405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Self-spoliation and forms of resistance in total institutions: an exploration of time and space in an Albanian communist regime internment camp.","authors":"Federica Floridi, Silvia Cataldi, Marino Bonaiuto, Alessandra Talamo","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1393612","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1393612","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The paper explores the daily life within Albanian internment camps during Enver Hoxha's prolonged communist regime, covering the period from 1944 to 1985. Extensive in-depth interviews with former internees underpin the research, which investigates the multifaceted strategies employed by these captives to resist the totalitarian obliteration of time and space, inherent in total institutions. These camps were not merely sites of physical isolation but were ideologically conceived as instruments of political repression, mirroring the Soviet Gulag system. The importance of community relationships for the survival of ex-internees is highlighted, featuring a deep network of mutual aid and long-lasting friendships. This serves as a sharp contrast to the oppressive context. The study reveals a paradoxical dimension to the ex-internees' experience: a strong attachment and reverence toward the locations that brought them great suffering, almost deeming them sacred. In these spaces, solidarity became a form of collective psychological resistance, allowing individuals to reconstruct emotional integrity and assert autonomy despite the brutal regime. This connection to sites of suffering establishes a fundamental foundation of personal and social identity, showcasing the incredible strength of humanity even in the harshest circumstances. It also elucidates the opposing forces of subjugation and resistance within the camp system, revealing the transformative strength of communal ties and the singular bond with these sites of affliction. In exploring these themes, it delves into the complex interplay between individual identity, collective solidarity, and the profound impact of extreme contexts. These findings challenge traditional views on total institutions, emphasizing the dynamic and active role of memory in survivor narratives, where personal and collective histories are reconstructed within the framework of trauma and emotional resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1393612"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12382163/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144972376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A fight worth remembering: sharing archival materials in interviews to support recall of ex-mental patient activism.","authors":"Danielle Landry","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1603891","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1603891","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This institutional ethnographic (IE) study of a little-known Ontario-based mad history recounts how, in the 1980s and 1990s, ex-mental patients established a number of social enterprises (also known as consumer/survivor businesses), secured government funding and through these sites, got politically active around issues that impacted their lives. This research poses critical sociological questions about the circulation of activist knowledge-practices and the formation of these businesses as sites of community organizing. Methodologically, IE offers an approach through which I began from the experiences of ex-mental patients while aiming to explore how their activist practices are coordinated trans-locally. By interviewing 42 people who were involved in or supported consumer/survivor businesses and by assembling and digitizing materials from their personal collections, archival collections and the businesses themselves, this work brings into view the central role that consumer/survivor business played in mad people's activism locally. Formulated at the intersection of mad studies, social movement studies, feminist theories and sociology of knowledge, this study drew on IE interviews using archival data in innovative ways. Pointing to concrete examples, I put forward numerous benefits to using archival materials in interviews to aid participants in recalling events from the not-so-recent past. Arguably, engaging archival materials during interviews can enhance accessibility for populations who are older, experience memory issues, have a history of psychiatric interventions, or for anyone who may benefit from material prompts to resituate them to a particular time and space. Looking through materials alongside participants may serve to initiate discussion and prompt recall, evoking participants' memories of past events and the meaning they attribute to these, in turn producing richer stories. Doing so may help to ensure key informants are able to make meaningful contributions to sociological research on histories of activism. Talking to participants about archival material can help researchers to make sense of those materials, their connections and sequencing. Additionally, audio and visual materials may bring the contributions of community members who are no longer with us back into dialogue with those who are.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1603891"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12380807/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144972645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Negotiating motherhood and authority: the experience of non-migrant wives in parenting their adolescent children from Filipino transnational families.","authors":"Peachy Domingo","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1656817","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1656817","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transnational Filipino families arise from temporary labor migration, often with one parent abroad. This reshapes family life, impacting parent-child relationship and gender dynamics, and caregiving for children left-behind. However, non-migrant mothers' crucial role in sustaining life and providing care is often overlooked in studies. This study examines how non-migrant wives in Filipino transnational families maintain and negotiate their authority in raising their adolescent children. This study utilized qualitative descriptive approach in conducting interviews with 20 Filipino mothers from transnational families in rural Philippines. Findings revealed that non-migrant mothers enforce their authority through various strategies such as the adoption of authoritarian parenting style, leveraging the authority of the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) husbands, chore delegation among adolescent children, and engage in negotiations regarding both their authority and their children's autonomy. In examining Filipino transnational families, this study offers a novel perspective on maternal authority, situating its enforcement within the context of mothers' significant and often equal financial contributions with their OFW husbands. This paper argues that maternal authority is profoundly shaped by the good motherhood ideology, where mothers actively promote children's positive behavior and values as a testament to their own efficacy despite the absence of their OFW husbands. The unique contribution of this study lies in demonstrating how mothers primarily achieve this through consistent nagging and reprimanding their adolescent children. A mother's financial contribution, relative to her husband's remittances, significantly affects the effectiveness of her maternal control strategies and her perceived authority over their children. Furthermore, when their direct authority is insufficient, mothers strategically leverage the traditional disciplinarian role of their OFW husbands, highlighting a critical, yet under-explored, reciprocal dynamic: non-migrant wives reinforce the OFW father's authority, while the OFW husband's involvement simultaneously empowers the mother's disciplinary actions. This intricate interplay of roles and financial contributions distinguishes our understanding of parental authority in transnational family structures.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1656817"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12380803/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144972228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"I'd like five of them\": the racialization and commodification of internationally recruited nurses in the German healthcare sector.","authors":"Tanja Gangarova, Johanna Kechout, Hans Vogt","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1646906","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1646906","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While research in North American and Australian contexts demonstrates how encountering racism in healthcare is burdensome, the impact of racism on healthcare interactions in Europe, and particularly in Germany, remains underexplored. This paper draws on a study that examines the intersections of interpersonal, institutional, and structural racism in the professional experiences of internationally recruited nurses and integration managers in Germany who self-identify as \"affected by racism.\" The aim is to deepen our understanding of the forms, dynamics, and effects of racism within a healthcare sector increasingly shaped by economization. Employing an exploratory qualitative research design, the study is based on 21 semi-structured interviews and 10 participant diaries. Data analysis followed an iterative process, integrating inductive and deductive approaches within a framework of qualitative content analysis and emphasizing study participants' perspectives. The analytical framework developed in this paper addresses the intertwined processes of racialization and commodification and contributes to an empirically grounded conceptual understanding of recruited nurses' experiences of racism within nursing settings. This methodological approach reveals the subtle mechanisms through which racial inequalities are (re)produced and the ways that recruited labor is commodified in the German healthcare context. Findings suggest that these dynamics not only harm internationally recruited nurses, but also contribute to the invisibilization of racism within the sector. Furthermore, the analysis provides a nuanced account of racialized labor relations in transnational healthcare work and the global dynamics of care drain. In doing so, the paper identifies critical areas for institutional change and transformation, and it underscores the broader power structures that must be addressed in order to advance equity and justice in nursing.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1646906"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12380847/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144972635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Globalization backlands: labor and territory.","authors":"Jacob Carlos Lima, Roseli de Fátima Corteletti, Iara Maria de Araújo","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1623871","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1623871","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This text analyses the relationship between work and territory, focusing on the diverse processes involved in integrating places into the logic of capitalist production, and the role of the state in this integration. Taking the neoliberal policies of the Brazilian state since the 1990s and the inclusion of peripheral territories in the clothing sector's outsourcing processes as its starting point, it explores the reinterpretation of informal production hubs in a model of individual self-entrepreneurship with cost reduction and increased national competitiveness, on the one hand, and the implementation of policies to reduce labor costs and attract companies to organize outsourcing networks based on the supply of cheap labor and its symbolic value, represented by the offer of formal jobs in a region where these are scarce commodities, on the other hand. Based on two distinct empirical cases, the text demonstrates how informal production hubs are being reinterpreted within a model of individual self-entrepreneurship, which involves reducing costs and increasing national competitiveness. It also shows how policies are being implemented to reduce labor costs and attract companies to organize outsourcing networks based on the supply of cheap labor, as well as the symbolic value of offering formal jobs in a region where these are scarce. The text assumes that the state shapes work territories through regulation, promotion or exclusion, resorting to different policies to this end. In territories traditionally characterized by precariousness, this intervention is perceived as a positive development compared to a previous situation in which employment and income opportunities were limited. This reflects the social, political and cultural relations that shape the space, integrating it into the logic of accumulation. The research was conducted between 2017 and 2019, with the data being updated in 2024. It consisted of exploratory visits to cities and production workshops, as well as interviews with owners and workers of these places.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1623871"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12378085/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144972593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Labour roots and migration routes: precarious employment as driver of irregular migration amongst women workers.","authors":"Rosa Lázaro Castellanos","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1636127","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1636127","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Spain, the number of non-EU foreigners in an irregular administrative situation is relatively low, as priority is given to ensuring that legal residency status is the norm. However, individuals with regularized status are always at risk of falling into irregularity, as both residence and employment permits are tied to a labor contract. Through qualitative research, a group of eight women was interviewed to examine inequalities in access to employment, housing, and social security during the pandemic. The findings show that women without formal employment are vulnerable to losing their legal status, becoming homeless, or experiencing stress due to non-compliance with immigration laws. Additionally, the article presents experiences of self-managed support networks created to address both material and psychosocial challenges during the pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1636127"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12378161/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144972194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The lived experience of divorce: a narrative analysis of personal stories and identity reconstruction of women.","authors":"Ashalatha T L, T S Saranya, Sandeep Kumar Gupta","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1617489","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1617489","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research investigates the lived perceptions of South Asian women in coping with the consequences of divorce, a culturally tainted break-up commonly fraught with shame, disposability, and loss of identity. Using narrative approach, from interviews and handpicked personal stories, the research investigates how women interpret post-divorce life in patriarchal, collectivist societies that value marriage as a pillar of feminine moral character. Based on Arthur Frank's typology of illness stories, specifically the quest narrative, the results indicate that most women reinterpret their trauma as a transformative, resistant, and re-claimed journey. This research, however, explores an expansion of Frank's model by incorporating the idea of the \"agency quest,\" where narrative coherence is supplemented by embodied and spiritual practices-journaling, yoga, chanting, and intuitive healing-as a part of identity reconstruction. Spirituality appeared not in the form of passive withdrawal but as an active ethical work by which women rethought the holy, recovered bodily sovereignty, and developed emotional toughness. The analysis locates these practices within paradigms of embodied cognition, feminist theology, and ethical self-cultivation, contending that healing is not just a cognitive or discursive endeavor but one profoundly embedded in sensory, affective, and ritual practice. Notably, the research considers the lack of chaos narratives and the structural limitations that dictate whose narratives get to be heard and told. It demands a feminist praxis affirming not just coherent narratives of development but the messiness, silence, and ambiguity that play a role in identity reconstruction following social disconnection.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1617489"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12379100/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144972370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sustainable livelihood approach with gender-social inclusion perspective for child labor prevention and remediation in rural areas of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.","authors":"Idham Irwansyah Idrus, Sopian Tamrin, Riri Amandaria, Muhammad Aksha Wahda, Fitriana","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1619550","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1619550","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Child labor is a global issue commonly found in low- and middle-income countries. A prevention and remediation system based on community knowledge through the Sustainable Livelihood Approach (SLA) with Gender Social Inclusion (GESI) is needed. This study was conducted in three regions with different topographical and geographical characteristics, using qualitative methods and the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) technique, including interviews, focus group discussions, participatory mapping, transects, and seasonal calendars. Findings indicate that child labor is driven by poverty, household characteristics, parents' education and employment, and limited access to educational services and labor markets. Social, natural, financial, and human capitals serve as strategies for prevention and management of child labor. Utilizing these capitals can be implemented in child labor monitoring and remediation, which can also be conducted as voluntary social audits by community groups. The main recommendation is to establish or assign groups responsible for ensuring the continuity of child labor prevention and intervention efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1619550"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12376170/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144972347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}