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Between the Forest and the Factory Floor: Triple Liminality and the Unrecorded Lives of Tribal Women Migrants in India

This paper introduces a "triple liminality" framework to analyze the obscured experiences of tribal women migrants in India, arguing that their displacement from forest ecologies, subjugation to urban patriarchies, and exclusion from legal protections necessitate a new category of "structurally coerced migration" and targeted policy reforms.

Keerti Dewal2026-09-03
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Nutritional Optimization and Human Flourishing: From Reductionism to Integral Care

This paper critiques the contemporary reductionist paradigm of nutritional optimization, which fuels a multi-trillion-dollar wellness industry and various psychological pathologies, by proposing "Expanded Nutrition"—an integral framework grounded in personalist philosophy and ecological consciousness that redefines human flourishing as a balanced pursuit of physical, social, and spiritual goods rather than mere biometric maximization.

María Aurora Porrúa Ardura2026-09-03
📄 social_science

Speaking Beyond the Marksheet: Written Proficiency, Oral Anxiety, and the Assessment Gap Among First-Year Undergraduates

This mixed-methods study of Indian first-year undergraduates reveals that high written academic scores do not predict oral communication proficiency, as performance gaps are primarily driven by affective barriers like stage fear and a lack of prior oral practice rather than linguistic deficiency, underscoring the need to integrate structured speaking training into curricula.

Rennie Cindrella S, Preetha S2026-09-03
📄 social_science

"The whole trip was a deception”: Experiences of Undocumented Ghanaian Migrants in South Africa

This qualitative study reveals that undocumented Ghanaian migrants in South Africa, initially deceived by agents into believing they were transiting to Europe or securing specific jobs, now face prolonged illegal residency, economic exploitation, and severe trauma while hustling to repay their families' migration costs.

Kofi Poku Quan-Baffour, Edmond Akwasi Agyeman, Nana Yaw Wi Asamoah Boadi2026-09-03
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Childhood Emotional Abuse and Cyberbullying Perpetration Are Mediated by Reactive Aggression and Moderated by Alexithymia and Internalized Shame

This study of 375 Iranian social media users reveals that childhood emotional abuse increases cyberbullying perpetration primarily through the mediating pathway of reactive aggression, rather than through alexithymia or internalized shame, highlighting the critical role of anger regulation and impulse control in prevention efforts.

Mehrafarin Pirzadeh, Majid Azizi, Malek Bastami Katooli2026-09-03
📄 social_science

Religious Strength, Emotional Gaps: Psychosocial and Family Readiness among Islamic Boarding School Youth in Indonesia

This multimethod study of Islamic boarding school youth in Madura, Indonesia, reveals that while strong religious socialization fosters high spiritual and financial readiness for family formation, it is insufficient without targeted support to address critical gaps in emotional maturity, reproductive health, and psychosocial skills, necessitating a culturally grounded curriculum that integrates religious values with comprehensive life skills.

Moh. Wardi, Galuh Widitya Qomaro, Zainal Fatoni, Iffatin Nur2026-09-03
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Rethinking Geographical Identity in the Age of Climate Change: Challenges to GI Protection

This article argues that climate change undermines the traditional "origin link" essential to Geographical Indication (GI) protection, necessitating a shift from static authenticity to a dynamic framework of "adaptive authenticity" that integrates scientific monitoring and flexible specifications to preserve the socio-ecological integrity of GI products like Kashmir Saffron and Pashmina.

Rubina Iqbal, Sheikh Inam Ul Mansoor2026-09-03
📄 social_science

Resource Mobilization under Forced Migration: Development and Validation of the Refugee Resilience Scale (RRS-16)

This paper presents the development and validation of the 16-item Refugee Resilience Scale (RRS-16), a psychometrically robust instrument for forcibly displaced adults that uniquely captures resource mobilization through three dimensions—individual adaptive capacity, support seeking, and service navigation—thereby addressing a critical gap in existing resilience measures by accounting for post-migration institutional resources.

Öznur Çınar, Ekrem Cengiz, Emel Yıldız, Salih Yıldız, Büşra Tosunoğlu Kusan2026-09-03
📄 social_science

The Indirect Association Between Nutrition Knowledge and Healthy Lifestyle Awareness Through Body Appreciation Among Female University Students Residing in Dormitories

This cross-sectional study of 392 female university students in Turkey found that while nutrition knowledge and body appreciation are both positively associated with healthy lifestyle awareness, body appreciation partially mediates the relationship between nutrition knowledge and healthy lifestyle awareness, though causal conclusions cannot be drawn due to the study's design.

Furkan Karahüseyinoğlu, Ramazan Erdoğan, Buşra Özcan, Ercan Tizar, İrem Akpolat, Nisa Yaşa, Zeynep Koluman2026-09-03