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This article explores the work of the Brazilian artist Rubiane Maia, currently based in the United Kingdom, focusing on two of her performances as a privileged sociological field for analyzing migration, corporeality, and contemporary art. The main objective of this article is to examine how the artist mobilizes interdisciplinary practices to interrogate memories, displacements, and relations between humans and more-than-humans, focusing on two artistic creations: the Book-Performance and the Speirein. Through a qualitative approach, the analysis highlights how Maia choreographs border experiences, challenging fixed identities and proposing new ways of inhabiting both body and territory. Our study demonstrates how the artist transforms the vulnerability of the migrant body into a creative force, establishing critical dialogues with collective memory and the public sphere.

This study aims to examine how digital storytelling on social media contributes to family resilience, the preservation of cultural heritage, and the long-term sustainability of cultural identity among Gen Z in the United Arab Emirates. Grounded in the Theory of Family Resilience, this study examines how social media engagement starts emotional bonds, facilitates cultural transmission, and reinforces identity within family structures. Using a quantitative approach, data is gathered from individuals aged 18-27, using structured surveys, who actively use social media. Results indicated a positive effect of social media storytelling on family cohesion, Cultural identity preservation, and cultural sustainability in the United Arab Emirates. The study supported all three hypotheses, indicating that social media storytelling positively affects family cohesion, cultural identity preservation, and cultural sustainability among Gen Z in the UAE. It is found that sharing family traditions and cultural stories on social media strengthens their relationship with family members and helps sustain cultural values across generations. This storytelling promotes better communication, understanding, and a shared sense of identity, promoting awareness and long-term sustainability of cultural practices. Thus, this study provides insights and implications on the role of Gen Z in sustainable cultural values and promoting social sustainability through digital practices, particularly within the rich sociocultural context of the United Arab Emirates. Study limitations and recommendations for future studies are further highlighted accordingly.

Introduction: The hypothesis underlying this research is that a participatory/co-design research experience, within a specific territorial context, can foster interaction between the social actors involved, enabling interesting mechanisms for transforming the infrastructure network.

Methods: We applied social network analysis methodology. We evaluated two interaction systems and observed how actors connect and how behavior is influenced, with an impact on the infrastructure network.

Results: Our results show that a participatory research/co-design experience can create an engagement strategy and a network infrastructure capable of implementing local wellbeing.

Discussion: We can conclude by stating that the Mapping project was able to actively involve, in both cases, organizations and associations/cooperatives, consolidating and sharing a common vision on community planning. A local welfare system does not exist in isolation or as something simply imposed from above.

This study investigates the integration and identity of the Romanian community living in Florence, analyzing how migration-related experiences shape social belonging and community cohesion within the diaspora context. The research is based on a mixed-methods design using quantitative data collected from 330 Romanian residents in Florence and qualitative data obtained through 30 interviews with Italian citizens. Quantitative findings show significant associations between migration motivations, the frequency of return to Romania, and perceived quality-of-life indicators. Qualitative results highlight themes related to cultural adaptation, social support, and intercommunity relations. The results indicate complex identity negotiations among Romanian migrants, influenced by transnational ties and interactions with the host society. The mixed-methods evidence suggests that integration is shaped by both structural and relational factors. The study contributes to understanding diaspora dynamics by offering a multi-layered perspective on integration processes within the Romanian community in Florence.

This study examines wellbeing and job performance in Isolated, Confined, and Extreme (ICE) environments, using Antarctica as a case study. The research focuses on the logistical personnel of the XXVI Ecuadorian Antarctic Expedition, recognizing the distinct geographical and human dynamics involved. Its relevance stems from the absence of similar studies in Latin America and the critical role of human capital in the success of missions carried out under adverse conditions. A qualitative, cross-sectional, exploratory-descriptive design was employed. The purposive sample consisted of 17 members of the expedition's logistical team. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and a thematic focus group. The analysis involved thematic coding, content analysis, and sentiment analysis using Python. Key wellbeing factors included transformational leadership, adequate infrastructure, interpersonal relationships, workload, and the ability to separate work from personal life. Job performance was shaped by role clarity, extrinsic motivation, perceived institutional support, and team dynamics. Habitability conditions, prior training, and conflict management emerged as recurrent themes. Findings confirm that wellbeing and job performance are closely interrelated and influenced by both contextual and organizational factors. The study highlights the need for tailored wellbeing strategies and leadership development programs specific to ICE environments. This research makes a pioneering contribution to human resource management in extreme settings by addressing a gap in the Latin American literature. It offers practical implications for future Antarctic expeditions and other comparable occupational contexts.

How do people balance competing principles of distributive justice when allocating limited goods? This study applies a novel methodological approach-distributional survey experiments (DSEs)-to examine how people weigh merit, need and equality considerations when deciding how to distribute salaries to people with different ascriptive characteristics and occupations. In the DSE, that we embedded in a representative Swiss survey, respondents were asked to allocate a fixed sum among three hypothetical hospital employees with experimentally varying attributes. This design not only allows us to identify causal factors behind allocation decisions but also captures the underlying interdependence involved in questions of distributive justice. What is more, we can examine drivers of the resulting inequality directly through the allocated salaries. The analyses reveal that although merit-based considerations (occupation, job dedication) have the strongest influence on allocation decisions in the workplace context, need (e.g., having dependent children) and discrimination (e.g., against women and ethnic minority men) also shape outcomes. Moreover, respondents who perceive actual income inequality as too high distribute resources more equally. Conversely, higher-income and higher-status respondents produce more unequal distributions. Our findings highlight how distributional preferences are shaped by justice principles, social background, and inequality perceptions. The study contributes methodologically and substantively to justice and inequality research by linking normative principles and experienced conditions to actual allocation behavior and the distributional consequences thereof.

Introduction: The Philippines faces significant challenges in its Early Childhood Education (ECE) sector, including issues of quality, teacher preparation, and the growing trend of educator migration, which threatens the sustainability of the workforce. This study explores the current status of Philippine Early Childhood Education, including its systemic challenges in ECE teacher preparation, and the influence of migration intentions among ECE stakeholders across selected Philippine Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs).

Methods: A qualitative case study design was employed, involving 40 key informant interviews and focus group interviews (administrators, cooperating teachers, faculty members, and pre-service teachers) across five state-funded Philippine Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) designated as Centers of Excellence. Data were analyzed thematically using the push-pull migration theory and professional identity theory.

Results: The findings showed that ECE stakeholders perceived low programme quality, limited career advancement, financial instability, inadequate institutional support, and societal stigma. Systemic challenges in ECE teacher preparation include real-world misalignment of the curriculum, resource limitations, insufficient training and support, and administrative challenges. Factors that influence migration intention include higher compensation, demand from recruitment agencies, better opportunities abroad, family sacrifices, and educational and professional development.

Discussion: This study showed that migration is both a response to systemic inequalities and an expression of professional autonomy. Furthermore, we investigated effective strategies for retaining ECE teachers in comparable countries within the Global South to gain transferable insights. Although the study's findings cannot be universally applied to the entire context of the Philippines, they provide valuable insights into the realities of ECE teacher demand and supply, as well as the challenges faced domestically.

The purview of the current study is to estimate the religious affiliation of Nigerian displaced persons, specifically to assess the number of internally displaced Christians. Although official data sources such as the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), International Organization for Migration (IOM), and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) do not disaggregate internally displaced persons (IDPs) by religion, a growing body of evidence indicates that a substantial proportion of these individuals are Christians displaced as a result of religiously motivated violence. Because major displacement datasets lack religious identifiers, this study develops a proxy-based estimation model that infers the religious composition of displacement through patterns of targeted violence. This approach directly addresses the absence of systematic data on the religious affiliation of victims of forced displacement, offering an innovative method to approximate what existing sources cannot measure. Specifically, we apply state-level ratios of religiously targeted killings from the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA) to estimate the likely number of displaced Christians in 2023. This study finds that Christian communities in Nigeria experience disproportionate displacement linked to community-targeted violence, with northwestern states Katsina, Sokoto, and Zamfara showing the highest relative disparities and Borno and Taraba contributing the largest absolute numbers. While these patterns align with known hotspots of insecurity, the analysis relies on modeled relationships between killings and displacement and on proxy data, so the findings should be interpreted as indicative rather than definitive. The study underscores the need for more disaggregated humanitarian data to better understand the role of religious persecution in forced migration.