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The Public Finance Position of Immigrants in Europe: A Quantile Regression Approach (2023)
Journal Article
Joxhe, M., Scaramozzino, P., & Zanaj, S. (2024). The Public Finance Position of Immigrants in Europe: A Quantile Regression Approach. Public Finance Review, 52(2), 182-221. https://doi.org/10.1177/10911421231197280

This paper contrasts the net fiscal position (NFP) of immigrants versus natives using data from the European Survey on Living Conditions for 2007-2015. By employing a quantile regression approach, we find that European and non-European migrants have... Read More about The Public Finance Position of Immigrants in Europe: A Quantile Regression Approach.

Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalization (2023)
Book Chapter
Purewal, N., & Eklund, L. (2023). Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalization. In M. Dawson, & S. Mobayed (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook on Femicide/Feminicide. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003202332-33

This chapter outlines some of the key concerns with criminalising sex-selective abortion (SSA) in China and India, highlighting that it offers no identifiable options for sustainable, women-centred, progressive change. Instead, the criminalisation of... Read More about Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalization.

Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2023). Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China. Journal of Aging Studies, 64, 101104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101104

This article explores the intertwining issues of filial obligation, material interest and emotional intimacy in driving adult children's provision of old-age support in family settings. Drawing upon multi-generational life history interviews with urb... Read More about Filial piety, love or money? Foundation of old-age support in urban China.

Childhood and rural to urban migration in China: A tale of three villages (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2025). Childhood and rural to urban migration in China: A tale of three villages. Children & Society, 39(3), 636-651. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12666

This article examines how, for many in rural China, experiences of childhood are entangled within the complex processes of rural-to-urban internal migration. Drawing upon multi-generational life history data in three villages, it unpacks three common... Read More about Childhood and rural to urban migration in China: A tale of three villages.

Aging and Intergenerational Ambivalence in China: An Urban–Rural Comparison’ (2021)
Book Chapter
Liu, J. (2021). Aging and Intergenerational Ambivalence in China: An Urban–Rural Comparison’. In M. Silverstein (Ed.), Aging Families in Chinese Society (151-168). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003015529-8

Intergenerational relations are adapting to changing socio-economic conditions in China. Rather being lodged in a dichotomy between solidarity and conflict, this chapter reveals the emergence of ambivalence in changing intergenerational ties. Through... Read More about Aging and Intergenerational Ambivalence in China: An Urban–Rural Comparison’.

What effect will China‘s three-child policy have on working women? (2021)
Digital Artefact
Liu, J. (2021). What effect will China‘s three-child policy have on working women?

China’s new policy of allowing couples to have three children (replacing the previous limit of two) is an attempt to respond to ageing population concerns and a slowing birth rate. But the policy’s implications for working women and their families me... Read More about What effect will China‘s three-child policy have on working women?.

Childhood in Urban China: A Three-Generation Portrait (2021)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2022). Childhood in Urban China: A Three-Generation Portrait. Current Sociology, 70(4), 598-617. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392120985861

This article examines how the experience of childhood has changed in urban China against the backdrop of the wider political, social and economic transformations in the 20th century. Drawing on 95 life history interviews in three urban sites in China... Read More about Childhood in Urban China: A Three-Generation Portrait.

Restitution of conjugal rights and the dissenting female body: The Rukhmabai Case (2020)
Book Chapter
Sharma, K. (2020). Restitution of conjugal rights and the dissenting female body: The Rukhmabai Case. In S. Bonnerjee (Ed.), Subaltern Women’s Narratives: Strident Voices, Dissenting Bodies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003121220-18

Trial transcripts remain an under utilised source through which colonial women’s lived experiences as well as their narratives of resistance can be recovered. This paper aims to explore Indian Hindu women’s resistance to attempts to control their bod... Read More about Restitution of conjugal rights and the dissenting female body: The Rukhmabai Case.

Withholding Consent to Conjugal Relations within Child Marriages in Colonial India: Rukhmabai's Fight (2020)
Journal Article
Sharma, K. (2020). Withholding Consent to Conjugal Relations within Child Marriages in Colonial India: Rukhmabai's Fight. Law and History Review, 38(1), 151-175. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248020000024

Married at the age of eleven, Rukhmabai refused to go and live with her husband who had filed a suit for restitution of conjugal rights against her in 1884. This paper analyses the transplantation of the notion of restitution of conjugal rights into... Read More about Withholding Consent to Conjugal Relations within Child Marriages in Colonial India: Rukhmabai's Fight.

The capacity to aspire: young persons and gender–age relations in southern Tajikistan and North India (2019)
Journal Article
Harris, C. (in press). The capacity to aspire: young persons and gender–age relations in southern Tajikistan and North India. Central Asian Survey, 38(4), 460-475. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2019.1642850

Rather than studying young men's career- and/or economic-based aspirations, this article explores the obstacles that hinder youths of both sexes in gerontocratic southern Tajikistan and North India from developing the capacity to make their own life... Read More about The capacity to aspire: young persons and gender–age relations in southern Tajikistan and North India.

Love, Lebanese Style: Towards an either/and analytical framework of kinship (2019)
Journal Article
Allouche, S. (2019). Love, Lebanese Style: Towards an either/and analytical framework of kinship. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 15(2), 157-178. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7490953

My article draws on a yearlong fieldwork conducted in Lebanon and builds on the existing literature on love and marriage in the Arab world in order to reiterate the unison of the imaginary with the material when thinking through romantic love. In add... Read More about Love, Lebanese Style: Towards an either/and analytical framework of kinship.

Iraq (2018)
Book Chapter
Al-Ali, N. (2018). Iraq. In S. Joseph (Ed.), Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews (153-169). Syracuse University Press

The Silent Hat: Islam, Female Labour, and the Political Economy of the "Headscarf Debate" (2017)
Journal Article
Ha, G. (in press). The Silent Hat: Islam, Female Labour, and the Political Economy of the "Headscarf Debate". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 42(3), 743-769. https://doi.org/10.1086/689641

What is the point of revisiting Muslim women’s head wears when such a topic has already been extensively discussed in recent years? What can we do with the spectres of class and labour that often appear, however fleetingly, in these discussions that... Read More about The Silent Hat: Islam, Female Labour, and the Political Economy of the "Headscarf Debate".

Internal Migration and Vulnerability to Poverty in Tanzania (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper
Pietrelli, R., & Scaramozzino, P. Internal Migration and Vulnerability to Poverty in Tanzania. London

This paper investigates internal migration and vulnerability to poverty in Tanzania. It examines whether migration reduced household vulnerability to poverty for a panel of households from the Kagera region over the period 2004-2010. The dataset al... Read More about Internal Migration and Vulnerability to Poverty in Tanzania.

Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble (2012)
Book
Gerteis, C., George, T. S., Hein, L. E., Dusinberre, M., Obermiller, D. T., Hastings, S. A., Fujiwara, T., Carlile, L. E., Aronson, B., Takahashi, S., Yano, C., Shimoda, H., & Vlastos, S. (2012). C. Gerteis, & T. S. George (Eds.). Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble. Bloomsbury

The fifteen multidisciplinary essays that comprise this book examine the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan’s postwar and post-industrial trajectories. Unique for their integration of gender, class and ethnicity within four themat... Read More about Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble.

Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2011, September). Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies?. Presented at Human Rights Beyond the Law: Politics, Practices, Performances of Protest, Jindal Global University, Sonipat and New Delhi, India

This paper offers a brief genealogical analysis of sexual and gender diversity in Indonesia. It traces various streams of regulation, including those reliant on liberal legalistic discourse of human rights. It is argued that this discourse remains in... Read More about Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies?.

Control and Sexuality: The Revival of Zina Laws in Muslim Contexts (2010)
Book
Hamzić, V., & Mir-Hosseini, Z. (2010). Control and Sexuality: The Revival of Zina Laws in Muslim Contexts. Women Living Under Muslim Laws

This book examines zina (adultery) laws in Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey, as well as in their broader historical context within the Islamic legal tradition, in order to explore connections between the criminalisation of sexuality, gen... Read More about Control and Sexuality: The Revival of Zina Laws in Muslim Contexts.

Irakli Kadinlarin: Anlatilmayan Öyküsü 1948'Den Bugüne (2009)
Book
Al-Ali, N. (2009). Irakli Kadinlarin: Anlatilmayan Öyküsü 1948'Den Bugüne. ILETIŞIM

Iraklı Kadınların Anlatılmayan Öyküsü, son yetmiş yıldır Irak’ta yaşananları, kadınların deneyim ve tanıklıklarıyla anlatan alternatif bir tarih çalışması. Nadje Sadig Al-Ali, farklı kimlik ve aidiyetler taşıyan genç-yaşlı çok sayıda Iraklı kadınla g... Read More about Irakli Kadinlarin: Anlatilmayan Öyküsü 1948'Den Bugüne.