Financial adversity and subsequent health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: A qualitative interview study

“I Don’t have a Pile of Money to Take Care of Things”: Financial Stress and Housing Insecurity Among Low-Income Hispanic/Latinx Immigrant Families During COVID-19

“…Given that housing is the single largest expense for low-income families, I share how low-income Hispanic/Latinx immigrants in this studymany, undocumented and predominantly Spanish-speaking -struggled with financial insecurities exacerbated by the pandemic and tried to keep up with paying rent amidst a climate of little available support. Participants discussed coping strategies that have been found in other settings (May et al, 2023), including cutting back on non-essential items, using food banks to reduce their monthly expenses, and doubling-up with other families or with roommates as ways to stretch their budgets to be able to deal with housing insecurity. Similar to the barriers within healthcare and social service programs that low-income undocumented Hispanic/ Latinx immigrants face (Doshi et al, 2020), financial support resources for housing were not well known, tended to exclude noncitizens, or were deemed by noncitizen participants as inaccessible due to the potential consequences of revealing their status in the current socio-political context -regardless of the potential economic relief.…”

Creating a New Normal? Technosocial Relations, Mundane Governance and Pandemic-Related Disruption in Everyday Life

“…We iteratively revisited analytical themes of technosocial adaptation and disruption, as they were prominent in reflections on everyday life. The process helped us to identify statements that aligned with insights about mundanity and technology, informing the argument and structure of this article and other analyses (Deejay et al, 2023). The findings presented here resonate across a diverse sample but are limited in that they cannot be extrapolated to explain differences between demographic groups or possible changes following the lifting of most COVID-19 restrictions in 2022.…”

Do Workers Feel Satisfied Inside Foreign Companies Established in Tunisia after the Arab Spring Revolution?

“…The private dialogues with the workers, in addition to the freedom of expression and granting them a margin of the required confidence, puts them in a state of comfort and reassurance that enables them to give many information and facts, and to mention many realities that were absent and that we could not reach by adopting the participatory observation technique because they occurred in previous periods of time. These informations are important and rich and refers us to the true situation of workers within the foreign institutions erected inside the country, and therefore the case study is interested in studying the past as a major influence in showing the situation in the present time, and its future expectations (May et al 2023). In order to achieve closeness to the optimal interview, it is necessary to control the objective dimension, and it is necessary to take into account the movements, looks and silence during the interviews, not just the words, conversations, stories and novels as recommended by Bourdieu (Nonna, (1995), because there are many intentions and meanings in that, provided that they are not misinterpret.…”