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2026 EN
Kökény László · Kenesei Zsófia
Consumer risk perception is again at the forefront of research due to COVID-19, war, terrorism, and radical technological development. Our research explores travelers’ attitudes toward perceived risk in the travel purchasing process in the wake of COVID-19. To gain a deeper understanding of the dimensions and interrelationships, we investigate three groups of perceived risks – traditional perceived risk factors related to travel purchase, perceived health risks related to COVID-19, and the risk of the online space related to travel purchase. In Study 1, we interviewed 38 participants in depth to explore the risk factors. In Study 2, we tested our hypotheses with 539 participants using CB-SEM-based quantitative modeling. Results reveal distinct, interacting constructs in the risk perception process. The research shows that a traveler may not perceive something as risky in general, but as soon as specific issues, problems, mistakes, and dangers arise, they perceive the whole travel as risky. Results further indicate that perceived risk often remains latent at a general level and becomes salient only through context-specific triggers, with distinct risk domains reinforcing one another in shaping overall travel purchase risk. This research tries to make a relevant contribution to the literature on what was experienced during the coronavirus pandemic, but beyond that, with a deep and structured analysis.
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2026 EN
Farrugia David
This paper explores the everyday, informal politics of service work for young people, and suggests new research agendas in the area of youth, citizenship and work. In youth studies, perspectives on citizenship and work remain based on a paradigm focused on the formal entitlements granted to male industrial workers by the post-war welfare state, and therefore regard citizenship as a normative status that has been eroded by precarity. In contrast, this paper develops concepts of everyday or lived citizenship to explore how service workers critically engage with the power relations they encounter at work. The paper explores how workers make (or are prevented from making) claims for just treatment, how their informal relationalities and modes of belonging shape their working conditions, and how the dynamics of racialisation and everyday multiculturalism shape young people's capacity to exercise political agency. It therefore shows that informal citizenship is foundational to the power relations and working conditions of contemporary youth labour and re-positions of paid employment work as critical to discussions of everyday citizenship.
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2026 EN
Chiu Chia-Ning
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the political turmoil and refugee issues have led to strong negative impacts on the tourism industries of neighbouring countries. This research explores the extent and the impacts of political instabilities or armed conflicts on tourism development in the European area. Difference-in-Differences design is built, and then various robustness checks are tested to investigate the relationship between the wars and significant decreases in tourism. A systematic comparison of the impacts of armed conflicts or wars on neighbouring countries or non-neighbouring countries using monthly time series data from January 2021 to February 2023 for 27 European countries. The results demonstrate that compared to non-neighbouring countries, neighbouring countries' tourism development was indeed hurt by armed conflicts. The novel contribution of this study is to tell the world that war impacts have far and deep-reaching consequences not only for Russia and Ukraine but also for their neighbouring countries. The findings also imply that political turmoil, especially wars, can devastate tourists’ security concerns for their travel destinations and then ruin the entire tourism industry.
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2026 EN
Savchenko Elizaveta · Freedman Michael Raphael
The digital landscape provides a dynamic platform for political discourse, crucial for understanding shifts in public opinion and engagement, especially under authoritarian governments. This study examines YouTube user behavior during the Russian-Ukrainian war, analyzing 2168 videos with over 36,000 comments from January 2022 to February 2024. We observe distinct patterns of participation and gender dynamics that correlate with major political and military events. Notably, women were more active in anti-government channels, especially during peak conflict periods. Contrary to assumptions about online engagement in authoritarian contexts, our findings suggest a complex interplay where women emerge as pivotal digital communicators. This highlights online platforms' role in facilitating political expression under authoritarian regimes, demonstrating its potential as a barometer for public sentiment.
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2026 EN
Lee Na Yeon · Park Ahran
This study investigates whether and to what extent individuals’ exposure to politicians’ accusations of ‘fake news’ was positively associated with their media skepticism and the role individuals’ partisanship played in the process. Very few studies have examined the effects of politicians’ fake news accusations on the public’s trust in the media. To fill this gap, a nationwide survey of 1,000 South Korean adults was conducted by one of the nation’s largest professional survey companies. The results showed that citizens’ exposure to politicians’ fake news accusations was positively associated with their media skepticism levels. However, individuals’ partisanship played a weak role. Notably, individuals with conservative political orientations were significantly more likely than their liberal counterparts to attend to fake news accusations made by conservative politicians. In contrast, liberal individuals did not exhibit a comparable tendency to attend to similar accusations made by liberal politicians. The study’s findings also indicate that individuals were more likely to perceive politicians’ fake news accusations as appropriate when made by politically aligned figures. Additionally, individuals exhibited higher levels of media skepticism only when they viewed the use of the term fake news as appropriate by attitude-consistent politicians.
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2026 EN
Fujibayashi Hirotaka
The oil-rich Gulf states have a long-running tradition of receiving refugees through ad hoc means, namely within the established kafala immigration system. Following this historical path, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has continued to offer de facto havens for people from Syria and other war-torn countries in recent years, whereas Kuwait has made a different policy response by curtailing the bundle of rights of a similar group of people. Drawing on the historically-embedded paired comparison, I argue that Kuwait’s ruling regime has been constrained by (1) the history of de facto refugees undermining their host state’s internal (regime) security in the past, and (2) the pluralistic domestic political environment when deciding how to respond to de facto refugee inflows today. The lack of both factors, however, has enabled the UAE regime to host a certain number of refugees and let them work, study, and use a minimum set of public services among the resident migrant communities.
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2026 EN
Hyeon Yura
The arrival of 561 Yemenis fleeing from Yemen civil war on Jeju Island in 2018 has rendered the refugee issue visible in South Korea. The unexpected influx provoked intense backlashes, stigmatising them as ‘ Gajja Nanmin (fake refugee in Korean)’. Aligned with critical refugee scholarship, this article challenges the long-standing refugee/migrant binary, exploring the layered and often overlooked experiences of Yemeni refugees in South Korea. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork between 2019 and 2023, the study unpacks how they have been transformed into faceless labour. Their lived experiences reveal a paradox where the state is the one who disrupts the refugee/migrant binary framework, effectively regulating Yemenis with humanitarian sojourner status categorisation, following its developmental migration policymaking trajectory. As the first longitudinal research on Yemenis, this article highlights a refugee reception experience beyond the dichotomy of the Global North and Global South, offering an opportunity to transcend multiple binaries that structure the complex terrain of migration.
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2026 EN
Casu Laura · Berg Mette Louise · Zschomler Silke
This article critically compares the UK's approach towards protection seekers from Ukraine with the country’s asylum system and refugee resettlement schemes, as well as with the EU’s Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) and visa-based approaches adopted by other Anglo-Saxon countries. In a restrictive vs liberal framework, the UK’s Ukraine schemes would suggest that the country is taking a liberal approach. However, by also considering a selective vs universal axis, a more nuanced picture emerges. The response to protection seekers from Ukraine could be seen as a U-turn for the UK government, but we argue that it is better understood in terms of ‘bespokism’, referring to the increasing reliance on ad hoc schemes as the policy response to protection needs. Such schemes entail selective, differentiated and time-limited forms of protection consistent with the UK’s increasing outsourcing of welfare. Drawing on a comprehensive review of asylum policies in the period 2015–2025 and original qualitative research including interviews with Ukrainian visa-holders, UK hosts, experts, and frontline and support workers, the case study offers insights into the UK’s changing post-Brexit migration regime and complex policy landscape vis-à-vis forced migrants. It adds nuance to discussions of a ‘unified European approach’ towards Ukrainians fleeing the war.
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2026 EN
Adamson Fiona B. · Greenhill Kelly M.
This article examines external drivers of eliminationist politics, by bringing in the geopolitical and foreign policy context as explanatory factors in cases of organised forced migration (OFM). Drawing on examples from an ongoing dataset-building project, we identify and explicate a number of direct and indirect externally-driven pathways to organised forced migration. First, powerful actors have historically used OFM to engage in eliminationist politics in external polities in the context of imperial rule and interventionism, by engineering the demographic profiles of societies to stabilise their own rule, reflect their geopolitical preferences or secure labour for other colonial projects. Second, powerful states have redrawn boundaries and negotiated war settlements that have shifted local dynamics in ways that involved OFM as methods of ordering and reordering territorial boundaries after the fighting stops. Finally, states have employed organised forced migration in pursuit of a wide array of foreign policy objectives. Our piece illustrates these dynamics by presenting illustrative examples and highlighting the value-added of incorporating international factors into our understanding of eliminationist politics.
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2026 EN
Van Nostrand Rachel D. · Braithwaite Alex
Drawing upon detailed data on more than 120 concentration camps employed by the British in southern Africa during the Second Boer War (1899–1902), we examine the long-term legacies of these camps on trust and mobilisation in modern-day South Africa. Using geocoded Afrobarometer survey data, we assess whether contemporary attitudes vary relative to individual respondents’ proximity to historical British concentration camps. We distinguish between camps where the British detained white Boer/Afrikaner populations, Black African populations, or both, to trace motivations for modern attitudes across race and ethnic dimensions. To account for the non-random placement of camps along newly built and developing colonial railway lines, we compare locations that historically housed camps with those along the railway that did not. We find evidence that in areas which previously hosted camps, populations remain subject to heightened in-group/out-group dynamics and are more distrustful of one another. Additionally, residents in these areas are more likely to participate in political activities benefiting the in-group. This work contributes to a growing literature on the long-term effects of state repression on social and political dynamics.