Racial disparities in intrapartum care experiences and birth hospital characteristics by iona Weeks, Rebecca Myerson, Ronald Gangnon, Jennifer Dykema, Candi Cornelius, and Tiffany Green (2025)

Social Science and Medicine Abstract: Policymakers and researchers have posited intrapartum care as a potential mediator of racial inequities in perinatal outcomes. However, few studies have measured patient-centered quality of intrapartum care or explored differences …

Environmental change, aquatic conditions, and household food security: evidence from Lake Malawi by Heather Randell, Clark Gray, Monica Grant, Galina Shinkareva, Wondwosen M. Seyoum, and Catherine O’Reilly (2025)

Population and Environment Abstract: Food insecurity is a key barrier to improving global health and achieving sustainable development. Nearly 30% of the world’s population experiences moderate or severe food insecurity, and rates of hunger have …

Transnationalizing Reception: Racial Scripts, Institutional Logics, and Congolese Refugee Processing in the United States and Brazil by Katherine Jensen and Jake Watson (2025)

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Abstract: While national reception contexts formatively shape immigration possibilities and experiences, we argue that transnational racial dynamics play an underappreciated role. Juxtaposing two independent ethnographies of the U.S. resettlement program …

Fear among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Youth in Texas during a Period of Punitive Immigration Policies (2009–2017) by Nicholas Mark, Abigail Weitzman, and Julia Behrman (2024)

Socius Abstract: Heightened partisan rhetoric surrounding immigration, combined with increasingly punitive immigration policies, has the potential to affect how children interact with their social environment, with implications for racially and spatially variegated developmental processes. In …