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    Libertos y libertas de Augusta Emerita (Mérida): problemas de identificación
    (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2025) Edmondson, Jonathan Charles; López Barja de Quiroja, Pedro; Caldelli, Maria Letizia
    The study discusses problems of identifying freedmen and freedwomen in the epigraphic record of Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain). It compares the onomastics of certainly identified freedpersons with those of freeborn citizens and so called "incerti" to advance the discussion of how we can identify ex-slaves among the colony's population.
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    Crossing borders without papers: how food insecurity fuels irregular migration in the MENA region
    (Springer, 2026-06-22) Marakbi, Réda; Oluwatobiloba Adedayo, Ogunmakin
    This paper examines how food insecurity shapes migration aspirations and their orientation toward irregular migration in the Middle East and North Africa. Using micro-data from the seventh wave of the Arab Barometer, we construct an experiential index of food insecurity and distinguish between overall migration aspirations and willingness to consider irregular migration among prospective migrants. Probit and sample-selection probit estimates show that food insecurity is positively associated with the probability of considering emigration and, conditional on having considered emigration, with willingness to migrate without the required papers. These findings suggest that food insecurity is related not only to the formation of migration aspirations, but also to the orientation of these aspirations toward irregular pathways among prospective migrants. The results remain robust across subsamples, alternative measures of food-insecurity intensity, and instrumental-variable probit specifications using Covid-related assistance as instruments for food insecurity. These findings suggest that development and humanitarian aid aimed at reducing food insecurity can play a critical role in mitigating irregular migration pressures and should be integrated into broader migration and development strategies.
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    Which immigrants do citizens prefer? A meta-reanalysis of 100 conjoint experiments
    (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2026-05-27) Aviña, Marco; Lee, Taeku; Malik, Mashail; Rasband, Reed; Roman, Marcel F.; Sethy, Priyanka
    In the past decade, an important literature in the social sciences has examined public attitudes toward immigrants in host societies. In it, a prominent experimental method—the conjoint design, where participants are tasked with rating or choosing between randomized profiles—has been used reliably to understand how immigrant characteristics shape admission preferences. We collate replication datasets from 100 individual studies spanning 1,475,403 immigrant profiles with 26 randomized attributes evaluated by 142,817 survey respondents from 36 countries. Meta-analyses reinforce well-established findings: Economic, cultural, humanitarian, and procedural factors all influence evaluations. Meta-reanalyses show that preferences are broadly similar across countries and demographic groups. However, they also reveal two additional patterns: Economic considerations have become more influential over time, and evaluations of individual immigrants differ sharply depending on where people stand on the broader immigration debate. These findings shed light on ongoing debates and point to fruitful areas for future research.
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    Beyond Cessation: Everyday Borders and Protracted Refugeehood Among Liberian Exemption Holders in Ghana
    (MDPI, 2026-09-28) Acquah, Joyce De-Graft; Aniah, Philip; Tuffour, Kwadwo Addo
    The paper utilises everyday bordering scholarship to examine why Liberian refugees in Ghana deliberately sought exemption from the cessation of refugee status in 2012 and how they navigate everyday borders in Ghana. The paper is based on primary qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. The findings show that participants’ decisions to remain as refugees were influenced by multiple and interconnected factors, including unresolved trauma, fear of insecurity in post-conflict Liberia, fear of spiritual harm, loss of social networks and livelihoods, and concern about their children’s education and future. Although Ghana was regarded as more peaceful than Liberia, exemption holders still experienced structural, socio-economic, cultural, and social forms of everyday bordering, alongside psychological bordering associated with memories of violence and perceptions of insecurity in Liberia. Participants also demonstrated agency in navigating these everyday bordering processes through informal livelihoods, social networks, and transnational ties, among other means. The study argues that remaining a refugee was a deliberate, protective response to different forms of insecurity and uncertainty. By highlighting the experiences of exemption holders, the article contributes to scholarship on borders, refugee governance, and protracted refugeehood in the Global South.
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    Quoth 1950's America, nevermore: ParoDYING Poe's "The Raven" in MAD Magazine
    (2026) Lappin, Jessica
    Edgar Allan Poe's works have long been subjects of parody. In the visual art style of Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics," this vertical scroll webcomic compares Poe's "The Raven" with MAD Magazine's 1954 comic adaptation. While Poe's poem uses Gothic tropes and poetic techniques to construct an effect of Romantic beauty, MAD's version subverts theses conventions through visual imagery, dismantling that effect and turning it grotesque. From 1845 to 1954 – and even now, in 2025 – the grotesque is embedded in spaces of beauty, with parody inviting us to reconsider what we "see" as beautiful.