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    Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri’s language options: how voice assistants reproduce monoglossic language ideologies
    (Springer, 2025-06-19) Lau, Mandy
    Voice assistants are increasingly pervasive and popular. Yet, little attention has been paid to how language is conceptualized in voice assistants. My study addresses this gap by demonstrating how the language framings of Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri reinforce monoglossic language ideologies from the disciplinary lens of language policy. Through a qualitative content analysis of the voice assistants' language options and related corporate and texts, this study shows the endurance of standard language ideologies, official and de facto national language policies, English linguistic imperialism, native speakerism, monolingual norms, and language as commodity. This paper aligns with the special issue by understanding voice assistants as shaped by human language traditions, cultural values, and power asymmetries. Voice assistants’ language options are a powerful mechanism for reproducing hegemonic language beliefs, expressing the capitalist desires of technology companies. The recirculation of dominant language ideologies will continue to impact language practices, reproduce social inequities, and generate new material conditions, forms of language labor, and configurations of governmentality.
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    Transit migration entrepreneurship: Explaining Nicaragua’s state-controlled, profit-seeking transit migration industry
    (Oxford Academic, 2026-06-25) Shalaby, Alena; Thaler, Kai M.
    How and why do governments develop profit-seeking migration industries around transit migration? Restrictive international migration policies, such as border externalization and migrant rentierism, compel migrants to transit through multiple countries to reach their final destinations, creating new dilemmas and opportunities for transit country governments. Between 2021 and 2025, thousands of migrants from across the globe arrived in Nicaragua via charter and commercial flights, aiming to then reach the United States. Nicaragua’s authoritarian Ortega-Murillo regime actively facilitated and profited from this influx by eliminating visa requirements and partnering with foreign brokers to coordinate flights, generating revenue amid economic instability and patronage needs. Using Nicaragua as a case study, we introduce the concept of transit migration entrepreneurship (TME), a phenomenon in which governments capitalize on migrants’ desires to reach nearby countries by proactively developing a profit-seeking transit migration industry. Engaging with research on weaponized migration, migrant and refugee instrumentalization, and the broader migration industry, we argue that TME is most likely to emerge in authoritarian or other illiberal contexts characterized by economic incentives for new revenue, indifference to international pressure, and a political will to exploit transit migration for economic gain. In an era of global migration, other countries may follow Nicaragua’s example.
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    Scripts homosexuels et sport en contexte postcolonial : expériences sportives « au pays » d’hommes gays originaires d’Afrique francophone et demandant l’asile en France
    (Université Laval, 2024-01-23) Bouchet-Mayer, Cyriac; Ferez, Sylvain
    À partir d’entretiens sociobiographiques auprès d’hommes demandant l’asile en France au motif de leur orientation sexuelle ou de leur identité de genre, ou des deux à la fois, les auteurs explorent, dans cet article, le rôle pluriel des pratiques ludo-sportives dans les processus de socialisation sexuelle et genrée. Ils donnent à voir la manière dont les expériences sportives sont tantôt le lieu d’imposition d’un script culturel hétérosexiste hérité de la période coloniale et renforcé depuis, tantôt le lieu de construction de scripts interpersonnels et intrapsychiques homosexuels. Ces deux mouvements, a priori contradictoires, peuvent coexister et s’alimenter réciproquement. Ils sont subis ou maîtrisés par les enquêtés en fonction de leurs dispositions individuelles.
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    Reorganizing Canadian Research Evaluation through Metadata in the Digital Era
    (2026-06-03) Kreth, Quintin; Birch, Kean
    "This presentation was given by Quintin Kreth at the 2026 Bibliometric Research and Impact Community (BRIC) Conference on 3 June 2026 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Advancing digitalization is rapidly increasing the volume and interconnectedness of research metadata, including information on authorship, collaboration, funding, location, and impact. Large companies such as Clarivate, Elsevier, and Digital Science have expanded into “research analytics,” transforming the metadata they control into a valuable economic asset for evaluating research at scale. Supporters of the Open Science movement warn that commercial control over research information and metadata systems may limit equitable access to knowledge and contribute to new inequalities. They advocate for open, inclusive infrastructures that promote access, linguistic diversity, and a broader range of research topics. Organizations like DORA, CoARA, and the Barcelona Declaration group have gained influence in shaping science policy toward more responsible metrics. Despite these global trends, empirical research on how digital infrastructures affect research evaluation remains limited. This presentation shares early findings from a new Canadian study based on interviews with university and funding agency leaders, conducted in parallel with studies in the. Results suggest Canada has been relatively resistant to adopting research analytics compared to other developed countries. Contributing factors include the absence of a national assessment system, commitments to multilingualism, and a strong emphasis on knowledge mobilization and hard-to-quantify research outcomes. Future research directions and implications for Canadian research policy are also discussed."
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    Complaining is futile? Feasibility of using complaints in the regulation of social care
    (Bristol University Press, 2025-06-30) Lai, Poland
    These are supplementary materials for Lai, P. (2025). "10: Complaining is futile? Feasibility of using complaints in the regulation of social care". In Social Policy Review 37. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. Retrieved Jul 27, 2026, from https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447377245.ch010, published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Chapter abstract: This chapter reports results from a study about the role of residents and their families and friends in monitoring compliance with regulatory standards in long-term care (LTC) homes (also called nursing homes or aged care) in Ontario, Canada. By spotlighting the context, processes and structures in which users decide whether to express dissatisfaction and grievances, this chapter explains why families of residents may not complain about a potentially serious wrongdoing, even if there is a mandatory requirement to report to the regulator. An anonymous online survey was conducted in 2023, supplemented by highlights from the 2023 inspection reports on LTC homes. This research shows reliance on the use of complaint data to trigger inspections is an ineffective means to promote regulatory compliance within LTC homes.