The need to belong is a fundamental human motivation and the absence of attachment can cause problems. Ostracism has been found to evoke psychological distress and is widely used in social animals and human interpersonal relationships as a form of punishment. Many anecdotes suggest that music might help alleviate the negative effects of ostracism. The current study examined this possibility in ...

Serving as introduction to this Special Issue, article presents a thematic review of topics involved in studies on humour and belonging. It briefly elaborates the intricacies concepts such humour, sense belonging their relationships. then provides selective some major relevant studies. Finally, themes contents Issue are introduced.

The socioeconomic benefits of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program initiated in 2012 by executive order from then-president Obama have been documented recent literature. However, consequences legal challenge brought against Trump administration not yet fully examined. This article analyzes qualitative data Latino recipients California to assess how turmoil around is affecting thei...

In the 1990s, much discourse both in and about global civil society was beset by a false opposition. On the one side was the utopia of cosmopolitan liberalism. On the other was the specter of reactionary nationalism or fundamentalism. And, of course, in a variety of settings, some national and some diasporically transnational, the value loading was reversed: fundamentalist or national utopia, t...