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Seguir adelante: A qualitative exploration of Latino farmworkers' work and nonwork resources

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Latino immigrant workers have been an exploited community within many dangerous workforces, but especially within the agricultural industry. They are a crucial population for the labor and economy of the U.S., yet Latino farmworkers report feeling expendable, discriminated against, and exposed to hazardous working conditions.
Faviola Robles Saenz, Julissa Castellanos Regalado, Larry Martinez, Greg Townley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Educating teachers toward immigrant empowerment and liberation in the United States and Chile: A funds of knowledge perspective

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how university‐based teacher education programs in diverse historical, sociocultural, and political settings in the U.S. and in Chile, served to foster immigrant empowerment and liberation. Using a Funds of Knowledge approach, the study analyzed the educational practices of migrant families and their integration into ...
Ana Christina da Silva Iddings, Macarena Lamas, Carola Lourdes Aravena Rojas, Katherine Malhue Vasquez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Culture and its Influence on Nutrition and Oral Health

, 2015
Food habits are one of the most complex aspects of human behavior, being determined by multiple motives and directed and controlled by multiple stimuli. Food acceptance is a complex reaction influenced by biochemical, physiological, psychological, social
Sreedhar Reddy, M. Anitha
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Engaging decolonial approaches to deracialize and humanize migrants

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract We are continuing to live in unsettling times that demand responses from researchers, scholars and activists to create and mobilise knowledge for liberation, wellbeing, and justice. This commentary draws from my lived experience and research in migration that I use to highlight the rootshock of displacement and the contributions of community ...
Christopher C. Sonn
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Oral Health Related Quality of Life in Rett Syndrome Using Directed Content Analysis

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT No validated oral health‐related quality of life (OHRQOL) instrument currently exists for those with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities and who communicate non‐verbally. This qualitative study aimed to explore the domains that were important to the oral health‐related quality of life in individuals with Rett syndrome (RTT).
Yvonne Yee Lok Lai, Jenny Anne Downs, Helen Margaret Leonard, Laurence James Walsh, Sobia Zafar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond job‐search theory: A value pluralist approach to conditionality in Australian employment services

Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 112-125, March 2025.
Abstract This article examines the contested impact of financial sanctions on Australian employment services, with government evaluation relying on job‐search theory to justify sanctions while research from sociological and psychological perspectives suggests they exacerbate labour market disadvantages and poverty. The division in perspectives reflects
Simone Casey
wiley   +1 more source

“You're on your own, kid”: A critical analysis of Australian universities' international student mental health strategies

Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 334-352, March 2025.
Abstract Mental ill‐health is a serious and growing problem among university students in Australia. Within this cohort, international students are particularly vulnerable. International students in Australia have fewer social rights than domestic students and are at elevated risk of social isolation, exploitation in employment, precarious housing ...
Michelle Peterie, Gaby Ramia, Alex Broom, Isabella Choi, Matthew Brett, Leah Williams Veazey   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Aspire Social Impact Bond: How social impact bond financing can promote positive social and economic outcomes

Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 176-195, March 2025.
Abstract Financing human service delivery through social impact bonds (SIBs) is the subject of some critical commentary in the academic literature, but this tends to be largely theoretical rather than empirically based. This paper presents empirical evidence of how SIB financing can promote positive social and economic outcomes for governments, not‐for‐
Veronica Coram, Selina Tually, Leanne Lester, Michael Kyron, Paul Flatau, Ian Goodwin‐Smith   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mentors and sponsors: Making a difference for racially and culturally minoritised academics in Australian universities

Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 75-93, March 2025.
Abstract Mentorship and sponsorships play a significant role in faculty experiences, career trajectories, well‐being and academic success in higher education. In this study, 23 racially and culturally minoritised (RACM) academics were interviewed about their experiences working in Australian universities, and all spoke about the key importance of their
Kathomi Gatwiri, Zoë Krupka, Samara James   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Considering the animating ethos of designing digital first unemployment services: On the motivation of others

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the animating ethos of digital unemployment services. Unlike human‐to‐human services, where the intention of policy is normally mediated by professionals, digital services are fully designed in the policy imagination. As a result, it is a pressing issue to understand the ethos that animates their development.
Ray Griffin, Antoinette Jordan, Aisling Tuite   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source