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Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Published: 27 March 2009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9229-3
Book Chapter

By Nikhil Anand
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373599-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7359-9
... to be based on the violence of their exclusion. rights democracy publics social work protest ...
Book Chapter

By Smitha Radhakrishnan
Published: 01 January 2022
DOI: 10.1215/9781478022169-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2216-9
Series: The C. Eric Lincoln Series on the Black Experience
Published: 01 January 2000
DOI: 10.1215/9780822396031-041
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9603-1
Published: 28 February 2001
DOI: 10.1215/9780822381334-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8133-4
Book Chapter

By Edward LiPuma
Published: 11 August 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372837-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7283-7
Published: 01 July 2022
DOI: 10.1215/9781478022688
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2268-8
Published: 18 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060819
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6081-9
Published: 21 February 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060482-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6048-2
... Based on six months of participant observation at a community center, chapter 8 examines poor women’s care work and their quest for recognition. We show that the community center is a site of intense sociability and collective care, central to the formation of a particular type of female...
Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
Published: 19 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375012-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7501-2
... This chapter describes social vulnerabilities in the high-altitude zone. Due to the vagaries of colonial road building, the road to the mine was built through the high-altitude zone, where previously Porgerans did not live. However, to access the development benefits associated with mining...
Published: 25 October 2000
DOI: 10.1215/9780822380191-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8019-1
Series: Comparative and international working-class history
Published: 01 January 1998
DOI: 10.1215/9780822378099-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7809-9
Published: 23 August 2019
DOI: 10.1215/9781478005278-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0527-8
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By Emma Amador
Published: 18 April 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6081-9
... women activism social welfare social work ...
Book Chapter

By Nikhil Anand
Published: 17 February 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7359-9
... rights democracy publics social work protest ...
Book Chapter

By Emma Amador
Published: 18 April 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6081-9
... social work labor migrants Migration Division ...
Book Chapter

By Emma Amador
Published: 18 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060819-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6081-9
... The introduction provides an overview of the book’s main themes and emphasizes its focus on Puerto Rican women’s activism. It begins by focusing on the life and work of Puerto Rican activist social worker Yolanda Sanchez, whose work demonstrates how Puerto Rican women used careers in social work...
Book Chapter

By Rosemarie Freeney Harding, Rachel Elizabeth Harding
Published: 24 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... social work welfare well-groomed children Illinois Department of Social Services Mission Hill Projects Boston Massachusetts William Julius Wilson ...
Published: 18 April 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6081-9
...Care Work and Women's Activism in the Puerto Rican Diaspora This chapter focuses on the history of Puerto Rican labor migration to the United States through an emphasis on the experience of Puerto Rican women who were domestic workers and social workers who worked to reform labor migration...
Published: 18 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060819-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6081-9
... This chapter explores the role of Puerto Rican social workers in the United States who became advocates for migrant clients through their work for the Migration Division of the Puerto Rican Department of Labor and its offices in the United States. It examines the creation of the social service...