Interest in environmental health research conducted with community participation has increased dramatically in recent years. In this book, Doug Brugge and H. Patricia Hynes relate experience of multiple community collaborations across the United States and highlight the lessons to be learned for those involved in or embarking on community-collaborative research. The volume brings together a variety of cases, examining the nature and form that the collaboration took, the scientific findings from the work and the ethical issues that needed to be addressed. Actual cases covered include lead contaminated soil, asthma and housing conditions, the impact of development on environmental health, the impact of radiation hazards, urban gardening, hog farming and diesel exhaust. The concluding section analyses the experiences of those involved and puts their findings into broader context. Community Research in Environmental Health: Lessons in Science, Advocacy and Ethics provides a valuable guide for all those interested and involved in community research.
Our unalienable rights, and efforts to protect them, are a foundation of American government. Those rights, the Bill of Rights, and other protections are described in this book
Law enforcement is keeping up with technology - and the criminals attempting to take advantage of it. Cyber cops use the latest electronic devices to track and find the bad guys.
At a time when global debates about the movement of people have never been more heated, this book provides readers with an accessible, student-friendly guide to the subject of forced migration. Readers of this book will learn who forced migrants are, where they are and why international protection is critical in a world of increasingly restrictive legislation and policy. The book outlines key definitions, ideas, concepts, points for discussion, theories and case studies of the various forms of forced migration. In addition to this technical grounding, the book also signposts further reading and provides handy Key Thinker boxes to summarise the work of the field’s most influential academics. Drawing on decades of experience both in the classroom and in the field, this book invites readers to question how labels and definitions are used in legal, policy and practice responses, and to engage in a richer understanding of the lives and realities of forced migrants on the ground. Perfect for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in courses related to migration and diaspora studies, Introducing Forced Migration will also be valuable to policy-makers, practitioners, journalists, volunteers and aid workers working with refugees, the internally displaced and those who have experienced trafficking.
This book establishes asylum seekers as a socially excluded group, investigating the policy of dispersing asylum seekers across the UK and providing an overview of historic and contemporary dispersal systems. It is the first book to seek to understand how asylum seekers experience the dispersal system and the impact this has on their lives. The author argues that deterrent asylum policies increase the sense of liminality experienced by individuals, challenges assumptions that asylum seekers should be socially excluded until receipt of refugee status and illustrates how they create their own sense of 'belonging' in the absence of official recognition. Academics, students, policy-makers and practitioners would all benefit from reading this book.
Human trafficking constitutes one of the most serious human rights violations of our time. However, many social work practitioners still have a poor and incomplete understanding of the experiences of children and young people who have been trafficked. In Trafficked Young People, the authors call for a more sophisticated, informed and better developed understanding of the range of issues facing trafficked young people. In the first work of its kind to combine an up-to-date overview of the current policy context with related theoretical concerns and practitioner experiences, Pearce, Hynes & Bovarnick demonstrate how the trafficking of children and young people should be regarded as a child protection, rather than an immigration concern. Drawing on focus group and interview research with 72 practitioners and covering the cases of 37 individuals, Trafficked Young People explores the way child care practitioners identify, understand and work with the problems faced by people who have been trafficked. The book looks at how practitioners interpret and use definitions of trafficking in their day to day work; at their experiences of exposing the needs of trafficked children and young people and at their efforts to find appropriate resources to meet these needs. Trafficked Young People will be of interest to practitioners working in support housing and social work, along with solicitors and sociologists, particularly those working within discourses of child agency, self determination and victimhood. With its emphasis on the legal and policy framework, and integrated throughout with case histories, practitioner interviews and recommendations for best practice, Trafficked Young People is essential reading for anyone working within a Social Policy Development context.
I chose to write this story about my mother as a legacy to her children and grandchildren, for future generations, and for those family members who did not know what a great person she was during her lifetime. My greatest inspiration that led me on this journey was that I see my mom's esteem and conviction living on in me.My name is O. Patricia Hynes-Dixon. I am the firstborn of my parents. My mother, being an advocate for higher learning, wished for me to become a medical doctor. However, at the young age of 18, that seemed like a very long journey for me. I could not envision what my mother was seeing, so I ignored her suggestion. As the African Igbo proverb goes, what an old man sees sitting down, a young man cannot see standing up.I rejected my mother's directive and my disobedience strained our relationship. From that point in my life, things were touch and go with my mother; I was never able to do anything to her satisfaction. However, I knew that her tough love attitude was for my benefit. In an attempt to earn her trust again, I went to nursing school. I graduated in 1975 with honors; still, she was not pleased because she felt I wasted my potential and did not set a good example for my younger siblings. Shortly afterward, I got married and had my own children. My siblings also got married. My brother was my only other sibling who pursued a college degree before marriage. Being an advocate for higher learning, my mother encouraged anyone she could to stay in school, and many yielded to her advice.After many years of instilling positive thoughts to her children, her grandchildren yielded to her petitions for higher education. My first child, my mother's oldest granddaughter, is gifted. She achieved a perfect score on her scholastic aptitude test and received a free ride to the University of her Choice anywhere in the United States. She also plays five instruments, graduating from Rosa Parks School of Fine Arts. She was my mother's pride and joy. She holds two master's degree in special education and numerous certifications in special education. She is now pursuing her doctoral degree in education. My mother's second oldest grandchild also graduated from an institute of higher learning with a master's in teaching. In total, seven of her 12 grandchildren hold degrees from higher institutes of learning. Later on, her children went back to school. I can now see what my mother saw sitting down. Today, I am a learned woman with several degrees. I hold a doctorate in philosophy, a master's in international business, a master's in mental health, a degree in legal studies, and am a registered professional nurse. My sister holds a degree in teaching. Unfortunately, Alzheimer's disease claimed my mother's memory so she did not witness the success of any of her children. Nonetheless, I chose to write about my mother to carry on her legacy. The story I imagine about my mother is not a fairytale or love story but more about the life my mother lived. In this story, there are no imaginary people or invented occasions. There is no intent to hurt the living or trouble the dead. My mission was for exactness; however, the passing of over 60 years may have tarnished the accuracy of the recorded events. Therefore, there might be different perspectives of a few components of these records that are similarly authentic. Recollections are that way. Regardless, this story is about my mother. Therefore, after so many years, some events might not be completely accurately. However, I believe a great way to honor my mother's memories is to write her biography. Therefore, I believe this biography is one of my pieces of writing that I am pleased with because the story is practical, lovable, and touches the heart.The strategy I used to write my mother's story was to welcome the individuals who knew her well to share their accounts to record their genuine sentiments and how she affected their lives.
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