Pub Date : 2010-06-01DOI: 10.1080/17486831003687642
Kyle McNease
While swimming in the very stream of this vast river of life, there comes a moment, imperceptible . . . vague, when all wo(men) look back over their lives. Retrospective sense-making is quite simply part of the human condition. Within the context of this regular retrospective occurrence or intellectual nostalgia, there emerge rare sparks of life and light that dramatically impact culture and the everyday experience of being; these lives, these sparks need (if not deserve) to be examined by the very culture, class and colleagues that grew in wisdom from the impactful words, witnessed the daily life and demeanor, gained from the dynamic lectures and gleaned from the collected works of such a person. Therefore, with this understanding in mind, this article will reflect upon the life of Brij Mohan in a condensed but hopefully holistic manner. Dr Hasan (2010, p. 102) so eloquently stated: ‘‘It would need half-a-dozen doctoral dissertations to spell out the meaning, interpretation and impact of his salient contributions’’. Even more voluminous works would be needed to accurately describe a man who has transcended his craft, his professional call and remained free of the hubris he despises so fiercely. I first encountered the name Brij Mohan when visiting a friend on the campus of Louisiana State University (LSU). I was weighing my graduate school options, so I politely sat in on one of the social work classes being taught in the spring semester of 2009. This name Brij Mohan came up in classroom conversation, as my friend described certain articles she needed to read as part of Dr Plummer’s independent study course relating to international social work and community development. My friend spoke of how challenging it was to read Dr Mohan’s work because he used language that superseded her vernacular. She went as far as to ask me to listen as she read and try to capture the essence of what was being said, and then recapitulate that quintessence to her. As she read, I was struck by the extraordinary diction used to describe what was ordinarily termed ‘‘dry reading’’. There were moments when I sat back with a smile on my face and asked ‘‘Who is this guy because I cannot explain what he is saying any better than how he has already stated it? He has come as close to describing the intricacies of international social work as is humanly possible – and has done it with panache’’. A few weeks later
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Pub Date : 2010-02-01DOI: 10.1080/17486830903391487
Masudul Biswas
The goal of this exploratory research is to analyze the news coverage of healthcare, education, and employment compared with other issues of the economic stimulus plan in both mainstream and ethnic media. Content analysis of 275 news stories of four mainstream media and 165 news stories of eight ethnic media suggests that both the mainstream and ethnic media put emphasis on the same issues except education at issue-level agenda-setting. Both National Public Radio (NPR) and Cable News Network (CNN) covered health, education, and employment issues more than The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. In the case of second-level agenda-setting (sub-issues), we found more ethnicity-oriented sub-issues in the news coverage of ethnic media.
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Pub Date : 2010-02-01DOI: 10.1080/17486830903391479
Regina T. P. Aguirre, T. D. Watts
American Indian/Native Alaskan suicide rates are 72% higher than in the general US population. Current estimates indicate over 90% of people in the US who suicide have a mental illness and/or alcohol and substance issues. Among American Indians/Native Alaskans in 2002, the vast majority (69%) of suicides involved alcohol. Chronic alcohol use can cause or contribute to depressive disorders. Thus, suicide, chronic alcohol use, depression and mental health are intertwined. This article asserts the need for a transactional–ecological framework along with the strengths and comparative perspectives as a useful way to understand this problem and devise intervention strategies.
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Pub Date : 2010-02-01DOI: 10.1080/17486830903395702
N. Habibov
Based on two household surveys, this article investigates the over-time evolution of the determinants of living standards in Azerbaijan during the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy. Quintile regression is used to estimate the relative importance of inter-temporal changes in individual, household, and environmental factors to household expenditures from 1995 to 2002. Results highlight systematic differences in the effect of some factors over the investigated period. Some tendencies uncovered at the beginning of the reforms – for instance, the strong positive effect of renting land – disappeared completely as reforms progressed over time. In contrast, several new factors – such as the strong positive effect of a young age of the household head, and the strong negative effect of having more women in the household – emerged over time as new significant predictors of living standards. Yet, the influence of other factors – for example, the strong negative effect of having a large number of dependents in the household – remained fairly stable inter-temporally. In addition, three variables – namely, university education, a large number of dependents in the household, and location – were found to be specifically important for improving the living standards of households in the poorest quintile. These findings suggest that the emphasis of poverty reduction policies in Azerbaijan should focus on improving the quality of, and access to, university education, developing an effective social protection system, and reducing regional disparities.
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Pub Date : 2010-02-01DOI: 10.1080/17486830903391644
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Pub Date : 2010-02-01DOI: 10.1080/17486830903190004
Nairruti Jani
Horrifying stories of victims of sex trafficking have been arousing emotions of sympathy and a need for change in the minds of policy-makers. The United States government has spent over $5 million on combating human trafficking worldwide (as indicated in the Trafficking in persons report, 2008). While existing laws are strengthened and new laws are designed for the protection and recovery of trafficking victims nationally as well as internationally, only 1229 cases have been reported so far by the 42 anti-trafficking taskforces in the United States (as indicated by the Department of Justice in 2009). Since human trafficking efforts are transnational, they call for a multifolded method of policy analysis. The primary purpose of this article is to explore gaps in the human trafficking policy transfer process by analyzing anti-trafficking efforts in the state of Nevada. This article begins by outlining the etiology of policy dichotomy in Nevada with regards to sex trafficking and legal prostitution in some of its counties. The article then describes the prevailing models of policy analysis, and derives a multifolded model of policy analysis to specifically address issues of policy transfer and change in anti-trafficking policies. An outcome analysis of human trafficking policies in Nevada, United States and associated source countries is conducted using the transnational model for policy analysis. The goal of this article is to explore credibility questions in human trafficking by explaining the thinning understanding of the goals with which anti-trafficking protocols were designed at the United Nations in 2000.
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Pub Date : 2010-02-01DOI: 10.1080/17486830903391636
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Pub Date : 2010-02-01DOI: 10.1080/17486830903391537
Brij Mohan
This article seeks to demythologize the culture of poverty as theorized and practiced by social scientists, policy-makers and social welfare/work practitioners during the past five decades. Poverty is a product of systemic inequalities sustained by a predatory culture. As argued, it is poverty of culture that retards progress even in the advanced states of social development.
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Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1080/17486830903189998
Anil Duman
This article examines the relationship between labor-market risks and demand for social insurance. It looks at the over-time variations in preferences for unemployment insurance in Germany and the United States, and delineates the links with these and one's position in the labor market. The results suggest that rather than the type of human capital investment, occupational unemployment rate is explanatory for the demand for social insurance, along with income. Our analysis challenges the widespread association, in the literature, between higher specificity and higher social spending.
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Pub Date : 2009-10-01DOI: 10.1080/17486830903189956
N. Habibov, Elvin Afandi
Drawing on the comparative household surveys, this article examines subjective wellbeing in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, three low-income transitional countries located on the Caucasus. We found that economic factors explain a considerable part of the variation in subjective wellbeing. The results are significant and robust across all countries. Having a higher level of household income, university education and a larger number of people in household along with salary as a major income source positively affect subjective wellbeing. On the contrary, being unemployed or a migrant along with having social transfers as a major source of income negatively affect subjective wellbeing. Besides, subjective wellbeing is strongly associated with disagreement with the current direction of countries' development and withdrawal from discussing policy. We argue that analysis of subjective wellbeing can be used to enrich and validate the process of poverty analysis in the countries of the region.
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