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Protecting Foreign Victims Of Trafficking In Iceland: An Interpretive Analysis Of Policy Efforts, Hlin Saethorsdottir 2024 University at Albany, State University of New York

Protecting Foreign Victims Of Trafficking In Iceland: An Interpretive Analysis Of Policy Efforts, Hlin Saethorsdottir

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

Social justice and human rights are fundamental principles of social work. Today’s globalized world requires social workers to expand their local perspectives and to be alert to the negative sides of globalization, such as trafficking in person (TIP), which affects all countries around the world. TIP is a severe form of exploitation and a grave human rights violation (Jones et al., 2007). Iceland has been categorized as a transit and destination country for foreign victims who are mainly trafficked for sexual and labor exploitation (U.S. Department of State, 2016b).

Although much has been written on TIP, some scholars have pointed …


“Putting On Our People Lens”: Lived Experience As Pedagogy, Tessa Zoe Milman, Sarah Bream, Celso Delgado, Erin McIntyre, Tristan Scremin, Leslie Moreno, Maggie Yeo, Deborah Pitts 2024 University of Southern California

“Putting On Our People Lens”: Lived Experience As Pedagogy, Tessa Zoe Milman, Sarah Bream, Celso Delgado, Erin Mcintyre, Tristan Scremin, Leslie Moreno, Maggie Yeo, Deborah Pitts

Journal of Occupational Therapy Education

In the professional education of mental health practitioners, including occupational therapists, there has been a lack of meaningful inclusion of people labeled with mental illness into curricula, beyond guest speaker panels and presentations. This study explored the experiences of students, faculty, and ‘Experts by Experience’ within a mental health occupational therapy course that incorporated Experts with lived experience as co-facilitators of weekly fieldwork debriefs. The study utilized focus groups and interviews to understand the experiences of students, mental health faculty, and ‘Experts by Experience’. Key themes that emerged from the qualitative data analysis were organized under three broad categories: 1) …


Indigenous Wholistic Abolition: Visioning Indigenous Queer, Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Futures, Giselle Dias 2024 Wilfrid Laurier University

Indigenous Wholistic Abolition: Visioning Indigenous Queer, Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Futures, Giselle Dias

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

As a queer Métis, activist and organizer in the field of prisoners’ rights, penal abolition, and transformative justice, I have been interested in learning about how Indigenous peoples’ relationship with Aki (Land) grounds abolition theory and guides the ways that I and other Indigenous abolitionists engage in abolition. As part of this process, I wanted to speak to other Indigenous queer, Two-Spirit, trans, non-binary, and/or Indigiqueer (Q2STNBI) people about their visions of abolition and abolitionist futures through a relational Land-based lens. Therefore, I used a methodology that centres Métis worldviews and community organizing and is grounded in the ethics of …


Virtual Justice?: An Analysis Of Access To Court For People Experiencing Homelessness, Kaitlin Humer 2024 Wilfrid Laurier University

Virtual Justice?: An Analysis Of Access To Court For People Experiencing Homelessness, Kaitlin Humer

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Homelessness in Canada remains a wicked social problem that often intersects with compounding forms of marginalization. The criminalization of homelessness and living life in the public sphere explain, in part, why this population is likely to interact with the criminal justice system. Following the onset of the pandemic, the courts were forced to modernize and embrace digital technologies to maintain operations. Now four years since these changes, there are no signs of turning back and the court system is continuing forward with a hybrid model. Despite this, there is minimal research on the impact of virtual court proceedings on people …


Factors That Contribute To Perceptions Of Police-Civilian Interactions, Shelby Wynne 2024 University of Kentucky

Factors That Contribute To Perceptions Of Police-Civilian Interactions, Shelby Wynne

Theses and Dissertations--Psychology

Perceptions of police-civilian interactions have been found to be impacted by the perspective in which they are viewed, with first-person perspectives eliciting negative perceptions of civilians and positive perceptions of police. However, the nature of the relationship between race and camera-perspective has not been fully explored. Black people are more likely to harmed by police at a disproportionate rate compared to White people, and consequently, have more negative perceptions of police. Three studies investigated what factors informed perceptions of police encounters, particularly when camera perspectives differed. Results showed partial support for my prediction that Black people are as not susceptible …


Decolonizing Yoga: Historical Perspectives And Contemporary Practices, Archana Ram 2024 University of Central Florida

Decolonizing Yoga: Historical Perspectives And Contemporary Practices, Archana Ram

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Over the last few decades, yoga has become a multi-billion-dollar industry in the West. This industry is typically represented by glossy photographs of thin white women in physical postures. Given its religious origins in South Asia, this mass marketing of yoga has raised important questions about Western commodification and cultural appropriation. As a result, counter-movements have emerged to “Take Back Yoga” and “Honor the Cultural Roots of Yoga.” This thesis analyzes a range of critical-constructive responses to the commodification and colonization of yoga. It focuses on two case studies: Susanna Barkataki, an American yoga teacher of Indian descent, and Kallie …


Australian Pre-Service Teachers’ Beliefs About Educational Disadvantage And Socially Just Teaching: Beyond A Neoliberal Imaginary?, Claire E. Charles, Lynette Longaretti, Matthew K.E Thomas 2024 Deakin University

Australian Pre-Service Teachers’ Beliefs About Educational Disadvantage And Socially Just Teaching: Beyond A Neoliberal Imaginary?, Claire E. Charles, Lynette Longaretti, Matthew K.E Thomas

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Neoliberal education reforms have altered the way social justice is imagined in relation to schooling. These reforms reframe social justice as ‘equity’ through conceptions of standards, evidence and teacher quality, while detracting attention from the moral and political dispositions required for socially-just teaching. Knowing more about how this context may be shaping the beliefs of pre-service teachers (PSTs) is important. This paper reports on beliefs about educational disadvantage of a group of PSTs about to embark on a specialised program in Australia designed to promote socially just schooling outcomes. 24 PSTs across two cohorts completed a survey prior to entering …


การศึกษาเปรียบเทียบมาตรการควบคุมอาวุธปืนภายหลังเหตุกราดยิงของประเทศไทยกับต่างประเทศ, กุศลิน จีรสินกุล 2024 คณะรัฐศาสตร์

การศึกษาเปรียบเทียบมาตรการควบคุมอาวุธปืนภายหลังเหตุกราดยิงของประเทศไทยกับต่างประเทศ, กุศลิน จีรสินกุล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ปัญหาความรุนแรงด้านอาวุธปืนของโลกในปัจจุบันที่มีแนวโน้มสูงขึ้นทุกปี โดยเฉพาะเหตุกราดยิงที่สามารถสร้างความเสียหายต่อการก่อเหตุหนึ่งครั้งได้อย่างรุนแรง ดังนั้น จึงได้นำมาสู่การศึกษาบริบทความรุนแรงของสถานการณ์กราดยิงและการควบคุมอาวุธปืน การศึกษาวิเคราะห์เปรียบเทียบมาตรการควบคุมอาวุธปืนหลังเหตุกราดยิง และการศึกษามาตรการควบคุมอาวุธปืนที่เหมาะสมกับไทย โดยการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ ด้วยการวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลเอกสาร กฎหมาย และมาตรการที่บังคับใช้ รวมถึงการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกกับผู้เชี่ยวชาญและผู้มีส่วนเกี่ยวข้อง โดยมีขอบเขตการศึกษาในประเทศไทย สหรัฐอเมริกา ออสเตรเลีย และนิวซีแลนด์ ผลการศึกษาพบว่า สถานการณ์กราดยิงในแต่ละประเทศมีความแตกต่างกันในด้านจำนวน ความรุนแรง และมูลเหตุจูงใจ ในประเทศไทยมีเหตุกราดยิงเกิดขึ้นจำนวนกว่าความเข้าใจของสังคมที่มาจากการรายงานของสื่อ แตกต่างจาก สหรัฐอเมริกาที่กราดยิงเกิดขึ้นบ่อยและรุนแรง ส่วนในออสเตรเลียและนิวซีแลนด์มีมาตรการควบคุมอาวุธปืนที่เข้มงวดหลังเหตุกราดยิง ซึ่งมีส่วนสนับสนุนให้จำนวนเหตุกราดยิงลดลง ขณะที่ประเทศไทยยังมีกฎหมายที่ล้าสมัยและขาดการบังคับใช้ที่มีประสิทธิภาพ ทำให้มาตรการควบคุมอาวุธปืนไม่สามารถลดความรุนแรงของเหตุการณ์ได้ โดยข้อเสนอแนวการควบคุมอาวุธปืนจะต้องปรับปรุงกฎหมายควบคุมอาวุธปืนให้ทันสมัยและเข้มงวด อาทิ การตรวจสอบประวัติและสุขภาพจิตของผู้ขอใบอนุญาต และการจัดเก็บอาวุธในตู้เซฟที่มีระบบล็อกอัตโนมัติ นอกจากนี้ ควรส่งเสริมการแจ้งเบาะแสจากประชาชน และสนับสนุนการวิจัยเกี่ยวกับปัญหาอาวุธปืนในประเทศไทย


แนวทางการปรับปรุงกระบวนการยุติธรรมทางอาญาเพื่อคุ้มครองสิทธิผู้เสียหายคดีข่มขืนกระทำชำเรา, ชุติมา สมจิตต์ 2024 คณะรัฐศาสตร์

แนวทางการปรับปรุงกระบวนการยุติธรรมทางอาญาเพื่อคุ้มครองสิทธิผู้เสียหายคดีข่มขืนกระทำชำเรา, ชุติมา สมจิตต์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยเรื่อง “แนวทางการปรับปรุงกระบวนการยุติธรรมทางอาญาเพื่อคุ้มครองสิทธิผู้เสียหายคดีข่มขืนกระทำชำเรา” มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาสภาพปัญหาในการปฏิบัติต่อผู้เสียหายในการดำเนินคดีข่มขืนกระทำชำเราในประเทศไทย และศึกษาแนวทางในการปรับปรุงกระบวนการยุติธรรมทางอาญาเพื่อคุ้มครองผู้เสียหายคดีข่มขืนกระทำชำเราในประเทศไทย โดยใช้การวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ ด้านการวิจัยเอกสารและเทคนิคการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกผู้ให้ข้อมูลสำคัญ จำนวน 10 คน จากบุคลากรในกระบวนการยุติธรรม สหวิชาชีพที่เกี่ยวข้องกับกระบวนการยุติธรรม เครือข่ายภาคประชาสังคม และนักวิชาการกฎหมายและกระบวนการยุติธรรม ผลการศึกษาพบว่า สภาพปัญหาในการปฏิบัติต่อผู้เสียหายในการดำเนินคดีข่มขืนกระทำชำเราในประเทศไทย เกิดจากสภาพปัญหาหลัก 5 ด้าน คือ 1) ด้านผู้เสียหาย 2) ด้านสังคม 3) ด้านกฎหมาย 4) ด้านกระบวนการยุติธรรม 5) ด้านคุ้มครองสิทธิ ทั้งนี้ จากงานวิจัยค้นพบว่า กระบวนการยุติธรรมทางอาญาในปัจจุบันยังคุ้มครองสิทธิผู้เสียหายคดีข่มขืนกระทำชำเราไม่ครอบคลุมเพียงพอ จึงควรปรับปรุงกระบวนการยุติธรรมทางอาญา โดยเริ่มตั้งแต่การให้ความสำคัญต่อสิทธิผู้เสียหายคดีข่มขืนกระทำชำเราอย่างชัดเจน รับรองสิทธิผู้เสียหายคดีข่มขืนกระทำชำเราด้วยการบัญญัติกฎหมายไว้เป็นการเฉพาะ เพิ่มความเชื่อมโยงระหว่างหน่วยงานในกระบวนการยุติธรรมเพื่อลดขั้นตอนที่ทับซ้อน สร้างองค์ความรู้แก่บุคลากรในกระบวนการยุติธรรมด้วยการจัดทำคู่มือแนวทางการปฏิบัติงานเพื่อที่จะได้ปฏิบัติต่อผู้เสียหายคดีข่มขืนกระทำชำเราได้อย่างเหมาะสม ทำให้ผู้เสียหายคดีข่มขืนกระทำชำเราลดสภาวะการตกเป็นเหยื่ออีกครั้ง และเต็มใจให้ความร่วมมือกับกระบวนการยุติธรรมในการนำตัวผู้กระทำความผิดมาลงโทษสมดังเจตนารมณ์ของกฎหมาย


Unjust And Unsafe: The Eviction Experiences Of Latine Immigrant And Farmworker Tenants In Oregon, Natalie J. Cholula, Lisa K. Bates, Alex Farrington, Marisa Zapata, Jacen Greene, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, Colleen Carroll 2024 Portland State University

Unjust And Unsafe: The Eviction Experiences Of Latine Immigrant And Farmworker Tenants In Oregon, Natalie J. Cholula, Lisa K. Bates, Alex Farrington, Marisa Zapata, Jacen Greene, Azad Amir-Ghassemi, Colleen Carroll

Sociology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Latine immigrant households often face housing instability due to language barriers, immigration status, and limited access to government resources. Oregon farmworkers experience additional obstacles to safe and stable housing caused by low wages, a lack of affordable housing options, and social isolation. In light of the identified needs and lack of equitable access to resources that this group experiences, the Evicted in Oregon research team conducted focus groups with Latine immigrant and farmworker tenants in Multnomah, Washington, and Marion Counties. The aim was to gain insight into their experiences with eviction and understand how they navigated through evictions during the …


Cops/Metro Alliance - Stmu Oral Histories With Maria Tijerina, Barbara Ortiz 2024 St. Mary's University

Cops/Metro Alliance - Stmu Oral Histories With Maria Tijerina, Barbara Ortiz

COPS/Metro

Maria Tijerina shared some of her experiences with COPS/Metro emphasizing the importance of volunteering and community involvement. She discussed how COPS helped her become more active in her community, advocating for higher city wages and improving public housing. She also discussed challenges her parish faced through COVID pandemic and enduring high leadership turnover rates.


Their Country: Black Women, Three Chords, And The Truth, Dmetri J. Smith 2024 Georgia Southern University

Their Country: Black Women, Three Chords, And The Truth, Dmetri J. Smith

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

ABSTRACT

Country music has long overlooked and at times outright erased the contributions of people of African descent. The past and present contributions of Black women are particularly ignored. Country music— a racially contested space centered in Nashville, Tennessee— is imbued with themes referencing the “good ole days” that were dangerous times for anyone who was not White, male, cisgender, and heterosexual. The genre has only become slightly more welcoming to those who are not part of the dominant class. And yet, there are Black women who feel called to use country music as their storytelling medium. My research shows …


Doing The Impossible: Dealing With False Beliefs, Yuliya Filippovska 2024 Antioch University

Doing The Impossible: Dealing With False Beliefs, Yuliya Filippovska

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Fighting false information, propaganda, open lies, rumors, misinformation, and disinformation by attacking it directly and challenging it is the dominant strategy for dealing with false beliefs (Lazer et al., 2018; Maseri et al., 2020; Van Bavel et al., 2021), and it is an important one. Refuting falsity is crucial. At the same time, there are instances when fighting false information does not work (Ardèvol-Abreu et al., 2020; McIntyre, 2018; Van Bavel et al., 2021). One of the reasons is that it denies another’s worldview, belief systems, and, as a result, their identity and even right to exist. Searching for alternative …


My World's On Fire, How 'Bout Yours? An Investigation Of How Privilege Fosters And Maintains Climate Denial, Morgan A. Chester 2024 Antioch University Seattle

My World's On Fire, How 'Bout Yours? An Investigation Of How Privilege Fosters And Maintains Climate Denial, Morgan A. Chester

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

The present study investigates the phenomenon of climate denial through a new theoretical framework of privilege. The analysis utilizes a feminist orientation that builds on a historical interpretation through the lens of colonialism. Through the dissection of current multidisciplinary understandings of climate denial and new concepts discovered in the review of academic literature and popular media, a compilation of theory, relationship, and connection is made. Systems of power and privilege are examined and connected to the mechanisms and maintenance of climate denial. The resulting analysis illuminates that settler colonialism, supported by connected ideologies of White supremacy, ableism, and patriarchy inform …


Envisioning Futures: A Photovoice Study On How An Urban Afterschool Program Empowers Caregivers To Be Agents Of Change In Their Community, Ellen Mays 2024 Antioch University

Envisioning Futures: A Photovoice Study On How An Urban Afterschool Program Empowers Caregivers To Be Agents Of Change In Their Community, Ellen Mays

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

As part of comprehensive whole-family out-of-school-time programming, parent engagement and education play an important role in addressing achievement and opportunity gaps in low-income neighborhoods. Parent groups have the potential to be a unique space of social justice work by creating supportive, innovative spaces to build social capital and organize around common action goals. This photovoice study looks specifically at “Parent University,” a parent out-of-school-time meeting group that focuses on empowerment education by providing opportunities for parents to meet, engage in rich consciousness raising dialogue, identify areas in need of change, and create and implement action for social change. This study …


Enhancing Planetary Well-Being Through "With-Ness" Pedagogy In Social Emotional Learning: Critical Theoretical Engagements, Lynsey Helen Mori 2024 Antioch University

Enhancing Planetary Well-Being Through "With-Ness" Pedagogy In Social Emotional Learning: Critical Theoretical Engagements, Lynsey Helen Mori

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Leveraging the researcher’s unique diverse cultural and educational background, this dissertation explores integrating social emotional learning (SEL) within an innovative pedagogy of “with-ness” (PoW) towards planetary well-being in educational settings. The overarching purpose is to redefine educational strategies through SEL and PoW to advance planetary well-being in tertiary contexts. As such, this dissertation critically engages with three published articles authored during the researcher’s doctoral tenure to highlight transformative SEL practices that are fundamentally attuned to ecological consciousness. Informed by critical theory, feminist perspectives, and process philosophy, the hermeneutic circle reflects on these articles to address complex 21st-century challenges educational systems …


Coalescence: A Carnivore Coexistence Curriculum That Braids Indigenous & Western Ecological Knowledge Into A Relevant And Experiential Learning Opportunity For Youth, Stephanie Anne Barron 2024 University of Montana

Coalescence: A Carnivore Coexistence Curriculum That Braids Indigenous & Western Ecological Knowledge Into A Relevant And Experiential Learning Opportunity For Youth, Stephanie Anne Barron

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

As grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horriblis) begin to reoccupy more of their historic range, and as humans and large carnivore populations continue to increase, incidences of human carnivore conflict are on the rise. A decolonial curriculum designed in collaboration with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe’s wildlife biologists stands to increase awareness of Indigenous ecological knowledge and teach youth about the importance of coexistence with carnivores. Additionally, this project could greatly influence youth perceptions of grizzly bears and other large carnivores. This research project examines the development and implementation of a carnivore coexistence curriculum for youth that is guided by …


Do Americans Support More Housing?, Michael Lewyn 2024 Touro Law Center

Do Americans Support More Housing?, Michael Lewyn

Scholarly Works

An analysis of opinion poll data on housing issues. The article finds that Americans generally believe that their community needs more housing of all types, but are more closely divided about whether such housing should be in their own neighborhoods. The article further finds that members of minority groups, lower-income Americans, and younger Americans are more pro-housing than older, affluent whites.


Dancing Around And Through Harm: Examining The Lived Experiences Of Women Of Colour With Gender-Based Violence In The Toronto & Kitchener-Waterloo Latin Dance Communities, Lexi Salt 2024 Wilfrid Laurier University

Dancing Around And Through Harm: Examining The Lived Experiences Of Women Of Colour With Gender-Based Violence In The Toronto & Kitchener-Waterloo Latin Dance Communities, Lexi Salt

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Given the systemic nature of gender-based violence in Canada, as well as the increasing popularity of Latin dance, it is important to better understand the particular and culturally-specific ways gender-based violence manifests itself within the Latin dance community. This research study examines the lived experiences of women of colour with gender-based violence in the Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo Latin dance communities. Two groups of participants took part in semi-structured interviews: 14 women of colour dancers, and six “Power Players”, leaders in the Latin dance community who are in a position of power (e.g., instructors, organizers, DJs). The data was analyzed using …


Exit Through The Giftshop: Claims-Making And The Construction Of A Countercultural Brand, Cecil McGlynn 2024 Wilfrid Laurier University

Exit Through The Giftshop: Claims-Making And The Construction Of A Countercultural Brand, Cecil Mcglynn

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Independent, online microcelebrity influencers are increasingly many people’s source of news. A popular group of these influencers, called the Alternative Influence Network (AIN) has come under scrutiny in recent years for collaborating with radical, far-right political actors to advance particular viewpoints (Lewis, 2018). While those within the AIN claim these outputs represent their freedom of speech, some researchers have voiced concern around the possibility of these influencers proliferating or even popularizing radical political ideals. Steven Crowder is among the most popular influencers in the AIN. He performs a daily show, ‘Louder with Crowder’, to his 5.8 million YouTube subscribers. In …


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