"Little alien colonies": Representations of immigrants and their neighborhoods in social work discourse, 1875-1924
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The complex discursive mechanisms by which early social workers made immigrants and their environments legible as objects of interventions and advocacy is analyzed through a close reading of social work's public documents in the period from 1875 to 1924. The aspects of the larger social and political discourse on immigration included the persistent questioning of new immigrants' fitness for inclusion in civic society and legal citizenship, racialization of immigrants as well as the multilayered differentiation and marginalization of immigrants from so-called Native American communities.
Publication Name: Social Service Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0037-7961
Year: 2006
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Investing in children: Public commitment in twenty-one industrialized countries
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Public commitment to children and their families from 1980 through 2001 in 21 advanced industrial countries is explored using time series and survey data. The findings suggest that the instruments and goals of the family benefit and service package have changed over time and that future public spending on children is increasingly likely to go toward helping families their responsibilities as workers and parents and toward enhancing the development of young children.
Publication Name: Social Service Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0037-7961
Year: 2006
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Testing the model minority stereotype: Youth behaviors across racial and ethnic groups
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The belief that youth of Asian Pacific Islander ethnicity (API) are the model minority is examined by using data from a large nationally representative sample of adolescents attending school. The results suggest that, except for substance use, API American youth do not report fewer delinquent behaviors than white youth and API American youth report high rates of nonaggressive offenses and substance use than do African American youth.
Publication Name: Social Service Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0037-7961
Year: 2006
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