Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

THEMATIC

Session 068: Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare Institution Perspectives in Response to Recent or Current Crises I
Room: Buckingham Room

Sponsor: Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare

Organizers: Miriam J. Landsman, The University of Iowa
Erica FS Jablonski, University of New Hampshire

Presider: Miriam J. Landsman, The University of Iowa

Description: 

This is the first of a two part session. Social Work, and Social Welfare Institution Perspectives in Response to Crises Session I will focus on responses to work, the workforce and financial challenges.

Papers:

“Confronting Crisis in the Rural Social Work Workforce,” Miriam J. Landsman, The University of Iowa

“Crisis and Subjective Status Injustice: A Tale of Two Crises,” Jón Gunnar Bernburg and Thoroddur Bjarnason, University of Iceland

“In the Works: The Impact of Race/Ethnicity on Local Referral Unions’ Job Allocations,” Noemi Rivera Acevedo, Texas A&M University

“Medical Praxis: Strategies for Reforming Racial-ethnic and Gender Disparities in American Patient Care,” Taylor D. Sumpter, University of Miami

“On Plastic and Paternalism: How People Who Use Drugs Negotiate Electronic Benefit Transfer Systems in Los Angeles,” Allison Laing, The University of British Columbia, Anthony DiMario, University of California, San Francisco and Lindsey Richardson, The University of British Columbia

“Tangible and Intangible Informal Welfare and Psychological Well-being amidst Precarious Retirement Plans among Low-income Informal Workers in Ghana,” Padmore Adusei Amoah, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

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