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Scholes, Laura; Jones, Christian; Nagel, Michael – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
Freda Briggs (2007), a leader in the field of child protection in Australia continues to raise concerns about the vulnerability and victimisation of boys that she believes is substantially under-recognised. She argues that boys have not been well supported by child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention programs with child protection curriculum not yet…
Descriptors: Males, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Prevention
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Danso, Kofi; Lum, Terry – Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 2013
Using survey data from 1,036 participants, which included 4 immigrant groups, we examined the factors that influence immigrants' experiences as they interact with nonimmigrant Americans. Logistic and multinomial regression results indicate that non-European immigrants were more likely to report negative experiences with Americans. The odds of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Surveys, Social Work, Social Science Research
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Alper, Paul – Higher Education Review, 2010
The new objects of public and open prejudice are Hispanics, primarily Mexicans due to their large population and their proximity to the United States. Because the Iraq War is such a disaster on all fronts, conservatives and reactionaries have shifted their patriotic fervour from invading foreign countries to inveighing against brown-skinned…
Descriptors: North Americans, Foreign Nationals, Fear, Stranger Reactions
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Rios-Rojas, Anne – Harvard Educational Review, 2011
Using ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a public high school located in the greater Barcelona area, Anne Rios-Rojas focuses on the experiences of immigrant youth as they negotiate a sense of belonging in an ever more globalized society. Rios-Rojas pays particular attention to the multiple and at times contradictory ways in which youth maneuver…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, High Schools, Immigrants