Rules of Disengagement: 'Low Skill' Migrant Workers, Law and the Social Dimensions of Exclusionary Inclusion

This thesis interrogates social exclusion among migrant workers under the NOC C & D (“low skill”) occupational stream of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program, a relatively new, fast-growing, and highly diverse stream which brings migrant workers into industry sectors and social settings where they were never seen before. The author develops a framework for understanding law’s role in producing social exclusion, and applies it to ethnographic data collected through interviews with migrant justice advocates and migrant workers in Brandon, Manitoba. This thesis ultimately establishes that migrant workers need not face spatial separation, discrimination from the community, or a historically gendered and racialized labour context in order to experience social exclusion; the author argues that social exclusion is legally constructed and that the legal framework of this program itself presents barriers to migrants’ full participation in the life of the communities in which they live and work

Employment-Related Geographic Mobility in Canada and Collective Bargaining: A Report Prepared for the On the Move Partnership Research Team

Report prepared for: On the Move, Policy Component, July, 2014

Employment-Related Geographic Mobility in Canada and Collective Bargaining: A Report Prepared for the On the Move Partnership Research Team

Report prepared for: On the Move, Policy Component, July, 2014

Reflections of Medical Students on Visiting Chronically Ill Older Patients in the Home

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66114/1/j.1532-5415.2006.00918.x.pd

Clinical and cost-effectiveness of one-session treatment (OST) versus multisession cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for specific phobias in children : protocol for a non-inferiority randomised controlled trial

INTRODUCTION: Specific phobias (intense, enduring fears of an object or situation that lead to avoidance and severe distress) are highly prevalent among children and young people. Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is a well-established, effective intervention, but it can be time consuming and costly because it is routinely delivered over multiple sessions during several months. Alternative methods of treating severe and debilitating phobias in children are needed, like one-session treatment (OST), to reduce time and cost, and to prevent therapeutic drift and help children recover quickly. Our study explores whether (1) outcomes with OST are 'no worse' than outcomes with multisession CBT, (2) OST is acceptable to children, their parents and the practitioners who use it and (3) OST offers good value for money to the National Health Service (NHS) and to society. METHOD: A pragmatic, non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial will compare OST with multisession CBT-based therapy on their clinical and cost-effectiveness. The primary clinical outcome is a standardised behavioural task of approaching the feared stimulus at 6 months postrandomisation. The outcomes for the within-trial cost-effectiveness analysis are quality-adjusted life years based on EQ-5D-Y, and individual-level costs based of the intervention and use of health and social service care. A nested qualitative evaluation will explore children's, parents' and practitioners' perceptions and experiences of OST. A total of 286 children, 7-16 years old, with DSM-IV diagnoses of specific phobia will be recruited via gatekeepers in the NHS, schools and voluntary youth services, and via public adverts. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The trial received ethical approval from North East and York Research Ethics Committee (Reference: 17/NE/0012). Dissemination plans include publications in peer-reviewed journals, presentations in relevant research conferences, local research symposia and seminars for children and their families, and for professionals and service managers. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ISRCTN19883421;Pre-results

Ludwig Feuerbach y la sociedad civil cristiana

This text explores the work of Ludwig Feuerbach in the 1830s from the vantage point of his response to the personalist currents of German theology and philosophy. Concentrating on an examination of his first published book, Thoughts on Death and Immortality, and his 1835 essay on Friedrich Julius Stahl, it argues not only that Feuerbach’s long engagement with Christian personalism exerted a crucial influence upon the evolution of his critique of Christianity and his eventual turn against Hegel himself but also that his opposition to personalism lay at the heart of an emerging political and social radicalism in Feuerbach's work in the 1830s that scholars have too frequently neglected.El texto explora la obra de Ludwig Feuerbach en la década de 1830 desde el punto de vista de su respuesta a las corrientes personalistas de la teología y la filosofía alemanas. Centrándose en el examen de su primer libro publicado, Pensamientos sobre muerte e inmortalidad, y en su ensayo de 1835 sobre Friedrich Julius Stahl, sostiene no sólo que el largo compromiso de Feuerbach con el personalismo cristiano ejerció una influencia crucial en la evolución de su crítica al cristianismo y su eventual giro contra el propio Hegel, sino también que su oposición al personalismo estaba en el centro de un emergente radicalismo político y social en la obra de Feuerbach en la década de 1830 que los estudiosos han descuidado con demasiada frecuencia