The program was aimed at testing how airlines, the police and immigration officers could work together to monitor all children from Jamaica. A specialist training was provided to airline staff involved...
Upon reading on the article Cultural Consideration For Social Workers it has come to me that the Jamaican Social life has been affected since the slave trade. Whereby, The Whites were their masters and Jamaica and its people were used to make the Mother Countries wealthy. The culture in this...
As a young female, born in Jamaica, W.I with dark skin, transitioning to America was a challenge, especially because I spoke a broken form of English known as Patois. I am also an able bodied, working class, heterosexual woman who is a Christian from the Church of God 7th Day sect. ...
s case is certainly not the only example of people trying to alter their race and being met with scathing critique for mutilating their natural skin. There is a small yet amazing body of literature on skin lightening in Jamaica. For example, Christopher Charles and Donna Hope have both ...
There is limited research on the effects of financial inclusion and workers’ remittances on the unemployment rate in Asian economies. The impact of financial inclusion and remittances on unemployment may vary across different Asian regions. However, the available research inadequately addresses the region...
For teaching about these issues, one finds case studies reported by American social workers on environmental struggles in Kenya, Jamaica and India e.g. (Powers et al., Citation2018) as well as local social workers reporting on environmental justice struggles in their own countries. For example,...
generation immigrants’ physical and mental health. The author gets into immigrant communities such as in Mexico, Jamaica, India, and Vietnam and introduces some fascinating details about cultures and customs that may promote health advantage. The rich details also include personal stories as case ...
Finally a law establishing a pension for all workers in trade, industry, and agriculture from the age of 70 was passed in 1889. This was directly administered by the Imperial Insurance Office. Austria followed part of the German example in 1888, Italy in 1893, and both Sweden and the ...
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They are equipped to provide services that patients need, something that is not available in Guyana. I have interacted with social workers when my family was undergoing surgery and during recovery and as a volunteer at Jamaica hospital. Primarily when my father was undergoing the process of quadru...