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Feature Profile: PhD Social Work Alumna Nimo Bokore
No full textAs part of our Feature Profile series, the School of Social Work interviewed PhD Social Work Alumna Nimo Bokore. Nimo completed her PhD at the School of Social Work at York University and currently teaches at the School of Social Work at Carleton University.
In this interview Nimo discusses studying at York, her research and teaching at Carleton
Somali-Canadian Women: Historical Past of Survival and Facing Everyday Challenges of Resettlement?
Get PDFUsing a qualitative life history methodology, this study explores the migration and integration experiences of Somali-Canadian women/mothers who resettled in Toronto and Ottawa. This study focuses on womens narratives at each stage of migration and resettlement. It explores the internal and external barriers that are now contributing to the Somalis prolonged poverty and a life of toxic stress in Canada. In addition, this study identifies external barriers such as geopolitically based economic/social exclusions as well as internal barriers such as fear and isolation that are silent, systemic and are currently working against Somali-Canadians and other Black ethnic groups.
Since 1978 reports from the Horn of Africa depicted a bleak picture of a region in crisis mainly from the areas inhabited by Somali ethnic groups. The contributors of this ongoing crisis have been the long absence of formal governance in that region, the longstanding tribal conflicts in other regions, reports of famine, political Islam, piracy, kidnapping, and mass displacement. According to recent UNHCR reports (2009, 2011, 2012 & 2015), there are now approximately 1.4 million internally displaced Somalis within what was known before 1991 as the Somali Republic and nearly one million Somali refugees who have fled to neighbouring countries.
Because of these longstanding regional issues, many Somali refugees resettled in Canada in the late 1990s and early 2000. Upon arrival searching for social support, the overwhelming majority of Somalis began to resettle in Toronto and other major cities including Ottawa.
In this study, the narratives of survival in these womens stories were analyzed using a multidisciplinary approach including knowledge from social neuroscience. The findings indicate that more than two decades after their initial arrival the majority of Somali-Canadians still live under stressful, poverty ridden and toxic environments with the possibility of transference of trauma to the next generation. Finally, this study concludes with a recommendation as to how to create an indigenous social work intervention that is acceptable, effective, and meaningful for this ethnic group
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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