Simon E Fern
Biographic Data
| ID | 197115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon E Fern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon E |
| FAMILY NAME | Fern |
| SIGNATURE | FERN S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1951-9964 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“I Get to Be a Person Here”: American Immigrants in Spain and the Practice of (Health) Care
Studies of immigrant health care routinely center less-advantaged persons in Global North contexts; U.S. scholarship frequently examines Latin American immigrants navigating the U.S. health landscape. Little work considers the health care experiences of U.S. citizens as immigrants as they are rarely labeled, analyzed, and debated comparably to less-advantaged immigrants. Instead of naturalizing the American experience as the point of comparison f…
Place, History, and Food Apartheid: Reframing How Low-Income Black Mothers Make Ends Meet
Thirty years after Making Ends Meet , poor mothers continue to labor intensively to sustain their families. Following scholars emphasizing the fundamental causes of social inequalities, we address the social, civil, and historical processes that structure and complicate this labor. Drawing on interviews with forty-four low-income Black mothers, most of whom are single, in a historically Black Houston neighborhood, we explore how they meet their f…
Immigrant experiences of harm in sexual and reproductive healthcare in Spain
If I got it, she got it: Black mothers' food provision and symbiotic mothering
ObjectiveThis study advances contemporary theories of motherhood, mothering, and foodwork within the context of poverty by focusing on the ways that low-income Black mothers engage interdependent culturally distinct mothering strategies in light of a porous social safety net.BackgroundContemporary standards for good parenting are increasingly resource-based.As such, the intricate and tactical ways that low-income Black mothers manage to make food…
Emergency Food Support Preference and Usage During Covid-19: A Neighborhood Study of Low-Income Black Mothers’ Use of School-Based Food Distribution and P-EBT
COVID-19 disrupted families’ food supply. Based on in-depth interviews with 45 Black low-income mothers of young children in an underserved Houston, Texas, neighborhood from April 2020 to June 2021, we compared two aid programs—Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer cash assistance and in-kind food distributions. We found that mothers preferred cash assistance for boosting existing food strategies, while food distributions presented new challenges…
Citizen outsider: Children of North African immigrants in France
Jean Beaman’s Citizen Outsider (2017) addresses the experiences of middle-class second-generation North-African immigrants in Paris, and how processes of racialisation and racism affect their relat
If I got it, she got it: Black mothers' food provision and symbiotic mothering
ObjectiveThis study advances contemporary theories of motherhood, mothering, and foodwork within the context of poverty by focusing on the ways that low-income Black mothers engage interdependent culturally distinct mothering strategies in light of a porous social safety net.BackgroundContemporary standards for good parenting are increasingly resource-based.As such, the intricate and tactical ways that low-income Black mothers manage to make food…
Emergency Food Support Preference and Usage During Covid-19: A Neighborhood Study of Low-Income Black Mothers’ Use of School-Based Food Distribution and P-EBT
COVID-19 disrupted families’ food supply. Based on in-depth interviews with 45 Black low-income mothers of young children in an underserved Houston, Texas, neighborhood from April 2020 to June 2021, we compared two aid programs—Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer cash assistance and in-kind food distributions. We found that mothers preferred cash assistance for boosting existing food strategies, while food distributions presented new challenges…
Citizen outsider: Children of North African immigrants in France
Jean Beaman’s Citizen Outsider (2017) addresses the experiences of middle-class second-generation North-African immigrants in Paris, and how processes of racialisation and racism affect their relat
Emergency Food Support Preference and Usage During Covid-19: A Neighborhood Study of Low-Income Black Mothers’ Use of School-Based Food Distribution and P-EBT
COVID-19 disrupted families’ food supply. Based on in-depth interviews with 45 Black low-income mothers of young children in an underserved Houston, Texas, neighborhood from April 2020 to June 2021, we compared two aid programs—Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer cash assistance and in-kind food distributions. We found that mothers preferred cash assistance for boosting existing food strategies, while food distributions presented new challenges…
If I got it, she got it: Black mothers' food provision and symbiotic mothering
ObjectiveThis study advances contemporary theories of motherhood, mothering, and foodwork within the context of poverty by focusing on the ways that low-income Black mothers engage interdependent culturally distinct mothering strategies in light of a porous social safety net.BackgroundContemporary standards for good parenting are increasingly resource-based.As such, the intricate and tactical ways that low-income Black mothers manage to make food…
Immigrant experiences of harm in sexual and reproductive healthcare in Spain
“I Get to Be a Person Here”: American Immigrants in Spain and the Practice of (Health) Care
Studies of immigrant health care routinely center less-advantaged persons in Global North contexts; U.S. scholarship frequently examines Latin American immigrants navigating the U.S. health landscape. Little work considers the health care experiences of U.S. citizens as immigrants as they are rarely labeled, analyzed, and debated comparably to less-advantaged immigrants. Instead of naturalizing the American experience as the point of comparison f…
Place, History, and Food Apartheid: Reframing How Low-Income Black Mothers Make Ends Meet
Thirty years after Making Ends Meet , poor mothers continue to labor intensively to sustain their families. Following scholars emphasizing the fundamental causes of social inequalities, we address the social, civil, and historical processes that structure and complicate this labor. Drawing on interviews with forty-four low-income Black mothers, most of whom are single, in a historically Black Houston neighborhood, we explore how they meet their f…
Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Immigration (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Context (archaeology) (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works)