K Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 23161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9979-2105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Challenges Facing Immigrant Students in US Public Schools From Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Framework: A Systematic Review
This systematic review analyzed 43 empirical studies on the challenges faced by immigrant students in US K-12 schools through the lens of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems framework. An inductive thematic analysis revealed seven key challenges, primarily concentrated at the micro- and macrosystem levels, though themes were addressed across multiple systems. These findings underscore the complex, multi-level nature of the challenges and offer cr…
Considerations for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in the Child Welfare Reform Debate
Unaccompanied immigrant children represent a growing portion of children involved in the U.S. child welfare system (CWS). Yet, the abolition or reform of the CWS debate has overlooked the system that serves unaccompanied children—the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). This article examines unaccompanied children’s needs within this debate, and applies key concepts to issues including preemptive investigations, reunification, community strength…
Barriers to Success: How U.S. Newspapers Frame the Challenges of Immigrant Students in Public Education
One in four students in the United States is part of an immigrant family. The purpose of this study is to enhance our understanding of the barriers that immigrant students experience in US public schools by critically analyzing how newspapers portray barriers to success, as the goals and processes used in media differ from those of peer-reviewed research. The authors used a document analysis, a qualitative research methodology, and reviewed 67 ne…
Navigating the tension: US refugee resettlement agency support of postsecondary access
In recent years, humanitarian crises have displaced millions of people across the globe. This mixed-methods project examines US refugee resettlement agency (RRA) support for displaced individuals seeking to access postsecondary education. Drawing on survey data and complemented with key stakeholder interviews, we characterize how agencies frame their current populations of clients and their interests in postsecondary education, as well as the pro…
Reframing Higher Education for Refugees: Pathways, Policies, and Community Cultural Wealth
She Didn’t Know [What] She Was Talking About, Because She Was a Woman: The Perspective of Service Providers on Rohingya Refugees’ Adjustment to US Gender Roles
When Rohingya refugees first started to arrive to the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor (URM) Program in the USA around 2013, the service providers felt ill prepared to provide for their nuanced needs because of the lack of information available and therefore an inability to appropriately tailor services to this new minority population. Therefore, this study seeks to understand (1) how service providers navigate conflicting gender roles during the teen…
Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in ORR Foster Care: Community Level Facilitators of Adjustment Identified by Service Providers
An Assessment of MSW Social Work Curricula: Semester-Long Courses Specifically Related to Immigrants and Immigration
Social workers are well positioned to meet the needs of the immigrant population in the United States (U.S.) and social workers across all fields and specializations should both feel competent and have the appropriate skills to work with immigrant clients. In this paper, we provide context around the immigrant population in the U.S. and discuss social work’s role in helping immigrants, and the role of the MSW degree in helping to prepare social w…
Inclusive education for children with disabilities in a refugee camp
Children in refugee camps, and particularly those with disabilities, face unique challenges in accessing education and are at high risk of being marginalised. Best practices suggest that main-streaming is the optimal strategy for serving students with disabilities. This study examines the extent to which mainstreaming in a refugee camp helps to promote children's prosocial behaviours, taking into account their emotional and behavioural problems. …
Paths to Self-Sufficiency for Youth Served Through the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Foster Care Program in the United States
Unaccompanied immigrant children in long‐term foster care: Identifying and operationalizing child welfare outcomes
The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 was developed with the goal of increasing the safety, permanency, and well‐being of children involved in U.S. child welfare systems. A growing number of unaccompanied immigrant children (UC) are being served in long‐term foster care (LTFC) under the auspices of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). UC are placed in care because an appropriate sponsor is not available pending immigration hearings. Yet…
Educational Services for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in the United States
Some unaccompanied children (UC) who migrate to the United States (US) receive post-release services (PRS) to help them adjust to the US and access community-based supports. Upon their arrival to the US, UC discuss their need(s) with their PRS caseworker in order to identify their primary needs. This study examines factors associated with UC who reported education services as a primary PRS need. The sample is based on administrative data shared b…
Unaccompanied refugee minors from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Myanmar, and Somalia: Educational attainment, economic well-being, and social ties in the United States
In 2019, there were 21.3 million refugees around the globe. A small number of these are accepted to the United States each year under the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Foster Care Program. There is currently limited research on the outcomes of young adults served through this unique program. In this paper, we share outcomes (educational attainment, economic well-being, and social ties) for young adults who leave care from the countries of the Democ…
Opportunities to “Make Macro Matter” through the Grand Challenges for Social Work
The Grand Challenges for Social Work initiative, led by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), aims to organize the social work profession around 12 entrenched societal challenges. Addressing the root causes of the Grand Challenges will take a coordinated effort across all of social work practice, but given their scale, macro social work will be essential. We use Santiago and colleagues’ Frameworks for Advancing Macro Pr…
The McGovern-Dole food for education and Child nutrition program (MGD): A comparative analysis of reading comprehension gains in Central America
Clocking in: Employment outcomes for unaccompanied refugee minors leaving foster care in the United States
A Human Rights Approach to Macro Social Work Field Education with Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
ImmigrantRights #SWTwitterAdvocacy: Using Twitter as an advocacy platform in social work education
The Trump administration’s immigration policies, over the course of four years, repeatedly conflicted with social work ethical principles, resulting in family separation and pervasive fear in immigrant communities throughout the US. The ethical principles of the social work profession are reflected in social work education competencies, including engaging in policy practice to advance justice. Using immigration policies as context, this paper pro…
Me Perdía en la Escuela”: Latino Newcomer Youths in the U.S. School System
Unaccompanied minors, or "newcomer youths," come to the United States from Mexico and Central America to escape violence and persecution, and to seek financial and academic opportunities. Many newcomer youths arrive with gaps in their formal education attributed to the immigration process and the heterogeneity of their pre-U.S. lives. Once they are enrolled in the U.S. school system, many educators struggle to accommodate the academic needs of th…
Without a Paddle: Barriers to School Enrollment Procedures for Immigrant Students and Families
The growing immigrant population in the United States consists of school-aged children who are in need of educational opportunities available through the country’s existing educational system. Education, a basic human right, is mandated through compulsory education laws in the United States so that all children can learn, grow, and be prepared for the future. However, immigrant children and families face a challenge early on, with the enrollment …
Unaccompanied immigrant children in long term foster care: Identifying needs and best practices from a child welfare perspective
A Call to Action: Re-imagining Social Work Practice With Unaccompanied Minors
In the decade leading up to 2012, approximately 8,000 Unaccompanied Minors (UAM) arrived annually at the Southwestern border of the United States. Since then, the number of arrivals has drastically increased, surpassing 14,000 between October 1, 2017 and January 31, 2018 alone. The needs of UAM concerning mental health, education, social, and legal counseling often differ from the needs of other Latinx and immigrant populations. However, recent i…
Moving forward: Educational outcomes for Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) exiting foster care in the United States
Unprecedented numbers of unaccompanied children have migrated to the Southern border of the United States in recent years. Yet, little is known about how these children fare after arrival, including the few who are placed in the federally sponsored Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) foster care programme. Existing research suggests that unaccompanied refugee children, unaccompanied migrant children and foster children each face significant barrie…
A celebration of the life of Nicholas Kurti
Christopher Wren, like Nicholas Kurti, had during his early life been forced to flee his home by conflict and the threat of conflict (the English Civil War), and he had also shown precocious aptitude for mathematics and natural philosophy – what we would now call physics. Again like Nicholas, Wren became an FRS (he was a founder member and sometime President) and an Oxford professor, but he was not prepared to devote all his time to university te…
Molecular Cloning of Receptors for Acetylcholine
Moving forward: Educational outcomes for Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) exiting foster care in the United States
Unprecedented numbers of unaccompanied children have migrated to the Southern border of the United States in recent years. Yet, little is known about how these children fare after arrival, including the few who are placed in the federally sponsored Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) foster care programme. Existing research suggests that unaccompanied refugee children, unaccompanied migrant children and foster children each face significant barrie…
Unaccompanied immigrant children in long term foster care: Identifying needs and best practices from a child welfare perspective
Without a Paddle: Barriers to School Enrollment Procedures for Immigrant Students and Families
The growing immigrant population in the United States consists of school-aged children who are in need of educational opportunities available through the country’s existing educational system. Education, a basic human right, is mandated through compulsory education laws in the United States so that all children can learn, grow, and be prepared for the future. However, immigrant children and families face a challenge early on, with the enrollment …
Me Perdía en la Escuela”: Latino Newcomer Youths in the U.S. School System
Unaccompanied minors, or "newcomer youths," come to the United States from Mexico and Central America to escape violence and persecution, and to seek financial and academic opportunities. Many newcomer youths arrive with gaps in their formal education attributed to the immigration process and the heterogeneity of their pre-U.S. lives. Once they are enrolled in the U.S. school system, many educators struggle to accommodate the academic needs of th…
Inclusive education for children with disabilities in a refugee camp
Children in refugee camps, and particularly those with disabilities, face unique challenges in accessing education and are at high risk of being marginalised. Best practices suggest that main-streaming is the optimal strategy for serving students with disabilities. This study examines the extent to which mainstreaming in a refugee camp helps to promote children's prosocial behaviours, taking into account their emotional and behavioural problems. …
A Human Rights Approach to Macro Social Work Field Education with Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
Navigating the tension: US refugee resettlement agency support of postsecondary access
In recent years, humanitarian crises have displaced millions of people across the globe. This mixed-methods project examines US refugee resettlement agency (RRA) support for displaced individuals seeking to access postsecondary education. Drawing on survey data and complemented with key stakeholder interviews, we characterize how agencies frame their current populations of clients and their interests in postsecondary education, as well as the pro…
Reframing Higher Education for Refugees: Pathways, Policies, and Community Cultural Wealth
Unaccompanied immigrant children in long‐term foster care: Identifying and operationalizing child welfare outcomes
The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 was developed with the goal of increasing the safety, permanency, and well‐being of children involved in U.S. child welfare systems. A growing number of unaccompanied immigrant children (UC) are being served in long‐term foster care (LTFC) under the auspices of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). UC are placed in care because an appropriate sponsor is not available pending immigration hearings. Yet…
Unaccompanied refugee minors from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Myanmar, and Somalia: Educational attainment, economic well-being, and social ties in the United States
In 2019, there were 21.3 million refugees around the globe. A small number of these are accepted to the United States each year under the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Foster Care Program. There is currently limited research on the outcomes of young adults served through this unique program. In this paper, we share outcomes (educational attainment, economic well-being, and social ties) for young adults who leave care from the countries of the Democ…
Clocking in: Employment outcomes for unaccompanied refugee minors leaving foster care in the United States
A Call to Action: Re-imagining Social Work Practice With Unaccompanied Minors
In the decade leading up to 2012, approximately 8,000 Unaccompanied Minors (UAM) arrived annually at the Southwestern border of the United States. Since then, the number of arrivals has drastically increased, surpassing 14,000 between October 1, 2017 and January 31, 2018 alone. The needs of UAM concerning mental health, education, social, and legal counseling often differ from the needs of other Latinx and immigrant populations. However, recent i…
Some Occupational Trends in the South
Journal Article Some Occupational Trends in the South Get access Kenneth Evans Kenneth Evans East Texas State Teachers College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 17, Issue 2, December 1938, Pages 184–190, https://doi.org/10.2307/2570922 Published: 01 December 1938
Handicap and social status of adults with spina bifida cystica
The present physical handicaps and social status of 202 survivors of spina bifida cystica attending The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street before 1954 are described. Ninety-three of the patients, mostly with uncomplicated meningocele, had escaped serious disability and were living normal lives. But 109 had a serious disability, including three who are mentally retarded. Some of the difficulties of living with spina bifida are describ…
Society for Social Medicine
Molecular Cloning of Receptors for Acetylcholine
A celebration of the life of Nicholas Kurti
Christopher Wren, like Nicholas Kurti, had during his early life been forced to flee his home by conflict and the threat of conflict (the English Civil War), and he had also shown precocious aptitude for mathematics and natural philosophy – what we would now call physics. Again like Nicholas, Wren became an FRS (he was a founder member and sometime President) and an Oxford professor, but he was not prepared to devote all his time to university te…
Moving forward: Educational outcomes for Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) exiting foster care in the United States
Unprecedented numbers of unaccompanied children have migrated to the Southern border of the United States in recent years. Yet, little is known about how these children fare after arrival, including the few who are placed in the federally sponsored Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) foster care programme. Existing research suggests that unaccompanied refugee children, unaccompanied migrant children and foster children each face significant barrie…
Unaccompanied immigrant children in long term foster care: Identifying needs and best practices from a child welfare perspective
A Call to Action: Re-imagining Social Work Practice With Unaccompanied Minors
In the decade leading up to 2012, approximately 8,000 Unaccompanied Minors (UAM) arrived annually at the Southwestern border of the United States. Since then, the number of arrivals has drastically increased, surpassing 14,000 between October 1, 2017 and January 31, 2018 alone. The needs of UAM concerning mental health, education, social, and legal counseling often differ from the needs of other Latinx and immigrant populations. However, recent i…
Me Perdía en la Escuela”: Latino Newcomer Youths in the U.S. School System
Unaccompanied minors, or "newcomer youths," come to the United States from Mexico and Central America to escape violence and persecution, and to seek financial and academic opportunities. Many newcomer youths arrive with gaps in their formal education attributed to the immigration process and the heterogeneity of their pre-U.S. lives. Once they are enrolled in the U.S. school system, many educators struggle to accommodate the academic needs of th…
Without a Paddle: Barriers to School Enrollment Procedures for Immigrant Students and Families
The growing immigrant population in the United States consists of school-aged children who are in need of educational opportunities available through the country’s existing educational system. Education, a basic human right, is mandated through compulsory education laws in the United States so that all children can learn, grow, and be prepared for the future. However, immigrant children and families face a challenge early on, with the enrollment …
Opportunities to “Make Macro Matter” through the Grand Challenges for Social Work
The Grand Challenges for Social Work initiative, led by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), aims to organize the social work profession around 12 entrenched societal challenges. Addressing the root causes of the Grand Challenges will take a coordinated effort across all of social work practice, but given their scale, macro social work will be essential. We use Santiago and colleagues’ Frameworks for Advancing Macro Pr…
The McGovern-Dole food for education and Child nutrition program (MGD): A comparative analysis of reading comprehension gains in Central America
Clocking in: Employment outcomes for unaccompanied refugee minors leaving foster care in the United States
A Human Rights Approach to Macro Social Work Field Education with Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
ImmigrantRights #SWTwitterAdvocacy: Using Twitter as an advocacy platform in social work education
The Trump administration’s immigration policies, over the course of four years, repeatedly conflicted with social work ethical principles, resulting in family separation and pervasive fear in immigrant communities throughout the US. The ethical principles of the social work profession are reflected in social work education competencies, including engaging in policy practice to advance justice. Using immigration policies as context, this paper pro…
Paths to Self-Sufficiency for Youth Served Through the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Foster Care Program in the United States
Unaccompanied immigrant children in long‐term foster care: Identifying and operationalizing child welfare outcomes
The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 was developed with the goal of increasing the safety, permanency, and well‐being of children involved in U.S. child welfare systems. A growing number of unaccompanied immigrant children (UC) are being served in long‐term foster care (LTFC) under the auspices of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). UC are placed in care because an appropriate sponsor is not available pending immigration hearings. Yet…
Educational Services for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in the United States
Some unaccompanied children (UC) who migrate to the United States (US) receive post-release services (PRS) to help them adjust to the US and access community-based supports. Upon their arrival to the US, UC discuss their need(s) with their PRS caseworker in order to identify their primary needs. This study examines factors associated with UC who reported education services as a primary PRS need. The sample is based on administrative data shared b…
Unaccompanied refugee minors from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Myanmar, and Somalia: Educational attainment, economic well-being, and social ties in the United States
In 2019, there were 21.3 million refugees around the globe. A small number of these are accepted to the United States each year under the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Foster Care Program. There is currently limited research on the outcomes of young adults served through this unique program. In this paper, we share outcomes (educational attainment, economic well-being, and social ties) for young adults who leave care from the countries of the Democ…
Inclusive education for children with disabilities in a refugee camp
Children in refugee camps, and particularly those with disabilities, face unique challenges in accessing education and are at high risk of being marginalised. Best practices suggest that main-streaming is the optimal strategy for serving students with disabilities. This study examines the extent to which mainstreaming in a refugee camp helps to promote children's prosocial behaviours, taking into account their emotional and behavioural problems. …
Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in ORR Foster Care: Community Level Facilitators of Adjustment Identified by Service Providers
An Assessment of MSW Social Work Curricula: Semester-Long Courses Specifically Related to Immigrants and Immigration
Social workers are well positioned to meet the needs of the immigrant population in the United States (U.S.) and social workers across all fields and specializations should both feel competent and have the appropriate skills to work with immigrant clients. In this paper, we provide context around the immigrant population in the U.S. and discuss social work’s role in helping immigrants, and the role of the MSW degree in helping to prepare social w…
Considerations for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in the Child Welfare Reform Debate
Unaccompanied immigrant children represent a growing portion of children involved in the U.S. child welfare system (CWS). Yet, the abolition or reform of the CWS debate has overlooked the system that serves unaccompanied children—the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). This article examines unaccompanied children’s needs within this debate, and applies key concepts to issues including preemptive investigations, reunification, community strength…
Barriers to Success: How U.S. Newspapers Frame the Challenges of Immigrant Students in Public Education
One in four students in the United States is part of an immigrant family. The purpose of this study is to enhance our understanding of the barriers that immigrant students experience in US public schools by critically analyzing how newspapers portray barriers to success, as the goals and processes used in media differ from those of peer-reviewed research. The authors used a document analysis, a qualitative research methodology, and reviewed 67 ne…
Navigating the tension: US refugee resettlement agency support of postsecondary access
In recent years, humanitarian crises have displaced millions of people across the globe. This mixed-methods project examines US refugee resettlement agency (RRA) support for displaced individuals seeking to access postsecondary education. Drawing on survey data and complemented with key stakeholder interviews, we characterize how agencies frame their current populations of clients and their interests in postsecondary education, as well as the pro…
Political science (24 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Immigration (14 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Refugee (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works)