Debrenna Lafa Agbényiga
Biographic Data
| ID | 240139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debrenna Lafa Agbényiga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debrenna Lafa |
| FAMILY NAME | Agbényiga |
| SIGNATURE | AGBÉNYIGA D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Handbook of International Social Work: Human Rights, Development, and the Global Profession , by Healy, L. M., & Link, R. K. (Eds.)
Expanding Our Community: Independent and Interdependent Factors Impacting Refugee Successful Community Resettlement
Evidence suggests that despite the aid from resettlement agencies, many refugees find the resettlement process extraordinarily stressful and have reported significant negative mental and physical health outcomes. The literature on refugee resettlement often focuses on the challenges that these individuals encounter in their new environment. However, less research has focused on community barriers and lack of support issues that can prevent refuge…
Gendered Immigration: Implications and Impact on Social Work Education
Gendered immigration is a frame of reference for contextualizing the need for gender-specific immigrant services. Like other immigration societies, the United States disproportionately pays less attention to immigrant women. This article is a conceptual examination of the critical challenges faced by immigrant women from a global perspective. Special attention is given to the importance of social work education regarding service delivery structur…
Linguistic Isolation, Social Capital, and Immigrant Belonging
A wealth of evidence points to the positive outcomes experienced by immigrants who can speak the dominant language in a receiving country. But most scholarship treats language acquisition as a variable that affects labor market opportunities, whether conceptualized as human or social capital. We argue that analyzing language as a noneconomic resource that can flow through social networks is important not only for understanding immigrant integrati…
Organizational culture influence on service delivery: A mixed methods design in a child welfare setting
Risk chains over the life course among homeless urban adolescent mothers: Altering their trajectories through formal support
Utilizing Social Work Skills to Enhance Entrepreneurship Training for Women: A Ghanaian Perspective
This article describes a women's entrepreneurship exchange program that was designed and facilitated with the cooperation of various governmental and nongovernmental entities in Ghana for Ghanaian women. The article briefly reviews the entrepreneurship development literature from an international perspective and discusses the Entrepreneurship Program as a targeted approach for empowering and sustaining women's economic situation in Ghana. Emphasi…
Linguistic Isolation, Social Capital, and Immigrant Belonging
A wealth of evidence points to the positive outcomes experienced by immigrants who can speak the dominant language in a receiving country. But most scholarship treats language acquisition as a variable that affects labor market opportunities, whether conceptualized as human or social capital. We argue that analyzing language as a noneconomic resource that can flow through social networks is important not only for understanding immigrant integrati…
Risk chains over the life course among homeless urban adolescent mothers: Altering their trajectories through formal support
Expanding Our Community: Independent and Interdependent Factors Impacting Refugee Successful Community Resettlement
Evidence suggests that despite the aid from resettlement agencies, many refugees find the resettlement process extraordinarily stressful and have reported significant negative mental and physical health outcomes. The literature on refugee resettlement often focuses on the challenges that these individuals encounter in their new environment. However, less research has focused on community barriers and lack of support issues that can prevent refuge…
Utilizing Social Work Skills to Enhance Entrepreneurship Training for Women: A Ghanaian Perspective
This article describes a women's entrepreneurship exchange program that was designed and facilitated with the cooperation of various governmental and nongovernmental entities in Ghana for Ghanaian women. The article briefly reviews the entrepreneurship development literature from an international perspective and discusses the Entrepreneurship Program as a targeted approach for empowering and sustaining women's economic situation in Ghana. Emphasi…
Organizational culture influence on service delivery: A mixed methods design in a child welfare setting
Utilizing Social Work Skills to Enhance Entrepreneurship Training for Women: A Ghanaian Perspective
This article describes a women's entrepreneurship exchange program that was designed and facilitated with the cooperation of various governmental and nongovernmental entities in Ghana for Ghanaian women. The article briefly reviews the entrepreneurship development literature from an international perspective and discusses the Entrepreneurship Program as a targeted approach for empowering and sustaining women's economic situation in Ghana. Emphasi…
Risk chains over the life course among homeless urban adolescent mothers: Altering their trajectories through formal support
Organizational culture influence on service delivery: A mixed methods design in a child welfare setting
Expanding Our Community: Independent and Interdependent Factors Impacting Refugee Successful Community Resettlement
Evidence suggests that despite the aid from resettlement agencies, many refugees find the resettlement process extraordinarily stressful and have reported significant negative mental and physical health outcomes. The literature on refugee resettlement often focuses on the challenges that these individuals encounter in their new environment. However, less research has focused on community barriers and lack of support issues that can prevent refuge…
Gendered Immigration: Implications and Impact on Social Work Education
Gendered immigration is a frame of reference for contextualizing the need for gender-specific immigrant services. Like other immigration societies, the United States disproportionately pays less attention to immigrant women. This article is a conceptual examination of the critical challenges faced by immigrant women from a global perspective. Special attention is given to the importance of social work education regarding service delivery structur…
Linguistic Isolation, Social Capital, and Immigrant Belonging
A wealth of evidence points to the positive outcomes experienced by immigrants who can speak the dominant language in a receiving country. But most scholarship treats language acquisition as a variable that affects labor market opportunities, whether conceptualized as human or social capital. We argue that analyzing language as a noneconomic resource that can flow through social networks is important not only for understanding immigrant integrati…
Handbook of International Social Work: Human Rights, Development, and the Global Profession , by Healy, L. M., & Link, R. K. (Eds.)
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Work (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)