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Jini L Roby

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ID3518728
NAMEJini L Roby
GIVEN NAMESJini L
FAMILY NAMERoby
SIGNATUREROBY J L
AFFILIATIONSBrigham Young University
ORCID0000-0001-5752-0961
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS178
WORKS AS AUTHOR27
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX8
  • Ubuntu among the ‘born frees’

    Open Access•Stephanie Blickfeldt Willmore, Randal D Day et al.•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    Ubuntu was recently adopted as the first theme for the 2020–2030 global agenda for social work, and yet little research is available to explore how it is transmitted and implemented in communities. The authors present findings of a qualitative study conducted in an academic setting in South Africa, where the transmission of Ubuntu was discussed among 30 young adult ‘born frees’. Students seemed to embrace principles of Ubuntu as a whole; however,…

  • Comparing reunified and residential care facility children's wellbeing in Ghana

    Open Access•L James, Spencer L James et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2019•References: 40

  • Navigating uncharted terrain

    Open Access•Denise Stuckenbruck, Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•Child & Family Social Work•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    Over 2 million children are cared for in kinship care in Kenya, and approximately 100,000 are believed to be living in residential care centres. Under leading international policy instruments ratified and domesticated by Kenya, domestic adoption is considered an option to be promoted and regulated in ensuring children's right to family‐based care. In this qualitative study, the authors interviewed 21 participants regarding the cultural and social…

  • Does family reunification from residential care facilities serve children's best interest? A propensity-score matching approach in Ghana

    Open Access•L James, Spencer L James et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 55

  • Altruistic Exploitation

    Karen Smith Rotabi, Jini L Roby et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 30

    Despite the abundant scientific evidence demonstrating the benefits of family-based care for children and the damages brought on by institution-based care, the social work profession continues to endorse and engage in practices that promote the latter. This is particularly true through orphan tourism and orphan volunteerism—short- and longer-term forms of providing aid to residential facilities caring for children. Using educational tours to orph…

  • Federal and State Responses to Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking

    Jini L Roby, Mélanie Vincent•ARTICLE•Social Work•2017•Cited by: 9•References: 1

    Domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) is a rapidly growing problem in the United States, yet legislative efforts to address victim needs have begun only recently. DMST is an issue that spans several areas of social work practice, as emerging research shows that most children and youths exploited in commercial sex have typically experienced prior abuse, neglect, or other forms of trauma. Many have been involved with the child welfare and juvenile …

  • Education for children in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Lance D Erickson et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2016•Cited by: 7•References: 25

  • Exploitation of Intercountry Adoption

    Taylor W Brown, Taylor Brown et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2015•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    The conflation of various illicit intercountry adoption activities under the umbrella of “child trafficking” has caused confusion in the adoption literature. Utilizing a pragmatic approach, this article explores the cacophony of opinions that have arisen with regard to trafficking in illicit adoption activities and identifies the concept of exploitation as a useful framework for differentiating among them. To improve and increase the accuracy of …

  • Contextual Adaptation of Family Group Conferencing Model

    Jini L Roby, Joan Pennell et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 14

    Guatemala has faced a disproportionate number of children placed outside their families through unethical intercountry adoptions or into large residential settings, jeopardising child and family rights. In response, an international team conducted a pilot training in Guatemala on family group conferencing (FGC) as a means of maintaining children in their homes or with their kin. The training participants were child welfare professionals from gove…

  • Perceived food and labor equity and school attendance among U gandan children living in kin care

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Stacey A Shaw et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2013•Cited by: 4•References: 12

    Emerging research suggests that biological relatedness contributes to differential treatment between children being raised by kin and the biological children in the caregiver's household. This potential concern may be elevated especially when household resources are stretched thin. In this study, 518 U gandan youth and their caregivers were interviewed individually, examining the association between relatedness and perceived food and work equity,…

  • Social Justice and Intercountry Adoptions

    Jini L Roby, Karen Smith Rotabi et al.•ARTICLE•Social Work•2013•Cited by: 9•References: 9

    Using social justice as the conceptual foundation, the authors present the structural barriers to socially just intercountry adoptions (ICAs) that can exploit and oppress vulnerable children and families participating in ICAs. They argue that such practices threaten the integrity of social work practice in that arena and the survival of ICA as a placement option. Government structures, disparity of power between countries and families on both sid…

  • Family group conferencing as a culturally adaptable intervention

    Open Access•Karen Smith Rotabi, Joan Pennell et al.•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2012•Cited by: 13•References: 5

    Intercountry adoptions prevent institutionalization but may erode children’s rights to their families and cultural heritage. Family group conferencing offers a culturally adaptable intervention that looks for domestic solutions before turning to out-of-country placements. Guatemalan social work education offers a hospitable environment in which to promote its extension to adoptions

  • Parental loss and hope among orphaned children in South Africa

    Matt Adamson, Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•Vulnerable Children and Youth…•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    In this pilot study, the Children's Hope Scale was used for the first time in Africa to compare hope levels among a sample of 41 orphans and 40 non-orphans, aged 8–16 years, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Contrary to results suggested by other regional data and their own hypothesis, authors found that orphaned children reported slightly higher levels of agency thinking overall, with more pronounced differences between orphan girls and their…

  • Stigma by association

    Open Access•Daniel B Haber, Jini L Roby et al.•ARTICLE•Health & Social Care in the…•2011•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    The shortage of healthcare workers caring for South Africa's 5-6 million persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) calls for inquiry into workers' challenges and experiences. This exploratory study examines one little-studied challenge: stigmatisation of HIV/AIDS healthcare workers based on their association with PLHA. The authors tested the hypotheses that HIV/AIDS healthcare workers experience stigmatisation due to their association with PLHA, and th…

  • Sub-Saharan African Women Living with HIV/Aids

    David R Hodges, D R Hodge et al.•ARTICLE•Social Work•2010•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    From a global perspective, the typical person living with HIV/AIDS is likely a sub-Saharan African woman. Yet despite calls from NASW to adopt a global outlook on the HIV/AIDS crisis, little research has examined how such women cope. In this study, the authors used a mixed-methods approach to explore how one sample of sub-Saharan African women (N = 162) attending an AIDS clinic in Entebbe, Uganda, cope with their circumstances. The results reveal…

  • Adoption Activities on the Internet

    Jini L Roby, Helen White•ARTICLE•Social Work•2010•Cited by: 4

    There is a growing practice of adoption services on the Internet with varying degrees of regulation, depending on whether it is domestic infant adoption, public foster care adoption, or international adoption. Regulation is particularly lacking in domestic infant adoptions, with Web sites connecting prospective birth and adoptive parents, sometimes through an adoption brokerage service. International adoptions can also be plagued by unethical pra…

  • Human rights, politics and intercountry adoption

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Jim Ife•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2009•Cited by: 14•References: 1

    English Intercountry adoption, once viewed as a means of international charity, has recently been challenged by political and economic forces, leading to vio lation of human rights. The authors compare the experiences of two sending countries – Romania and the Marshall Islands – and suggest the utilization of a bottom-up human rights approach. French L’adoption internationale, autrefois vue comme un moyen d’oeuvre de bienfaisance internationale, …

  • Supply and Demand

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Jacob Tanner•ARTICLE•Geography Compass•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 25

    In northern Thailand poverty, political turmoil, sex tourism and cultural dynamics converge to create a booming sex industry. The purpose of this article is to examine how the dynamics of supply and demand feed into prostitution in that region, with attention to available information on human trafficking. While the line separating prostitution and sex trafficking is difficult to establish, there is ample evidence that both co-exist in the region.…

  • Barriers to girls' education in Mozambique at household and community levels

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Missy Jean Lambert et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    Although education of children is universally accepted as a leading mechanism of poverty eradication and social development, many developing nations continue to struggle in achieving gender parity in primary and secondary education. While Mozambique has recently accelerated its efforts to reduce this gap, girls are still enrolled and attending school at a much lower rate than boys. The present study explored the barriers to children's – especiall…

  • The Adoption Network

    Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2008

  • U.S. Response to Human Trafficking

    Jini L Roby, Jennifer Turley et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant & Refugee…•2008•Cited by: 9•References: 5

    An estimated 17,000 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year.Nearly a decade after passing the Trafficking Victims and Protection Act (TVPA) to address human trafficking, the U.S. is still grappling to balance punishing traffickers and protecting victims.This paper examines the victim benefits and the trend in criminal prosecution of the perpetrators under the new national policy.Although the policy is an improvement over past policies, only…

  • Institutionalized child abuse

    Open Access•Carrie E Kimmel, Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2007•Cited by: 7•References: 2

    English In this article the practice of using child soldiers is examined in the light of the structural elements that facilitate and perpetuate this form of institutionalized child abuse. Based on new models for understanding this form of child abuse, the authors suggest intervention methods at the macro and micro levels. French Cette étude examine la pratique du recrutement des enfants à titre de soldats et fait ressortir des é léments structure…

  • The African Orphan Crisis and International Adoption

    Jini L Roby, Simon Shaw et al.•ARTICLE•Social Work•2006•Cited by: 24•References: 4

    The plight of Africa's AIDS orphans has reached crisis proportions, and the international community is beginning to mobilize at the family, community, national, and international levels. Despite these encouraging efforts, the response is inadequate, and increased attention and action are needed. The authors suggest that international adoption, although a small and temporary solution, may fit within the framework being used as a global working mod…

  • Openness in International Adoptions

    Jini L Roby, Jamie Wyatt et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2005•Cited by: 7•References: 3

    Along with the increasing numbers of international adoptions, there is a developing trend toward openness. In this study, the authors examined the experiences of U.S. adoptive parents who adopted children from the Republic of Marshall Islands. The surveys addressed their initial motivations, the facilitation process for openness, the terms and conditions and the level of understanding of them by birth and adoptive parents, and insights gained fro…

  • Women and children in the global sex trade

    Open Access•Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2005•Cited by: 22•References: 1

    English Around 1.2 million women and girls enter the sex trade every year, generating US$1.5 billion annually for their exploiters. Between 30 percent and 35 percent of the victims are girls under 18 years old. This article explores the growing problem of global trafficking of women and children for prostitution and outlines specific policy recommendations. French Environ 1,2 millions de femmes et de filles entrent le commerce de sexe chaque anné…

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  • The African Orphan Crisis and International Adoption

    Jini L Roby, Simon Shaw et al.•ARTICLE•Social Work•2006•Cited by: 24•References: 4

    The plight of Africa's AIDS orphans has reached crisis proportions, and the international community is beginning to mobilize at the family, community, national, and international levels. Despite these encouraging efforts, the response is inadequate, and increased attention and action are needed. The authors suggest that international adoption, although a small and temporary solution, may fit within the framework being used as a global working mod…

  • Women and children in the global sex trade

    Open Access•Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2005•Cited by: 22•References: 1

    English Around 1.2 million women and girls enter the sex trade every year, generating US$1.5 billion annually for their exploiters. Between 30 percent and 35 percent of the victims are girls under 18 years old. This article explores the growing problem of global trafficking of women and children for prostitution and outlines specific policy recommendations. French Environ 1,2 millions de femmes et de filles entrent le commerce de sexe chaque anné…

  • If I Give You My Child, Aren't We Family

    Jini L Roby, Stephanie Matsumura•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2002•Cited by: 19•References: 3

    While poverty is suspected to be the major reason for birth families relinquishing their children for international adoptions, little is known of the impact of the interplay among the economic, familial, and cultural aspects of a particular sending country which culminates in the adoption decision. In this study, the authors studied 73 birthmothers in the Republic of Marshall Islands, a small Western Pacific island nation with a total population …

  • Human rights, politics and intercountry adoption

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Jim Ife•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2009•Cited by: 14•References: 1

    English Intercountry adoption, once viewed as a means of international charity, has recently been challenged by political and economic forces, leading to vio lation of human rights. The authors compare the experiences of two sending countries – Romania and the Marshall Islands – and suggest the utilization of a bottom-up human rights approach. French L’adoption internationale, autrefois vue comme un moyen d’oeuvre de bienfaisance internationale, …

  • Family group conferencing as a culturally adaptable intervention

    Open Access•Karen Smith Rotabi, Joan Pennell et al.•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2012•Cited by: 13•References: 5

    Intercountry adoptions prevent institutionalization but may erode children’s rights to their families and cultural heritage. Family group conferencing offers a culturally adaptable intervention that looks for domestic solutions before turning to out-of-country placements. Guatemalan social work education offers a hospitable environment in which to promote its extension to adoptions

  • Federal and State Responses to Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking

    Jini L Roby, Mélanie Vincent•ARTICLE•Social Work•2017•Cited by: 9•References: 1

    Domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) is a rapidly growing problem in the United States, yet legislative efforts to address victim needs have begun only recently. DMST is an issue that spans several areas of social work practice, as emerging research shows that most children and youths exploited in commercial sex have typically experienced prior abuse, neglect, or other forms of trauma. Many have been involved with the child welfare and juvenile …

  • Social Justice and Intercountry Adoptions

    Jini L Roby, Karen Smith Rotabi et al.•ARTICLE•Social Work•2013•Cited by: 9•References: 9

    Using social justice as the conceptual foundation, the authors present the structural barriers to socially just intercountry adoptions (ICAs) that can exploit and oppress vulnerable children and families participating in ICAs. They argue that such practices threaten the integrity of social work practice in that arena and the survival of ICA as a placement option. Government structures, disparity of power between countries and families on both sid…

  • U.S. Response to Human Trafficking

    Jini L Roby, Jennifer Turley et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant & Refugee…•2008•Cited by: 9•References: 5

    An estimated 17,000 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year.Nearly a decade after passing the Trafficking Victims and Protection Act (TVPA) to address human trafficking, the U.S. is still grappling to balance punishing traffickers and protecting victims.This paper examines the victim benefits and the trend in criminal prosecution of the perpetrators under the new national policy.Although the policy is an improvement over past policies, only…

  • Education for children in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Lance D Erickson et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2016•Cited by: 7•References: 25

  • Institutionalized child abuse

    Open Access•Carrie E Kimmel, Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2007•Cited by: 7•References: 2

    English In this article the practice of using child soldiers is examined in the light of the structural elements that facilitate and perpetuate this form of institutionalized child abuse. Based on new models for understanding this form of child abuse, the authors suggest intervention methods at the macro and micro levels. French Cette étude examine la pratique du recrutement des enfants à titre de soldats et fait ressortir des é léments structure…

  • Openness in International Adoptions

    Jini L Roby, Jamie Wyatt et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2005•Cited by: 7•References: 3

    Along with the increasing numbers of international adoptions, there is a developing trend toward openness. In this study, the authors examined the experiences of U.S. adoptive parents who adopted children from the Republic of Marshall Islands. The surveys addressed their initial motivations, the facilitation process for openness, the terms and conditions and the level of understanding of them by birth and adoptive parents, and insights gained fro…

  • Does family reunification from residential care facilities serve children's best interest? A propensity-score matching approach in Ghana

    Open Access•L James, Spencer L James et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 55

  • Exploitation of Intercountry Adoption

    Taylor W Brown, Taylor Brown et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2015•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    The conflation of various illicit intercountry adoption activities under the umbrella of “child trafficking” has caused confusion in the adoption literature. Utilizing a pragmatic approach, this article explores the cacophony of opinions that have arisen with regard to trafficking in illicit adoption activities and identifies the concept of exploitation as a useful framework for differentiating among them. To improve and increase the accuracy of …

  • Perceived food and labor equity and school attendance among U gandan children living in kin care

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Stacey A Shaw et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2013•Cited by: 4•References: 12

    Emerging research suggests that biological relatedness contributes to differential treatment between children being raised by kin and the biological children in the caregiver's household. This potential concern may be elevated especially when household resources are stretched thin. In this study, 518 U gandan youth and their caregivers were interviewed individually, examining the association between relatedness and perceived food and work equity,…

  • Sub-Saharan African Women Living with HIV/Aids

    David R Hodges, D R Hodge et al.•ARTICLE•Social Work•2010•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    From a global perspective, the typical person living with HIV/AIDS is likely a sub-Saharan African woman. Yet despite calls from NASW to adopt a global outlook on the HIV/AIDS crisis, little research has examined how such women cope. In this study, the authors used a mixed-methods approach to explore how one sample of sub-Saharan African women (N = 162) attending an AIDS clinic in Entebbe, Uganda, cope with their circumstances. The results reveal…

  • Adoption Activities on the Internet

    Jini L Roby, Helen White•ARTICLE•Social Work•2010•Cited by: 4

    There is a growing practice of adoption services on the Internet with varying degrees of regulation, depending on whether it is domestic infant adoption, public foster care adoption, or international adoption. Regulation is particularly lacking in domestic infant adoptions, with Web sites connecting prospective birth and adoptive parents, sometimes through an adoption brokerage service. International adoptions can also be plagued by unethical pra…

  • Barriers to girls' education in Mozambique at household and community levels

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Missy Jean Lambert et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    Although education of children is universally accepted as a leading mechanism of poverty eradication and social development, many developing nations continue to struggle in achieving gender parity in primary and secondary education. While Mozambique has recently accelerated its efforts to reduce this gap, girls are still enrolled and attending school at a much lower rate than boys. The present study explored the barriers to children's – especiall…

  • Stigma by association

    Open Access•Daniel B Haber, Jini L Roby et al.•ARTICLE•Health & Social Care in the…•2011•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    The shortage of healthcare workers caring for South Africa's 5-6 million persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) calls for inquiry into workers' challenges and experiences. This exploratory study examines one little-studied challenge: stigmatisation of HIV/AIDS healthcare workers based on their association with PLHA. The authors tested the hypotheses that HIV/AIDS healthcare workers experience stigmatisation due to their association with PLHA, and th…

  • Altruistic Exploitation

    Karen Smith Rotabi, Jini L Roby et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 30

    Despite the abundant scientific evidence demonstrating the benefits of family-based care for children and the damages brought on by institution-based care, the social work profession continues to endorse and engage in practices that promote the latter. This is particularly true through orphan tourism and orphan volunteerism—short- and longer-term forms of providing aid to residential facilities caring for children. Using educational tours to orph…

  • Contextual Adaptation of Family Group Conferencing Model

    Jini L Roby, Joan Pennell et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 14

    Guatemala has faced a disproportionate number of children placed outside their families through unethical intercountry adoptions or into large residential settings, jeopardising child and family rights. In response, an international team conducted a pilot training in Guatemala on family group conferencing (FGC) as a means of maintaining children in their homes or with their kin. The training participants were child welfare professionals from gove…

  • Ubuntu among the ‘born frees’

    Open Access•Stephanie Blickfeldt Willmore, Randal D Day et al.•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    Ubuntu was recently adopted as the first theme for the 2020–2030 global agenda for social work, and yet little research is available to explore how it is transmitted and implemented in communities. The authors present findings of a qualitative study conducted in an academic setting in South Africa, where the transmission of Ubuntu was discussed among 30 young adult ‘born frees’. Students seemed to embrace principles of Ubuntu as a whole; however,…

  • Navigating uncharted terrain

    Open Access•Denise Stuckenbruck, Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•Child & Family Social Work•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    Over 2 million children are cared for in kinship care in Kenya, and approximately 100,000 are believed to be living in residential care centres. Under leading international policy instruments ratified and domesticated by Kenya, domestic adoption is considered an option to be promoted and regulated in ensuring children's right to family‐based care. In this qualitative study, the authors interviewed 21 participants regarding the cultural and social…

  • Parental loss and hope among orphaned children in South Africa

    Matt Adamson, Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•Vulnerable Children and Youth…•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    In this pilot study, the Children's Hope Scale was used for the first time in Africa to compare hope levels among a sample of 41 orphans and 40 non-orphans, aged 8–16 years, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Contrary to results suggested by other regional data and their own hypothesis, authors found that orphaned children reported slightly higher levels of agency thinking overall, with more pronounced differences between orphan girls and their…

  • Supply and Demand

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Jacob Tanner•ARTICLE•Geography Compass•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 25

    In northern Thailand poverty, political turmoil, sex tourism and cultural dynamics converge to create a booming sex industry. The purpose of this article is to examine how the dynamics of supply and demand feed into prostitution in that region, with attention to available information on human trafficking. While the line separating prostitution and sex trafficking is difficult to establish, there is ample evidence that both co-exist in the region.…

  • If I Give You My Child, Aren't We Family

    Jini L Roby, Stephanie Matsumura•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2002•Cited by: 19•References: 3

    While poverty is suspected to be the major reason for birth families relinquishing their children for international adoptions, little is known of the impact of the interplay among the economic, familial, and cultural aspects of a particular sending country which culminates in the adoption decision. In this study, the authors studied 73 birthmothers in the Republic of Marshall Islands, a small Western Pacific island nation with a total population …

  • Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Philippines

    MELISSA WARD, Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•Asia Pacific Journal of Social…•2004•References: 2

    Angel (not her real name) was first sexually abused by her uncle when she was eight years old. At that time, Angel was working rather than going to school, selling sampaguita flowers on the streets of Metro Manila to help support her family. When her uncle began abusing her, she was so ashamed that she chose not to tell anyone in her family. Later, when he began selling her to strangers, she decided to run away and live on the streets. After a fe…

  • Openness in International Adoptions

    Jini L Roby, Jamie Wyatt et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2005•Cited by: 7•References: 3

    Along with the increasing numbers of international adoptions, there is a developing trend toward openness. In this study, the authors examined the experiences of U.S. adoptive parents who adopted children from the Republic of Marshall Islands. The surveys addressed their initial motivations, the facilitation process for openness, the terms and conditions and the level of understanding of them by birth and adoptive parents, and insights gained fro…

  • Women and children in the global sex trade

    Open Access•Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2005•Cited by: 22•References: 1

    English Around 1.2 million women and girls enter the sex trade every year, generating US$1.5 billion annually for their exploiters. Between 30 percent and 35 percent of the victims are girls under 18 years old. This article explores the growing problem of global trafficking of women and children for prostitution and outlines specific policy recommendations. French Environ 1,2 millions de femmes et de filles entrent le commerce de sexe chaque anné…

  • The African Orphan Crisis and International Adoption

    Jini L Roby, Simon Shaw et al.•ARTICLE•Social Work•2006•Cited by: 24•References: 4

    The plight of Africa's AIDS orphans has reached crisis proportions, and the international community is beginning to mobilize at the family, community, national, and international levels. Despite these encouraging efforts, the response is inadequate, and increased attention and action are needed. The authors suggest that international adoption, although a small and temporary solution, may fit within the framework being used as a global working mod…

  • Institutionalized child abuse

    Open Access•Carrie E Kimmel, Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2007•Cited by: 7•References: 2

    English In this article the practice of using child soldiers is examined in the light of the structural elements that facilitate and perpetuate this form of institutionalized child abuse. Based on new models for understanding this form of child abuse, the authors suggest intervention methods at the macro and micro levels. French Cette étude examine la pratique du recrutement des enfants à titre de soldats et fait ressortir des é léments structure…

  • Barriers to girls' education in Mozambique at household and community levels

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Missy Jean Lambert et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    Although education of children is universally accepted as a leading mechanism of poverty eradication and social development, many developing nations continue to struggle in achieving gender parity in primary and secondary education. While Mozambique has recently accelerated its efforts to reduce this gap, girls are still enrolled and attending school at a much lower rate than boys. The present study explored the barriers to children's – especiall…

  • The Adoption Network

    Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2008

  • U.S. Response to Human Trafficking

    Jini L Roby, Jennifer Turley et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant & Refugee…•2008•Cited by: 9•References: 5

    An estimated 17,000 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year.Nearly a decade after passing the Trafficking Victims and Protection Act (TVPA) to address human trafficking, the U.S. is still grappling to balance punishing traffickers and protecting victims.This paper examines the victim benefits and the trend in criminal prosecution of the perpetrators under the new national policy.Although the policy is an improvement over past policies, only…

  • Human rights, politics and intercountry adoption

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Jim Ife•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2009•Cited by: 14•References: 1

    English Intercountry adoption, once viewed as a means of international charity, has recently been challenged by political and economic forces, leading to vio lation of human rights. The authors compare the experiences of two sending countries – Romania and the Marshall Islands – and suggest the utilization of a bottom-up human rights approach. French L’adoption internationale, autrefois vue comme un moyen d’oeuvre de bienfaisance internationale, …

  • Supply and Demand

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Jacob Tanner•ARTICLE•Geography Compass•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 25

    In northern Thailand poverty, political turmoil, sex tourism and cultural dynamics converge to create a booming sex industry. The purpose of this article is to examine how the dynamics of supply and demand feed into prostitution in that region, with attention to available information on human trafficking. While the line separating prostitution and sex trafficking is difficult to establish, there is ample evidence that both co-exist in the region.…

  • Sub-Saharan African Women Living with HIV/Aids

    David R Hodges, D R Hodge et al.•ARTICLE•Social Work•2010•Cited by: 4•References: 7

    From a global perspective, the typical person living with HIV/AIDS is likely a sub-Saharan African woman. Yet despite calls from NASW to adopt a global outlook on the HIV/AIDS crisis, little research has examined how such women cope. In this study, the authors used a mixed-methods approach to explore how one sample of sub-Saharan African women (N = 162) attending an AIDS clinic in Entebbe, Uganda, cope with their circumstances. The results reveal…

  • Adoption Activities on the Internet

    Jini L Roby, Helen White•ARTICLE•Social Work•2010•Cited by: 4

    There is a growing practice of adoption services on the Internet with varying degrees of regulation, depending on whether it is domestic infant adoption, public foster care adoption, or international adoption. Regulation is particularly lacking in domestic infant adoptions, with Web sites connecting prospective birth and adoptive parents, sometimes through an adoption brokerage service. International adoptions can also be plagued by unethical pra…

  • Parental loss and hope among orphaned children in South Africa

    Matt Adamson, Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•Vulnerable Children and Youth…•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    In this pilot study, the Children's Hope Scale was used for the first time in Africa to compare hope levels among a sample of 41 orphans and 40 non-orphans, aged 8–16 years, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Contrary to results suggested by other regional data and their own hypothesis, authors found that orphaned children reported slightly higher levels of agency thinking overall, with more pronounced differences between orphan girls and their…

  • Stigma by association

    Open Access•Daniel B Haber, Jini L Roby et al.•ARTICLE•Health & Social Care in the…•2011•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    The shortage of healthcare workers caring for South Africa's 5-6 million persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) calls for inquiry into workers' challenges and experiences. This exploratory study examines one little-studied challenge: stigmatisation of HIV/AIDS healthcare workers based on their association with PLHA. The authors tested the hypotheses that HIV/AIDS healthcare workers experience stigmatisation due to their association with PLHA, and th…

  • Family group conferencing as a culturally adaptable intervention

    Open Access•Karen Smith Rotabi, Joan Pennell et al.•ARTICLE•International Social Work•2012•Cited by: 13•References: 5

    Intercountry adoptions prevent institutionalization but may erode children’s rights to their families and cultural heritage. Family group conferencing offers a culturally adaptable intervention that looks for domestic solutions before turning to out-of-country placements. Guatemalan social work education offers a hospitable environment in which to promote its extension to adoptions

  • Perceived food and labor equity and school attendance among U gandan children living in kin care

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Stacey A Shaw et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Social…•2013•Cited by: 4•References: 12

    Emerging research suggests that biological relatedness contributes to differential treatment between children being raised by kin and the biological children in the caregiver's household. This potential concern may be elevated especially when household resources are stretched thin. In this study, 518 U gandan youth and their caregivers were interviewed individually, examining the association between relatedness and perceived food and work equity,…

  • Social Justice and Intercountry Adoptions

    Jini L Roby, Karen Smith Rotabi et al.•ARTICLE•Social Work•2013•Cited by: 9•References: 9

    Using social justice as the conceptual foundation, the authors present the structural barriers to socially just intercountry adoptions (ICAs) that can exploit and oppress vulnerable children and families participating in ICAs. They argue that such practices threaten the integrity of social work practice in that arena and the survival of ICA as a placement option. Government structures, disparity of power between countries and families on both sid…

  • Exploitation of Intercountry Adoption

    Taylor W Brown, Taylor Brown et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•2015•Cited by: 5•References: 9

    The conflation of various illicit intercountry adoption activities under the umbrella of “child trafficking” has caused confusion in the adoption literature. Utilizing a pragmatic approach, this article explores the cacophony of opinions that have arisen with regard to trafficking in illicit adoption activities and identifies the concept of exploitation as a useful framework for differentiating among them. To improve and increase the accuracy of …

  • Contextual Adaptation of Family Group Conferencing Model

    Jini L Roby, Joan Pennell et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 14

    Guatemala has faced a disproportionate number of children placed outside their families through unethical intercountry adoptions or into large residential settings, jeopardising child and family rights. In response, an international team conducted a pilot training in Guatemala on family group conferencing (FGC) as a means of maintaining children in their homes or with their kin. The training participants were child welfare professionals from gove…

  • Education for children in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open Access•Jini L Roby, Lance D Erickson et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2016•Cited by: 7•References: 25

  • Navigating uncharted terrain

    Open Access•Denise Stuckenbruck, Jini L Roby•ARTICLE•Child & Family Social Work•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    Over 2 million children are cared for in kinship care in Kenya, and approximately 100,000 are believed to be living in residential care centres. Under leading international policy instruments ratified and domesticated by Kenya, domestic adoption is considered an option to be promoted and regulated in ensuring children's right to family‐based care. In this qualitative study, the authors interviewed 21 participants regarding the cultural and social…

  • Does family reunification from residential care facilities serve children's best interest? A propensity-score matching approach in Ghana

    Open Access•L James, Spencer L James et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 55

  • Altruistic Exploitation

    Karen Smith Rotabi, Jini L Roby et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 30

    Despite the abundant scientific evidence demonstrating the benefits of family-based care for children and the damages brought on by institution-based care, the social work profession continues to endorse and engage in practices that promote the latter. This is particularly true through orphan tourism and orphan volunteerism—short- and longer-term forms of providing aid to residential facilities caring for children. Using educational tours to orph…

  • Federal and State Responses to Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking

    Jini L Roby, Mélanie Vincent•ARTICLE•Social Work•2017•Cited by: 9•References: 1

    Domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) is a rapidly growing problem in the United States, yet legislative efforts to address victim needs have begun only recently. DMST is an issue that spans several areas of social work practice, as emerging research shows that most children and youths exploited in commercial sex have typically experienced prior abuse, neglect, or other forms of trauma. Many have been involved with the child welfare and juvenile …

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