Joan Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3771313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Multicultural Meanings of Social Support among Immigrants and Refugees
Canada continues to be a prominent immigrant and refugee‐receiving country in worldwide migration, resettlement, and search for refuge, yet there is a gap in our understanding of these newcomers’ views of the specific meanings of social support and their support needs and resources. The purpose of this study was to understand the meanings of social support for immigrants and refugees in Canada, and to explore the types and adequacy of formal supp…
A human development index for the United States‐Mexico border
This paper presents a Border Human Development Index, which is a modified version of the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Index, in order to compare the development levels of the U.S. counties and Mexican municipios that touch the U.S.‐Mexico Border. The paper presents the methodology used for constructing this index, along with results of the HDI's three sub‐indices of income, education and health, and the full Border HDI f…
Borders, border regions and economic integration
The effects of a border on economic interaction depend on the nature of that border with respect to the degree of openness, the degree of cultural, racial and linguistic differences, political relations between the respective regions and the degree of economic disparity. High walls and slow border crossings are detrimental to economic exchange. Economic and political tensions surrounding a border are directly related to the degree of economic dis…
Economic survival strategies of poor families on the Mexican Border
The response of labour effort to falling real wages
The Differential Construction of Social Reality in Chronically Ill Children
Community standards, conservatism, and judgments of pornography
In an attempt to determine if a community standard existed and to relate judgments of pornography to conservatism, scores on Wilson and Patterson's Conservatism Scale, yes‐no judgments on whether 25 pictures were or were not pornographic, and demographic data were obtained from a random sample (N = 114) of a community. Results were as follows: (1) suggestive evidence for the existence of a community standard; (2) the c‐scale correlated .57 (N = 1…
Multicultural Meanings of Social Support among Immigrants and Refugees
Canada continues to be a prominent immigrant and refugee‐receiving country in worldwide migration, resettlement, and search for refuge, yet there is a gap in our understanding of these newcomers’ views of the specific meanings of social support and their support needs and resources. The purpose of this study was to understand the meanings of social support for immigrants and refugees in Canada, and to explore the types and adequacy of formal supp…
Borders, border regions and economic integration
The effects of a border on economic interaction depend on the nature of that border with respect to the degree of openness, the degree of cultural, racial and linguistic differences, political relations between the respective regions and the degree of economic disparity. High walls and slow border crossings are detrimental to economic exchange. Economic and political tensions surrounding a border are directly related to the degree of economic dis…
A human development index for the United States‐Mexico border
This paper presents a Border Human Development Index, which is a modified version of the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Index, in order to compare the development levels of the U.S. counties and Mexican municipios that touch the U.S.‐Mexico Border. The paper presents the methodology used for constructing this index, along with results of the HDI's three sub‐indices of income, education and health, and the full Border HDI f…
Economic survival strategies of poor families on the Mexican Border
Community standards, conservatism, and judgments of pornography
In an attempt to determine if a community standard existed and to relate judgments of pornography to conservatism, scores on Wilson and Patterson's Conservatism Scale, yes‐no judgments on whether 25 pictures were or were not pornographic, and demographic data were obtained from a random sample (N = 114) of a community. Results were as follows: (1) suggestive evidence for the existence of a community standard; (2) the c‐scale correlated .57 (N = 1…
Community standards, conservatism, and judgments of pornography
In an attempt to determine if a community standard existed and to relate judgments of pornography to conservatism, scores on Wilson and Patterson's Conservatism Scale, yes‐no judgments on whether 25 pictures were or were not pornographic, and demographic data were obtained from a random sample (N = 114) of a community. Results were as follows: (1) suggestive evidence for the existence of a community standard; (2) the c‐scale correlated .57 (N = 1…
The Differential Construction of Social Reality in Chronically Ill Children
The response of labour effort to falling real wages
Economic survival strategies of poor families on the Mexican Border
Borders, border regions and economic integration
The effects of a border on economic interaction depend on the nature of that border with respect to the degree of openness, the degree of cultural, racial and linguistic differences, political relations between the respective regions and the degree of economic disparity. High walls and slow border crossings are detrimental to economic exchange. Economic and political tensions surrounding a border are directly related to the degree of economic dis…
A human development index for the United States‐Mexico border
This paper presents a Border Human Development Index, which is a modified version of the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Index, in order to compare the development levels of the U.S. counties and Mexican municipios that touch the U.S.‐Mexico Border. The paper presents the methodology used for constructing this index, along with results of the HDI's three sub‐indices of income, education and health, and the full Border HDI f…
Multicultural Meanings of Social Support among Immigrants and Refugees
Canada continues to be a prominent immigrant and refugee‐receiving country in worldwide migration, resettlement, and search for refuge, yet there is a gap in our understanding of these newcomers’ views of the specific meanings of social support and their support needs and resources. The purpose of this study was to understand the meanings of social support for immigrants and refugees in Canada, and to explore the types and adequacy of formal supp…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)