Ailsa M Watkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4159526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ailsa M Watkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ailsa M |
| FAMILY NAME | Watkinson |
| SIGNATURE | WATKINSON A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Regina |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2218-3541 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Newcomer Women’s Experiences of Help-Seeking after Intimate Partner Violence
I Felt Like I Was a Puppet—He's the Master, and He's Playing With My Life”
This study adds to a small body of Canadian literature investigating the ways that newcomer women experience, and are impacted by, intimate partner violence (IPV). The study involved qualitative interviews with 15 newcomer women who migrated to Saskatchewan, Canada, from 12 different countries. These findings provide insight into participants' complex lived experiences and illustrate how women's status as newcomers intersected with their experien…
Supporting Newcomer Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence and Their Children
This qualitative study adds to research on the experiences of professionals who support newcomer women who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). Findings from seven focus groups with 32 service providers from newcomer-serving and domestic violence agencies in Saskatchewan, Canada, include newcomer survivors’ experiences of isolation, the impact of IPV on newcomer children, and challenges and opportunities for supporting newcomer women…
Newcomer parents with child welfare histories
This article presents findings from a qualitative study with parents of four Saskatchewan newcomer families (both immigrants and refugees) in central Canada on their interactions with child welfare services. We collected data through in-depth individual interviews with parents to understand their first encounters with child welfare authorities during the first 5 years of their settlement in Canada. None of the participants had any prior experienc…
A Comparative Study of the Attitudes of Graduating Bachelor of Social Work Students in Barbados and Canada Towards Child Physical Punishment
The Second Coming
Social welfare has increasingly been downloaded to community and faith-based organizations (FBOs). Many FBOs adhere to religious fundamentalist views that challenge the rights of equality-seeking groups and conflict with international human rights laws and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Regulations or policies governing how FBOs provide public services are lacking or nonexistent. This article explores guidelines emanating from court…
Child physical punishment and international human rights
There are increasing calls for the universal implementation of human rights education into the curriculum of schools of social work flowing from international directives including the recent Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development Commitment to Action. With these directives as backdrop, we use, as a case study, the issue of child physical punishment with particular reference to the Caribbean region. The article discusses the prevalen…
Constructing the ‘criminal’ – deconstructing the ‘crime’
The aim of this paper is to examine and deconstruct the process of denying human rights protection to one group (children) on the basis that if this was done, another group (parents and teachers) could be construed as ‘criminal.’ In 2004 the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that children's constitutional rights to security, equality and to be free from cruel and unusual treatment were not infringed when assaults made on them were made by a parent or …
Supreme Court of Canada stands behind corporal punishment – sort of
Child physical punishment and international human rights
There are increasing calls for the universal implementation of human rights education into the curriculum of schools of social work flowing from international directives including the recent Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development Commitment to Action. With these directives as backdrop, we use, as a case study, the issue of child physical punishment with particular reference to the Caribbean region. The article discusses the prevalen…
Supporting Newcomer Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence and Their Children
This qualitative study adds to research on the experiences of professionals who support newcomer women who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). Findings from seven focus groups with 32 service providers from newcomer-serving and domestic violence agencies in Saskatchewan, Canada, include newcomer survivors’ experiences of isolation, the impact of IPV on newcomer children, and challenges and opportunities for supporting newcomer women…
Newcomer Women’s Experiences of Help-Seeking after Intimate Partner Violence
I Felt Like I Was a Puppet—He's the Master, and He's Playing With My Life”
This study adds to a small body of Canadian literature investigating the ways that newcomer women experience, and are impacted by, intimate partner violence (IPV). The study involved qualitative interviews with 15 newcomer women who migrated to Saskatchewan, Canada, from 12 different countries. These findings provide insight into participants' complex lived experiences and illustrate how women's status as newcomers intersected with their experien…
Newcomer parents with child welfare histories
This article presents findings from a qualitative study with parents of four Saskatchewan newcomer families (both immigrants and refugees) in central Canada on their interactions with child welfare services. We collected data through in-depth individual interviews with parents to understand their first encounters with child welfare authorities during the first 5 years of their settlement in Canada. None of the participants had any prior experienc…
Supreme Court of Canada stands behind corporal punishment – sort of
Constructing the ‘criminal’ – deconstructing the ‘crime’
The aim of this paper is to examine and deconstruct the process of denying human rights protection to one group (children) on the basis that if this was done, another group (parents and teachers) could be construed as ‘criminal.’ In 2004 the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that children's constitutional rights to security, equality and to be free from cruel and unusual treatment were not infringed when assaults made on them were made by a parent or …
Child physical punishment and international human rights
There are increasing calls for the universal implementation of human rights education into the curriculum of schools of social work flowing from international directives including the recent Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development Commitment to Action. With these directives as backdrop, we use, as a case study, the issue of child physical punishment with particular reference to the Caribbean region. The article discusses the prevalen…
The Second Coming
Social welfare has increasingly been downloaded to community and faith-based organizations (FBOs). Many FBOs adhere to religious fundamentalist views that challenge the rights of equality-seeking groups and conflict with international human rights laws and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Regulations or policies governing how FBOs provide public services are lacking or nonexistent. This article explores guidelines emanating from court…
A Comparative Study of the Attitudes of Graduating Bachelor of Social Work Students in Barbados and Canada Towards Child Physical Punishment
Newcomer parents with child welfare histories
This article presents findings from a qualitative study with parents of four Saskatchewan newcomer families (both immigrants and refugees) in central Canada on their interactions with child welfare services. We collected data through in-depth individual interviews with parents to understand their first encounters with child welfare authorities during the first 5 years of their settlement in Canada. None of the participants had any prior experienc…
Supporting Newcomer Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence and Their Children
This qualitative study adds to research on the experiences of professionals who support newcomer women who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). Findings from seven focus groups with 32 service providers from newcomer-serving and domestic violence agencies in Saskatchewan, Canada, include newcomer survivors’ experiences of isolation, the impact of IPV on newcomer children, and challenges and opportunities for supporting newcomer women…
I Felt Like I Was a Puppet—He's the Master, and He's Playing With My Life”
This study adds to a small body of Canadian literature investigating the ways that newcomer women experience, and are impacted by, intimate partner violence (IPV). The study involved qualitative interviews with 15 newcomer women who migrated to Saskatchewan, Canada, from 12 different countries. These findings provide insight into participants' complex lived experiences and illustrate how women's status as newcomers intersected with their experien…
Newcomer Women’s Experiences of Help-Seeking after Intimate Partner Violence
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