Jessica Saba

Biographic Data

ID6532141
NAMEJessica Saba
GIVEN NAMESJessica
FAMILY NAMESaba
SIGNATURESABA J
AFFILIATIONSMichigan State University
ORCID0000-0001-7191-0827
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Seen but Unseen

    Open AccessRebecca A Karam, Jessica Saba et al.ARTICLESociology of Race and Ethnicity2026

    Despite being legally classified as White, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) people in the United States have long been racialized as non-White, producing an invisibility/hypervisibility paradox. In other racially minoritized communities, this paradox has been linked to harmful effects across multiple social, political, and economic domains, including higher education. Integrating literature on the racialization of MENA Americans with schol…

  • Commentary—Voices of Solidarity

    Jessica Saba, Nidia Hernandez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work Education2025

    We call attention to social work’s silence surrounding the genocide perpetrated against the Palestinian people of Gaza that has killed more than 46,000 Palestinians, more than half of whom are women and children, and displaced 95% of Gaza’s population. By February 2025, more than 14,000 people who were still trapped under the rubble were declared dead, with the death toll in Gaza likely nearing 62,000 murdered Palestinians. We reflect on our comm…

  • Sumud (“steadfastness”) in practice

    Jessica Saba, Manar Qaraqe et al.ARTICLECritical and Radical Social Work2025

    The abstract is translated in Arabic below. In this article, the authors reflect on their experiences as participants in and facilitators of a girls’ participatory action research program in Aida Refugee Camp. In honor of the tenth anniversary, we, as former participants and facilitators, share our reflections, lessons learned, and recommendations for future implementations of an innovative practice model that we indigenized to our local Palestin…

  • Can This Provider Be Trusted? A Review of the Role of Trustworthiness in the Provision of Community-Based Services for Intimate Partner Violence Survivors

    Open AccessAnne-Catherine Kennedy, Kristen A Prock et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2024

    While there is a growing literature on intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors and service providers, it is limited by its largely atheoretical and descriptive nature, and its emphasis on individual-level survivors’ help-seeking. We seek to broaden our understanding by shifting the focus onto organizations and service systems and introducing the concept of these providers’ trustworthiness toward survivors. Provider trustworthiness in delivering…

  • The shoe on the other foot

    Jessica Saba, Danica Nestor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnic & Cultural…2023References: 6

    As the Social Work profession reconciles with the profession's history of overt and covert harm toward people of color, it seems to have missed the crucial conversations surrounding the harm perpetuated toward BIPOC colleagues within its profession (National Association of Social Workers [NASW], 2021). Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) are essential to the profession. BIPOC social workers have the ability to relate to clients who hav…

  • No Free Homeland Without Free Women

    Open AccessJessica SabaARTICLEAffilia2023Cited by: 2References: 7

    On September 3, 2019, Israa Ghrayeb, a 21-year-old woman was murdered by her family. Soon after, on September 26, 2019, thousands of protestors took to the streets throughout 12 cities including Jerusalem, Ramallah, Rafah, and Haifa. The protests were organized by the Indigenous Palestinian feminist movement, Tal’at. Tal’at is translated literally from Arabic as “stepping out” and is semantically translated as “rising up.” It's slogan “No Free Ho…