Debora Ortega
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 664794 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Debora Ortega |
| NOMBRES | Debora |
| APELLIDO | Ortega |
| FIRMA | ORTEGA D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4767-8268 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Normalizing intersex children through genital surgery
This paper explores the conceptions of specialized physicians regarding intersex child surgery, and contrasts them with the experiences of intersex adults. The gap between the views of health personnel—who affirm that they are “doing their best”—and those of intersex persons—who report the adverse consequences of surgery—highlights the need to stop unnecessary normalization surgeries in children. The findings of this study suggest that bridging t…
Estimating mortality and disability in Peru before the Covid-19 pandemic
Background: Estimating and analyzing trends and patterns of health loss are essential to promote efficient resource allocation and improve Peru's healthcare system performance. Methods: Using estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD), Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (2019), we assessed mortality and disability in Peru from 1990 to 2019. We report demographic and epidemiologic trends in terms of population, life expectancy at birth (LE), …
Did I Hear That Right?”
Microaggressions are well-documented in education literature, yet they are typically explored on the interpersonal level and less often contextualized within a broader educational context. In this study, we used a critical qualitative approach, pairing a Critical Race Theory framework with a feminist critique, to explore K-12 faculty and staff perceptions of racial microaggressions in U.S. public schools. Twenty-five faculty and staff with anti-o…
A CRT Analysis of Policy Making in Nevada
This study uses critical race theory (CRT) to uncover racialized interactions that influence legislative processes. The transcripts from public hearings from the 2017 Nevada State legislative session were included in the data analysis. Results demonstrate the utility of CRT as an analytic tool to examine the policy-making process, identify narratives that sustain and protect white supremacy imbedded in policies governing high school education, an…
Protecting White Interests
Although various policy analysis frameworks exist within the social work literature, fewspecifically address the racism inherent to policymaking processes. We propose interestconvergence as a conceptual lens for policy analysis to expose the racism inherent inpolicymaking. Transcripts from 19 public hearings of five bills sponsored during the 2017Nevada legislative session were included in the data analysis for this study. A thematic analysistook…
Dreams Deterred
Recent years have seen a broadening of the scope of immigration enforcement. As a result, immigrants free of criminal convictions, once considered low priorities for enforcement, are increasingly subject to arrest, detention, and removal. At the same time, federal immigration authorities have sought the cooperation of states and localities in the enforcement of immigration laws. While there has been growing scholarly attention paid to the ways in…
An exploration of the relationships between student racial background and the school sub-contexts of office discipline referrals
A growing body of research indicates that exclusionary school discipline practices disproportionately impact students of color. Some scholars have theorized that racial disparities likely vary across school sub-contexts, as implicit bias in perceptions of student behavior may be more influential in locations where students and adults have weaker relationships (e.g. bathrooms and hallways, compared to the classroom). Guided by Critical Race Theory…
Development and validation of a Screening Questionnaire of Family Mistreatment against Older Adults for use in primary care settings in Mexico
The abuse of older adults is a serious public health issue that can be difficult to identify at the first level of care. Medical and nursing personnel are sometimes unable to identify older adults who suffer family mistreatment. This can occur when victims feel shame or as a result of cultural factors. In the light of this, healthcare personnel require a screening tool that can be used to identify signs of mistreatment. The aim of this study was …
Tempered Dreams
This research study explores the experience of first-generation immigrants of Mexican origin living in Denver, CO. Seven Mexican immigrants described their experiences through an in-depth interview process. The data were analyzed using a constant comparative method. The process described by the participants reflects ambivalence about living in the United States. This ambivalence stems from a conflict between their beliefs that the United States i…
Prevalence and factors associated with violence and abuse of older adults in Mexico’s 2012 National Health and Nutrition Survey
Violence against older adults presents differently for men and women, which means it is necessary to increase knowledge about the dynamics of the social determinants of violence, particularly in regards to the role of education among men. The relatively low prevalence found in this study may reflect the difficulty and fear of discussing the topic of violence. This may occur because of cultural factors, as well as by the perception of helplessness…
Learning, Doing, Thinking, Writing, and Loving as Feminists About Feminisms
Complacency, Violence, and Gender
The levels of violence experienced by women in the United States are at unacceptably high levels. Generations and generations of women are socialized to be afraid as they walk down streets and in dark parking lots. Women of all ages are aware of their need to be hypervigilant about their safety (Helliwell, 2000). In the United States, by age 17, one in four girls has experienced sexual assault by adults and peers (Finkelhor, Shattuck, Turner, & H…
Sowing the Semillas of Critical Multicultural Citizenship for Latina/o Undocumented Youth
The purpose of this study is to address how spaces in school and out of school support or constrain undocumented Latina/o youths' development as critical multicultural citizens. We draw on data from a multi-phase, qualitative study to present findings indicating that the youths persevered through academic and civic engagement. Ultimately, the students drew from their liminal status-the space between legal and "illegal"-to become stewards of a cau…
Enacting and Sustaining Trauma and Violence Through Policy Enforcement
In the fall of 2015, Professor Lisa Graybill and two law students from Sturm College of Law responded to a call from the American Immigrant Lawyers Association (AILA) requesting pro bono legal services to women and their children who were being held at a detention center in Artesia, New Mexico. When Professor Graybill and the students arrived at the detention center, they were surprised and dismayed by what they found: poor conditions, sick child…
Feminist Transformation Deconstructing Prisons and Reconstructing Justice With Criminalized Women
The prison therefore functions ideologically as an abstract site into which undesirables are deposited, relieving us of the responsibility of thinking about the real issues afflicting those communities from which prisoners are drawn in such disproportionate numbers. This is the ideological work that the prison performs; it relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism…
Old Turf New Battles
Legislation about female bodies has been a concern of social work since the early days of Hull House. Specifically, two Hull House residents and physicians, Alice Hamilton and Rachelle Yarro, were involved in programming and policy work related to the access to contraceptive devices (Haslett, 1997). Hamilton and Yarro sagely understood the ability (or lack thereof) to control reproduction as being related to ‘‘the causes and consequences of pover…
Beyond the Feminist Critique
As journal editors of Affilia, we often find ourselves in the position of asking the question, ‘‘is this feminist?’’ Of course, this question has various iterations and includes, ‘‘is this feminist enough?’’ ‘‘that can’t be feminist?’’ ‘‘are we behaving like feminists?’’ We also know ourselves, particularly in a moment of intense heated dialog, to comment to each other, ‘‘you don’t sound very feminist.’’ Are there such definitions? Feminist enoug…
A Corrido for Ann Weick
If the life and works of Ann Weick could be put to music, the genre would be a border corridor. In Latin America, the corrido is a type of ballad that often extols the virtues, struggles, and accomplishments of a hero or heroine; border ballad tells the tales of bandits whose exploits are fuelled by the frustrations of class struggle and domination. These bandits through heroic deeds strike out against authority. As marginalized people sing them,…
Crimmigration and Detainers
In the Name of Vawa
It may at first seem curious that the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) would be the topic of an editorial 9 months after its 2013 reauthorization and before we have the opportunity to examine its impact, since it takes effect in fiscal year 2014. Nonetheless, advocates can revel in their victory of a battle hard fought, particularly after the failure of Congress to reauthorize VAWA in 2012. For some of us, the true curiosity was that there was a…
Elite Knowledge or the Reproduction of the Knowledge of Privilege
Epistemology is fundamental to feminism. This editorial grapples with the cultural norming process that influences the way knowledge emerges, is developed, and shaped. It makes a case that social work scholarship continues to be shaped by a dominant paradigm that controls knowledge production through the reproduction of white racial privilege, the acculturation of alternative perspectives, and the pressures of educational institutions that are ti…
Benevolent Hegemony
From Inclusion to Radical Attention to Exclusion
Using Simulation Training to Improve Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice
Child welfare professionals need to understand the complexities of the factors that influence parenting, values, and worldviews. Being able to work across cultures is critical to assessing safety, obtaining effective services, and creating permanent healthy families for children of color. The purpose of the project was to grapple with the challenge of increasing culturally responsive practice in a context of safety and permanency that is defined …
Judicial Efficiencies in Child Custody Disputes
Family disputes are the bane of over-burdened court systems and child access issues consume a disproportionate share of court resources. Consequently, family mediation has become a viable method of resolving these disputes and mental health professionals are increasingly called upon to mediate child access and support disagreements. The growing utilization of mediation to resolve child access issues magnifies the need to examine the consistency a…
An exploration of the relationships between student racial background and the school sub-contexts of office discipline referrals
A growing body of research indicates that exclusionary school discipline practices disproportionately impact students of color. Some scholars have theorized that racial disparities likely vary across school sub-contexts, as implicit bias in perceptions of student behavior may be more influential in locations where students and adults have weaker relationships (e.g. bathrooms and hallways, compared to the classroom). Guided by Critical Race Theory…
How much support is too much? Parenting Efficacy and Social Support
Using Simulation Training to Improve Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice
Child welfare professionals need to understand the complexities of the factors that influence parenting, values, and worldviews. Being able to work across cultures is critical to assessing safety, obtaining effective services, and creating permanent healthy families for children of color. The purpose of the project was to grapple with the challenge of increasing culturally responsive practice in a context of safety and permanency that is defined …
Dreams Deterred
Recent years have seen a broadening of the scope of immigration enforcement. As a result, immigrants free of criminal convictions, once considered low priorities for enforcement, are increasingly subject to arrest, detention, and removal. At the same time, federal immigration authorities have sought the cooperation of states and localities in the enforcement of immigration laws. While there has been growing scholarly attention paid to the ways in…
Feminist Transformation Deconstructing Prisons and Reconstructing Justice With Criminalized Women
The prison therefore functions ideologically as an abstract site into which undesirables are deposited, relieving us of the responsibility of thinking about the real issues afflicting those communities from which prisoners are drawn in such disproportionate numbers. This is the ideological work that the prison performs; it relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism…
Enacting and Sustaining Trauma and Violence Through Policy Enforcement
In the fall of 2015, Professor Lisa Graybill and two law students from Sturm College of Law responded to a call from the American Immigrant Lawyers Association (AILA) requesting pro bono legal services to women and their children who were being held at a detention center in Artesia, New Mexico. When Professor Graybill and the students arrived at the detention center, they were surprised and dismayed by what they found: poor conditions, sick child…
Sowing the Semillas of Critical Multicultural Citizenship for Latina/o Undocumented Youth
The purpose of this study is to address how spaces in school and out of school support or constrain undocumented Latina/o youths' development as critical multicultural citizens. We draw on data from a multi-phase, qualitative study to present findings indicating that the youths persevered through academic and civic engagement. Ultimately, the students drew from their liminal status-the space between legal and "illegal"-to become stewards of a cau…
Beyond the Feminist Critique
As journal editors of Affilia, we often find ourselves in the position of asking the question, ‘‘is this feminist?’’ Of course, this question has various iterations and includes, ‘‘is this feminist enough?’’ ‘‘that can’t be feminist?’’ ‘‘are we behaving like feminists?’’ We also know ourselves, particularly in a moment of intense heated dialog, to comment to each other, ‘‘you don’t sound very feminist.’’ Are there such definitions? Feminist enoug…
Elite Knowledge or the Reproduction of the Knowledge of Privilege
Epistemology is fundamental to feminism. This editorial grapples with the cultural norming process that influences the way knowledge emerges, is developed, and shaped. It makes a case that social work scholarship continues to be shaped by a dominant paradigm that controls knowledge production through the reproduction of white racial privilege, the acculturation of alternative perspectives, and the pressures of educational institutions that are ti…
Did I Hear That Right?”
Microaggressions are well-documented in education literature, yet they are typically explored on the interpersonal level and less often contextualized within a broader educational context. In this study, we used a critical qualitative approach, pairing a Critical Race Theory framework with a feminist critique, to explore K-12 faculty and staff perceptions of racial microaggressions in U.S. public schools. Twenty-five faculty and staff with anti-o…
Crimmigration and Detainers
In the Name of Vawa
It may at first seem curious that the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) would be the topic of an editorial 9 months after its 2013 reauthorization and before we have the opportunity to examine its impact, since it takes effect in fiscal year 2014. Nonetheless, advocates can revel in their victory of a battle hard fought, particularly after the failure of Congress to reauthorize VAWA in 2012. For some of us, the true curiosity was that there was a…
Development and validation of a Screening Questionnaire of Family Mistreatment against Older Adults for use in primary care settings in Mexico
The abuse of older adults is a serious public health issue that can be difficult to identify at the first level of care. Medical and nursing personnel are sometimes unable to identify older adults who suffer family mistreatment. This can occur when victims feel shame or as a result of cultural factors. In the light of this, healthcare personnel require a screening tool that can be used to identify signs of mistreatment. The aim of this study was …
Learning, Doing, Thinking, Writing, and Loving as Feminists About Feminisms
From Inclusion to Radical Attention to Exclusion
Methodological Issues in Social Work Research with Depressed Women of Color
Social work researchers committed to advancing knowledge for effective practice with depressed women, especially culturally-diverse women, are faced with numerous methodological challenges. These challenges emanate from the ambiguity that surrounds the definition and measurement of the concept of depression, and from problems that apply to all cross-cultural research including content, semantic, and technical equivalence of self-report instrument…
Parenting efficacy, aggressive parenting and cultural connections
This paper describes an exploratory study examining parenting efficacy, behaviours related to child–parent conflict and cultural connection. Fifty‐four low‐income mothers from diverse cultural backgrounds responded to a questionnaire that included the Parental Locus of Control Scale, the Conflict Tactic Scale, and a composite scale measuring the degree that mothers were connected to their self‐identified culture. Non‐parametric statistical measur…
How much support is too much? Parenting Efficacy and Social Support
Independence or Interdependence
Youth who transition out of foster care are often overlooked and unprepared for a life outside of the child welfare system. As youth begin to grow up in the foster care system, they are encouraged to move toward the goal of self-sufficiency. This article examines the idea of self-sufficiency as it relates to youth transitioning from the foster care system and proposes a different approach to the state of transition, an approach called interdepend…
Judicial Efficiencies in Child Custody Disputes
Family disputes are the bane of over-burdened court systems and child access issues consume a disproportionate share of court resources. Consequently, family mediation has become a viable method of resolving these disputes and mental health professionals are increasingly called upon to mediate child access and support disagreements. The growing utilization of mediation to resolve child access issues magnifies the need to examine the consistency a…
Using Simulation Training to Improve Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice
Child welfare professionals need to understand the complexities of the factors that influence parenting, values, and worldviews. Being able to work across cultures is critical to assessing safety, obtaining effective services, and creating permanent healthy families for children of color. The purpose of the project was to grapple with the challenge of increasing culturally responsive practice in a context of safety and permanency that is defined …
In the Name of Vawa
It may at first seem curious that the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) would be the topic of an editorial 9 months after its 2013 reauthorization and before we have the opportunity to examine its impact, since it takes effect in fiscal year 2014. Nonetheless, advocates can revel in their victory of a battle hard fought, particularly after the failure of Congress to reauthorize VAWA in 2012. For some of us, the true curiosity was that there was a…
Elite Knowledge or the Reproduction of the Knowledge of Privilege
Epistemology is fundamental to feminism. This editorial grapples with the cultural norming process that influences the way knowledge emerges, is developed, and shaped. It makes a case that social work scholarship continues to be shaped by a dominant paradigm that controls knowledge production through the reproduction of white racial privilege, the acculturation of alternative perspectives, and the pressures of educational institutions that are ti…
Benevolent Hegemony
From Inclusion to Radical Attention to Exclusion
Old Turf New Battles
Legislation about female bodies has been a concern of social work since the early days of Hull House. Specifically, two Hull House residents and physicians, Alice Hamilton and Rachelle Yarro, were involved in programming and policy work related to the access to contraceptive devices (Haslett, 1997). Hamilton and Yarro sagely understood the ability (or lack thereof) to control reproduction as being related to ‘‘the causes and consequences of pover…
Beyond the Feminist Critique
As journal editors of Affilia, we often find ourselves in the position of asking the question, ‘‘is this feminist?’’ Of course, this question has various iterations and includes, ‘‘is this feminist enough?’’ ‘‘that can’t be feminist?’’ ‘‘are we behaving like feminists?’’ We also know ourselves, particularly in a moment of intense heated dialog, to comment to each other, ‘‘you don’t sound very feminist.’’ Are there such definitions? Feminist enoug…
A Corrido for Ann Weick
If the life and works of Ann Weick could be put to music, the genre would be a border corridor. In Latin America, the corrido is a type of ballad that often extols the virtues, struggles, and accomplishments of a hero or heroine; border ballad tells the tales of bandits whose exploits are fuelled by the frustrations of class struggle and domination. These bandits through heroic deeds strike out against authority. As marginalized people sing them,…
Crimmigration and Detainers
Enacting and Sustaining Trauma and Violence Through Policy Enforcement
In the fall of 2015, Professor Lisa Graybill and two law students from Sturm College of Law responded to a call from the American Immigrant Lawyers Association (AILA) requesting pro bono legal services to women and their children who were being held at a detention center in Artesia, New Mexico. When Professor Graybill and the students arrived at the detention center, they were surprised and dismayed by what they found: poor conditions, sick child…
Feminist Transformation Deconstructing Prisons and Reconstructing Justice With Criminalized Women
The prison therefore functions ideologically as an abstract site into which undesirables are deposited, relieving us of the responsibility of thinking about the real issues afflicting those communities from which prisoners are drawn in such disproportionate numbers. This is the ideological work that the prison performs; it relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism…
Prevalence and factors associated with violence and abuse of older adults in Mexico’s 2012 National Health and Nutrition Survey
Violence against older adults presents differently for men and women, which means it is necessary to increase knowledge about the dynamics of the social determinants of violence, particularly in regards to the role of education among men. The relatively low prevalence found in this study may reflect the difficulty and fear of discussing the topic of violence. This may occur because of cultural factors, as well as by the perception of helplessness…
Learning, Doing, Thinking, Writing, and Loving as Feminists About Feminisms
Complacency, Violence, and Gender
The levels of violence experienced by women in the United States are at unacceptably high levels. Generations and generations of women are socialized to be afraid as they walk down streets and in dark parking lots. Women of all ages are aware of their need to be hypervigilant about their safety (Helliwell, 2000). In the United States, by age 17, one in four girls has experienced sexual assault by adults and peers (Finkelhor, Shattuck, Turner, & H…
Sowing the Semillas of Critical Multicultural Citizenship for Latina/o Undocumented Youth
The purpose of this study is to address how spaces in school and out of school support or constrain undocumented Latina/o youths' development as critical multicultural citizens. We draw on data from a multi-phase, qualitative study to present findings indicating that the youths persevered through academic and civic engagement. Ultimately, the students drew from their liminal status-the space between legal and "illegal"-to become stewards of a cau…
An exploration of the relationships between student racial background and the school sub-contexts of office discipline referrals
A growing body of research indicates that exclusionary school discipline practices disproportionately impact students of color. Some scholars have theorized that racial disparities likely vary across school sub-contexts, as implicit bias in perceptions of student behavior may be more influential in locations where students and adults have weaker relationships (e.g. bathrooms and hallways, compared to the classroom). Guided by Critical Race Theory…
Development and validation of a Screening Questionnaire of Family Mistreatment against Older Adults for use in primary care settings in Mexico
The abuse of older adults is a serious public health issue that can be difficult to identify at the first level of care. Medical and nursing personnel are sometimes unable to identify older adults who suffer family mistreatment. This can occur when victims feel shame or as a result of cultural factors. In the light of this, healthcare personnel require a screening tool that can be used to identify signs of mistreatment. The aim of this study was …
Tempered Dreams
This research study explores the experience of first-generation immigrants of Mexican origin living in Denver, CO. Seven Mexican immigrants described their experiences through an in-depth interview process. The data were analyzed using a constant comparative method. The process described by the participants reflects ambivalence about living in the United States. This ambivalence stems from a conflict between their beliefs that the United States i…
Dreams Deterred
Recent years have seen a broadening of the scope of immigration enforcement. As a result, immigrants free of criminal convictions, once considered low priorities for enforcement, are increasingly subject to arrest, detention, and removal. At the same time, federal immigration authorities have sought the cooperation of states and localities in the enforcement of immigration laws. While there has been growing scholarly attention paid to the ways in…
Protecting White Interests
Although various policy analysis frameworks exist within the social work literature, fewspecifically address the racism inherent to policymaking processes. We propose interestconvergence as a conceptual lens for policy analysis to expose the racism inherent inpolicymaking. Transcripts from 19 public hearings of five bills sponsored during the 2017Nevada legislative session were included in the data analysis for this study. A thematic analysistook…
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