Doing Community and Institutionally Engaged Work and Promoting Immigrant Well-being While Building a Research Career

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ID3755769
AuthorsRobert Courtney Smith (0000-0003-2314-7227, Baruch College, New York, NY, USA, corresponding author)
Year2024
Publication date2024-02-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027642241229539
OpenAlexW4391747025
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

This article offers reflections on doing community and publicly engaged research and scholarly work that promotes immigrant well-being while developing a research career in academic institutions which do not usually recognize or reward such work. I draw on my own career (as the editors asked me to do), and hope the advice or examples are helpful, especially to younger scholars. I write as a scholar who was not from the immigrant communities with which he worked, and who believes scholars should help create a society that respects the rights, dignity, and well-being of its members, especially immigrant families. I applaud the Im/migrant Well-being Scholar Collaborative initiative's (IWSC or Collaborative) focus on immigrant well-being, which affirms not only work that seeks to make structural or policy change or to change debates (common foci of academic analysis), but also work that directly helps others, builds community capacity, or mentors broadly. I have tried to both promote well-being and to fight injustice and inequality

Dignity · Immigration · Injustice · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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