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Title Instituting Market-based Principles within Social Services for People Living with Mental Illness: The Case of the Revised ODSP Employment Supports Policy

Excerpt Policies are shaped by social values and assumptions, and can significantly impact the delivery of health and social services. Marginalized groups are often disadvantaged in the political realm and reliant on publicly funded services and supports. The purpose of this research is to consider how public policies are constructed and implemented for marginalized groups and […]

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Author Gewurtz, Rebecca E.

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Title Sexual Risk Behavior, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections in a Cohort of Kenyan Female Sex Workers, 1993 – 2007

Excerpt This thesis comprises a detailed analysis of sexual risk behavior among female sex workers participating in a prospective cohort study in Mombasa, Kenya between 1993 and 2007. To determine whether high-risk behavior has decreased over time, I examined trends in and associations with condom use and partner numbers at enrolment and over follow-up using multinomial […]

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Author Graham, Susan M.

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGender Equality

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Departments Health Policy, Management and Evaluation

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Title Creating Consensus: An Exploration of Two Pre-charge Diversion Programs in Canada

Excerpt Over the last forty years, diversion of young offenders from the criminal justice system has been a part of youth justice policy in Canada. Over this period of time numerous research studies have examined the effectiveness of diversion programs. Many have had similar conclusions: diversion programs do not draw the majority of their participants from […]

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Author Greene, Carolyn Toller

Advisor Doob, Anthony N.

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Title Promoting Inclusion in Urban Contexts: Elementary Principal Leadership

Excerpt The purpose of this study is to explore the strategies principals use to promote inclusion in their urban elementary schools. Data was collected from sixteen urban elementary school principals—who were identified as skilled at promoting inclusion—in Ontario, Canada. The thesis argues that inclusion is vital to ensuring social justice and combating the culture of positivism […]

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Author Griffiths, John Darrin

Advisor Ryan, James

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SDGs Quality Education

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Title The Development of Working-class Organic Intellectuals in the Canadian Black Left Tradition: Historical Roots and Contemporary Expressions, Future Directions

Excerpt This thesis explores the revolutionary adult education learning dimensions in a Canadian Black anti-racist organization, which continues to be under-represented in the Canadian Adult Education literature on social movement learning. This case study draws on detailed reflection based on my own personal experience as a leader and member of the Black Action Defense Committee (BADC). […]

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Author Harris, Christopher

Advisor Sawchuk, Peter H.

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Departments Sociology and Equity Studies in Education

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Title Essays on Human Capital, Wage Dispersion and Worker Mobility

Excerpt This dissertation is comprised of three papers. In Chapter 1 I analyze if career heterogeneity in terms of life-cycle earnings, occupational mobility and unemployment is predominantly driven by skills acquired prior to labor market entry or by decisions made and shocks accumulated over the working life. My study is based on a Dynamic Discrete Choice […]

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Author Hoffmann, Florian

Advisor Oreopoulos, Philip ||Shi, Shouyong

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGender EqualityReduced Inequalities

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Departments Economics

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Keywords employment, equality, inequality, worker

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Title Ironic Acceptance – Present in Academia Discarded as Oriental: The Case of Iranian Female Graduate Student in Canadian Academia

Excerpt The purpose of this research is to examine the experiences of first-generation, highly educated Iranian women who came to Canada to pursue further education in a ‘just’, ‘safe’, and ‘peaceful’ place. The research has revealed that these women who were fleeing from an ‘oppressive’ and ‘unjust’ Iranian regime face new challenges and different forms of […]

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Author Hojati, Zahra

Advisor Wane, Njoki

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SDGs Gender EqualityQuality Education

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Title Canadian Refugee Policy Paradigm Change in the 1990s: Understanding the Power of International Social Influence

Excerpt This dissertation explores the factors which contributed to a change in the paradigm that framed Canadian refugee policy over the course of the 1990s. This change is characterized in the dissertation as a shift from a refugee protection paradigm that dominated policy-makers’ thinking in the 1970s and 1980s, to a security-control paradigm by at the […]

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Author Irvine, James Alexander

Advisor Bertoldi, Nancy

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Title Cholera and Crisis: State Health and the Geographies of Future Epidemics

Excerpt In the fall of 1892, fear of cholera was pervasive in North America. Ten years into the fifth international cholera epidemic — that lasted from 1881 to 1896 — cholera had been raging in the Middle East, India, and Europe, but the disease had yet to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The maritime traffic of immigrants […]

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Author Jackson, Paul

Advisor Prudham, W. Scott

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Title Doing the Right Thing: Negotiating Risk and Safety in Child Protection Work with Domestic Violence Cases

Excerpt The concepts of risk and safety are central to social work practice with survivors of violence against women, especially within the child protection system. Recent studies have highlighted how discrepancies between client and worker perceptions may create problematic conditions for developing effective intervention strategies (Dumbrill, 2006; Jenney, Alaggia, Mazzuca, & Redmond, 2005). In addition, tensions […]

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Author Jenney, Angelique

Advisor Mishna, Faye

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