Papers by Rupaleem Bhuyan
Devolutionary trends in immigration and social welfare policy have enabled different levels of go... more Devolutionary trends in immigration and social welfare policy have enabled different levels of government to define membership and confer rights to people residing within the political boundary of a province or municipality in ways that may contradict federal legal status. Drawing upon theories of postnational and deterritorialized citizenship, we examined the legal construction of social rights within federal, provincial and municipal law in Toronto, Ontario. The study of these different policy arenas focuses on rights related to education, access to safety and police protection, and income assistance. Our analysis suggests that the interplay of intra-governmental laws produces an uneven terrain of social rights for people with precarious status. We argue that while provincial and municipal governments may rhetorically seek to advance the social rights of all people living within their territorial boundaries, program and funding guidelines ensure that national practices of market citizenship and the policing of non-citizen subjects are reproduced at local levels.
Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, Dec 10, 2023
How migration contributes to violence against women precarious immigration status in Canada. Pr... more How migration contributes to violence against women precarious immigration status in Canada. Precarious status as part of spectrum of violence against women. How migrant women practice citizenship, through seeking protection and rights.
Journal of Lesbian Studies, Jul 18, 2006
holds the William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professorship at the University of Washington... more holds the William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professorship at the University of Washington (UW) School of Social Work (SSW). She directs the Native Wellness Center there and conducts research on cultural strengths in indigenous populations that buffer the effect of historical trauma and discrimination on health.
Over the last fifteen years, Canada has received an increasing number of women from Mexico and Ce... more Over the last fifteen years, Canada has received an increasing number of women from Mexico and Central America who are submitting refugee claims based on domestic, social, and political violence, and on the failure of political and judicial institutions in their home countries to protect them. This group of female humanitarian arrivals, however, has been largely denied refugee status. While gender-based claims are statistically more likely to be successful relative to other types of claims in
Routledge eBooks, Apr 18, 2023
This article examines how the right to sponsor family members' immigration is framed by migrant c... more This article examines how the right to sponsor family members' immigration is framed by migrant caregivers in relation to Canadian legislation and political rhetoric. We focus on official immigration policy and political rhetoric between 2014-2018, a period when Canada imposed stringent language and education requirements on migrant workers seeking permanent residence. By examining how political rhetoric frames migrant caregivers as not earning "enough" to migrate with their families, we illustrate how lawmakers promote tolerance for differential inclusion within multicultural discourse. Migrant caregivers, the majority of whom originate in the Philippines, similarly employ market-based values to position themselves as deserving the right to sponsor their family members' immigration. They also draw upon traditional ethics of reciprocal obligation, however, to frame their relationship to Canadian employers and the state in ways that reconstruct the terms of multicultural citizenship in Canada.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
Journal of Social work/Journal of social work, Apr 13, 2024
Migrant Mothers Project, Feb 4, 2018
International Social Work, Jan 5, 2023
In this article, we apply theories of non-citizenship assemblage to conceptualise the dynamic rel... more In this article, we apply theories of non-citizenship assemblage to conceptualise the dynamic relationship of social determinants of health for international students in Canada who face barriers to accessing COVID-19 vaccines and verifying their vaccination status. Social workers’ roles in responding to and reducing these inequities are also discussed with attention to micro practice, meso service integration, and macro public policy advocacy. Through theorising assembled inequities emerging from Canada’s COVID-19 vaccination policies, this article offers guidance for future social work research and practice towards promoting justice and equity for transnational populations who are often excluded from domestic social welfare programmes.
Affilia, 2018
Social work has experienced long-standing tensions between care and control since its inception. ... more Social work has experienced long-standing tensions between care and control since its inception. As shifting moral, social, political, intellectual, and market forces have historically shaped social work agendas and practices, so have feminists through politics, research, teaching, and praxis. While radical and critical social work has frequently pushed back against oppressive systems and movements, social work and feminist social work frequently find itself colluding with and/or being coopted by institutions and systems that oppress, coerce, and control certain people and communities. We need not look far for evidence of these tensions, including but not limited to social work practice and interventions steeped in carceral logics and rescue-based work poignantly evidenced by the now defunct Project Rose (Wahab & Panichelli, 2013). Gramsci (1992), pessimism of the mind, optimism of the will, captures the spirit from which we write this editorial, and we turn to paperson's (2017) A Third University Is Possible for inspiration and critical hope, as we contemplate the tensions above and the emotions they engender. The bits of machinery that make up a decolonizing university are driven by decolonial desires, with decolonizing dreamers who are subversively part of the machinery and part of machine themselves. These subversive beings wreck, scavenge, retool, and reassemble the colonizing university into decolonizing contraptions. They are scyborgs with a decolonizng desire. You might choose to be one of them.
International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
Labour / Le Travail, 2016
How to cite TSpace items Always cite the published version, so the author(s) will receive recogni... more How to cite TSpace items Always cite the published version, so the author(s) will receive recognition through services that track citation counts, e.g. Scopus. If you need to cite the page number of the TSpace version (original manuscript or accepted manuscript) because you cannot access the published version, then cite the TSpace version in addition to the published version using the permanent URI (handle) found on the record page.
Social work has experienced long-standing tensions between care and control since its inception. ... more Social work has experienced long-standing tensions between care and control since its inception. As shifting moral, social, political, intellectual, and market forces have historically shaped social work agendas and practices, so have feminists through politics, research, teaching, and praxis. While radical and critical social work has frequently pushed back against oppressive systems and movements, social work and feminist social work frequently find itself colluding with and/or being coopted by institutions and systems that oppress, coerce, and control certain people and communities. We need not look far for evidence of these tensions, including but not limited to social work practice and interventions steeped in carceral logics and rescue-based work poignantly evidenced by the now defunct Project Rose (Wahab & Panichelli, 2013). Gramsci (1992), pessimism of the mind, optimism of the will, captures the spirit from which we write this editorial, and we turn to paperson’s (2017) A T...
The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history... more The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Session 3: Macro Issues. Presenter: Rupaleem Bhuyan, PhD, University of Washington (2006) - "Domestic Violence Advocacy and Immigration Policy: A Discourse Analysis of Structural Constraints on Empowerment"The Ohio State University College of Social Wor
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