Biopolitical power and paradoxes in evaluation research with transnational migrant youth

Evaluation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-473
Author(s):  
Sophia Rodriguez ◽  
Jeremy Acree
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Evaluation Practices ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
Biopolitical Power ◽  
Evaluation Project ◽  
A Current

In this article, the authors theorize the practice of evaluation as linked to truth-telling and organizing future societies. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of biopolitical governmentality, the authors examine the origins of the field of evaluation, theorize it as a truth-telling practice that aims to control populations and futures, and consider the implications of this for a current evaluation project with transnational newcomer migrant youth in the United States. The authors raise the following questions about evaluation as a social practice: Who/what knowledge is produced in the process? What mechanisms/technologies are deployed to reason, compare, and quantify migrant youth experiences, and at what cost? What are the ethical imperatives underlying this truth-telling process? The article offers a productive critique of current evaluation practices, providing theoretical and methodological implications of this analysis, arguing to expose the politics of governance embedded in evaluation.

MRI Research Proposals Involving Child Subjects: Concerns Hindering Research Ethics Boards from Approving Them and a Checklist to Help Evaluate Them

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. DEBORAH SHILOFF ◽  
BRYAN MAGWOOD ◽  
KRISZTINA L. MALISZA
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research Ethics ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
The United States ◽  
Institutional Review Boards ◽  
Scientific Review ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Research Ethics Boards ◽  
A Current

The process of research is often lengthy and can be extremely arduous. It may take many years to proceed from the initial development of an idea through to the comparison of the new modalities against a current gold-standard practice. Each step along the way involves rigorous scientific review, where protocols are scrutinized by multiple scientists not only in the specific field at hand but related fields as well. In addition to scientific review, most countries require a further review by a panel that will specifically address the ethics of the proposed research. In Canada, those panels are referred to as Research Ethics Boards (REB), with the United States counterparts known as Institutional Review Boards (IRB).

scholarly journals The State of Evaluation Research on Food Policies to Reduce Obesity and Diabetes Among Adults in the United States, 2000–2011

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Freudenberg ◽  
Emily Franzosa ◽  
Nancy Sohler ◽  
Rui Li ◽  
Heather Devlin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Obesity And Diabetes ◽  
Food Policies

Dreaming across Borders

2019 ◽  
pp. 159-170
Author(s):  
Deborah A. Boehm
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young People ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Undocumented Migrant ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
National Membership

This chapter chronicles the in-between position of Dreamers, or undocumented migrant youth who were born outside of the United States, but have lived in the United States for many years and consider it home. Although these youth are undeniably transnational, they may find themselves trapped in the United States, unable to leave or safely return to the United States. This landscape changed to some extent with DACA, which created the possibility for young people to travel outside of the United States and return through a process called Advance Parole. However, even if approved, leaving the United States through Advance Parole could result in young people being denied reentry by U.S. officials and thus permanently excluded from the country. Based on ethnographic research with a group of DACAmented migrants who were invited by the Mexican government to visit “their homeland,” this chapter considers border crossings in a time of increasingly blocked movement for the majority of migrant youth. Although all youth were granted permission to travel to Mexico through Advance Parole, their returns—first to Mexico and then to the United States—demonstrate how DACA created a curious status of being both in certain legal categories, but persistently without access to formal national membership. Their liminal position underscores the insecurities of migrant youth more generally.

Community Programs

2021 ◽  
pp. 489-503
Author(s):  
Ramona S. McNeal ◽  
Susan M. Kunkle ◽  
Mary Schmeida
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
School Board ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal System ◽  
Community Programs ◽  
Local Schools ◽  
Online Aggression ◽  
Board Level ◽  
Policy Solutions

The United States has a federal system. One advantage of a federal system is that it can encourage competition among the states resulting in the testing of new policy solutions and the diffusion of best practices. This holds true for online aggression policy, particularly those addressing cyberbullying. This chapter begins with a discussion of the literature on strategies being adopted at the school board level to limit the spread of cyberbullying. It concludes with an overview of current evaluation research comparing recent policies being implemented by local schools.

An Advancement in Paper Receipts the Electronic Receipt Administration Framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 631
Author(s):  
Vimal Kumar Stephen. K ◽  
V. Mathivanan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Current Review ◽  
A Current ◽  
The U.S

<p>The issue our group locations is best conveyed in the accompanying inquiry: Given the quantity of dealers, shoppers, and money related organizations in the U.S., how might we assemble a recordkeeping framework that enhances the ease of use, availability, and supportability of customer exchange records. A current review demonstrates that 80% of the U.S. populace gets one to three receipts a day, 11% of which promptly escape With America's retailers creating roughly 228.7 million pounds of receipt paper every year, this means 22.87 million pounds of paper that in a flash move toward becoming refuse . Promote, the present framework does not make receipts promptly open to traders and shoppers when they require them. In this venture, our group means to enhance the administration of shopper exchange records while diminishing the quantity of receipts imprinted in the United States. An answer for this issue will likewise furnish buyers with a more advantageous approach to screen their ways of managing money.</p><p>The framework is made out of four sections: an electronic UI, a deride money enroll, a receipt administration database, and a XML convention that conveys between the money enlist and the receipt database. On the off chance that executed on a national scale, this electronic receipt administration framework would permit clients (dealers, shoppers, and monetary organizations) access to all receipt information in one area and in one steady configuration, in this way wiping out the requirement for paper receipts.</p>

scholarly journals Addressing the Opioid Epidemic: Recommended Solutions from Physicians

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Cataldo ◽  
Sandra Collins ◽  
Richard C Mckinnies ◽  
Jane Nichols ◽  
Thomas A Shaw
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The United States ◽  
Opioid Epidemic ◽  
Opioid Misuse ◽  
Opioid Use ◽  
Multifaceted Approach ◽  
Improve Treatment ◽  
Opioid Crisis ◽  
A Current

The purpose of this study was to assess physicians’ accounts related to the current opioid epidemic and to identify solutions that they feel would be most successful in addressing opioid misuse and overuse. A survey was administered a group of physicians obtained from a nationwide database. Nearly all physicians surveyed believed there was a current opioid crisis in the United States and that physicians should take an active role in addressing opioid use in patients. Four key themes emerged regarding solutions to the opioid crisis: i) policy change, ii) improve treatment, iii) education, and iv) alternative treatment. The diversity of responses highlighted the need for a multifaceted approach to address opioid misuse and abuse.

scholarly journals Cultural Stress and Substance Use Risk among Venezuelan Migrant Youth in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (13) ◽  
pp. 2175-2183
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Salas-Wright ◽  
Seth J. Schwartz ◽  
Mariana Cohen ◽  
Mildred M. Maldonado-Molina ◽  
Michael G. Vaughn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
Cultural Stress
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