Being a helper is being a friend: Helping perspectives of Southeast Asian refugee women as paraprofessional helpers

This feminist interpretive study explores how four female paraprofessional Southeast Asian helpers perceived helping and themselves as helpers. Conceptualizing helping as lived experience--rather than as techniques or skills as in the professional discourse--helping is studied in the context of the helpers' biography, culture and present work setting.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Social Work

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Jansen, Golieda Gerritdiena

Contributors dc:contributor

• Allen-Meares, Paula

• Anthropology, Cultural
• Social Work
• Women's Studies
• Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1992 Jansen, Golieda Gerritdiena

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9236487
(UMI)AAI9236487

OAI record oai:identifier

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=etdms&identifier=oai%3Awww.ideals.illinois.edu%3A2142%2F19693