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This qualitative study was conducted with a convenience sample of 20 South Asian women experiencing domestic violence in the United States. The results explore the patterns of abuse as well as the factors and circumstances (i.e. turning points) that motivated South Asian women to change in the context of the stage that they were in as per the Landenburger model (binding, enduring, disengaging, and recovery). The four themes that emerged from the interviews and analysis are (1) 'Timing and Frequency of abuse', (2) 'Methods of control – financial, isolation and suspicion', (3) 'Cycle of Abuse', and (4)' Turning Points – motivation to change'. Implications for practice and policy-level changes for abused South Asian women in the United States are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article disaggregates high- and low-status care work across eight liberal welfare regimes: Australia, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Using Luxembourg Income Study data, descriptive and multivariate analyses provide support for a 'migrant in the market' model of employment, notwithstanding variation across countries. The data demonstrate a wage penalty in both high- and low-status care employment in several liberal welfare regimes, with the latter (service jobs in health, education and social work) more likely to be part-time and situated in the private sector. Migrant care workers are found to work disproportionately in low-status, low-wage types of care and, in some cases, to incur additional wage penalties compared to native-born care workers with equivalent human capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers points of convergence and divergence in English-language publications in the sociology of professions. While research on professions in the US, UK, Canada and Western Europe shares many similarities, UK researchers have devoted more attention to professional regulation, while their US counterparts focus instead on organizational challenges facing professionals. Contrasting these empirical and theoretical approaches opens up new research directions, and highlights the importance of socio-historical and cultural context to professions. More international and comparative work is required to develop a better understanding of professions and professional regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article considers how we are to understand democratic media activism, which has recently burgeoned in Canada, the UK and the USA. What is its political significance and potential? Is it a new social movement, a new style of politics cutting across movements, or are new concepts needed? Drawing illustratively upon interviews with media activists, notably in Vancouver, we explore insights offered by social movement theory - including resource mobilization formulations and the new social movement theories of Melucci, Habermas, Cohen and Arato, and Fraser. While all these traditions offer valuable insights, media activism reveals limitations in existing conceptualizations. It has some of the characteristics of a movement, but lacks a distinct collective identity or niche within movement ecology. It may be destined to be a boundary-transgressing nodal point for other movements, articulating a coherent project for radical democracy, rather than a movement-for-itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Guidelines for the assessment of learners with English as an Additional Language (EAL) in Great Britain maintain the importance of teacher assessment as a component in the reporting process. In the British context, the national arrangement for the assessment of EAL learners is based on a combination of National Curriculum descriptors developed for mother tongue speakers together with supplementary descriptors in A language in common and a wide range of EAL descriptors generated by local education authorities and schools. In contrast, countries such as Australia, the U.S. and Canada have developed assessment frameworks specifically for use with EAL learners, both within specialized language programs and in mainstream education. In this article the authors explore how an analysis of EAL assessment can be enriched through international perspectives embedded in policy documents. This review is based on a critical evaluation undertaken for an ongoing research project funded by the National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. The project aims to provide comparative data on assessment systems which would be informative in the British context and evaluates six assessment frameworks.

The article recaps the health care systems and the reform process in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain, discussed during the Anglo-American Conference held from May 18 to 20, 1994. Accountability in health care demands quality health information. Proper management is necessary when deciding to implement advances in medical technology. Several recommendations are given to manage the supply of physicians in countries and the health care reform process.

The article presents a perspective on health care reform in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. There is a need to improve the provision of health care to those underserved populations in inner cities. Medical practitioners must be motivated, disciplined and educated to better the health care system.

The article presents information on the objectives of the "Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine." People in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain have benefited from the resurgence of interest in health care reform. The journal's objectives are important to implementing change in the health care system.