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B.A., University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
M.S.W, University of Washington, Seattle
Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle
History of US immigration and immigration/refugee policies; international migration and forced migration studies; social work practice with immigrant and refugee populations.
Social Work Education: pedagogy; curriculum and instructional development; diversity education.
Poststructuralist criticism and postcolonial theory and their applications in social work research and education.
Politicizing theories of identity: studies in transnational citizenship and cultural and social citizenship.
Methods of qualitative analysis: critical discourse analysis, Derridean deconstruction, and Foucauldian genealogy.
Ethnic minority health and culturally competent health care delivery.
Using methods of discourse analysis in teaching social work practice.
Dr. Park is currently working on several archival research projects: tracing the role of social workers in the World War Two internment of Japanese Americans; the study of the construction of the "refugee" in U.S. social work discourse; and a historical analysis of the development of the concept of cultural competency in U.S. social work. She also continues her research on immigrants in the urban environment focusing on the role of the physical environment on patterns of acculturation, and is embarking on a study on the impact of Hurricane Katrina on immigrant and refugee communities on the Gulf Coast.
Park, Y. (in press). Facilitating injustice: Tracing the role of social workers in the World War Two internment of Japanese Americans. Social Service Review.
Park, Y. & Miller, J. (2007). Inequitable distributions: a critical analysis of the Red Cross response to hurricane Katrina. Journal of Intergroup Relations, 32(1), 45-57.
Park, Y. & Kemp, S.P. (2006). "Little Alien Colonies": Representations of immigrants and their neighborhoods in social work discourse, 1875–1924. Social Service Review. 80 (4), 705-734
Park, Y. (2006). Constructing immigrants: A historical discourse analysis of the representations of immigrants in U.S. social work, 1882-1952. Journal of Social Work. 6 (2) 169-203.
Park, Y. & Miller, J. (2006). The social ecology of hurricane Katrina: Re-writing the discourse of "natural" disasters. Smith College Studies in Social Work. 76 (3), 9-24.
Park, Y. (2005). Culture as deficit: A critical discourse analysis of the concept of culture in contemporary social work discourse. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 32 (3), 13-34.
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