Uzo Anucha

"When a Bed is Home: The Challenges and Paradoxes of Community Development in a Shared Housing Program for Homeless People" in Canadian Review of Social Policy (58) – Special Edition on Canadian Homelessness, 62-83

There is no wishing away the fact that homelessness has grown into a socio-political problem of alarming proportions in several North American urban centres. The extent of this problem in Canada can be seen in the declaration by mayors of Canada's 10 largest cities that homelessness is a national disaster worthy of the type of […]

"Trans-nationalism, social identities and African youth in the Canadian diaspora" in Social Identities, 15 (2), 227-242

This paper discusses processes through which African Canadian youth construct their identities as well as form friendships within and across ethnic boundaries. The paper presents how, through these processes, youth use resources in history that help them construct and negotiate diaspora identities and friendships while simultaneously distancing themselves from the core group of white Canadian […]

"The Challenges and Possibilities of Re-visioning Social Work Education in Africa" in New Directions in African Education: Issues in Curriculum, Pedagogy, Policy and Access

"Negotiated challenges in the workplace: Immigrant women's views and experiences of employment in Canada": Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 27 (4), 420-434

On the basis of a qualitative study with immigrant women in Windsor, Ontario, this article looks at women’s responses to the challenges they face in the Canadian workplace, together with the value they place on working outside the home. The women reflected on their job searches, employment conditions, and work experiences as mediated by the […]

"Increased racial group breast cancer care and survival differentials in America: Historical evidence consistent with a health insurance hypothesis, 1975 to 2001" in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 113, 595-600

Purpose This study examined whether race/ethnicity had differential effects on breast cancer care and survival across age strata and cohorts within stages of disease. Methods The Detroit Cancer Registry provided 25,997 breast cancer cases. African American and non-Hispanic white, older Medicare-eligible and younger non-eligible women were compared. Successive historical cohorts (1975–1980 and 1990–1995) were, respectively, […]

"Housed but Homeless? Negotiating Everyday Life in a Shared Housing Program for Homeless People" in Families in Society – A Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 91 (1), 67-75

This article discusses the challenges associated with what has become a common approach to the rehousing of “hard to house” groups–-shared housing models. The researcher collected and analyzed data from participants living in 2 shared housing programs for formerly homeless people in Toronto, Canada, who were on the verge of being evicted from their apartments. […]

"Growing New Roots: The Housing Experiences of Racialized Newcomers in a Second -Tier Canadian City" in Canadian Social Work– Special Issue on the Settlement and Integration of Newcomers to Canada

"Exploring a New Direction for Social Work Education and Training in Nigeria", Social Work Education – The International Journal, 27 (3), 229-242

American and British models of professional social work that have been exported to Africa have been critiqued as unable to address the unique issues and cultural characteristics of the majority of Africans. Such critiques have increased as the social work profession in the Western world has failed to come up with answers to many of […]

"Engaging the Canadian Diaspora, Youth Social Identities in a Canadian Border City" in McGill Journal of Education, 44 (3)

Abstract This paper is based on qualitative interviews undertaken with immigrant youth of African descent in Windsor, Ontario; it describes their sojourner lives across geographic borders and their final settlement in Windsor. The paper also offers narrations of the activities that enabled them to formulate friendships and the barriers and facilitators to the development of […]