Giovanna (Odessa Gonzalez) Gonzalez Benson

• Gonzalez Benson, O., Yoshihama, M., Ellis, J., Pimentel Walker, A., Usui, M. & Chang, S. (in press). Piloting participatory action research: Community as intermediary in education pathways of Congolese refugee youth. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
• Gonzalez Benson, O. (in press). Refugee resettlement patterns in the United States: Examining labor market conditions and immigration policies in cities of primary placement and secondary internal migration. Journal of International Migration and Integration.
• Wiley, C., Jen, S., Storer, H. & Gonzalez Benson, O. (in press). Discursive decisions: Signposts to guide the use of critical discourse analysis in social work. Qualitative Social Work.
• Gonzalez Benson, O. & Siciliano, A. (in press). A rights-based framework in social work field education and international development work: Insights from a Global Independent Study in Tunisia. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work.
• Gonzalez Benson, O., Park, Y., Temprosa, T. & Gautam, D. (in press). US non-decisionism and state violence across temporal and geopolitical distances. In L. Kingston & T. Bloom (Eds)., Statelessness and Governance: Rights, Identity and Citizenship.
• Gonzalez Benson, O. & Burnett, C. (in press). Accompaniment and emergence: Social work community practice with resettled refugees. In A. Opacic (Ed.), Practicing Social Work in Underdeveloped Communities: Competencies, Methods and Techniques. European Association of School of Social Work: Springer.
• Pimentel Walker, A., Checkoway, B., Gonzalez Benson, O. & Opacic, A. (in press). Development of deprived communities through multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches. In A. Opacic (Ed.), Practicing Social Work in Underdeveloped Communities: Competencies, Methods and Techniques. European Association of School of Social Work: Springer.
• Gonzalez Benson, O. (2021). On becoming ‘essential’: Coronavirus lessons of ontology -from the migrant farmworker and us who consume the fruits of her labor. Qualitative Social Work, 20(1-2), 186-192.
• Gonzalez Benson, O. & Pimentel Walker, A. (2021). Grassroots refugee community organizations: In search of participatory urban governance. Journal of Urban Affairs.
• Cross, F. L. & Gonzalez Benson, O. (2021). The Coronavirus pandemic and immigrant communities: A crisis that demands more of the social work profession. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work.
• Aby, M. J. & Gonzalez Benson, O. (2021). Funding diversity: A case study of a state-initiated, funding-driven program to diversify mental health service provision in Minnesota. Services Organizations: Management, Leadership and Governance.
• Gonzalez-Benson, O., Temprosa, T. & Shlebah, S. (2020). Policy irrelevance in refugee research: Active strategies in forced migration research. Refugee Review, 4, 69-83.
• Gonzalez-Benson, O. (2020). Welfare support activities of grassroots refugee-run community organizations: A reframing. Journal of Community Practice, 28(1), 1-17.
• Ibrahim, Q., Hreish, K., Hantoosh, K., Gonzalez-Benson, O., et al. (2020). Social work education in the Middle East and North Africa: Students’ perspectives at 13 universities in 10 countries. Egyptian Journal of Social Work, 9(1), 189-204.
• Gonzalez Benson, O. (2020). Refugee-run grassroots organizations: Responsive assistance beyond the constraints of U.S. resettlement. Journal of Refugee Studies.
• Gonzalez Benson, O., Wachter, K., Lee, J., Nichols, D. & Hylton, E. (2020). Social work research on forced migration: A scoping review. British Journal of Social Work.
• Gonzalez Benson, O. (2020). Community mapping with resettled refugees: Reflections on embeddedness. Collaborations: A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice, 3(1), 15.
• Islam, E., Wahab, H. & Gonzalez Benson, O. (2020). Structural and operational factors as determinant of meaningful community participation in sustainable disaster recovery programs: The case of Bangladesh. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 50.
• Gonzalez-Benson, O. & Taccolini, A. (2019). ‘Work is worship’ is refugee policy: Diminution, deindividualization, and valuation in implementation. Social Service Review, 93(1), 26-54.
• Taccolini, A. & Gonzalez-Benson, O. (2019). ”And slowly, the integration and the growing and the learning”: Nuancing integration of Bhutanese refugees in U.S. cities. Social Sciences, 8(6), 1-11.
• Gonzalez Benson, O.& Yoshihama, M. (2019). Post-resettlement refugee collectives in the United States: Processes of emergence and development. Sharing Society Project (Ed.), Sharing Society International Conference 2019 Proceedings. Bilbao, Basque Country, (Spain): Sharing Society Project-The Impact of Collaborative Collective Actions in the Transformation of Contemporary Societies, University of the Basque Country.
• Gonzalez Benson, O., Pimentel Walker, A. P., Yoshihama, M., Burnett, C. & Asadi, L. (2019). A framework for ancillary health services provided by refugee and immigrant-run CBOs: Language assistance, systems navigation, and hands on support. Journal of Community Medicine and Health Education, 9(5), 665.
• Gonzalez-Benson, O. & Park, Y. (2018). Resettled yet stateless: Elderly monoglot refugees as a limit case to citizenship. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 10(3), 423-438.
• Bermudez, R., Temprosa, F. & Gonzalez Benson, O. (2018). A disaster approach to displacement: IDPs in the Philippines. Forced Migration Review, 59, 44.
• Brown, M., Gonzalez Benson, O., Thompson, J., Keel, R., J. Porter & Mahoney, E. (2017). Seeking Northlake: Place, technology, and public as enabling constraints for urban transdisciplinary research. Cities, 60.
• Gonzalez Benson, O. (2017). Refugee community organizations as actors upon resettlement. Forced Migration Review, University of Oxford Press, 54.
• Gonzalez Benson, O. (2016). Refugee resettlement policy in an era of neoliberalization: A policy discourse analysis of the Refugee Act of 1980. Social Service Review, 90(3), 515-549.
• Gonzalez Benson, O. (2016). Refugee resettlement and the non-profit sector. University of Minnesota Hubert Project.
• Benson, O., Sun, F., Hodge, D. R. & Androff, D. (2012). Religious coping and acculturation stress among Hindu Bhutanese: A study of newly-resettled refugees in the United States. International Social Work, 55(4), 538-553.

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