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Valerie Taing

Valerie Taing

PhD Student. Social Work/Sociology Candidate

Research Interests/Focus

How policymakers, bureaucrats, and advocates define the needs of children and poor families, and how these definitions inadvertently create new inequalities. Bringing new analytic tools to the study of culture, the welfare state, and poverty governance, I show how culture shapes the relationship between families and the state.

Dissertation Title

Logics of Caregiving in the Delegated Welfare State

Education

Year Degree   School
2004 BA Simmons College, Boston, MA
2013 MSW University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Year Description
2023 Professionalizing Grandma: Ambiguous Roles in the Indirect Welfare State, Moving the Field Forward: Understanding Latinx Populations in Communities with Low-Income. May, 2023.
2023 Professionalizing Grandma: Ambiguous Roles in the Indirect Welfare State, Third Annual Global Casework Summit. University of Costa Rica, San Jose, June, 2023.
2023 Professionalizing Grandma: Ambiguous Roles in the Indirect Welfare State, American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA, August 2023.
2022 Professionalizing Grandma: Caregivers responses to the state's effort to improve child care 'quality', American Sociological Association, Los, Angeles, CA.

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