During a visit to Beruas, a small village-town in West Malaysia in 2005, I was alarmed by the
fact that more and more grandmothers were speaking to their grandchildren in bad …

The COVID-19 pandemic, an exceptional crisis, sparked the introduction of new digital
infrastructure to halt the novel coronavirus's spread. This paper explores how such digital …

Social work practice starts with an effort to understand clients-in-context, a task which
involves a process of assessment. Whilst social workers often assess clients-in-systems …

Facing intensified market competition and rapid social change, many Chinese are
experiencing increased mental distress. In this article, I examine how psychological training …

The topic of care has inspired a vast and complex body of research covering a wide range of
practices. As an open-ended process, it is generally directed at fulfilling recognized needs …

This article takes the relationship between care and control as a starting point for
ethnographically approaching the dynamics of Asian migrations. The pairing of care and …

Understanding language as a social action draws attention to the ways in which fat
stigmatizing discourses do social harm. Drawing on interviews and experiences situated in …

This research employs the narrative of mental suffering as a prism through which to study
Chinese migration in France. It provides new analytical angles and new perspectives on the …

In much of the literature on Sierra Leone, young men have been recognized for perpetrating
violence or resisting authority. This characterization extended into the Ebola crisis, as young …

This study intends to understand how Chinese states and healthcare professionals interact
with each other in adopting biomedical concepts within the context of globalization of mental …