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Jennifer Willett
Researcher at University of Nevada, Reno
Publications - 18
Citations - 148
Jennifer Willett is an academic researcher from University of Nevada, Reno. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social work & Environmental justice. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 17 publications receiving 119 citations. Previous affiliations of Jennifer Willett include University of Connecticut.
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Struggle and Hope: Challenging Gender Violence in Pakistan:
TL;DR: In this paper, a transnational feminist framework and feminist social movement theory are used to examine women's strategies for change and how the historical, political, and social environments of their fields for protest shape these strategies.
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The Slow Violence of Climate Change in Poor Rural Kenyan Communities: "Water is life. Water is Everything."
TL;DR: This article used an ethnographic approach to examine the effects of climate change on two poor rural Kenyan communities and found that the consequences of droughts, the connection between droughtings and deforestation, failed governmental responses, problematic foreign aid responses, and local adaptive measures for survival by affected Kenyan communities.
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Complicating our understanding of environmental migration and displacement: The case of drought-related human movement in Kenya:
Jennifer Willett,Jeanelle Sears +1 more
TL;DR: The social work profession is increasingly concerned with human movement due to environmental changes and has issued a call to develop appropriate interventions to support the vulnerable groups that are affected by environmental changes as discussed by the authors.
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Creating a safe haven in Pakistan
TL;DR: Examination of how a shelter program based on a human rights framework operates in the Pakistani cultural context demonstrates the considerable challenges faced by the organization, especially in reintegrating women back into society, as well as growing acceptance of shelter programs and women’s right to make life choices as a result of the organizations work.