Assistant Professor
University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi, United States
Misa Kayama, PhD, MSW, is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Mississippi. Her research focuses on community-based, anti-oppressive social work addressing social exclusion of school-aged children and their families due to disability, racism, and immigrant status through qualitative, ethnographic methods. She has, primarily, three lines of research: 1) Voices of U.S. and Asian children living with disabilities, 2) Japanese families’ experiences of acculturation, anti-Asian racism, and xenophobia in the U.S., and 3) Racial disproportionality and its intersection with disability for African American children. The aim of these studies is to deepen our understanding of the sociocultural shaping of children’s development and experiences, focusing on highly sensitive issues, such as stigmatization due to disability and racism. The findings of these studies have been published in 25 peer-reviewed journals and two academic books with Oxford University Press. A book entitled "Disability, stigmatization, and children's developing selves: Insights from educators in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the U.S." illustrates the sociocultural shaping of professionals’ socialization strategies for supporting children with disabilities at school. Most recently, her work with Japanese immigrant parents, entitled “Anti-Asian Hatred and Japanese Parents’ Support of Their Children’s Acculturation to the United States,” has been published in Social Work. The experiences of recent Japanese immigrant families, who have not experienced racism in their home culture, illuminate sociocultural understandings of racism and provide new perspectives to examine the context of U.S. racism.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM