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Selected publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

 

da Luz Scherf, E., and Badiezadeh, S. (2024). Immigration Policy as a Social Determinant of Health among Brazilian Immigrants in the United States: A Narrative Review. Health Care Analysis, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-024-00499-7

 

da Luz Scherf, E. (2024). Anti-Racist Values in Portuguese Baccalaureate Social Work Education: A Content Analysis Study. International Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics, 21(2), 86-114. https://doi.org/10.55521/10-021-208

 

da Luz Scherf, E. (2024). Addressing Discrimination and Healthcare Disparities for Sexual and Gender Minorities in South Africa: A Human Rights-Based Perspective. Journal of Health Management, Ahead-of-Print. https://doi.org/10.1177/09720634231216025

 

da Luz Scherf, E., & Viana da Silva, M. V. (2023). Brazil’s Yanomami Health Disaster: Addressing the public health emergency requires advancing criminal accountability. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 01–05. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1166167

26.  da Luz Scherf, E. (2023). Latin American perspectives on Indigenous Social Work: In search of mind, body, and soul. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 19(1), 155–165. https://doi.org/10.1177/11771801221140460

 

da Luz Scherf, E., & Viana da Silva, M. V. (2023). Oil giant, climate savior, or somewhere in between? Human rights and the Norwegian climate paradox. International Journal of Public Law and Policy, 10(3), 227-243. https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJPLAP.2024.139509

 

da Luz Scherf, E., Alves Lima Zanatta, M. de, Viana da Silva, M. V., & Da Silva, J. E. (2022). Health Care Access by Transgender Persons in South Africa: Gender-based Discrimination, Human Rights Violations, and the Role of the African Human Rights System. Journal Health and Technology - JHT, 1(4), 01–22. https://doi.org/10.47820/jht.v1i4.25 

 

da Luz Scherf, E. (2021). Challenges in making school social work a reality in Brazilian schools. International Social Work, 66(2), 590–596. https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728211031965

 

da Luz Scherf, E., Viana da Silva, M., & S. Fachini, J. (2021). The management (or lack thereof) of COVID-19 in Brazil: implications for human rights and public health. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, 14(2), 158-174. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhrh-09-2020-0085

 

da Luz Scherf, E., Alves Lima Zanatta, M. de L., & Tumenas Mello, E. (2020). Gender-Awareness amongst Brazilian Children Enrolled in Primary Education: Implications for Women’s Rights & Equality. Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 9(1), 25–50. https://doi.org/10.17583/generos.2020.4865

 

Viana da Silva, M.V, da Luz Scherf, E., & da Silva, J.E. (2020). The Right to Data Protection Versus “Security”: Contradictions of the Rights-Discourse in the Brazilian General Personal Data Protection Act (LGPD). Revista Direitos Culturais [Cultural Rights Review], 15(36), 209-232. https://doi.org/10.20912/rdc.v15i36.18

 

Viana da Silva, M.V., & da Luz Scherf, E. (2020). Dream the impossible dream? An ecosocialist account of the human right to a healthy environment. Direito Ambiental & Sociedade [Environmental Law & Society], 10(2), 35-60. https://doi.org/10.18226/22370021.v10.n2.02

 

Zanatta, M.L.A.L., & da Luz Scherf, E. (2019). The Role of Rights-Based Social Work in Contemporary Latin American Diasporas: The Case of Venezuelan Migrant Children. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 4(4), 238-247. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-019-00104-1

 

da Silva, J.E., da Luz Scherf, E., & Viana da Silva, M.V. (2019). In Tech We Trust? Some General Remarks on Law in the Technological Era from a Third World Perspective. Journal Juridical Opinion, 17(25), 107-123. https://doi.org/10.12662/2447-6641oj.v17i25.p107-123.2019

 

Souza, I.F., Leme, L.R., & da Luz Scherf, E. (2018). Creating bridges between international relations theory and international human rights law: constructivism and the role of Brazil in the Inter-American system of human rights. Brazilian Journal of International Law, 15(3), 179-197. https://doi.org/10.5102/rdi.v15i3.5653

Book reviews

 

2. da Luz Scherf, E. (2024). Matthew, D. B. (2024). Just Health: Treating Structural Racism To Heal America. New York University Press. Forthcoming in Families, Systems, & Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000942

 

1. da Luz Scherf, E. (2020). Mary Mee-Yin Yuen, Solidarity and Reciprocity with Migrants in Asia: Catholic and Confucian Ethics in Dialogue. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 29(4), 553-555. https://doi.org/10.1177/0117196820983983

 

Book chapters 

 

3.  da Luz Scherf, E. (2022). Critical perspectives on social work and social policy practice with vulnerable migrants in an era of emergencies. In A. Jolly, R. Cefalo, & M. Pomati (Eds.), Social Policy Review 34 (1st ed., pp. 134–157). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447365815.008

 

2.  da Luz Scherf, E., Viana da Silva, M.V., & da Silva, J.E. (2021). Indigenous Rights, Necropolitics and the 'Daily Genocides' of Brazil’s Native and Traditional Peoples. In T. Ribeiro Teles (Ed.), Língua(gens), Literaturas, Culturas, Identidades e Direitos Indígenas no Brasil [Languages, Literature, Culture, Identity, and Indigenous Rights in Brazil] (1st ed., pp. 172-180). BAGAI. http://dx.doi.org/10.37008/978-65-89499-57-2.23.04.21

 

1.  da Luz Scherf, E. (2018). Manaus' massacre as a result of the crisis in the Brazilian penitentiary system: an analysis in the light of international human rights law. In A. Jobim do Amaral et al (Eds.), Anais do 8º Congresso Internacional de Ciências Criminais – PUCRS [Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Criminal Sciences – Global Criminology Section], Vol. 3 (1st ed., pp. 121-140). Tirant Lo Blanch.

Manuscripts submitted or under review

 

da Luz Scherf, E. (Submitted October 2024). ‘Blow by blow, and brick by brick’: Anti-immigration policies as a threat to global health equity. Submitted to Discover Public Health.

 

da Luz Scherf, E., Naseh, M., and Lee, J. (Submitted September 2024). Migration Policies as Social Determinants of Health Among International Graduate Students in the United States. Under review in Social Policy & Administration.

 

da Luz Scherf, E. (Re-submitted March 2024). Addressing Diversity and Anti-Racism in the Social Work Undergraduate Curriculum in Portugal: A Qualitative Pilot Study. Under review in Social Work Education: The International Journal.

 

Under preparation

 

Manuscripts

 

5. Bride, B. E., da Luz Scherf, E., and others TBC. The Effect of Personal Trauma History on Secondary Traumatic Stress and Distress and Impairment in Clinical Social Workers.

Phase: Writing up.

 

4. Lee, H. Y., Malele-Kubanga, K., Won, C.R., & da Luz Scherf, E. Service Provision During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights and Challenges Faced by Rural Community Health Workers in Alabama.

Phase: Manuscript revision and preparation for submission.

 

3. Lee, H. Y., Won, C.R., Luo, Y., Hao, Z., Lidbe, A., Jones, S., & da Luz Scherf, E. Addressing Transportation Challenges and Proposing Improvements in Alabama's Black Belt Region During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Phase: Manuscript revision and preparation for submission.

 

2. Gill, S., da Luz Scherf, E., and Alfonso, A. Experiences of Racism and Discrimination Among Afro-Latinx Patients in Primary Care Settings: A Scoping Review (provisional title).

Phase: Full-text review and PRISMA protocol development.

 

1. Giorgio, L. C., da Luz Scherf, E., & Ruggiano, N. Unveiling the Association between Social Isolation and Sleep Disturbances among Latinx Older Women and Men Living in the United States.

Phase: Writing up.

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