M. Emilia Bianco

MP759 Communities and Organizations: Analysis and Intervention (Charles River Campus and online)
MP783 Program Development

Bianco, M.E. & Lykes, M.B. (2022). Towards an ethics of compassionate care in accompanying human suffering: dialogic relationships and feminist activist scholarship with asylum-seeking mothers. Journal of Global Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449626.2023.2211080

Lykes, M.B., Bianco, M.E & Távara, G. (2020). Contributions and limitations of diverse qualitative methods to feminist participatory and action research with women in the wake of gross violations of human rights. Methods in Psychology.

Bianco, M.E. (2019). Mothering, migrating and seeking asylum. The transbordering experiences, maternal practices and well-being of Central American mothers traveling with their children (doctoral dissertation). ProQuest.

Bianco, M.E, Lombe, M. & Bolis, M. (2017). Challenging gender norms and practices through women’s entrepreneurship. International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship. 9 (4) pp.338-358, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJGE-10-2017-0060

Lykes, M.B., Alvarez, E., Bianco, M.E, Bravo, D., Fatty, F., Ferreira, K, Glaze, S., Mkoshi, J, Sosrodjojo, E. & Suliman, G. (2015). Migrant families and language: “…The person who speaks two languages has double the value”, a report from the Documenting migrants’ intergenerational experiences with English language, learning towards improving access, multilingualism and community advocacy project. (Research Report). Chestnut Hill: Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice.

Bianco, M.E., Chambers, T., Garcia, P., Lombe, M. & Sarria, N (2014). The Most Missing of the Missing Middle (M4). Understanding the problem of underinvestment in women-led enterprise in Latin America and the Caribbean (Research Report). Boston: Oxfam. Available at https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f720/cbe4aec0d2076f2952d5e90265618eb1a88d.pdf

Weisz, N., Torres Carbonell, S. & Bianco, M.E. (2006). Secretarias y Negocios. Buenos Aires: IAE Business School.

Lopez, L. and Bianco, M.E (April, 2024). Title: “Era más peligroso quedarse que partir con los niños”: Historias de trauma y fortaleza de madres inmigrantes y prácticas de salud mental y acción social. Workshop presentation accepted at the International Federation of Social Workers (SWSD) 2024 Panama Conference.

Bianco, M.E. (November, 2021). Title: Reflections on the community engaged dissertation research with asylum-seeking mothers in Boston. In Lykes, M.B (Chair) Critically engaging the borders of belonging and citizenship: Im/migrants’ strategies of mutual solidarity and resistance. Symposium conducted at the International Critical Migration Scholarship Conference, University of San Francisco, CA.

Bianco, M.E. (2020, January). Mothering in contexts of violence, economic inequality, and transnational mobility: A qualitative study with asylum-seeking mothers from Central America. Oral paper presented at the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) 2020 Annual Conference, Washington, DC.

Bianco, M.E. (2018, November). Feminist theory reworked and practiced in Latin American grounds: A case study of Latin American women entrepreneurs contesting gender inequality while pursuing their businesses. In M.G. Torres (Chair) Women's movements and feminisms in Latin America. Roundtable conducted at the 2018 Annual Conference of the New England Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS), Worcester, MA.

Bianco, M.E. (2017, October). Building a humanitarian response to asylum-seeking mothers and children in Boston. In. C. Arcidiacono (Chair) Experiences and Narratives of Border. Symposium conducted at the European Community Psychology Association (ECPA) 10th European Congress, Newcastle, U.K.

Bianco, M.E. and Lombe, M. (2017, January). Women entrepreneurs in Colombia. Changing the understandings and practices of gender. Poster session presented at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR), New Orleans, Louisiana.

Bianco, M.E., Lykes, M.B, Glaze, S, Ferreira, K (2017, January). Findings from a Participatory action research project with Latino migrant families: About access and multilingualism. Oral paper presented at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR), New Orleans, Louisiana.

Bianco, M.E., Ferreira, K., Bravo, D., Rubio, D., Glaze, S. (2014, June). Lessons learned from a community-academic collaboration on a Participatory action research project with migrant families. Poster session presented at the Biennial Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA), Lowell, Massachusetts.

Ferreira, K., Bianco, ME, Bravo, D., Rubio, D. (2015, January). Documenting Migrants’ Intergenerational Experiences with English Language Learning. Towards Community Engagement and Advocacy. Oral paper presented at the National Multicultural Conference and Summit, Atlanta, Georgia.

2022 Boston University School of Social Work Small Grants
2022 Boston University CTSI Community Engagement Program
2018. Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice Rennebohm
Fellowship
2017-2020 Boston College Conference Travel Awards
2010-2017 Boston College Graduate School of Social Work Doctoral Fellowship
2009-2010 Universidad Austral Masters Fellowship - Full Scholarship
1997-2001 Universidad Austral Undergraduate Fellowship

Member Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR)
Member Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA)
Member International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)
Reviewer International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship
Reviewer Community Psychology in Global Perspective

Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice Rennebohm Award for activist research done in the intersection of mental health, human rights, gender and social justice