Publications

Books

Parada, H., & Ordoñez, S. (2025). Niñez, adolescencia y juventud migrante en Centroamérica y el Caribe. Cruzando límites geográficos.
Editorial Oscar de León Palacios 5.

Parada, H., Escobar Olivo, V. & Cruz, K. (2023). Central American young people migration: Coloniality and epistemologies of the South. Routledge.

Parada, H., Villeda, B., & Cruz, K (eds) (2022). Derechos de la niñez en Centroamérica y República Dominicana: Un acercamiento a los sistemas de protección y sus prácticas institucionales. IPNUSAC.

Parada, H., & Wehbi, S. (Eds.). (2017) Reimagining anti-oppression social work: Reflecting on Research. Canadian Scholar Press.

Wehbi, S., Parada, H. (Eds.). (2017.) Reimagining anti-oppression social work: Reflection on Practice. Canadian Scholar Press.

Parada, H & Ibarra, A. (2017). Violence against youth: Dominican Republic study. Buho Editorial.

Parada, H, Burgos, R, Asuad, M.E., Ega, V., & Ibarra, A. (2017). Estudio: Violencia en adolescentes de 13 a 15 años, de escuelas públicas, en la república dominicana. Buho Editorial.

Parada, H., Silver, S., Burke, M., & Ibarra, A. (2016). Evaluación de los Centros Infantiles de Atención Integral (CIANI) y las Juntas Locales de Protección y Restitución de Derechos (JLPRD) en la República Dominicana. Buho Editorial.

Parada, H., Silver, S., Burke, M., & Ibarra, A. (2016). Evaluation of Centres for the Integral Attention of Children in the Dominican Republic (CIANIs) and Local Community Organizations for Child Protection (LCOCP). Buho Editorial.

Parada, H., Moffatt, K., Barnoff, L and Homan, M.S. (2011). Promoting Community Change: Making it Happen in the Real World, Canadian. First Edition. Thomson/Nelson.

Parada, H. (2011). Etnografía Institucional del Sistema de Protección de la República Dominicana. UNICEF Press.

Journal Articles

Laylor, A., Edwards, T., Griffiths, K., Chowdhury, R., Olivo, Veronica E., Parada, H., & King, B. (2025). The Significance of Relationships in Black Youth’s Narratives of Out‐of‐Home Care in Ontario’s Child Welfare System. Child & Family Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13280

Edwards, T., Brisbane, M., Laylor, A., Chowdhury, R., Parada, H., & King, B. (2025). “I wasn’t Enrolled”: Exploring the Educational Narratives of Black Caribbean Youth Navigating Out-of-Home Care in Ontario’s Child Welfare System. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 42(2), 219-234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-023-00955-8

Parada, H., Sánchez-Morales, D., Escobar Olivo, V., Recinos, E. & Gonzalez, A.R. (2024). Explorando el sistema de protección de la niñez en El Salvador. Revista Latinoamericana De Ciencias Sociales, Niñez Y Juventud, 21(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.11600/rlcsnj.21.1.5593

Al-Hamad, A., Metersky, K., Parada, H., Yasin, Y., Hingorani, M., & Gare, C. (2024). Blossoming Through Creativity: Unveiling Sense of Belonging Among Ukrainian and Syrian Refugee Women in Ontario. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 25(2), 887-910. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-024-01120-5

Al-Hamad, A., Metersky, K., Parada, H., Yasin, Y., Hingorani, M., & Gare, C. (2024). Unpacking Food and Housing Insecurity: A Study of Ukrainian and Syrian Refugee Women in Canada. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2024.2425791

Parada, H., Ungara, D., Swardh, K., & Escobar Olivo, V. (2024). “We are in a position of power”: Worker’s engagement with refugees at the intersection of child protection and immigration. Canadian Social Work Review, 41(1), 73–94. https://doi.org/10.7202/1111861ar

Rampersaud, M., Parada, H., Olivo, V. E., & Ouellette, C. (2024). Reimagining Youth Subjectivity: A Deconstruction of Child and Youth Legislation in Ontario. The International Journal of Children’s Rights, 32(2), 447–476. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-32020007

Rampersaud, M., Swardh, K., & Parada, H. (2024). Child Welfare, Immigration, and Justice Systems: An Intersectional Life-Course Perspective on Youth Trajectories. Laws, 13(3), 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws13030034

King, B., Parada, H., Fallon, B., Escobar Olivo, V., Best, L.M., & Filippelli, J. (2023). Latin American Children in Ontario child welfare: An examination of investigation disparities. Children and Youth Services Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107357

Parada, H., Perez Gonzalez, L., Rampersaud, M., & Escobar Olivo, V. (2023). “Parents don’t know they have the option to say no”: The experiences of Caribbean and Latin American parents navigating special education in Ontario. Race, Ethnicity, and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2023.2255837

Akuoko-Barfi, C., Escobar Olivo, V., Rampersaud, M., Parada, H., & Schuster, R. (2023). “I feel like I was targeted”: Black youth navigating policing in Ontario, Canada. Child & Youth Services. https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2023.2243436

Parada, H., Perez Gonzalez, L.,& Escobar Olivo, V. (2023). “Do White parents feel the same?”: Latin American and Black Caribbean parents fighting for participation in partnership-oriented education. Whiteness and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/23793406.2023.2249904

Akuoko-Barfi, C., Parada, H., Gonzalez Perez, L., & Rampersaud, M. (2023). “It’s not a system that’s built for me”: Black youths’ unbelonging in Ontario schools. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2023.2240686

Edwards, T., Chowdhury, R., Laylor, A., King, B., & Parada, H. (2023). Pushed, dropped, or fleeing from care: The narratives and adultification of Black youth who have aged out of Ontario’s child welfare system. Child & Youth Services. https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2023.2173565

Parada, H., Sanchez Morales, D., Escobar Olivo, V., Recinos, E., & Gonzalez, A.R. (2023). La construcción institucional de prácticas en el sistema de protección de niños, niñas y adolescentes en El Salvador. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud.

Edwards, T., King, B., Risidore, J. & Parada, H. (2022). Many households but never a home: stories of resistance from Black youth navigating placement instability in Ontario’s child welfare system. Journal of Youth Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2022.2080539

Parada, H., Escobar Olivo, V., & Limón Bravo, F. (2021). “I just want to belong somewhere”: Latinx Youth’s experiences in the education system in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Latinos and Education, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2021.1996366

Escobar Olivo, V., Parada, H., & Limón Bravo, F. (2021). “I don’t want anyone to follow my path:” Commercial sexual exploitation of children in the Dominican Republic. Journal of Human Trafficking. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2021.1959757

Akuoku-Barfi, C., McDermott, T., Parada, H., & Edwards, T. (2021). “We were in White homes as Black children:” Caribbean youth’s stories of out-of-home care in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Progressive Human Services: Radical Thought & Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2021.1931649

Parada, H., Escobar Olivo, V., & Limón Bravo, F. (2021). Latinx youth’s experiences in the Ontario education system: Race, invisibility, and capital. Canadian Ethnic Studies. 53(1), 69-87. 10.1353/ces.2021.0003

Suazo, M., Cruz, K. A., &, Parada, H. (2020). Explorando el sistema de protección de la niñez en Honduras. Revista Latino Americana, 18(2), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.11600/1692715x.18207

Parada. H., Limon Bravo, F., Loewen, R., & El-Lahib, Y. (2020). Exploring the practices of refugee settlement practitioners in Toronto: An institutional ethnography. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2020.1824053

Moffatt, K., Panitch, M., Parada, H., Todd, S., Barnoff, L., & Aslett, J. (2016). “Essential cogs in the innovation machine”: The discourse of innovation in Ontario education reform. The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 38, 4, 317-340.

Todd, S., Barnoff, L., Moffatt, K., Panitch, M., Parada, H., & Strumm, B. (2016). A social work re-reading of students as consumers. Social Work Education, 1-15.

Todd, S., Barnoff, L., Moffatt, K., Panitch, M., Parada, H., Mucina, M., & Williams, D. (2015). Performativity Culture in Universities: Social Work Fabrications. British Journal of Social Work, 45, 2, 527-548.

Barrett-Herman, A., Littlechild, B., Parada, H., Leung, P., & Wairire, G. (2014). Social Work Education: Process, Findings and Implications of the IASSW 2010 Census Project. International Social Work.

Barretta-Herman, A., Leung, P., Littlechild, B., Parada, H., & Wairire, G. G. (2014). The changing status and growth of social work education worldwide: Process, findings and implications of the IASSW 2010 census. International social work, 0020872814547437.4163508133

Wehbi, S., Parada, H., George, P., & Lessa, I. (2014) Going home (?): Social Work Across and About Borders. International Social Work.

Carranza, M., Lopez, L., Parada, H., & Jiménez, I. (2013). Granada, a City Under Siege: Dynamics of the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children as a Human Rights Issue In Nicaragua. Journal of Global Citizenship and Equity Education Vol. 3 No 1.

Parada, H., Saracostti, M., & Reininger, T. (2012). Guest Editors, Social Work in Latin America. International Social Work 53(3).

Saracostti, M., Reininger, T., & Parada, H. (2012). Social Work in Latin America in Karen Lyons, Terry Hokenstad, Manohar Pawar, Nathalie Huegler (Eds). Handbook of International Social Work. Sage Publications.

Parada, H., Barnoff, L., & Coleman, H. (2007). Negotiating Professional Agency: Social Work and Decision-Making within Child Welfare. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. Volume XXXIV December 2007, Number 4. Pp 35-56.

Parada, H., Moffatt, K., & Duval, M. (2007). Emerging Practices of Social Work in the Dominican Republic: The Protection of Women’s and Children’s Safety. Journal of International Social Work 50 (6) 755-769.

Parada, H. (2007). Social Work in Latin America: Regional Perspectives from Latin America. Journal of International Social Work 50 (4).

Parada, H. (2007). Social Work Practices Within the Restructured Child Welfare System in Ontario: An Institutional Ethnography. Canadian Social Work Review, 21 (1) pp 67 – 76.

Swift, K., & Parada, H. (2004). Child Welfare Reform: Protecting Children or Policing the Poor? Journal of Law and Social Policy Volume 19. Pp. 1-17.

Book Chapters

Villeda, B., Escobar Olivo, V. & Parada, H. (forthcoming). Social Media and Youth Empowerment in Guatemala. In Tilleczek, K. (ed). Villains and Vagabonds: Youth and Digital Technology in Various Contexts. University of Toronto Press.

Villeda Erazo, B., Cappelletti, M., Parada, H. (2025). Regreso, vivo o muerto, pero regreso:” La política de la pertenencia y el arraigo en los jóvenes migrantes guatemaltecos. In Niñez, adolescencia y juventud migrante en Centroamérica y el Caribe: Cruzando límites geográfico

Edwards, T., & Parada, H. (2022). The counter-story of resistance: Black youth disengaging from Ontario’s educational system. In Tilleczek, K. & MacDonald, D. (eds). Education for Wellbeing and Rights of Youth in the Americas. Youth, Young Adulthood and Society Series. Routledge.

Escobar Olivo, V., Parada, H., & Limón Bravo., F (2022). Latin American youth and belonging at school in Ontario, Canada. In Tilleczek, K. & MacDonald, D. (eds). Education for Wellbeing and Rights of Youth in the America Youth, Young Adulthood and Society Series. Routledge.

Parada, H. (2022). La organización social de prácticas cotidianas: etnografía institucional. In Parada, H., Villeda, B., & Cruz, K (eds). Derechos de la niñez en Centroamérica y República Dominicana: Un acercamiento a los sistemas de protección y sus prácticas institucionales. IPNUSAC.

Parada, H., Pineda, D., & Ordoñez, S. (2022). Reformas de los sistemas de protección de niños, niñas, y adolescentes: Los casos de Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, y República Dominicana. In Parada, H., Villeda, B., & Cruz, K (eds). Derechos de la niñez en Centroamérica y República Dominicana: Un acercamiento a los sistemas de protección y sus prácticas institucionales. IPNUSAC.

Cruz K., & Parada, H. (2022). Protocolos de prácticas en los sistemas de protección de niños, niñas y adolescentes. In Parada, H., Villeda, B., & Cruz, K (eds). Derechos de la niñez en Centroamérica y República Dominicana: Un acercamiento a los sistemas de protección y sus prácticas institucionales. IPNUSAC.

Cruz, K. Villeda, B.A., & Parada, H. (2022). Conclusiones. In Parada, H., Villeda, B., & Cruz, K (eds). Derechos de la niñez en Centroamérica y República Dominicana: Un acercamiento a los sistemas de protección y sus prácticas institucionales. IPNUSAC.

Wright, E., & Parada, H. (2019). Responding to the settlement needs of newcomers: Community organizations in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. In H. Bauder (Ed.), The Promise of Migration: A Companion to the International Metropolis Conference 2019, Ottawa, Canada (pp. 9–17).

Parada, H., Ibarra, A.L., Mulvale, E. & Limón Bravo, F. (2019). Youth and resilience. In H. Bauder (Ed.) Putting Family First: Migration and Integration in Canada. UBC Press. (197-212).

Wright, E., & Parada, H. (2019). Responding to the Settlement Needs of Newcomers: Community Organizations in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. In H. Bauder (Ed.), The Promise of Migration: A Companion to the International Metropolis Conference 2019, Ottawa, Canada (pp. 9–17).

Ibarra, A & Parada, H. (2016). Canada. In M. Valdés (Eds.) Comparative intervention with minors in different countries (7-18). Dykinson.

Ibarra, A & Parada, H. (2016). Canadá. In M. Valdés (Eds.) La intervención comparada con menores en desprotección y en conflicto con la ley en diferentes países (75-87). Dykinson.

Parada, H. (2012). The Mestizo Refuses to Confess: Masculinity from the Standpoint of a Latin American in Ken Moffatt (ed.) Troubled Masculinities: Redefining men in Toronto. University of Toronto Press.

Barrett-Herman, A., Littlechild, B., Parada, H., Leung, P., & Wairire, G. (2010). The State of Social Work Education Worldwide: Findings from the International Association of Schools of Social Work 2010 World Census Project.

Carranza, M., & Parada, H. (2010). Child Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Nicaragua: A Critical Globalization Perspective in McCabe, K., Manian, S. (ed) Sex Trafficking: A Global Perspective. Rowman & Littlefield Publisher, Inc. Plymouth, UK.

Parada, H. (2009). Anti-Oppressive Practice with Child Emotional Abuse. Strega S (ed.) Anti
Oppressive Practices in Child Welfare, Fernwood, Halifax.

Parada, H. (2007). Homelessness in the Dominican Republic. In Ronald Marshall, Joe Springer and Ralph Premdas (eds) Homelessness and Street Children in the Caribbean. University of the West Indies St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

Reports

Fallon, B., Black, T., Lefebvre, R., Trocmé, N., Hélie, S., Crowe, A., Miller, M., Budau, K., Houston, E., King, B., Esposito, T., Fluke, J., Collin‑Vézina, D., Parada, H., Provençal, J., Chhabra, N., Sawh, P., Chan, P., Chowdhury, R., … Wilson, L. (2025). Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2023 (OIS‑2023). Toronto, ON: Child Welfare Research Portal

Parada, H. Swardh, K., CWICE (2024). Connecting Child Welfare and Immigration Systems: The Role of CWICE. https://doi.org/10.32920/26672032.v1

Rampersaud, M., Swardh, K., Quan, P., & Parada, H. (2023). Strengthening Institutional Responses – Criminal Justice, Child Welfare and Immigration Systems. https://doi.org/10.32920/29041835.v1

Parada, H., Escobar Olivo, V., Fallon, B., Best, L., Fillipelli, J., Houston, E., Swardh, K., & Quan, P. (2023). The Overrepresentation of Latin American Children in Canada’s Child Welfare System Findings from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2019. University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. https://doi.org/10.32920/24649341.v1.

Parada, H., Fallon, B., Best, L., Escobar Olivo, V., Filippelli, J., & King, B. (2023). Understanding the Over-representation of Latin American children in Ontario child welfare services (Version 1). University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. https://doi.org/10.32920/24085521.v1

Parada. H. (2019). Más allá de Técnicas e Instrumentos en la Protección de Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes ¿Practica Basada en Evidencia? Salvadoreña Luterana University-Ryerson Project

Parada, H. (2019). Experiencias de Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes Sobre Los Procesos de Institucionalización en La República Dominicana: Un Acercamiento. Unicef-Ryerson Project.

Parada, H. (2018). Institutionalzations of Children and Youth Project/Fortaliciedo la colaboracio en la Americas Sobre Los Derechos de la Ninez y la Adolescencia. Findings Report. UNICEF.

Parada, H., & Ibarra, A. Violence against youth: Dominican Republic study. Santo Domingo: Buho Editorial.

Parada, H., Ibarra, A., Burgos, R, Asuad, M.E., & Ega, V. Estudio (2017). Violencia en adolescentes de 13 A 15 años, de escuelas públicas, en la república dominicana. Santo Domingo: Buho Editorial. Link

Parada, H., Silver, S., Burke, M., & Ibarra, A. (2006). Evaluation of Centres for the Integral Attention of Children in Dominican Republic (CIANIs) and Local Community Organizations for Child Protection (LCOCP). Santo Domingo: Buho Editorial. Link

Barrett-Herman, A., Littlechild, B., Parada, H., Leung, P., Wairire, G. (2016). The State of Social Work Education Worldwide: Findings from the International Association of Schools of Social Work 2010 World Census Project. International Social Work, 59 (4), 459-478.

Parada, H. (2008). Institutional Ethnography of the Child Protection Systems in the Dominican Republic. Findings Report. Presented to the United Nations Children’s Fund.

Barnoff, L., Parada, H., & Grassnou, P. (2005). Report on the Findings of Anti-Oppression Conference at Ryerson University.

Parada, H. (2004). Building Capacity in the Dominican Republic to Combat Children and Women Sexual and Labour Exploitation. Report submitted to the Ryerson Office of International Affairs for consideration as a Letter of Intent to the University Partnership Community Research Program of the Canadian International Development Agency.

Parada, H. (2004). Race and Power Dynamics in International Cooperation, Pueblito Case. A Discussion Paper presented to the Pueblito Board of Directors.

Parada, H., & Shone, B. (2004). Position Paper on Child Emotional Abuse. Children’s Aid Society of the Region of Peel.

Parada, H. (2004). Evaluation Report of the Barrio Nuevo Community Child Protection Project. Report submitted to the International Development Research Centre Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean Exchange Program (IDRC-LACREG).

Parada, H. (2003). The Protection of Children’s Rights in the Dominican Republic: A Case Study Pueblito Canada Report.

Parada, H., & Wentlandt, B. (2002). Anti-Oppression and Child Protection Creating Space for Alternative Practice: Field Instruction Training, Children’s Aid Society of the Region of Peel.