Translating Human Rights: creating culturally-specific human rights measures for social work in Spain, Taiwan, and the United States
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2018
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McPherson, J., Cubillos Vega, C., & Tang, I.-C. (2019). Translating Human Rights: Creating culturally-specific human rights measures for social work in Spain, Taiwan, and the United States. International Social Work, 62(2), 944-949. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872818755864
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This Brief Note describes the challenges of translating English-language measures – Human Rights Exposure in Social Work and Human Rights Engagement in Social Work – into Spanish and Traditional Chinese. Authors discuss the cultural specificities that complicate translating rights across political boundaries and provide insight for undertaking cross-national translation.