Current Projects:

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DISSERTATION: 

 Chapters:
Summary of Disseration (no password)

1. Introduction: Tolerated illegal migration
2. The Hukou System 
3. Methodology
4. Mediated Employment: The Labor Contract System
5. Embedded Employment: A City of 232 villages
6: Unbounded Employment: Street Labor Markets
7. Labor Market Configurations in two Cities, Beijing 
    and Guangzhou
8. Conclusions

Papers:

Swider, Sarah. "Building a Nation: Migrant Construction Workers in China," Center for East Asian Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series. University of Wisconsin-Madison. November 16, 2005

Swider, Sarah: "A Closer Look at Labor Market Intermediaries: The Labor Contracting System in China's Construction Industry," 9th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference April 21, 2007. Loyola University Chicago

Swider, Sarah: "Gender and Migration: Helpless Victims and Perpetrators of Violence" Sociologists for Women in Soicology Winter Meeting Feburary 1-4, 2007. New Orleans. 


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HITS:

Taking Notice: Public Perceptions of Health Privacy in the Wake of HIPAA (Mark Suchman and Sarah Swider)

Presented at ASA: Section on Sociology of Law / Law and Institutions In Session: Section on Sociology of Law Paper Session.
Law and Institutions Sat, Aug 11 - 4:30pm - 6:10pm, Building: Hilton New York

This paper examines the impact and perception of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, from the perspective of patients. While a patient-centric focus is rare in the existing literature on HIPAA, such an orientation is important for several reasons.

First, patients are ostensibly the primary intended beneficiaries of the HIPAA regulations, and yet we currently know little about how patients have actually been affected. Second, while patients are not full-time participants in most healthcare organizations, they are nonetheless both influenced by and exert influence upon healthcare organizations and related legal environments. Finally, our evidence suggests that the HIPAA Privacy Rule may act, among other things, as a "symbolic law" with significant unintended consequences stemming from interactions between health care organizations and patients.

Larger Project Overview: Mapping the Organizational, Professional and Legal Challenges of New Information Technologies.

Principle Investigator : Mark C. Suchman, J.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of sociology and law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The larger project "examines patterns of technology adoption in hospitals and explores how the use of clinical information systems affects and is affected by shifting societal laws, rules, and norms. The investigation focuses on the role of new patient privacy and electronic data interchange regulations adopted by the federal government under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)."