HENRY J. D'SOUZA UNO School of Social Work, Annex 40, 6001

Henry J. D'Souza
1988 Visiting Lecturer, School of Social Work, the University of Michigan,
1987 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Sociology, Social Work and
Anthropology, The University of Toledo.
1986 Adjunct Instructor, School of Social Work, The University of
Michigan.
1982-1983 Conducted a qualitative study on the resettlement of Indo-Chinese
refugees in Toledo, Ohio that dealt with the problems of differential
adaptation, welfare participation, voluntary agency support and
mutual support organizations among the refugees.
1977-1982 Assistant Professor, The Madras School of Social Work, India.
Taught courses in community development, juvenile delinquency
and correctional administration, social legislation and history and
philosophy of social work in India; provided practicum supervision
to graduate students in community settings, welfare and
correctional agencies; supervised student research projects;
organized two in-service training programs for police and
correctional personnel.
1980 Filed a class-action suit against the Government of Tamil Nadu
state in the Supreme Court of India preventing the forcible eviction
of pavement-dwellers in Madras, India. The Supreme Court
eventually ruled that the state government could not evacuate the
residents without providing alternate accommodation.
1975-1977 Community Organizer, Mukka Welfare Society, Mukka, India.
Organized the untouchables in order to secure government welfare
programs such as sites and services, housing, loans, debt relief,
abolition of bonded labor; organized agricultural tenants and
landless laborers to create an awareness of land reform legislation
and to deal with bureaucratic procedures of land assignment;
conducted a socioeconomic survey of condition of a village;
engaged in organizing cooperative society for small farmers;
organized a basket makers’ cooperative for the untouchable tribe of
the Koragas in Mukka.
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