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Welfare, health, education, conflict, security and migration are examples of phenomena that are prevalent across all societies. With chapters from leading scholars from around the world, this exciting new book draws upon the impacts of globalisation, colonialism, and capitalism, to explore the common challenges facing nations across the globe and provide an insight in to the history, theory and practice of a new anti-racist social work.
List of contents
Introduction.- 'Race', Racism and Resistance: Theory and Politics.- (Re)imagining new spaces for anti-racist social work: Policy deliberation as practice.- Popular Social Work in the West Bank - insights for an internationalist anti-racist social work.- Reflections on the development, ideology and practice of anti-racist social work in Greece.- Transcending racism in asylum politics: Quest for social workers.- Social work, social justice and sectarianism in Post Conflict Northern Ireland.- From colourblind racism to critical race theory: The road toward anti-racist social work in the United States.- Racial issues and social work intervention.- Social Work and the Community Question: Addressing Complexities of Social Structures.- Interrogating Anti-Racist Social Work Education in England.- Anti racist social work: The Hong Kong context.- Anti-racist Social Work - South African perspectives.- Conclusion
About the author
Gurnam Singh, Principal Lecturer in Social Work, Coventry University, UK Shepard Masocha, Lecturer in Social Work, University of South Australia, Australia
Summary
Welfare, health, education, conflict, security and migration are examples of phenomena that are prevalent across all societies. With chapters from leading scholars from around the world, this exciting new book draws upon the impacts of globalisation, colonialism, and capitalism, to explore the common challenges facing nations across the globe and provide an insight in to the history, theory and practice of a new anti-racist social work.
