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Social work and minorities : European perspectives / edited by Charlotte Williams, Haluk Soydan and Mark R.D. Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social work with minorities--Europe.
- Social work with minorities.
- Marginality, Social--Europe.
- Marginality, Social.
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- Europe--Social policy.
- Europe.
- Europe--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Social Work and Minorities examines the new challenges presented to Social Workers throughout Europe by the complex problems occasioned by increased migration and settlement and the growing awareness of the specific needs of refugees and asylum seekers. Contributors use illustrative examples from throughout Europe to examine key concepts such as: globalization, assimilation, visibility, multi-culturalism, racism, marginalization and social exclusion. Social Work and Minorities will be an essential resource for social work students, practitioners and educators working
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Editors' introduction; The dimensions of social work and 'minority' discourse; Exploring concepts HALUK SOYDAN AND CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS; Understanding migration HALUK SOYDAN; Multiculturalism, anti-racism and social work in Europe LENA DOMINELLI; Controls, rights and migration MARK R.D. JOHNSON, MARTIN BALDWIN-EDWARDS AND CLAUDE MORAES; Ethnic monitoring: bureaucratic construction of a 'minority' entity or identity MARK R.D. JOHNSON; Case studies of some common themes
- Social work with linguistic minorities MARK DRAKEFORD AND STEVE MORRISNon-governmental organisations and the welfare of minority ethnic communities in Britain and Germany MAUREEN HIRSCH AND DIANA POWELL; Child welfare in wartime and under post-war conditions: the Bosnian case as a point of departure for reflections on social work with refugees SVEN HESSLE AND MARIE HESSLE; Collective action in a refugee camp: a case study EVA SEGERSTRM; Gypsies and social work in Sweden KARL-OLOV ARNSTBERG; The 3 Rs in social work: religion, 'race' and racism in Europe NAINA PATEL, BETH HUMPHRIES AND DON NAIK
- Issues for the structuring of social work's future practiceTowards an emancipatory pedagogy? Social work education for a multicultural multi-ethnic Europe CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS; Research with ethnic minority groups in health and social welfare GURNAM SINGH AND MARK R.D. JOHNSON; Social work, social policies and minorities in Europe WALTER LORENZ; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-70073-3
- 0-203-04625-0
- 0-203-26957-8
- 1-280-06005-0
- 1-134-70074-1
- 9780203046258
- OCLC:
- 123470202
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