Race, Racism and Social Work : : Contemporary issues and debates /

Race, Racism and Social Work : : Contemporary issues and debates / / ed. by Michael Lavalette, Laura Penketh.

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Without a doubt, structural and institutionalised racism is still present in Britain and Europe, a factor that social work education and training has been slow to acknowledge. In this timely new book, Lavalette and Penketh reveal that racism towards Britain’s minority ethnic groups has undergone a p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
MitwirkendeR:
Burke, Beverley,
Fekete, Liz,
Gillett, Susan,
Greener, Joe,
Harrison, Philomena,
Jenkins, Gareth,
Lavalette, Michael,
Levine, Barrie,
Moran, Rhetta,
Orr, Judith,
Penketh, Laura,
Singh, Gurnam,
Stamp, Dave,
Urh, Špela,
Williams, Charlotte,
HerausgeberIn:
Lavalette, Michael,
Penketh, Laura,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (276 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Some terms and definitions
  • Race, racism and social work
  • Rethinking anti-racist social work in a neoliberal age
  • The growth of xeno-racism and Islamophobia in Britain
  • The catalysers: ‘black’ professionals and the anti-racist movement
  • “Same, same, but different”
  • Antisemitism and anti-racist social work
  • Anti-Roma racism in Europe: past and recent perspectives
  • In defence of multiculturalism?
  • Social work and Islamophobia: identity formation among second and third generation Muslim women in north-west England
  • Institutionalised Islamophobia and the ‘Prevent’ agenda: ‘winning hearts and minds’ or welfare as surveillance and control?
  • ‘Street-grooming’, sexual abuse and Islamophobia: an anatomy of the Rochdale abuse scandal1
  • My people?
  • Twenty-first century eugenics? A case study about the Merton Test
  • The role of immigration policies in the exploitation of migrant care workers: an ethnographic exploration
  • Race, racism and social work today: some concluding thoughts
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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