Beyond Racial Divides: Ethnicities in Social Work Practice

by Dominelli,Lena

• ISBN13: 9780754614371
• ISBN10: 0754614379
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Written by leading authorities in the field, this challenging book addresses complex issues of ethnicity and racial discrimination in ways that encourage further debate and analysis. Its main theme is that social work has been and remains, deeply implicated in racist policies and practices that have been locality specific, but that racism is also recognizable across borders as a phenomenon that appears everywhere. At the same time, the book focuses on innovative theories and practice which seek to promote an emancipatory social work which sets itself the goal of eradicating social injustice - particularly that applying to race. The contributors come from a wide range of countries and describe their experiences in tackling racism in social work at the levels of both theory and practice. This provides an impressive range of perspectives which cover models of social work created by people who have had to live with racism and find ways of overcoming it as well as those who have struggled to become able to express their own ethnicity without oppressing others.The concluding message of the book is a positive one - people can create a world that goes beyond racial divides by accepting, validating and celebrating diversity while at the same time recognizing that people share many commonalities with others which can be used to establish egalitarian relationships, realize social justice and communicate effectively with each other.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
Preface	xii
Introduction	1	(8)
Lena Dominelli
Walter Lorenz
Haluk Soydan
PART I: EXPLORING THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR SOCIAL WORK
Emerging Ethnicities as a Theoretical Framework for Social Work	9	(14)
Janis Fook
Ethnic Sensitivity: A Theoretical Framework for Social Work Practice	23	(20)
Wynetta Devore
Multicultural Organizational Development	43	(16)
Lorraine Gutierrez
Inclusive Thinking and Acting	59	(30)
Edwin Hoffman
PART II: COMMUNITY-ORIENTED MODELS OF PRACTICE
The Social Pedagogical Model in the Multicultural Society of Germany	89	(16)
Franz Hamburger
Social Development as a Model of Social Work Practice: The Experience of Zimbabwe	105	(12)
Edwin Kaseke
Social Work Education with Migrants and Refugees in France	117	(20)
Tasse Abye
PART III: MAINSTREAMING SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE WITH DIVERSE CLIENT GROUPS
Linking Our Circles	137	(10)
Richard P. Barth
Minority Ethnic Elderly: Ageing with Care	147	(24)
Naina Patel
Lost in Public Care: The Ethnic Rights of Ethnic Minority Children	171	(18)
Darja Zavirsek
Mental Health Services to Ethnic Minorities: A Global Perspective	189	(24)
Barbara Solomon
PART IV: RECLAIMING HERITAGES THROUGH SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
Making Circles: Renewing First Nations Ways of Helping	213	(16)
Gord Bruyere
A Maori Social Work Construct	229	(28)
Waereti Tait-Rolleston
Sharon Pehi-Barlow
Appropriateness of Social Work Practice with Communities of African Origin	257	(24)
Asher John-Baptiste
Final Observations	281	(10)
Lena Dominelli
Walter Lorenz
Haluk Soydan
Index	291