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GLOBAL SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND
SOCIAL ACTION: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL WORKERS

Global Social Transformation
and Social Action: The Role
of Social Workers

Social Work-Social Development Volume III

Edited by

SVEN HESSLE

Stockholm University, Sweden

First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright Sven Hessle and the contributors 2014

Sven Hessle has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editor of this work.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notice:
Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Global social transformation and social action : the role of social workers/[edited] by
Sven Hessle.

pages cm.(Social work-social development; volume III)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-1795-4 (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4724-1796-1 (ebook)
ISBN 978-1-4724-1797-8 (epub) 1. Social service. 2. Social workers. 3. Social action.
4. Social movements. I. Hessle, Sven, 1941
HV40.G58185 2014

361.3dc23

2013041893

ISBN 9781472417954 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315585024 (ebk)

Contents

Sven Hessle

Malcolm Payne

Chakib Benmoussa

Mehdi Gharbi

Nikolaus Dimmel

Elizabeth F. Hoffler and Elizabeth J. Clark

Wanda Griep Hirai

Manoranjan Pal, Bhola Nath Ghosh and Premananda Bharati

Linda Smith

Sarah Cemlyn and Miriam Nye

Michael Lavalette

Gioconda Herrera

Alex Mungua Salazar

Susana B. Adamo

Julie Drolet and Natalie Drolet

Jane McPherson

Nina Insarova and Marina Kasyanova

Lennart Nygren and Siv Oltedal

Kate Morris and Nathan Hughes

Erica Righard

Claire Achmad

Diana Rowan, Ulrika Jrkestig-Berggren, Donna McAuliffe, Innette Cambridge, Annis Fung and Michael Moore

Sarah Greenhow

Karen Healy

Kay Hoffman

Keith Brownlee, Glenn Halverson, and Raymond Neckoway

Joanna Rawles

Sarah Banks and Kirsten Nhr

Idit Weiss-Gal and John Gal

Walter A. Lorenz

List of Figures and Tables

Figures

Tables

Notes on Contributors

Claire Achmad is a human rights lawyer with expertise in public international law and international child rights. She is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and holds a LLM (Leiden, cum laude) in Public International Law (Peace, Justice and Development). She has worked as in-house counsel for the New Zealand Government, advising on a range of public law, human rights and international child Law issues; a community lawyer advising refugees; Senior Advisor to the Chief Human Rights Commissioner of New Zealand; and as a Rights and Advocacy Officer, UNICEF the Netherlands. Claire has authored reports on a number of child rights issues and is an expert on international commercial surrogacy and child rights. She has presented on this topic internationally and is currently undertaking her PhD on this topic through Leiden University.

Susana B. Adamo has a PhD in demography/sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. She is an associate research scientist at the Center for International Earth Sciences Information Network (Earth Institute) and adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University. Co-coordinator of the Population and Environment Research Network (PERN). She is a social demographer and her research includes environmental migration and displacement, dynamics of internal population mobility in developing countries, rural/urban demography, migration and health, and issues related to global population data sets. Her latest publications include vulnerability to disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean; environmental migration and cities in the context of global environmental change; migration, poverty and environment; and the effects of climate change on population distribution and migration.

Sarah Banks is Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University, UK, where she teaches and researches in the fields of community, youth and social work, professional ethics and community-based participatory research. She is co-director of the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action. She is founding co-editor of the journal Ethics and Social Welfare and author of a number of books on professional ethics. co-editor with Kirsten Nhr of Practising Social Work Ethics Around the world: Case and Commentaries (2012).

Premananda Bharati is Professor and head in the Biological Anthropology Unit of Indian Statistical Institute. He has numerous publications in different national and international journals. His research interests include Human Biology, Physical Anthropology, Growth, Nutrition, Gender issue and Demography etc. He has received many national and international awards. Among these are (i) International Man of the Year (1993/94) in recognition of the services to Science from International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England, (ii) Man of the year 1994 from American Biographical Institute, and (iii) Fellow, Human Biology Association, Michigan, USA.

Ulrika Jrkestig Berggren is Assistant Professor of the department of social work at Linnaeus University Kalmar campus in Sweden. She has been teaching in the social work programme for 13 years and has been its programme director for three years. Her teaching centres on knowledge and identity of the social work profession and on disability studies. She has done work in researching social policy, including the implementation of case management in Sweden and its consequences for the social work profession. Comparative research on disability policy and student attitudes toward disability stigma in Sweden, United States, and the Czech Republic. Currently she is completing a systematic review for the National Knowledge Centre on Development of Support for Relatives, about supporting children whose parents have a severe illness or a physical disability.

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