BEYOND RACIAL DIVIDES
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Beyond Racial Divides
Ethnicities in social work practice
Edited by
Lena Dominelli
University of Southampton and President, IASSW
Walter Lorenz
University College, Cork
Haluk Soydan
The National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden
First published 2001 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Beyond racial divides: ethnicities in social work practice
1. Social work with minorities - Congresses 2. Social service
- Congresses 3. Race discrimination - Prevention
Congresses 4. Pluralism (Social sciences) - Congresses
I. Dominelli, Lena II. Lorenz, Walter, 1947- III. Soydan,
Haluk, 1946
362.8'4
Library of Congress Control Number: 00-109610
ISBN 9780754614371 (hbk)
ISBN 9781138258044 (pbk)
Transfered to Digital Printing in 2010
Contents
Editors
Lena Dominelli is Director of the Centre for International Social and Community Development at the University of Southampton, and President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW). She is an experienced social work educator and has worked as a practitioner and has done research in social work and related areas. She is also the author of 17 books and numerous other publications.
Walter Lorenz holds a Jean Monet Chair in European Integration Studies at University College, Cork, and is co-editor of the European Journal of Social Work. He co-ordinates several European networks concerned with a critical approach to European dimensions in the training of the social professions.
Haluk Soydan is a Research Director at the Centre for Evaluation of Social Services, Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. He is also a Professor of Social Work and Migration Research at Gothenburg University. He has long experience of teaching and research in social work and is a visiting professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work in New York City.
Contributors
Tasse Abye has been serving as Deputy Director of the Institute for Social Worker's Education of Echirolles, France since 1999. Before that, he was the Director of and a lecturer at the International Institute for Social Development, Rouen, France from 1991 to 1999. His research is concerned with the issues of migration and refugees and their integration. He is currently serving on the board of the International Association of Schools of Social Work.
Richard P. Barth is the Frank A. Daniels Professor of Human Services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was the 1998 recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Research from the National Association of Social Workers. He is currently co-principal investigator of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Weil-Being, a large national study of child welfare services.
Gord Bruyere is an independent First Nations scholar, writer and researcher. Formerly an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, University of Victoria, Canada, he has worked in First Nations communities and resource-based towns as a child protection worker, a probation and parole officer and a university counsellor.
Wynetta Devore is Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University School of Social Work, Syracuse, New York. She was the 1998 Social Work Educator of the Year in New York State. One of her main contributions to social work education and practice is a model for ethnic-sensitive practice, which she developed together with Elfriede G. Schlesinger.
Janis Fook is currently Professor of Social Work at Deakin University, Australia, where she is engaged in establishing a new social work course programme. She is probably most well known for her work on critical and reflective practice. She has written a number of books on various aspects of social work theory and practice.
Lorraine Gutirrez is Associate Professor with a joint appointment at the School of Social Work and the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on multicultural social work practice with large and small systems. She has published on various topics including empowerment, the multicultural community and organisational practice, and women of colour.
Franz Hamburger is Professor of Social Work at the Department of Education at the University of Mainz in Germany. He has research experience in the fields of migration and minorities and has conducted international comparative studies in social work. He is also founder and Director of the ISM, Institute for Social Research, Mainz.
Edwin Hoffman works in the Department of Social Work at the Fontys Hogeschool Sociaal Werk Eindhoven, the Netherlands, as a trainer consultant in Intercultural Communication and Management of Diversity. In addition to his training activities, one of his responsibilities is to work for increased cultural awareness in his department.
Asher John-Baptiste is a practising social worker specialising in community social work. She is currently employed by Bradford Social Services and works with communities of African origin. She is also currently doing research for a Doctorate degree at Southampton University, focusing on the importance of African-centred perspectives in social work.
