CRITICAL MULTICULTURAL PRACTICE IN SOCIAL WORK
CRITICAL MULTICULTURAL PRACTICE in SOCIAL WORK
New perspectives and practices
Edited bySharleneNipperess&CharlotteWilliams
First published 2019 by Allen & Unwin
Published 2020 by Routledge
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Contents
- Part I: Understanding ethnic diversity
- 1 Australia and its others: Multicultural theory, policy and practice
- 2 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights and multicultural responsibilities
- 3 The ethical, legal and policy context of critical multicultural practice
- 4 Critical multiculturalism in practice
- Part II: Fields of practice
- 5 Critical multiculturalism and disproportionality in child protection
- 6 Mental health and critical multicultural practice: An arts-based approach
- 7 Beyond the silos: Towards transformative social work practice with people from refugee backgrounds living with a disability
- 8 Ageing and ethnicity
- 9 Critical multicultural practice: Domestic violence, and refugees and asylum seekers
- 10 A relational pedagogy: A YoungMILE in our decolonising social work practice journey
- 11 Critical multicultural resettlement practice
- 12 Nationless, homeless and seeking asylum: Considerations for social workers
- 13 Working with community groups
- 14 Responding to rural and regional multiculture
- 15 Critical multicultural practice with ethnic minority children and their families
- Part I: Understanding ethnic diversity
- 1 Australia and its others: Multicultural theory, policy and practice
- 2 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights and multicultural responsibilities
- 3 The ethical, legal and policy context of critical multicultural practice
- 4 Critical multiculturalism in practice
- Part II: Fields of practice
- 5 Critical multiculturalism and disproportionality in child protection
- 6 Mental health and critical multicultural practice: An arts-based approach
- 7 Beyond the silos: Towards transformative social work practice with people from refugee backgrounds living with a disability
- 8 Ageing and ethnicity
- 9 Critical multicultural practice: Domestic violence, and refugees and asylum seekers
- 10 A relational pedagogy: A YoungMILE in our decolonising social work practice journey
- 11 Critical multicultural resettlement practice
- 12 Nationless, homeless and seeking asylum: Considerations for social workers
- 13 Working with community groups
- 14 Responding to rural and regional multiculture
- 15 Critical multicultural practice with ethnic minority children and their families
Guide
Table |
2.1 Kymlicka's typology of minority positioning |
Figures |
5.1 Background characteristics and service contacts: Families with any child protection notification in South Australia |
5.2 Child protection system continua |
5.3 System change |
8.1 Cultural exchange model |
13.1 Cultural competence |
13.2 Intercultural partnerships with large power differentials |
13.3 Cultural partnerships or culturally dynamic partnerships |
Editors
Sharlene Nipperess (PhD) is a Lecturer and Program Manager of the undergraduate social work programs at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her research focuses on human rights, particularly in relation to critical social work, critical multicultural practice, social work ethics, environmental justice and policy and practice with refugees and people seeking asylum. Sharlene is president of the Australian and New Zealand Social Work and Welfare Education and Research (ANZSWWER) association, a member of the Australasia-Pacific Board of the international journal Ethics and Social Welfare and a co-editor of Doing Critical Social Work: Transformative Practices for Social Justice (Allen & Unwin, 2016).
Charlotte Williams OBE is Professor and Associate Dean of Social Work at RMIT University, Melbourne. She has over 30 years of experience in social work education, holding senior academic leadership roles. She is a professionally qualified social worker and has worked in a range of social services, including housing, health and social development settings as well as statutory social work in the United Kingdom and internationally. Her research interests focus on issues of contemporary multiculturalism, ethnicities and race as they impact professional practice and professional education. Recent books include Social Work in a Diverse Society (Policy Press, 2016) and Social Work and the City: Urban Themes in 21st Century Social Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Contributors
Ann Joselynn (Jos) Baltra-Ulloa is a Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Tasmania. Originally from Chile, Jos came to Australia as a refugee and has dedicated her professional life to working with refugee arrived communities. Her work and research passions relate to Whiteness in social work, decolonising social work and learning from Southern Theory. She is involved in community-based projects aimed at building capacity within the refugee arrived communities, exploring the role of mentoring, leadership and relationships of mutuality as core parts of social work thinking, learning, teaching and practice in the twenty-first century. In her most recent project, she has been working with academics across disciplines to understand how creative-based approaches can foster and nurture mentoring for professional practice.
Marie Connolly is Professor and Head of Social Work at the University of Melbourne. Her research and writing interests include kinship care, family group conferencing, reforming child protection systems, and rights-based practice in child and family welfare. She has written extensively in these areas, most recently in Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Child Protection