This volume contends that British social work education has not fully acknowledged the evolution of structural and institutionalized racism in the United Kingdom and continental Europe. Tracing the ways in which racism toward Britain’s ethnic minority groups has changed, the contributors—many of them key practitioners in the field—argue that social work training should fully integrate anti-racist practices that reflect contemporary realities. In doing so, they assert the importance of social work in addressing racism toward groups including Eastern European migrants, Roma people, and asylum seekers.

Product Description: Evidence of institutional and structural racism within social welfare agencies is well established in Britain. Since the 1980s this recognition has led to a number of apparently progressive policy proposals and developments aimed at countering such discrimination and disadvantage...read more