Description
Book SynopsisHuman Rights and Social Justice: Key Issues and Vulnerable Populations is a comprehensive text that focuses on central issues of human rights and justice and links them directly with social work competencies and practice. Drawing attention to oppression and multiple forms of disadvantage and discrimination based on a person's identity and social location, this volume develops an integrated framework to advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice with vulnerable populations and communities across all three levels of practice.
Each chapter, written by leading scholars in their respective fields, is designed to enhance students' awareness, knowledge, and understanding of key theories and issues related to diversity, human rights, and equity. Broken into sections providing theory, practice, and case study illustrations, the chapters will first explain and argue that each person, regardless of their position in society, has basic human rights. St
Table of Contents
Contributors Foreword Joseph Wronka Part 1. Setting the Foundation 1. Conceptualizing Human Rights and Social Justice Carole Cox and Tina Maschi 2. A Human Rights Framework for Integrated Practice Joseph Wronka Part 2. Key Issues 3. Oppression and Diversity: Race and Social Justice Cassandra E. Simon and Monique Constance-Huggins 4. Oppression and Diversity: Ethnicity, Culture, Religion Carole Cox 5. Economic Inequality and Social Justice Rosemary A. Barbera 6. Environment, Social Work and Environmental Justice Julie Drolet, Wasif Ali, Nicola Williams 7. Social Work and Health Equity: An Examination of the Five Dimensions of Access Rachelle Ashcroft and Keith Adamson Part 3. Vulnerable Populations 8. Supporting Youth Leaving Care in Rural Canada: Clinical Practice and Social Justice Anne Marie McLaughlin, Richard Enns, Susan Gallagher, Jesse Henton 9. Older Adults, Human Rights and Social Justice Carole Cox and Manoj Pardasani 10. Gender and Sexual Orientation: Equally Free to Be LGBTQIA+: This is Who I Am, and We Are! Tina Maschi, Sarah Malu, Padma Christie, Dean Adams, Rina Goldstein, Adriana Maya Kaye 11. Disability, Social Justice and Human Rights: The Experience of the United Kingdom Peter Simcock and Caroline Lee 12. The Human Rights of ‘Prisoners’: It is About People and Community, Not Prisons Tina Maschi, Keith Morgen, Adriana Maya Kaye 13. Women’s and Girls’ Rights are Human Rights Smitta Ekka Dewan. Sandra G. Turner, Rina Goldstein, Tina Maschi 14. Refugees and Migrants Stacey A. Shaw 15. Conclusions Carole Cox and Tina Maschi
