17 ONE Rethinking anti-racist social work in a neoliberal age Gurnam Singh In this chapter Singh looks back at the development of anti-racist social work and traces the intellectual journey it has been through over the last 20 years. The Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) domain 8 requires social workers to be aware of the changing contexts within which social work takes place, and social work and social care organizations operate and function. The chapter looks back at the recent history of anti-racist social work and ‘sets the scene’ for many of
Chapter objectives To consider the impact of race and racism on BME people involved in social work in Wales. To examine racism and anti-racism in social work education. To suggest useful practices in developing anti-racist social work in Wales. Introduction When discussing BME people in Wales, it is important to recognise this ‘community’ is made up of a vast, culturally diverse, rich, uniquely distinguishable set of individuals and so we do not claim to speak for all of them. The ideas for this chapter come from our personal experiences
59 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 2 • no 1 • 59–76 • © Policy Press 2014 • #CRSW Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204986014X13912564145645 article ‘Everyone is blaming us!’1 Conceptualising current anti-Roma racism in Europe and its necessary implications for anti-racist social work Špela Humljan Urh,2 Germany, spela.h.urh@gmail.com Racism was and has remained a key determining element of the life experiences and life chances of Roma people all around Europe. The author provides some examples of current and
207 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 3 • no 2 • 207–20 • © Policy Press 2015 • #CRSW Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204986015X14286590888439 article Anti-racist social work in a ‘post-race society’? Interrogating the amorphous ‘other’ Sweta Rajan-Rankin, sweta.rajan-rankin@brunel.ac.uk Brunel University London, UK Anti-racist social work is at a crossroads: while on the one hand, racial binaries such as black/white, us/other and slave/master can be useful political tools to understand institutional racism
85 FIVE antisemitism and anti-racist social work Barrie Levine When the history of anti-racism in social work is examined, there is a notable gap: a developed analysis of one of the oldest ‘racisms’ – antisemitism. In this chapter Levine explores why this omission has occurred and locates opposition to antisemitism within the wider social work anti-racist discourse. In doing so the chapter examines the nature of antisemitism today in the UK and internationally. In addressing these issues, the chapter will further explore the fundamental debate surrounding
99 SIX Practice teachers and anti-racist social work practice The previous two chapters have revealed the extent to which students were dependent on the support of their practice teachers while on placement, particularly in relation to developing and implementing CCETSW’s anti-racist requirements. The evidence, however, revealed that only a minority of students felt that their practice teachers were receptive and sympathetic to anti-racist developments. Most others were not confident that practice teachers had the knowledge, awareness or understanding to
regressive, and perhaps suggests a colour-mute ( Pollock, 2004 ) and race-evasive approach ( Chang-Bacon, 2022 ). Finally, the authors take up the challenge posed by Williams and Bernard (2018) , seeking to understand from social workers’ perspectives how their qualifying social work and their ASYE programmes in England prepared them for contemporary anti-racist social work. Recommendations for improving teaching around anti-racist practice are made, alongside a call for social work educators to enhance their teaching of anti-racism through ‘race intentionality’ which
rejection and racism have come to challenge the work of social workers and to understand how social work can be rearticulated with regard to its core values of social change and social justice, the antithesis of the profession’s traditional ‘neutrality’ and ‘culture of silence’. key words social work • Greece • anti-racist movement • anti-racist social work Framing the rise of racism in Greece EU and national migration policies of repression and intimidation As the wars and interventions involving European Union (EU) countries in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere
development of anti-racist social work and underpinning knowledge drawn from sociology and race relations. This section of the book outlined the key debates surrounding assimilation and deficit models of black families which entered professional knowledge in social work and in many ways provided the impetus for anti-racist social work practice. Although anti-racist social work was both promoted and maligned, this perspective made a major contribution to social work by shifting dominant frameworks towards understanding issues of racism, power and structural
