The Handbook on Intersectionality and Social Work presents diverse perspectives on the systemic inequalities that impact social work across the globe. The Handbook examines the conceptual and analytical terrain of intersectionality and the insights it presents for social work practice, pedagogy and research.
An international group of leading and emerging scholars provide wide-ranging analysis of intersectionality from different vantage points in social work. They demonstrate how intersectional thinking, values and knowledge can be applied to social work practice, theory and education and extend the analysis of oppressions, such as racism, sexism, ageism, ableism and heterosexism, in contemporary social work. Drawing on a variety of approaches, from law, policy, sociology and pedagogy, amongst others, the Handbook demonstrates remarkable breadth, and showcases new ways of harnessing intersectionality to explore the experiences of minoritised individuals and groups in welfare and social care systems.
The Handbook is an essential resource for students and academics in social work, sociology and social policy, particularly those with an interest in intersectionality and diversity, equity and inclusion. It is also a valuable read for educators, practitioners and policymakers involved in social work across the globe.
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This excellent Handbook unpacks how we should understand the concept of intersectionality, and what this means for social work practice and policy making. The varied contributions go beyond description, giving meaning to how an intersectional lens and ways of working are fundamental to social work as a discipline and a profession. -- John Devaney, University of Edinburgh, UK 'This is the Handbook we have been waiting for. The Handbook on Intersectionality and Social Work will become an essential resource for social work educators and researchers everywhere, offering fresh critical perspectives on many of social works most pressing concerns. A rich set of readings with excellent coverage.' -- Liz Beddoe, University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau, New Zealand
Contents
Introduction: Handbook on Intersectionality and Social Work 1
Claudia Bernard, Carlene Firmin and Frank Keating
PART I LAW, POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION FRAMEWORKS
1 Rights, knowledge and skills for intersectional social work 10
Kish Bhatti-Sinclair
2 Legal frameworks and scope to apply intersectionality: childrens services
26
Anna Gupta
3 Legal frameworks and scope to apply intersectionality: adult services 38
Trish Hafford-Letchfield
4 Critical and intersectional approaches in social policy: uses for social
work 52
Joe Whelan
5 Intersectionality and the matrix of coloniality 64
Lisa Werkmeister Rozas
6 Towards an intersectional approach to social work pedagogy and learning 76
Prospera Tedam
PART II THE ROLE OF SOCIAL WORK IN STRUCTURAL CHANGE
7 Intersectional social work responses to criminalisation and criminalising
systems 90
Patrick Williams and Lauren Wroe
8 Educational exclusion and social work: an intersectional lens 103
Roma Thomas
9 Social work within a hostile environment: intersectional approaches to
recognising the (potential) vulnerability of young male refugees 114
Muireann Ní Raghallaigh
10 Intersectionality as an antidote to coloniality in social work and family
therapy 130
Rhea V. Almeida and José Miguel Paez
11 Arab-Palestinians in Israel: poverty, social work, and intersectionality
144
Michal Krumer-Nevo, Ensherach Khoury and Limor Lotan
12 Methods for developing intersectional approaches to structural social
work: from advocacy to critical reflection 157
Tina Mattsson
PART III THE ROLE OF SOCIAL WORK IN CONTEXTUAL CHANGE
13 The now is a whole make-up of the past: intersectionality and Black
sexual minority men within social work contexts 168
Lance Keene
14 A rationale for social work interventions into hate relationships 186
Catherine Donovan, John Clayton and Stephen Macdonald
15 Where did context go? Revisiting patch, community, and locality models
of social and youth work through an intersectional lens 199
Rick Bowler
16 Reframing child protection social worker talk about mothers who use
substances: providing safer contexts for them and their children 211
Eileen Joy and Suzette Jackson (Te tiawa, Taranaki)
17 Contextual Safeguarding: one entry point to intersectional social work
with adolescents 224
Carlene Firmin and Patriche Bentick
PART IV INTERSECTIONAL PRACTICE: PRACTICAL APPLICATION
AND PROCESSES DIRECT WORK WITH CHILDREN AND
FAMILIES
18 An intersectional understanding of child abuse and neglect 239
Claudia Bernard
19 Child victims of modern slavery: making sense of commercial child sexual
exploitation through an intersectionality lens 252
Pearson Nkhoma
20 Applying intersectionality to interventions with harmful practices 269
Geetanjali Gangoli and Lihan Miao
21 Intersectionality and care experience 280
Autumn Roesch-Marsh and Maryam Ishaq
22 Intersectional perspectives on young peoples transitions from
out-of-home
care 292
Rajendra Rambajue and Christopher D. OConnor
23 Integrating intersectionality into social work practice with individuals
and
families 304
Sara Matsuzaka, Kimberly Hudson and Gita R. Mehrotra
24 Kinship care at the intersection of race, gender, and class 316
Cynthia Okpokiri
PART V INTERSECTIONAL PRACTICE: PRACTICAL APPLICATION AND
PROCESSES DIRECT WORK WITH ADULTS
25 Taking account of inequalities and intersectionality in later life:
critical
gerontological social work and the lifecourse 330
Alisoun Milne
26 Addressing inequalities in mental health through an intersectional lens
343
Jo Warner
27 Intersectional perspectives on informal care 354
Yvette Wittenberg and Rick Kwekkeboom
28 Navigating the crossroads: an intersectional approach to race and gender
in
refugee contexts from a critical social work perspective 364
Kim Robinson
29 An intersectional approach to understanding and working with disabled
communities 376
Carmen Yau
30 Transitional Safeguarding and intersectionality 388
Christine Cocker, Adi Cooper and Dez Holmes
Concluding reflections 403
Frank Keating, Claudia Bernard and Carlene Firmin
Edited by Claudia Bernard, Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London, Carlene Firmin, Professor, Durham University and Frank Keating, Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
