Community Organising against Racism

'Race', Ethnicity and Community Development

Craig, Gary

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2017
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447333753
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Work
• Index: Social Sciences

In this unique global collection, Gary Craig and his contributors blend theory and practice-based case studies to review how different community development approaches can empower minority ethnic communities to confront racism and overcome social, economic and political disadvantage. The book explores key questions about the empowerment and capacity-building of minority ethnic groups. Using case studies from across the 'developed' world, and in differing social and economic contexts, contributors explore these issues in working with asylum-seeker communities, addressing tensions between minorities and building alliances, in work with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, and using arts-based approaches. The book will stimulate wider debates about the role of community development in relation to 'race' and ethnicity at a time when 'race' is being 'invisibilised' in public policy, and will be an invaluable resource for policy-makers, politicians, academics, and students from many disciplines.

Table of contents

• COMMUNITY ORGANISING AGAINST RACISM
• Contents
• List of figures
• Author biographies
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• Section One. Community development with ethnic minorities: history, theory, policy
• Introduction
• 1. BME community engagement in the UK and public policy: a brief retrospective
• 2. Critical youth and community work and its struggle with white standards
• Section Two. Building capacity with BME groups
• Introduction
• 3. Capacity building with BME groups
• 4. Learning alliance approaches to working with BME communities on healthcare innovation: a case study in palliative and end-of-life care services
• 5. sampad: working with arts and culture
• 6. Community development with Chinese mental health service users in the UK
• 7. Construindo comunidades: community building with Portuguese migrant workers on the east coast of England
• 8. Participatory action research with refugee and asylum-seeking women
• Section Three. Working with Roma communities
• Introduction
• 9. Cultural identity, migration and community development in Glasgow
• 10. Gypsy, Roma and Traveller women: how community work can both challenge and contribute to gender inequalities
• 11. Romani activism and community development: are mediators the way forward?
• Section Four. Global experience
• Introduction
• 12. Youth participation among ethnic minorities in Romania
• 13. Benarrawa Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Solidarity Group: working to reduce the deleterious effects of racism through structural community development
• 14. Building strengths in asylum-seeker communities in Australia
• 15. The balancing act: community agency leadership in multi-ethnic/multiracial communities
• 16. Using arts and culture for community development in the United States
• 17. Working with female migrant workers in Hong Kong
• Section Five . Working across cultural boundaries: ideological and personal reflections
• Introduction
• 18. Developing communities: do minority groups need development?
• 19. Without borders: community development, biculturalism and multiculturalism
• Afterword: messages for community development in working with minority groups
• Index