
Social Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Insights
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Social Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Insights
About this book
As the world grapples with the complex impacts of COVID-19, this book provides an urgent critical exploration of how Social Work can and should respond to this global crisis.
The book considers the ecological, epidemiological, ideological and political conditions which gave rise to the pandemic, before examining the ways that social work has responded in different nations across the Global North and Global South. This series of nation studies examine good practices and suggest new ways to renew and regenerate social work moving on from COVID-19.
Contributors also reflect on the key themes that have emerged, including a rise in domestic violence and the ways that the pandemic has disproportionately affected those in working class and minority communities, exacerbating existing inequalities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Context to a crisis
- 1 Capitalism, the ecological crisis and the creation of pandemics
- 2 Why politics matters
- 3 Neoliberal social work and COVID-19
- 4 COVID-19 and social inequalities
- 5 Social work responds to COVID-19
- Part II Social work responses around the world
- 6 Social work and the COVID-19 crisis in the United States
- 7 Business as usual?
- 8 Social work responses to COVID-19 in Brazil
- 9 Social services, social work and COVID-19 in Palestine
- 10 Social work and COVID-19 in South Africa
- 11 The extent of the COVID-19 crisis in South Korea
- 12 Social work and COVID-19 in Greece
- 13 The extent of COVID-19 in Sierra Leone
- Part III Social divisions, inequality and COVID-19
- 14 Class, inequality and the COVID-19 pandemic
- 15 Still left holding the baby
- 16 Working with women receiving social services during COVID-19
- 17 Black Lives Matter
- 18 Roma communities’ experiences of racism during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 19 Re-racialisation of migrants and the ‘refugee crisis’ during COVID-19
- 20 Rethinking right and wrong
- Conclusion
- References