Social Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic
eBook - ePub

Social Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic

International Insights

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

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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Yes, you can access Social Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Lavalette, Michael,Ioakimidis, Vasilios,Michael Lavalette,Vasilios Ioakimidis,Iain Ferguson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Global Development Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I Context to a crisis
  9. 1 Capitalism, the ecological crisis and the creation of pandemics
  10. 2 Why politics matters
  11. 3 Neoliberal social work and COVID-​19
  12. 4 COVID-​19 and social inequalities
  13. 5 Social work responds to COVID-​19
  14. Part II Social work responses around the world
  15. 6 Social work and the COVID-​19 crisis in the United States
  16. 7 Business as usual?
  17. 8 Social work responses to COVID-​19 in Brazil
  18. 9 Social services, social work and COVID-​19 in Palestine
  19. 10 Social work and COVID-​19 in South Africa
  20. 11 The extent of the COVID-​19 crisis in South Korea
  21. 12 Social work and COVID-​19 in Greece
  22. 13 The extent of COVID-​19 in Sierra Leone
  23. Part III Social divisions, inequality and COVID-​19
  24. 14 Class, inequality and the COVID-​19 pandemic
  25. 15 Still left holding the baby
  26. 16 Working with women receiving social services during COVID-​19
  27. 17 Black Lives Matter
  28. 18 Roma communities’ experiences of racism during the COVID-​19 pandemic
  29. 19 Re-​racialisation of migrants and the ‘refugee crisis’ during COVID-​19
  30. 20 Rethinking right and wrong
  31. Conclusion
  32. References