Understanding 'race' and ethnicity : theory, history, policy, practice / edited by Sangeeta Chattoo, Karl Atkin, Gary Craig, Ronny Flynn.
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TextSeries: Understanding welfarePublisher: Bristol : Policy Press, 2019Edition: 2nd editionDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781447339694 (ebook) :Subject(s): Minorities -- Services for -- Great Britain | Social services & welfare, criminology | Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies | Central / national / federal government policies | Society & culture: general | Society | Great Britain -- Social policyAdditional physical formats: Print version :: No titleOnline access: click to view 5 copies Summary: Discussion of ethnicity, within social policy, has remained peripheral to the more mainstream engagements with citizenship and welfare. This text will put this right. It will contextualize diversity and difference, without recourse to simplistic explanations and naive solutions. This new edition of a widely-respected textbook examines welfare policy and racism in a broad framework that marries theory, evidence, history and contemporary debate. Fully updated, it contains: a new foreword by Professor Kate Pickett, acclaimed co-author of The Spirit Level two new chapters on disability and chronic illness, and UK education policy respectively updated examples and data, reflecting changes in black and minority ethnic demographics in the UK a post-script from a minority student on her struggle to make a new home in Britain Suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in social policy, sociology and applied social sciences, its global themes of immigration, austerity and securitisation also make it of considerable interest to policy and welfare practitioners.
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Previous edition: 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Discussion of ethnicity, within social policy, has remained peripheral to the more mainstream engagements with citizenship and welfare. This text will put this right. It will contextualize diversity and difference, without recourse to simplistic explanations and naive solutions. This new edition of a widely-respected textbook examines welfare policy and racism in a broad framework that marries theory, evidence, history and contemporary debate. Fully updated, it contains: a new foreword by Professor Kate Pickett, acclaimed co-author of The Spirit Level two new chapters on disability and chronic illness, and UK education policy respectively updated examples and data, reflecting changes in black and minority ethnic demographics in the UK a post-script from a minority student on her struggle to make a new home in Britain Suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in social policy, sociology and applied social sciences, its global themes of immigration, austerity and securitisation also make it of considerable interest to policy and welfare practitioners.
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