Social Work and Politics

SOCIAL WORK AND POLITICS Politics for Social Workers

A Practical Guide to Effecting Change Stephen Pimpare

This book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really work—and what they can do to help their clients and their communities. It offers informed, practical grounding in the mechanics of policy making and the tools that activists and outsiders can use to take on an entrenched system.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19693-2 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19692-5 2021 256 pages When Governments Fail

A Pandemic and Its Aftermath Edited by Vikas Rawal, Jayati Ghosh, and C. P. Chandrasekhar

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated human suffering and economic devastation—but these reflect not just the impact of the disease but also the policy failures of governments. This volume brings together analyses of the responses from many different countries to evaluate what has worked and what hasn’t—and potential directions for the future.

$45.00 / £35.00 cloth 978-81-947175-4-6 2021 312 pages

TULIKA BOOKS

Oppression

A Social Determinant of Health Second edition Edited by Elizabeth A. McGibbon

This volume offers a thorough overview of the root or structural causes of ill health, such as capitalism, globalization, colonialism, medicalization and neoliberalism. The second edition includes new chapters that provide timely discussions about oppression, Treaty Rights, Big Pharma, the Anthropocene, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

$40.00 paper 978-1-77363-228-5 2021 264 pages

FERNWOOD PUBLISHING

Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants

Second edition Miriam Potocky and Mitra Naseh

The second edition of Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants offers an update to this comprehensive guide to social work with foreign-born clients and an evaluation of various helping strategies and their methodological strengths and weaknesses. It incorporates the latest research to provide a practical, up-to-date resource.

$45.00 / £38.00 paper 978-0-231-18139-6 $135.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-18138-9 2019 440 pages 92 illus.

SOCIAL WORK AND POLITICS Psychiatric Casualties

How and Why the Military Ignores the Full Cost of War Mark Russell and Charles Figley

The trauma experts Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley offer an impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental health care in the United States. The book offers actionable prescriptions for change and a comprehensive approach to significantly improving military mental health.

$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18777-0 $160.00 / £124.00 cloth 978-0-231-18776-3 2021 432 pages 34 illus.

Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment

Detention, Deportation, and Border Control

Edited by David C. Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas

Contributors takes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational look at current issues surrounding immigration in the United States and abroad. Chapters examine key features of this age of punishment, connecting neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the national obsession with securing borders to explain critical research and theory on immigration enforcement.

$37.00 / £32.00 paper 978-0-231-17937-9 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-17936-2 2018 344 pages

STUDIES IN TRANSGRESSION

Social Work and Human Rights

A Foundation for Policy and Practice Second edition Elisabeth Reichert

Social Work and Human Rights has become a standard text highlighting the role of social work in protecting the rights of vulnerable populations. The volume now emphasizes cultural rights and includes a probing lesson in cultural relativism. It turns a critical eye toward the failure in the United States to address social welfare issues and its reluctance to rectify policies favoring one group over another.

$40.00 / £34.00 paper 978-0-231-14993-8 $130.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-14992-1 2011 280 pages 2 illus.

Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families

Culturally Responsive Practice Edited by Alan J. Dettlaff and Rowena Fong

CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE

This textbook summarizes the unique circumstances of Asian/Pacific Islander, Latinx, South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern immigrant and refugee populations and the challenges faced by the social service systems, including child welfare, juvenile justice, education, health care, and mental health care, that attempt to serve them.

$42.00 / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-17285-1 $135.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-17284-4 2016 544 pages 3 illus.