Social work in extremis : lessons for social work internationally /
Cases from countries around the world demonstrate the response of 'official' social work, local agencies, and grassroots welfare projects in the face of extreme conditions such as environmental disasters, war and military occupations, forced migrations, political restructuring, and economi...
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Bristol, U.K. ; Portland, OR :
Policy Press,
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Popular social work in the Palestinian West Bank: dispatches from the front line / Chris Jones and Michael Lavalette
- Samidoun: grassroots welfare and popular resistance in Beirut during the 33-Day War of 2006 / Michael Lavalette and Barrie Levine
- Grassroots community organising in a post-disaster context lessons for social work education from iiias, Greece / Maria Pentaraki
- Grassroots community social work with the unwanted: the case of Kinisi and the rights of refugees and migrants in Patras, Greece / Dora Teloni
- In search of emancipatory social work practice in contemporary Colombia: working with the despalzados in Bogota / Carmen Hinestroza and Vasilios loakimidis
- Addressing social conflicts in Sri Lanka: social development interventions by a people's organisation / Ashok Gladston Xavier
- International organisations, social work and war: a frog perspective reflection on the bird's eye view / Reima Ana Maglaijlic
- Welfare under warfare: the Greek struggle for emancipatory social welfare (1940-44) / Vasilios loakimidis
- Social welfare services to protect elderly victims of war in Cyprus / Gregory Neocleous
- Social work, social development and practice legitimacy in Central Asia / Terry Murphy