Social Work
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() About CanadaImmigration |
Many Canadians believe that immigrants steal jobs away from qualified Canadians, abuse the healthcare system and refuse to participate in Canadian culture. In About Canada: Immigration, Gogia and … | Bonnie Slade; Nupur Gogia | 144 | 2011 | View |
![]() Agrarian Change, Migration and DevelopmentAgrarian Change & Peasant Studies |
The focus and concern of Agrarian Change, Migration and Development is the problem of labour migration. Veltmeyer and Wise explore the dynamics and development implications of the migration … | Henry Veltmeyer; Raúl Delgado Wise | 160 | 2016 | View |
![]() Beyond SheltersSolutions to Homelessness in Canada from the Front Lines |
This book offers essays by experienced shelter managers who address the future of the homeless shelter in Canada. This diverse collection includes contributions by leaders in the homelessness … | 256 | View | ||
![]() Black CopMy 36 years in police work, and my career-ending experiences with official racism |
Calvin Lawrence became a cop at age twenty. He was recruited by the Halifax police department at a time of heightened racial tension in the city. From the start, some fellow African Canadians … | Calvin Lawrence; Miles Howe | 272 | 2019 | View |
![]() Calculated KindnessGlobal Restructuring, Immigration and Settlement in Canada |
It has often been the perception that Northern states admit immigrants out of generosity, offering security and shelter to people forced from their own countries because of political and economic … | Rose Baaba Folson | 166 | 2004 | View |
![]() Change a Life, Change Your OwnChild Sponsorship, the Discourse of Development, and the Production of Ethical Subjects |
Peter Ove argues in Change a Life, Change Your Own, child sponsorship is successful not because it addresses the needs of poor children, but because it helps position what it means to live … | Peter Ove | 188 | 2018 | View |
![]() Conflict Is Not AbuseOverstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair |
From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between … | Sarah Schulman | 304 | 2016 | View |
![]() Cracking the Boy CodeHow to Understand and Talk with Boys |
All too quickly, talkative, affectionate young boys seem to slip away. Adolescents may be transformed overnight into reclusive, seemingly impenetrable young people who open up only to their … | Adam Cox | 163 | 2018 | View |
![]() Disability and Social ChangeA Progressive Canadian Approach |
This edited collection uses a critical theory perspective and draws on expertise from a range of contemporary policy and practice areas. Contributors include people with disabilities, family … | Grant Larson; Jeanette Robertson | 2016 | View | |
![]() Doing Anti-Oppressive PracticeSocial Justice Social Work |
This updated third edition of the immensely popular Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice introduces students to anti-oppressive social work, its historical and theoretical roots and the specific … | Donna Baines | 381 | 2017 | View |
![]() Fight BackWorkplace Justice for Immigrants |
Displacement of people, migration, immigration and the demand for labour are connected to the fundamental restructuring of capitalism and to the reduction of working class power through … | Aziz Choudry; Jill Hanley | 128 | 2009 | View |
![]() Fighting For SpaceHow a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction |
North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of … | Travis Lupick | 408 | 2017 | View |
![]() Flying Fish in the Great White NorthThe Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians |
Canadians are proud of their multicultural image both at home and abroad. But that image isn’t grounded in historical facts. As recently as the 1960s, the Canadian government enforced … | Christopher Stuart Taylor | 223 | 2016 | View |
![]() From Bombs to BooksThe remarkable stories of refugee children and their families at two exceptional Canadian schools |
This book chronicles how schools in Canada can #&8212; and do — play a positive role in the day-to-day lives of refugee families. Written by a principal who has worked at of two of the … | David Starr | 232 | 2016 | View |
![]() Gang Life10 of the toughest tell their stories |
For the first time, here’s a no-holds-barred inside account of life for criminal gang members in cities and towns across Canada. Mark Totten has slowly gained the confidence of gang members … | Mark Totten | 216 | 2014 | View |
![]() Immigration and the Legalization of Racism |
“The chameleon-like nature of the law-the duplicitous ways in which the law is written, the equivocal way in which it is stated and, therefore, talked about, the hiding of the truth about … | Lisa Marie Jakubowski | 103 | 1996 | View |