Social Work

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
About Canada Immigration Fernwood Publishing	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 Development Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies Fernwood Publishing	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 Shelters Solutions 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 Cop My 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 …		272		View
Calculated Kindness Global Restructuring, Immigration and Settlement in Canada Fernwood Publishing	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 Own Child Sponsorship, the Discourse of Development, and the Production of Ethical Subjects Fernwood Publishing	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 Abuse Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair Arsenal Pulp Press	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 Code How to Understand and Talk with Boys New Society Publishers	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 Change A Progressive Canadian Approach Fernwood Publishing	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 Practice Social Justice Social Work Fernwood Publishing	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 Back Workplace Justice for Immigrants Fernwood Publishing	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 Space How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction Arsenal Pulp Press	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 North The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians Fernwood Publishing	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 Books The remarkable stories of refugee children and their families at two exceptional Canadian schools James Lorimer and Company	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 Life 10 of the toughest tell their stories James Lorimer and Company	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 Fernwood Publishing	“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