1st Edition

Human Rights and Social Justice Key Issues and Vulnerable Populations

Edited By Carole Cox, Tina Maschi Copyright 2023
328 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Human Rights and Social Justice: Key Issues and Vulnerable Populations is a comprehensive text that focuses on central issues of human rights and justice and links them directly with social work competencies and practice. Drawing attention to oppression and multiple forms of disadvantage and discrimination based on a person’s identity and social location, this volume develops an integrated... Read more

List of Contributors  Foreword  Joseph Wronka  Part 1. Setting the Foundation  1. Conceptualizing Human Rights and Social Justice  Carole Cox and Tina Maschi  2. A Human Rights Framework for Integrated Practice  Joseph Wronka  Part 2. Key Issues  3. Oppression and Diversity: Race and Social Justice  Cassandra E. Simon and Monique Constance-Huggins  4. Oppression and Diversity: Ethnicity, Culture, Religion  Carole Cox  5. Economic Inequality and Social Justice  Rosemary A. Barbera  6. Environment, Social Work, and Environmental Justice  Julie L. Drolet, Wasif Ali, and Nicola . Williams  7. Social Work and Health Equity: An Examination of the Five Dimensions of Access  Rachelle Ashcroft and Keith Adamson  Part 3. Vulnerable Populations  8. Supporting Youth Leaving Care in Rural Canada: Clinical Practice and Social Justice  Anne Marie McLaughlin, Richard Enns, Susan Gallagher, Jesse Henton  9. Older Adults, Human Rights and Social Justice  Carole Cox and Manoj Pardasani  10. Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation: Equally Free to Be LGBTQIA+: This is Who I Am, and We Are!  Tina Maschi, Sarah Malis, Padma Christie, Dean Adams, Rina Goldstein, and Adriana Maya Kaye  11. Disability, Social Justice and Human Rights: The Experience of the United Kingdom  Peter Simcock and Caroline Lee  12. The Human Rights of "Prisoners": It is About People and Community, Not Prisons  Tina Maschi, Keith Morgen, and A. Maya Kaye  13. Women’s and Girls’ Rights are Human Rights  Smita Ekka Dewan. Sandra G. Turner, Rina Goldstein, and Tina Maschi  14. Refugees and Migrants  Stacey A. Shaw  15. Conclusions  Carole Cox and Tina Maschi  Index

Biography

Carole Cox is Professor at the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the author of more than 75 journal articles and chapters focusing on various aspects of aging and caregiving, as well as nine books.

Tina Maschi is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Social Service at Fordham University, with clinical and research experience in juvenile and criminal justice settings and community health settings.