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Human Rights and Gypsies and Travellers: An Exploration of the Application of a Human Rights Perspective to Social Work with a Minority Community in Britain
This paper explores the relationship between human rights social work and issues facing Gypsies and Travellers, and argues that work with these groups cannot be properly understood outside a human rights framework. It outlines different generations of rights, key current debates, and their significance for social work, building on other emancipatory frameworks for practice including anti-oppressive practice, structural social work and critical postmodernism. These perspectives find some expression in social work ethical codes. For Gypsies and Travellers, human rights violations occur in many socio-political contexts, causing cycles of exclusion and disadvantage. However, Gypsies and Travellers are increasingly mobilizing nationally and locally to promote their rights. The somewhat limited research on social work in this area concurs in finding distance between the parties, lack of cultural understanding and engagement, and problematic practice as well as some clear pointers for improvement. Policy developments contradictorily related to promoting rights and increasing disciplinary surveillance are examined for their relevance to work with this group. The paper explores the importance of an inclusive, participatory and discursive approach to human rights practice, and examines its significance for a paradigmatic shift linking social work with the broader struggle for human rights of Gypsy Travellers and other groups.
Journal Article
Monoculturalism, austerity and moral panics: assessing government progress on addressing Gypsy, Traveller and Roma exclusion
This article assesses government progress in addressing Gypsy Traveller and Roma (GTR) exclusion, with particular reference to poverty and social justice issues in England, drawing on the findings of a civil society monitoring report of the UK's National Roma Integration Strategy undertaken for the Decade for Roma Inclusion Secretariat. The article identifies serious flaws in English policy approaches of mainstreaming, monoculturalism and localism when measuring these approaches against good practice as advocated within European Union and civil society guidance on Roma inclusion, which emphasises the potential value of partnership, interculturalism and targeting.
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The Accommodation Experiences of Older Gypsies and Travellers: Personalisation of Support and Coalition Policy
This article reports on a study exploring the accommodation experiences of older Gypsies and Travellers and how specialist Supporting People services can enhance their wellbeing and social inclusion. The findings suggest that through development of pro-active, culturally appropriate services, flexible, tailored support and joint working, these services have contributed to their users’ wellbeing. Cuts to Supporting People funding pose a serious threat, especially in the context of loss of other services and changes to accommodation policy under the banner of localism. Targeted funding to sustain these specialist services could be important to redress risks of further marginalisation of Gypsy/Traveller communities.
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Gender, ethnicity and activism: 'the miracle is when we don't give up...'
This paper is grounded in feminist standpoint and critical race theory, intersectionality and a critique of the neoliberal system and austerity to explore Romani women's activism. In-depth interviews with four prominent activists showed the strength of identity and experience growing up as Romani women in their motivation for activism, the complexity of projects in arts, acting/ directing, writing, policy advocacy, education, networking, mobilisation to challenge injustice and promote transformation; and barriers of hostility, oppression and austerity. Key findings concerned the central importance of solidarity, support, respectful listening between Roma women and allies to counter the isolation of neoliberal individualism.
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The Palgrave international handbook of education for citizenship and social justice
This state-of-the-art, comprehensive Handbook is the first of its kind to fully explore the interconnections between social justice and education for citizenship on an international scale.
Various educational policies and practices are predicated on notions of social justice, yet each of these are explicitly or implicitly shaped by, and in turn themselves shape, particular notions of citizenship/education for citizenship. Showcasing current research and theories from a diverse range of perspectives and including chapters from internationally renowned scholars, this Handbook seeks to examine the philosophical, psychological, social, political, and cultural backgrounds, factors and contexts that are constitutive of contemporary research on education for citizenship and social justice and aims to analyse the transformative role of education regarding social justice issues. Split into two sections, the first contains chapters that
explore central issues relating to social justice and their interconnections to education for citizenship whilst the second contains chapters that explore issues of education for citizenship and social justice within the contexts of particular nations from around the world.
Global in its perspective and definitive in content, this one-stop volume will be an indispensable reference resource for a wide range of academics, students and researchers in the fields of Education, Sociology, Social Policy, Citizenship Studies and Political Science.
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Education for Citizenship and Social Justice: The Case of Gypsies, Travellers and Roma
Cemlyn and Ryder provide a cogent, multi-layered analysis of the barriers and potential of education for active and participatory citizenship and social justice for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma across Europe. In the context of widespread and entrenched structural inequalities and injustice for these minorities, they review developments in citizenship theories for their relevance, including multicultural, post-national, feminist and radical democratic citizenship, and the inclusive values of justice, recognition, self-determination and solidarity. Drawing on examples from the UK, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria, they explore the challenges of unequal access, bullying and curricular non-inclusivity in Western Europe; persistent segregation and exclusion in Eastern European countries; and highlight the value of community empowerment and critical engagement with education, and alliances between communities, professionals and policy advocates.
Book Chapter
Poverty, neighbourhood renewal and the voluntary and community sector in West Cornwall
Since 1997, area-based regeneration initiatives in Britain have focused upon the development of Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) involving public authorities, statutory agencies and community and voluntary organizations in order to address the problems faced by deprived areas. In particular, the UK government’s National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal outlines a key role for community and voluntary sector groups in facilitating effective regeneration strategies in the eighty-eight Priority Areas identified by the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund. This paper draws upon a series of interviews with a range of participants involved in the development of the West Cornwall Neighbourhood Renewal partnership in order to explore the challenges and obstacles to effective voluntary and community sector involvement in regeneration initiatives.
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Letter: Statesmen in the house
Changing their story day by day; peddling lies and deceptions; wrigging to find new arguments for old immoralities;...
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