The Coronavirus Crisis and Challenges to Social Development: Global Perspectives

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

About the Editors

List of Contributors

 

I.             Analysis: Social Issues and the COVID-19 Pandemic

1.    Mehta et al: COVID and Social Work Voices from India and Australia: Strategic and Meaningful Solidarities for Global Justice

2.    Wadhwaniya et al: Examining Decent Work During COVID-19: With Reference to Female Workers in South Asia

3.    Koehler: The Impact of COVID-19 on the 'Culture of Deportation' for Refugees from African Countries in Germany

4.    Jung et al: Corona Challenging Social Work in Korea and Vietnam

5.    Jaji: COVID-19 Safety Measures and Socioeconomic Status in Urban Zimbabwe

6.    Bukuluki et al: Face Mask Wearing in Kampala, Uganda

7.    Mfoafo-M'Carthy et al: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Responses on Persons with Disabilities Including Psychosocial Disabilities in the Global South: The Case of Ghana

8.    Minenhle et al: Lockdown in a Dual Society: Exploring the Human Capability Implications of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in South Africa

9.    Nemutandani et al: The Exposition of the Stark Realities of an Unequal Society Based on the COVID-19 Pandemic

10. Serupia et al: The COVID-19 Crisis: Impact of Social Attitudes and Representations on Social Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

11. Seruwagi et al: Knowledge, Adherence and the Lived Experiences of Refugees During COVID-19

12. Sehlabane et al: The Impact of COVID-19 Among the Vulnerable Population of Children and Youth in Lesotho: The Circle of Courage Perspective

13. Dlamini et al: Analysing the Situation of Migrants and Social Work Interventions in South Africa During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

14. Brigido et al: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on International Migration in Brazil: Normative, Economic, and Social Issues

15. Redin et al: From the Absence of Public Policies to a State of Emergency: The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Migrant Subject Condition

16. Curzio: Social Justice in the Time of COVID-19: Transcend Borders - From the Micro to the Macro, from Patagonia Argentina to the World

17. Mauersberger: Colombian Women Between the Pandemic and Armed Conflict and Poverty

 

II.            Strategies and Responses in Social Work: Globally and Locally

18. Castilla et al: Ecuador's and Iran's Response to protect refugees and migrants in vulnerable situations during the COVID-19 pandemic

19. Kashaija et al: "Am I an Essential Worker?"  COVID-19 and (Re)shaping of the Social Work Profession in Uganda

20. Singh et al: Responses of Social Work Students and Teachers to COVID-19: Experiences from Crisis Relief in Urban Slum and Rural Communities of Maharashtra, India

21. Hamisultane et al: COVID-19, Hyper Vulnerabilities, Silenced Traumas and Colonial Scars: Social Work Scholars Engaging in Critical Dialogue with Racialized Communities

22. George: The Kerala, India Experience of Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic 

23. Dudgeon et al: Responding to COVID-19 and Beyond: Key Recommendations for the Effective Public and Mental Health Response to Support the Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Australia

24. Okoye et al: COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria: A Story Worth Telling from the Eyes of Social Workers

25. Atwine et al.: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Urban Poor: The Relevancy of Uganda's Social Protection Measures

26. Chikadzi et al: Social Work as an Unwitting Enabler of Oppression and Disenfranchisement of the Masses: A Freirean Analysis of Social Workers' Perspectives on the Government of Zimbabwe's COVID-19 Response

27. Lanza et al: The Professional Practice of the Brazilian Social Worker: Problems About the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

28. Reininger et al: Front-line Social Workers' Practices Under the Political and Sanitary Crisis in Chile

 

III.          Outlook: Looking Ahead Beyond the Pandemic

29. Bedurke, Lars: Time for New Epistemological Inquiries, the Global South and Resilience in the Time of COVID-19

30. Vaughn et al: Decolonising Safeguarding During a Pandemic: Lessons for Research Praxis in International Social Work

31. Brady et al. Participatory Photography, Ethical Storytelling and Modern Slavery Survivor Voices: Adapting to COVID-19

32. Pfaffenstaller et al. Social Work in the Time of a Pandemic: COVID-19 and the Need for Resilience-critical Thinking

33. Chikadzi: A Social Work and Social Development Perspective on the Need to Decolonise African Economies in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for Africa

34. Noyoo: Critiquing Western Development Paradigms and Theories in the Age of the Coronavirus (COVID-19): An African Perspective

35. Ortiz-Rico: How Has Population Health Accelerated Through Integrated Indigenous Social Networks? Opportunities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

36. Valdebenito-Acosta et al: Soup Kitchens and Radical Social Work Against COVID-19 from Liberation Theology in Chile

37. Afeworki Abay et al: Overcoming the Socioeconomic Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Social Work Perspectives and Postcolonial Reflections from Ethiopia

38. Concluding Remarks and Summation

Epilogue