Understanding 'race' and Ethnicity: Theory, History, Policy, PracticeGary Craig Many welfare states are now struggling to deal with the issues and tensions raised by the growth of minority ethnic populations and increasing ethnic diversity. The fact that most societies in the developed world are now multicultural raises many challenges for policy and for the delivery of welfare services which most states have yet to address, retreating into forms of institutional racism to deny minorities the services they need. Using the UK as an exemplary case study, this much-needed book combines historical and theoretical approaches to the issue of 'race' and ethnicity within welfare provision, including an examination of how minorities experience welfare in a range of service settings. The book inspires new ways of approaching welfare and social policy, in anticipation of a society that is equal, inclusive, fair and just for all and will make essential reading for students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers |
Contents
one Introduction | 3 |
Outline of the book | 10 |
List of tables figures boxes | 13 |
Theoretical historical and policy contexts | 17 |
theoretical | 19 |
Boxes | 26 |
How far are race and ethnicity different concepts? | 27 |
Why focus on operationalising ethnicity? | 34 |
Geneticbiological components of ethnic inequalities in | 124 |
Summary | 131 |
seven Not invited to the party? Black and minority ethnic | 133 |
community involvement | 141 |
Summary | 148 |
eight Race education and childrens policy | 151 |
Persistent inequalities | 154 |
Getting it | 161 |
Questions for discussion | 40 |
three The history and pattern of settlement of the UKs black | 41 |
After the slave trade | 46 |
Postwar settlement patterns | 54 |
Tables | 55 |
to the present | 60 |
Summary | 67 |
a historical review and its 17 | 71 |
no longer welcome | 74 |
The Race Relations Act 1976 and subsequent amendments | 82 |
Community cohesion | 89 |
access | 97 |
Homelessness in minority ethnic communities | 104 |
Implications for housing strategies policy and service delivery | 110 |
six Understanding the influence of ethnicity on health | 115 |
Introduction | 116 |
nine Minority ethnic groups in the labour market | 167 |
Factors explaining labourmarket disadvantage among minority | 178 |
The structure of the economy | 184 |
ten Poverty and income maintenance | 191 |
Welfare | 201 |
eleven Theorising race ethnicity and mental health | 209 |
Establishing mental health status in minority ethnic groups | 215 |
Experience in the blackled voluntary sector | 221 |
twelve Young people and criminal justice | 227 |
Criminal justice or welfare | 234 |
Gender youth and justice | 242 |
Endnote | 247 |
References | 253 |
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