Social Work 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Visible Minority, Ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism

• School: Western University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: Social Work 1022A/B
• Professor: Carrie Smith

Document Summary

Social work with racialized canadians and immigrants: racialized, ethnicity or ethnic group, race, discrimination. Anti-racist social work (cid:862)ca(cid:374)ada is o(cid:374)e of the (cid:373)ost a(cid:272)(cid:272)epti(cid:374)g (cid:374)atio(cid:374)s of eth(cid:374)i(cid:272) di(cid:448)ersity(cid:863: ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)er; (cid:862) ma(cid:374)y visible minority canadians (36%) reported that they had experienced discrimination or unfair treatment in the past fi(cid:448)e years(cid:863) (cid:894)hi(cid:272)k, (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1005)(cid:1004), p. (cid:1006)5(cid:1004)(cid:895). History of (cid:862) a(cid:272)e elatio(cid:374)s(cid:863) i(cid:374) ca(cid:374)ada: chinese immigration and the head tax. Jewish refugees: blacks in canada, aboriginal peoples. Immigration & multiculturalism policy: earnings gap, eurocentric immigration policy, 1967: point system. Favored immigrants from being from europe: 1971: multiculturalism policy, honors the fact that we are multicultural, first country to adopt this, 1982: the charter of rights and freedoms. Freedom of thought, belief, religio(cid:374) et(cid:272) : (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1005): chi(cid:374)ese a(cid:374)d outh asia(cid:374)s largest (cid:858)(cid:448)isi(cid:271)le (cid:373)i(cid:374)ority(cid:859) group. Anti-racist social work: placing personal difficulties within the larger social context, racism is rooted in wider institutions.