Social Work 1022A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Racism, Headon, Racialization

• School: Western University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: Social Work 1022A/B
• Professor: Andrew Mantulak

Document Summary

Chapter 12 social work with racialized canadians and. Subordination of one group by another using arbitrary physical features such as skin colour o. Can occur at individual, institutional, or societal levels in the form of attitudes, beliefs, policies, or procedures. Anti-racist social work: an approach to practice that aggressively combats racism on the individual, institutional, and societal level. Chinese workers were brought over from china as contract labourers to work on the. Laws were put in place to exclude/limit the number of chinese and south asian immigrants to canada. Eliminating racism: racial prejudice and discrimination are not simply random discriminatory acts by individuals against visible minorities , deep-seated ideology underlying racial prejudice and this belief system needs to be combatted o. Front-line social workers need to be armed with tools to address such problems head-on. During the world wards canadian gov"t instituted a policy of internment of members of ethnic minority groups whom it defined as enemy aliens .