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African, Caribbean and Black People’s Resilience During COVID-19
BRILL eBooks, May 8, 2012
Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action, 2022
International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
The paper analyses how the Nepali state imposed its sovereign power on the Nepali returning migra... more The paper analyses how the Nepali state imposed its sovereign power on the Nepali returning migrant workers from India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the deployment of border security forces, the state resorted to arbitrary detentions of these workers, leaving them stranded at Nepal-India borders. They were no longer wanted in India while being rejected and excluded by the state. To demonstrate the state's exclusionary bordering practices, we used the concepts of 'biopolitics' (Foucault, 1997), 'necropolitics' (Mbembe, 2019) and 'bare life' (Agamben, 1998). We employed visual methodology and the content analysis of the publicly available media reports and photographs pertaining to the interceptions of the migrant workers stranded at the Nepal-India borders when trying to enter the country. We contend that the attempts of some returning migrant workers to swim across the Mahakali River to enter Nepal were acts of agency and resistance in the face of the state's brutalities.
University of British Columbia Press eBooks, Jan 17, 2017
International Journal of Educational Development in Africa
Post-secondary institutions are increasingly encouraging partnership engagement with the communit... more Post-secondary institutions are increasingly encouraging partnership engagement with the community; however, community engagement from an academic perspective does not necessarily benefit the community. This is partially due to the power differential in this relationship and the emphasis on students’ learning at the community’s expense. The content of this article is drawn from experiences gleaned from 11 students of the “Perspectives with Diverse Communities” (institute component) course at Memorial University, Canada. Of the group, eight identified as cisgender, heterosexual, white females. The professor—a Black woman—and two students deviated from this in terms of gender identity, sexual orientation, and race. During a week of on-campus education, the students participated in community engagement activities prompted by the 2017 United States ban on immigration and refugees. Through a Critical Race Theory (CRT) lens, the students acknowledged their own identities as mostly white c...
International Journal of Educational Development in Africa
Social work education and practice have been implicated in colonial violence against Black and In... more Social work education and practice have been implicated in colonial violence against Black and Indigenous people in Canada. Notwithstanding, undergraduate students enter social work programmes ready to “help” service recipients. Schools of social work also continue to centre social work education around the notion of “helping” alongside other key activities such as advocacy and counselling. Regarding the intent, social work education and practice have and continue to perpetuate anti-Black racism, racism, and colonialism at the intersections of race, among some of the most vulnerable and systemically disadvantaged in society. This article demonstrates how to combine decolonising social work education and community service learning (CSL) to provide students an opportunity to critically and consciously work with community groups to meet the community’s needs. This reflective paper captures 1) the lessons learned and growth achieved among a group of undergraduate social work learners as...
Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy, 2022
Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 2020
Trayvon Martin's 2013 murder and the acquittal of his killer by a jury reignited long-standing ra... more Trayvon Martin's 2013 murder and the acquittal of his killer by a jury reignited long-standing race problems in the USA, particularly concerning the ill treatment of young Black men. Galvanized by Martin's death, #BlackLivesMatter directed US social work attention to the urgency of this human rights issue. Scholarly publications called for increased knowledge about racial profiling and for professional social work bodies to speak out against anti-Black police racism. A similar movement arose in Canada following the police killings of Jermaine Carby in 2014, Andrew Loku in 2015, and Abdirahman Abdi in 2016. Black Lives Matter-Toronto took on the fight to resist police killings and the devaluation of Black lives. This article provides a critical analysis of the Canadian social work response to police racial profiling, as a human rights issue. Far from the response seen south of the border, little Canadian social work research has been conducted on police racial profiling, and professional social work bodies have remained silent about ending this discriminatory practice. This silence is in stark contrast to attention drawn to other social justice issues and raises questions about the profession's commitment to racial equality and the pursuit of a just society. The findings can be used to encourage social work research about police racial profiling to improve the profession's knowledge base, so that it can meaningfully advocate on behalf of racialized groups impacted by police racism in Canada. The challenges and possibilities for the profession going forward are discussed. Keywords Social work and policing. Racism, anti-Black racism, and racial profiling. Young men of color. Racialized communities. CASW and CASWE. Canada
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work
Gun Violence and Gun Control
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work, 2019
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, 2013
This article explores mothering from the perspective of a middle-aged, Black Caribbean mother liv... more This article explores mothering from the perspective of a middle-aged, Black Caribbean mother living in Canada and her oldest daughter’s experiences. Engaging a first voice account from the daughter, the article provides a view into the mothering style and techniques that the daughter experienced as a result of being mothered by a woman born and partially raised in the Caribbean, uprooted from her home in the immigration process, and who subsequently makes another home in Canada. The perspectives proffered by the two women’s voices highlight the struggles of Black mothering under the gaze of White Canadian parenting expectations.
There is a paucity of research exploring the needs of older immigrants in Canada in general and s... more There is a paucity of research exploring the needs of older immigrants in Canada in general and specifically of those who have settled in smaller urban centers in the Eastern region of Canada. Recently Newfoundland implemented an immigration strategy to attract more immigrants to address the skilled labor shortages, to increase the population that has been shrinking due to outmigration and to replenish a rapidly aging cohort. Most immigrants to Canada settled in larger cities. Out of the small number of immigrants in Newfoundland, many left the province shortly after arrival due to a lack of jobs and other reasons, such as lack of culturally appropriate health and long-term care (LTC) services. This qualitative pilot study explores the potential gaps in culturally appropriate health and LTC services for older immigrants. The study uses a qualitative method approach. The convenience sample consisted of 26 individuals over 50 years of age who were caregivers, care receivers and older ...
Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2020
The Public Health Agency of Canada, a federal agency of the Government of Canada, does not collec... more The Public Health Agency of Canada, a federal agency of the Government of Canada, does not collect race-based data on COVID-19. Some provincial jurisdictions have begun collecting this information....
Race Equality Teaching, 2014
World Journal of Education, 2015
African, Caribbean and Black People’s Resilience During COVID-19
BRILL eBooks, May 8, 2012
Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action, 2022
International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
The paper analyses how the Nepali state imposed its sovereign power on the Nepali returning migra... more The paper analyses how the Nepali state imposed its sovereign power on the Nepali returning migrant workers from India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the deployment of border security forces, the state resorted to arbitrary detentions of these workers, leaving them stranded at Nepal-India borders. They were no longer wanted in India while being rejected and excluded by the state. To demonstrate the state's exclusionary bordering practices, we used the concepts of 'biopolitics' (Foucault, 1997), 'necropolitics' (Mbembe, 2019) and 'bare life' (Agamben, 1998). We employed visual methodology and the content analysis of the publicly available media reports and photographs pertaining to the interceptions of the migrant workers stranded at the Nepal-India borders when trying to enter the country. We contend that the attempts of some returning migrant workers to swim across the Mahakali River to enter Nepal were acts of agency and resistance in the face of the state's brutalities.
University of British Columbia Press eBooks, Jan 17, 2017
International Journal of Educational Development in Africa
Post-secondary institutions are increasingly encouraging partnership engagement with the communit... more Post-secondary institutions are increasingly encouraging partnership engagement with the community; however, community engagement from an academic perspective does not necessarily benefit the community. This is partially due to the power differential in this relationship and the emphasis on students’ learning at the community’s expense. The content of this article is drawn from experiences gleaned from 11 students of the “Perspectives with Diverse Communities” (institute component) course at Memorial University, Canada. Of the group, eight identified as cisgender, heterosexual, white females. The professor—a Black woman—and two students deviated from this in terms of gender identity, sexual orientation, and race. During a week of on-campus education, the students participated in community engagement activities prompted by the 2017 United States ban on immigration and refugees. Through a Critical Race Theory (CRT) lens, the students acknowledged their own identities as mostly white c...
International Journal of Educational Development in Africa
Social work education and practice have been implicated in colonial violence against Black and In... more Social work education and practice have been implicated in colonial violence against Black and Indigenous people in Canada. Notwithstanding, undergraduate students enter social work programmes ready to “help” service recipients. Schools of social work also continue to centre social work education around the notion of “helping” alongside other key activities such as advocacy and counselling. Regarding the intent, social work education and practice have and continue to perpetuate anti-Black racism, racism, and colonialism at the intersections of race, among some of the most vulnerable and systemically disadvantaged in society. This article demonstrates how to combine decolonising social work education and community service learning (CSL) to provide students an opportunity to critically and consciously work with community groups to meet the community’s needs. This reflective paper captures 1) the lessons learned and growth achieved among a group of undergraduate social work learners as...
Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy, 2022
Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 2020
Trayvon Martin's 2013 murder and the acquittal of his killer by a jury reignited long-standing ra... more Trayvon Martin's 2013 murder and the acquittal of his killer by a jury reignited long-standing race problems in the USA, particularly concerning the ill treatment of young Black men. Galvanized by Martin's death, #BlackLivesMatter directed US social work attention to the urgency of this human rights issue. Scholarly publications called for increased knowledge about racial profiling and for professional social work bodies to speak out against anti-Black police racism. A similar movement arose in Canada following the police killings of Jermaine Carby in 2014, Andrew Loku in 2015, and Abdirahman Abdi in 2016. Black Lives Matter-Toronto took on the fight to resist police killings and the devaluation of Black lives. This article provides a critical analysis of the Canadian social work response to police racial profiling, as a human rights issue. Far from the response seen south of the border, little Canadian social work research has been conducted on police racial profiling, and professional social work bodies have remained silent about ending this discriminatory practice. This silence is in stark contrast to attention drawn to other social justice issues and raises questions about the profession's commitment to racial equality and the pursuit of a just society. The findings can be used to encourage social work research about police racial profiling to improve the profession's knowledge base, so that it can meaningfully advocate on behalf of racialized groups impacted by police racism in Canada. The challenges and possibilities for the profession going forward are discussed. Keywords Social work and policing. Racism, anti-Black racism, and racial profiling. Young men of color. Racialized communities. CASW and CASWE. Canada
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work
Gun Violence and Gun Control
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work, 2019
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, 2013
This article explores mothering from the perspective of a middle-aged, Black Caribbean mother liv... more This article explores mothering from the perspective of a middle-aged, Black Caribbean mother living in Canada and her oldest daughter’s experiences. Engaging a first voice account from the daughter, the article provides a view into the mothering style and techniques that the daughter experienced as a result of being mothered by a woman born and partially raised in the Caribbean, uprooted from her home in the immigration process, and who subsequently makes another home in Canada. The perspectives proffered by the two women’s voices highlight the struggles of Black mothering under the gaze of White Canadian parenting expectations.
There is a paucity of research exploring the needs of older immigrants in Canada in general and s... more There is a paucity of research exploring the needs of older immigrants in Canada in general and specifically of those who have settled in smaller urban centers in the Eastern region of Canada. Recently Newfoundland implemented an immigration strategy to attract more immigrants to address the skilled labor shortages, to increase the population that has been shrinking due to outmigration and to replenish a rapidly aging cohort. Most immigrants to Canada settled in larger cities. Out of the small number of immigrants in Newfoundland, many left the province shortly after arrival due to a lack of jobs and other reasons, such as lack of culturally appropriate health and long-term care (LTC) services. This qualitative pilot study explores the potential gaps in culturally appropriate health and LTC services for older immigrants. The study uses a qualitative method approach. The convenience sample consisted of 26 individuals over 50 years of age who were caregivers, care receivers and older ...
Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2020
The Public Health Agency of Canada, a federal agency of the Government of Canada, does not collec... more The Public Health Agency of Canada, a federal agency of the Government of Canada, does not collect race-based data on COVID-19. Some provincial jurisdictions have begun collecting this information....
Race Equality Teaching, 2014
World Journal of Education, 2015