Social Diversity and Inclusion
Disproportionate Minority Contact and Racism in the US
How We Failed Children of Color
Drawing on original data, this book addresses the issue of color-blind racism through an examination of the circular logic used by the juvenile justice system to criminalize non-White youth. It calls for a need to understand racial inequality in the justice system from a structural perspective rather than simply at the level of individual bias.
Diverse Voices in Tort Law
Integrating marginalised perspectives into the curriculum and discourse, this indispensable textbook amplifies under-represented voices in the field and paves the way for a more inclusive and comprehensive understanding of tort law.
Diversity and Welfare Provision
Tension and Discrimination in 21st Century Britain
This book explores how diverse citizens experience welfare provision. It seeks to promote broader debate and address the silences in research and debate, particularly in relation under-researched groups, with the aim of developing a renewed call for analysis.
Engaging Black and Minority Ethnic Groups in Health Research
‘Hard to Reach’? Demystifying the Misconceptions
This crucial contribution exposes the misconception that health research and health services are equally effective for all and highlights their failures in engaging with Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups. It provides essential case study examples on recruitment, engagement and partnerships with BME groups in research and public engagement.
Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research
Lessons from a Time of Crisis
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This edited volume discusses the methodological and ethical challenges that researchers are currently facing whilst attempting to document the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities throughout Europe.
Forgotten Wives
How Women Get Written Out of History
Forgotten Wives examines how marriage has contributed to the active ‘disremembering’ of women’s achievements. Ann Oakley uses case studies of four women married to well-known men to ask questions about gender inequality and contributes a fresh vision of how the welfare state developed in the early 20th century.
Gender Equality in the Welfare State?
This timely and accessible textbook analyses the male breadwinner model in terms of care, work, time, income and power, providing a framework which asks about policies and practices for gender equality in each of these. This new approach contextualises national policies and debates within comparative theoretical analysis and data.
Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Equality in Europe
Policies, Culture and Public Opinion
As the concept of gender mainstreaming grows more prominent in the debate about gender equality, this book explores its origins, evolution and varying impacts on political, social and cultural issues around Europe. It also considers mainstreaming’s potential and limits, providing a timely contribution to the ongoing debate about gender attitudes.
Global Agenda for Social Justice 2
Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), this second volume of The Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world’s most pressing social problems and proposes international public policy and social responses to those problems.
Global Domestic Workers
Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing from the EU-funded DomEQUAL research project across 9 countries in Europe, South America and Asia, this comparative study explores the conditions of domestic workers around the world and the campaigns they are conducting to improve their labour rights.
Hearing the Voices of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities
Inclusive Community Development
This book charts Gypsies Romany and Travellers community activism, and the community and voluntary organisations which support them. It describes the communities' struggle for rights against a backdrop of intersectional discrimination across Europe.
Highly Discriminating
Why the City Isn’t Fair and Diversity Doesn’t Work
Written by a leading expert, this book examines equality issues in the City of London, arguing that social hiring practices in the City favour affluent applicants, and calls for a policy shift at the organisational and governmental levels.