The Coronavirus Crisis and Challenges to Social Development: Global Perspectives

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

About the Editors

List of Contributors

I. Analysis: Social Issues and the COVID-19 Pandemic

1. Mehta et al: COVID and Social Work Voices from India and Australia: Strategic and Meaningful Solidarities for Global Justice

2. Wadhwaniya et al: Examining Decent Work During COVID-19: With Reference to Female Workers in South Asia

3. Koehler: The Impact of COVID-19 on the 'Culture of Deportation' for Refugees from African Countries in Germany

4. Jung et al: Corona Challenging Social Work in Korea and Vietnam

5. Jaji: COVID-19 Safety Measures and Socioeconomic Status in Urban Zimbabwe

6. Bukuluki et al: Face Mask Wearing in Kampala, Uganda

7. Mfoafo-M'Carthy et al: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Responses on Persons with Disabilities Including Psychosocial Disabilities in the Global South: The Case of Ghana

8. Minenhle et al: Lockdown in a Dual Society: Exploring the Human Capability Implications of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in South Africa

9. Nemutandani et al: The Exposition of the Stark Realities of an Unequal Society Based on the COVID-19 Pandemic

10. Serupia et al: The COVID-19 Crisis: Impact of Social Attitudes and Representations on Social Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

11. Seruwagi et al: Knowledge, Adherence and the Lived Experiences of Refugees During COVID-19

12. Sehlabane et al: The Impact of COVID-19 Among the Vulnerable Population of Children and Youth in Lesotho: The Circle of Courage Perspective

13. Dlamini et al: Analysing the Situation of Migrants and Social Work Interventions in South Africa During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

14. Brigido et al: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on International Migration in Brazil: Normative, Economic, and Social Issues

15. Redin et al: From the Absence of Public Policies to a State of Emergency: The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Migrant Subject Condition

16. Curzio: Social Justice in the Time of COVID-19: Transcend Borders - From the Micro to the Macro, from Patagonia Argentina to the World

17. Mauersberger: Colombian Women Between the Pandemic and Armed Conflict and Poverty

II. Strategies and Responses in Social Work: Globally and Locally

18. Castilla et al: Ecuador's and Iran's Response to protect refugees and migrants in vulnerable situations during the COVID-19 pandemic

19. Kashaija et al: "Am I an Essential Worker?" COVID-19 and (Re)shaping of the Social Work Profession in Uganda

20. Singh et al: Responses of Social Work Students and Teachers to COVID-19: Experiences from Crisis Relief in Urban Slum and Rural Communities of Maharashtra, India

21. Hamisultane et al: COVID-19, Hyper Vulnerabilities, Silenced Traumas and Colonial Scars: Social Work Scholars Engaging in Critical Dialogue with Racialized Communities

22. George: The Kerala, India Experience of Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic

23. Dudgeon et al: Responding to COVID-19 and Beyond: Key Recommendations for the Effective Public and Mental Health Response to Support the Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Australia

24. Okoye et al: COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria: A Story Worth Telling from the Eyes of Social Workers

25. Atwine et al.: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Urban Poor: The Relevancy of Uganda's Social Protection Measures

26. Chikadzi et al: Social Work as an Unwitting Enabler of Oppression and Disenfranchisement of the Masses: A Freirean Analysis of Social Workers' Perspectives on the Government of Zimbabwe