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Asian community groups campaign for equal rights
- Author:
- McINTYRE Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, 56, March 2001, p.3.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Looks at the work of the Asian Disability Network who are campaigning for the rights of people with learning difficulties and their carers.
Learning difficulties and ethnicity:summary version
- Authors:
- MIR Ghazal, NOCON Andrew, AHMAD Waqar
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Minority ethnic communities face substantial inequalities and discrimination in employment, education, health and social services. People with learning difficulties from minority ethnic communities experience simultaneous disadvantage in relation to race, impairment and for women, gender. Negative stereotypes and attitudes held by service professionals contribute to the disadvantage they face.
Learning difficulties and ethnicity
- Authors:
- MIR Ghazal, NOCON Andrew, AHMAD Waqar
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 76p.,bibiog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Minority ethnic communities face substantial inequalities and discrimination in employment, education, health and social services. People with learning difficulties from minority ethnic communities experience simultaneous disadvantage in relation to race, impairment and for women, gender. Negative stereotypes and attitudes held by service professionals contribute to the disadvantage they face.
Race and groupwork
- Editors:
- MISTRY Tara, BROWN Allan
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 307p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes chapters on: issues of race and gender in mixed membership groups; black/white co-working in groups; the linguistic and cultural barriers to cross national working in groups; groupwork and black women; empowerment groupwork across racial lines; groupwork with black users with learning difficulties; groupwork with travellers and gypsies; a community based approach to the development of Asian Women's groups; empowering youthwork with young Asian women; black and white issues in training groups; prison groupwork for foreign nationals; the dynamics of groupwork in a prison community; and groupwork with refugees and asylum seekers.