anti-oppresive social work

I shall discuss gender as an inequality. I am mindful that there are no hierarchies of anti-oppressive practice and that the issues of ‘race’, class, sexuality, disability and age bear equal importance, but as I have discussed in previous essays, whilst each oppressed group is distinct, the issues can be transposed from one area to another. Gender, in this case, simply provides a tool for analysis. I drew upon anti-oppressive practice, with particular relevance to gender and ‘race’, in order to inform a discussion that is relevant for youth and community workers in practice today. In examining these crucial issues
Introduction:
This essay attempts to define the concept of anti oppressive practice.
I have tried to illustrate through both personal dealings, as a supervisor of a multi care agency, and, factual information how the asylum seekers within the St Helens community have suffered oppression at the hands of both the other existing communities they are ...