Social Welfare with Indigenous Peoples

Description

In many areas of the world, there has been an earlier indigenous population, which has been conquered by a more recent population group. This book examines the treatment of indigenous populations from five continental areas: Africa (Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe); Australasia and New Zealand; Central and South America (Brazil, Mexico); Europe (Scandinavia, Spain) and North America. It shows that, regardless of whether the newer immigrants became the majority population, as in North America, or the minority population, as in Africa, there are many similarities in how the indigenous peoples were treated and in their current situations. This treatment is examined from many perspectives: political subjugation; negligence; shifting focus of social policy; social and legal discrimination; provision of social services; and ethnic, cultural and political rejuvenation.