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In the summer of 2020, two life-altering currents swept across North America: COVID-19 and the call to“defund  the police.” During this time, I worked at an emergency overnight shelter that was created as a pandemic response....

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For newcomer students, inequities exacerbated by COVID-19, including racism, unfold within their educational landscapes. School settlement workers perform a critical role in newcomer students’ educational trajectories. COVID-19...

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This editorial introduces the special issue Pandemic Social Work: Social Work Practice, Education, and Activism in the Time of COVID.

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This article reflects on and analyzes interlocking relations of power pertaining to the politics of masculinities during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Situated within the context of the current global pandemic, we...

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This article presents an autoethnographic exploration into the disruption of my PhD field research with children and youth because of the COVID-19 pandemic. My exploration bridges what Roy has called the “rupture” of the...

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This article explores how COVID-19 has impacted our understanding of our frontline practice and professional identity as four doctoral social work students. When the pandemic unfolded, we were completing a collaborative...

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Discussions of the causes of the inequitable impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic strike a similar tone as the same discussion of the 2008 financial crisis. In this review of the literature on post-2008 financial crisis and the...

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