Diversity and Social Work in Canada

About

Alean Al-Krenawi is president of Achva Academic College and professor in the Spitzer Department of Social Work at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Israel. Formerly dean and professor in the School of Social Work at Memorial University Canada his research interests include multiculturalism mental health and social work with indigenous populations political violence and polygamy. Dr. Al-Krenawi is an international authority in his areas of research and he has been invited to lecture at academic institutions and conferences around the globe. His writing has been recognized as being among the top 50 most frequently cited in Social Work in the English-speaking world (2000-2010). He has also conducted studies in Canada Israel and many countries in the Middle East. He has written and edited books for Sprinters Press University Press of America Whiting and Birch and Nova Press and is co-editor of OUP Canada's Multicultural Social Work in Canada (2003). John R. Graham is director and professor in the School of Social Work at Florida Atlantic University. From 2003 to 2013 he was the Murray Fraser professor of Community Economic Development at the University of Calgary. He has published extensively on international social work multicultural social work and social policy. His writing has been recognized as being among the top 50 most frequently cited in Social Work in the English-speaking world (2000-2010). He is co-editor of OUP Canada's Multicultural Social Work in Canada (2003). Nazim Habibov is associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Windsor. In 2013 he was recognized for excellence in research as emerging scholar/researcher by the university. He has published extensively on social and health policies as well as poverty and inequality in the context of developed and developing countries.