The following essay will be discussing the extent to which social policy has tackled social divisions by mainly focusing on a group of people that belong to the same cultural background or share the same traditions and cultural values. . Social policy inspects social services and the welfare state. Its main goal is to tackle social issues that occur within societies, those issues usually involve an infringement to our human rights or an interpretation of what is ‘normal’ behaviour to one that deviates from the norm. Social divisions are one of the major social issues that social policy tries to deal with. Individuals who experience social differences are commonly judged based upon their roles, social opportunities, cultural norms and values, expectations as well as their living standards. Despite the fact there are many factors that lead to those differences one of the universally known factors is ethnicity. The end of the World War II is thought to be one of many reasons and one of the most significant ones that have caused an extreme increase in the inflow of immigrants (Gilfoyle et al. The National Archives). During this period the United Kingdom was struggling and was experiencing a labour ‘shortage’ therefore Britain was in need of immigrants who would be willing to do cheap labour that nobody else was willing to do Sivanandan (1976: 348) as cited by Glavanis (1999: 54). The whole idea of immigrants doing cheap labour automatically directs us to think that an act of exploitation and discrimination must be involved. For many immigrants this also meant that they had to settle in areas which were considered to be the slums with poor housing whereas white British citizens were moving into new housing estates Sivanandan (1976) ... ... middle of paper ... ...6) as cited by Glaughlin et al. (2002). Works Cited http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/origins-commonwealth-immigration.htm http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/brave_new_world/immigration.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Immigrants_Act_1968 http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emire/UNITED%20KINGDOM/RACERELATIONSACT1976RRA-EN.htm http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/seanthomas/100229154/the-murder-of-stephen-lawrence-and-the-strange-case-of-the-missing-wikipedia-entries/ http://www.bug-ev.org/en/topics/focus-areas/dossiers/police-investigation-of-racially-motivated-crimes/the-macpherson-report.html (CRE 1985; DfE 1992; Bourne et al. 1994; Blyth and Miller 1996) as cited by Glaughlin et al. (2002) (McGlaughlin et al. 2002 (Büro zur Umsetzung von Gleichbehandlung, 2011). (The Telegraph, 2013) (Cohen and Kennedy, 2000)
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Before the Great Depression hit, immigration was at about 169,000 people in 1926, but after the Depression immigration went down to about 12,000 people in 1935. The reason they went so low is because the government, stopped allowing so many immigrants from entering the country. Plus, since most immigrants before the depression were farmers (who went into huge debt when the market crashed), they could not afford to pay off the equipment they bought. So police officers went to the farms and evicted anyone, who could not pay off their
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Social Policy as an academic subject can be discussed as the search of theoretical norms on how society should behave and the practical application of implementing policies considered to be social. (Alcock et al 2004) The study of social policy was originally known as social administration. (Spicker, 2008) describes social policy as relating to social services which include health, education, housing and social work. Spiker also describes these as being the “The Big Five”. Subjects like Social care offers contextual material about the many aspects required to develop social policies. Social Care touches on subjects such as sociology which gives a better understanding of minority groups and social control. The study of Social Policy and social care are both focused on welfare and people’s needs or problems such as disabilities, mental illness or poverty. While social care is mainly focused on the individual and social policy on the welfare of the individual both are needed simultaneously to deliver any