Whiteness in community and humanitarian development: The case of minority ethnic communities in Australia
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Title
Handbook of Critical Whiteness
Publisher
Springer
School
School of Arts and Humanities
RAS ID
55496
Abstract
The community and humanitarian sector play an important role globally. In Australia, the sector forms a significant part of Australia’s economy generating $166 billion and employing 11% of all employees in the country. People from minority communities seem to have become a key focus of the sector in recent decades. Even so, recent studies show that people from minority community backgrounds are not accessing and are being missed by services offered by the sector. Drawing on the critical theory, this chapter argues that some of the services offered by the Australian community and humanitarian sector are inadvertently conceptualized and implemented with Eurocentric ideations of Whiteness. Using vignettes, it shows the variance between the services offered and cultural expectations of ethnic minority communities. The chapter offers ideas to address the seemingly invisible Whiteness inherent in the services to improve outcomes for communities and the sector.
DOI
10.1007/978-981-19-1612-0_46-1
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Comments
Adusei-Asante, K., Pelden, S., & Lumbus, A. (2023). Whiteness in community and humanitarian development: The case of minority ethnic communities in Australia. In J. Ravulo, K. Olcoń, T. Dune, A. Workman & P. Liamputtong (Eds.), Handbook of Critical Whiteness (pp. 1-19). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1612-0_46-1