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the Migrant Subject Condition.- 16. Curzio: Social Justice in the Time of COVID-19: Transcend Borders - From the Micro to the Macro, from Patagonia Argentina to the World.- 17. Mauersberger: Colombian Women Between the Pandemic and Armed Conflict and Poverty.- II. Strategies and Responses in Social Work: Globally and Locally.- 18. Castilla et al: Ecuador's and Iran's Response to protect refugees and migrants in vulnerable situations during the COVID-19 pandemic.- 19. Kashaija et al: "Am I an Essential Worker?"  COVID-19 and (Re)shaping of the Social Work Profession in Uganda.- 20. Singh et al: Responses of Social Work Students and Teachers to COVID-19: Experiences from Crisis Relief in Urban Slum and Rural Communities of Maharashtra, India.- 21. Hamisultane et al: COVID-19, Hyper Vulnerabilities, Silenced Traumas and Colonial Scars: Social Work Scholars Engaging in Critical Dialogue with Racialized Communities.- 22. George: The Kerala, India Experienceof Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic .- 23. Dudgeon et al: Responding to COVID-19 and Beyond: Key Recommendations for the Effective Public and Mental Health Response to Support the Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Australia.- 24. Okoye et al: COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria: A Story Worth Telling from the Eyes of Social Workers.- 25. Atwine et al.: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Urban Poor: The Relevancy of Uganda's Social Protection Measures.- 26. Chikadzi et al: Social Work as an Unwitting Enabler of Oppression and Disenfranchisement of the Masses: A Freirean Analysis of Social Workers' Perspectives on the Government of Zimbabwe's COVID-19 Response.- 27. Lanza et al: The Professional Practice of the Brazilian Social Worker: Problems About the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic.- 28. Reininger et al: Front-line Social Workers' Practices Under the Political and Sanitary Crisis in Chile.- III. Outlook: Looking Ahead Beyond the Pandemic.- 29. Bedurke, Lars: Time for New Epistemological Inquiries, the Global South and Resilience in the Time of COVID-19.- 30. Vaughn et al: Decolonising Safeguarding During a Pandemic: Lessons for Research Praxis in International Social Work.- 31. Brady et al. Participatory Photography, Ethical Storytelling and Modern Slavery Survivor Voices: Adapting to COVID-19.- 32. Pfaffenstaller et al. Social Work in the Time of a Pandemic: COVID-19 and the Need for Resilience-critical Thinking.- 33. Chikadzi: A Social Work and Social Development Perspective on the Need to Decolonise African Economies in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for Africa.- 34. Noyoo: Critiquing Western Development Paradigms and Theories in the Age of the Coronavirus (COVID-19): An African Perspective.- 35. Ortiz-Rico: How Has Population Health Accelerated Through Integrated Indigenous Social Networks? Opportunities During the COVID-19 Pandemic.- 36. Valdebenito-Acosta et al: Soup Kitchens and Radical Social Work Against COVID-19 from Liberation Theology in Chile.- 37. Afeworki Abay et al: Overcoming the Socioeconomic Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Social Work Perspectives and Postcolonial Reflections from Ethiopia.- 38. Concluding Remarks and Summation.



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Shebrings together 15 years of extensive practice and research experience in development cooperation and migration.

Ronald Lutz, Dr. phil. Sociologist and Anthropologist, is Lecturer at University of Applied Sciences of Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany; Lecturer at University of Applied Sciences of Erfurt, Germany; and Research Associate at the School of Social Work, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. From 1993 to March 2019, he was Professor at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences at the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. His fields of interest include poverty, social politics, social development, and international relations.

Ndangwa Noyoo is a Professor and former Head of the Department of Social Development at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. He is also Director of the Zola Skweyiya African Social Policy Innovation (ZSASPI) at UCT. Previously, he worked at the University of Johannesburg in the Department of Social Work asan Associate Professor. He was also employed by the South African Government in the Department of Social Development as a Chief Director / Social Policy Specialist, and the University of the Witwatersrand's Department of Social Work as a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of Department.
Janestic Twikirize is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Makerere University, Uganda. She holds a PhD in Social Work and Social Development and an MA in Social Sector Planning and Management. She has also served as a visiting Lecturer at Gothenburg University in Sweden, University of Stavanger in Norway and Lincoln University in the UK.  She has published over 20 scientific papers including four books, and has made over 30 presentations in International conferences in the past 5 years.  She was previously Vice President of the Association of Schools of Social Work in Africa and a Board member of the International Association of Schools of Social