University Social Work Assignment: Community Practice Analysis Report

This report provides an analysis of community practice within the field of social work, drawing upon three key readings. The first reading focuses on the challenges faced by migrant communities, particularly single women, in Australia, exploring issues of social exclusion, education, and integration into the host society. The second reading examines community development initiatives within indigenous communities, highlighting issues of marginalization, funding, and the revitalization of native cultures. The third reading delves into gender inequality in India, focusing on the self-esteem and empowerment of women engaged in hard physical labor and self-employment, with a specific focus on the SEWA foundation. The report explores the key messages, practice contexts, issues, and challenges presented in each reading, along with the author's perspectives and potential questions for further inquiry. The analysis aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of community practice and its impact on various vulnerable populations.

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Lenette, C., & Ingamells, A. (2015). Mind the Gap! The growing chasm between funding-
driven agencies, and social and community knowledge and practice. Community
Development Journal, 50(1), 88-103.
Reading 1:
The significant messages which can be explored in the reading refer to the concerns
for equality of social status for single women and the layered involvement of community of
migrants in a different society. The inclusion of migrants in Australian community and the
factors responsible for the same Other crucial messages that can be highlighted in the reading
refer to the role of education and the interests of migrants to learn foreign language as
influences on the involvement of migrants in the foreign society. Education is a source of
empowerment and facilitates a sense of self-esteem to every individual thereby catering the
insufficiencies observed in adapting to the foreign culture.
The reading is vested in the context of Australia where migrants from Sudan have to
find opportunities for including themselves in the Australian society. The practice context
also refers to the issues that are evidently observed in case of the migrants. Not only do the
Sudanese migrants have to face pitfalls of social exclusion, they are also likely to describe
different behaviour towards individuals from their own cultural background. The issues
perceived by the author working with reference to the concerned community of single women
include the limitations of bias from other members of the community and concerns for
establishing new relations with the wider Australian community as well as reconnecting with
their own community.
The critical challenges that could be identified in context of community practice as
observed in the reading refer to the provision of uniform access to all sections of the migrant
society for accessing education and other public utilities. The three layered integration of
migrants in the Australian society. The resettlement of migrants in the Australian society is
also characterized by the profound issue of the inclusion of the migrants in community and
social services, political participation, organizational involvement and labour. The reduction
in community development practice that can be noted in Australia also accounts for another
critical challenge to the inclusion of migrants in the host community. The profound challenge
for my thinking of community practice would be directed towards the coordinated association
of new settlers and the host community alongside ensuring that the relations are sustained.

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The author has explained the significance of the sustainability of human services approach in
facilitating credible outcomes from the resettlement processes. Furthermore, the author
illustrates the challenges in existing community practices in Australian society for
resettlement of migrants such as the lack of substantial community development initiatives.
The impact of the existing community practices is largely limited to the social fields while
expressing considerable pitfalls in terms of managerial perspective especially in terms of
provision of empowerment and social justice.
The questions which could be derived from reflection on the concerned reading in
context of community practice could be presented as follows.
What is the contribution of migrants with previous connections in the Australian
community towards resettlement of other migrants from their community?
What is the possibility of conflicts between Australian culture and the native culture
of the individual migrants?
What are the possible initiatives apart from education and employment in community
practices for flexible inclusion of single women in the host community alongside limiting the
gaps among the same community?
Reading 2: Dubais on Country Camp
The key messages highlighted by the author in the concerned reading are directed
towards the impact of integrating community development principles in majority of urban
projects and the rejuvenation of indigenous communities. The local indigenous communities
are subject to the lack of advocacy thereby facing considerable issues such as ill health,
poverty, over policing and over representation of the indigenous communities. The existing
community practices and their impact on the engagement of the indigenous communities in
the social framework have also been identified comprehensively as key messages of the
author in the reading. Furthermore, the author also emphasizes on the inclination of the
indigenous communities to restore the native cultural fabric of the community.
The context of the practice could be first identified on the grounds of the place where
it is observed and in the case of this reading, the location is vested in Nimbin, a township
located on the eastern edge of the country of Widjabul people of Bundjalung nation. The
people that can be observed in context of the community practice in the reading refer to the

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Widjabul people that have been traditional inhabitants of the location. The issues that were
raised by the author regarding the community practices with the Widjabul people include the
marginalization as well as paternal behaviour experienced by them from other people in the
community. Provision of notable highlights into the requirement of funding and resources
tailored to the local indigenous communities could also be observed as issues in the
community practices.
The critical challenges that are perceived in context of community practice as
explored in the reading refer to the marginal behaviour for indigenous communities. The
determination of feasibility of the strategy followed in the community practice also serves as
a critical challenge in case of the concerned reading. It could also be observed that the lack of
basic information pertaining to requirements, accessible funding and suspension of activity
are profound challenges for the community practice initiatives suggested for Nimbin
community. Another critical challenge that can be noticed from the concerned reading refers
to the moderation of control on community development projects and coordinating the roles
of indigenous community members effectively.
The author is informing the significant nature of acquiring efficient community
development outcomes through a precise identification of social issues and transforming
ideas into action. The role of external agencies in community development initiatives could
be considered limited to the provision of funding, resources and necessary support for the
initial stages of the resettlement procedure. The role of the concerns among the indigenous
communities to revitalize native culture in promoting community development can also be
identified as one of the profound ideas communicated by the author.
The three questions which could be presented from the inferences of the concerned
reading include the following.
How do the concerns of personal breakthroughs of project managers in community
development initiatives influence the outcomes?
What are the differences of outcomes of separate gender involvement in community
development initiatives in Nimbin community?
What are the prospects of sustainability of community development projects in
absence of external monitoring and control in the Nimbin community?

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Reading 3: Steinem, G. (1993). A book of self-esteem: Revolution from within. Boston:
Little, Brown, & Company.
Reading 3
The key messages that are highlighted by the author in the concerned reading refer to
the profound concerns of gender inequality in India, the initial stages of the development of
women engaged in hard physical labour and the approaches for garnering back one’s self-
identity. The gender inequality concerns in India are profoundly observed in the treatment of
women workers that are self-employed in several occupations such as collecting waste from
offices and garbage dumps, selling vegetables in street and construction workers. The
mortality rate for girls in India is higher as compared to the other gender with the majority of
saving of costs and resources are intended for the health of boys. The concerns of minimal
literacy rate among girls could also be identified as a profound pitfall for enabling women to
value themselves in the society.
The context of the reading is observed in the location i.e. Ahmadabad and the
involved people refer to the members of the SEWA foundation which stands for Self-
Employed Women’s Association. The issues or challenges that can be perceived in the
context refer to the anticipation of flexible opportunities to determine the rehabilitation of the
requirements of women employed in hard physical labour. Another prominent issue that is
encountered in the context refers to the limitations on women for saving their hard earned
money from husbands that perceive their wives’ earning as their own.
The critical challenges that can be noted in the case of the concerned reading are
vested in the requisites for identification of the pitfalls for the women from their perspective
and the protection from unauthorized bribes demanded by police officers and employers. The
issues of higher interest rates imposed by the employers on smaller amounts of loans could
also be accounted as one of the critical challenges affecting the improvement of standards of
the women employed in hard physical labour and self employed women. The inclusion of a
wider base of self-employed women in the community development practices ensured by
SEWA is also subject to the limitations of education among women.
The author has aimed to describe the impact of women empowerment from the grass
root level on the economic and social development of women employed in self-employment,

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hard physical labour or the potential of women to establish entrepreneurial establishments.
The author has also emphasized profoundly on the model of self help and economic
empowerment that can be accessed by women of the country through agencies such as
SEWA. The other highlights of the report are noticeably directed towards the significance of
self-esteem and its relevance to the gender related disparities observed in the Indian society.
The emerging questions which could be drawn from the inferences of the concerned
reading can be illustrated as follows.
Which is the most significant factor responsible for the uplifting of women employed
in hard physical labour or self employed women amongst higher wages, security of
workplace or welfare of children?
How could the measures of SEWA for preventing corruption of police and employers
be monitored effectively for sustainable development of self employed women?
How does mutual support contribute to the overall community development in context
of SEWA and the welfare of its members?