Presenting at Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development (SWSD) 2018

Dr. Manion was granted Research and Professional Development funds to present at the Joint World Conference on examples that heightens the vulnerability of the people and their environments.

Tackling social problems demands reflective and reflexive skills to redress complexity. Castells (2000, p.168) proposed the world is “made up of the multiple black holes of social exclusion throughout the planet” where an intense intersection of social and environmental issues exasperate vulnerability. This paper highlights two disparate examples of black holes where the nexus of factors heightens the vulnerability of the people and environments where they are situated, including an example where climate change has entrenched homelessness in the Canadian Arctic and in the Middle East and North African region where children have been forced to migrate from intractable violence.