ABSTRACT
Ethnicity and 'race' are contested and troubling categories because they have become sites in which and through which relations of oppression are constituted. Of course, ethnicity and 'race' form only one of the dimensions of identity which can become the basis for oppression. There are others - gender, class, age, disability and sexual orientation amongst them. However, in this book, we will focus primarily on 'race' and ethnicity, although we acknowledge that these interact and intersect with the other bases of oppression. Ideally, all forms of oppression would have to be understood within their complex totality as they occur within any social work intervention (Dominelli, forthcoming).
