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59 Int'l Soc. Work 3 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/intsocwk59 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial International Social Work 2016, Vol. 59(I) 3-4 Editorial @ The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.ul/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1 177/0020872815618895 isw.sagepub.com OSAGE This issue engages with a wide diversity of methods and themes covered in social work research. Each article poses important questions for educators, practitioners and policymakers. Despite such methodological diversity a common concern shared by all authors in this issue is how social workers can promote social justice and challenge social exclusion and oppression. In the first article, Frederico Lisboa Rom~o provides an analysis of the social impact of the use of royalties and special participation, and sovereign and social funds, in the context of the pre-salt oil reserves in Brazil. His main argument is that despite the enormous growth in the revenue from royalties in oil-producing municipalities; there has been little or no impact on social development, social justice, and human rights. Frederico Lisboa Rom~o concludes that oil, and resources derived from oil, are assets of the Union, requiring adequate social control. The second article of this issue also places a strong emphasis on social justice. Jami Curley, Fred M Ssewamala, Proscovia Nabunya, Vilma Ilic and Han Chang Keun explore an innovative inter- vention for orphaned children in Uganda, which combines standard health care with an economic empowerment component (CDAs). The focus of this article is on the educational outcomes of the girls in this study. The authors suggest that CDAs have the potential to begin to help negate the effects of past gender inequalities and to help provide a path for young girls to move forward. In the next article, Shweta Singh, Ru Zhou, Xiong Li and Liping Tong explore the relationship between wealth indexes and the outcome of diseases such as diabetes, asthma, and BMI irregulari- ties. In particular, the article evaluates the construct of virtual neighborhoods in urban and rural populations of women. The authors conclude that women's health outcomes and processes appear to be complicated due to poverty and neighborhood interaction. Sahar Al-Makhamreh, in the next article, also challenges inequalities and social exclusion, although in a different cultural context. Her study discusses the identity construction of young deaf people in Jordan through their own interpretation and the perspectives of their families. Findings suggest that schools and family environments remain predominantly exclusionary in socializing young deaf into the construction of an identity of disability. However, young deaf people view themselves as a sub-group within a larger collective culture. This study takes into account the wider differences inherent in gender issues, as is significant in the conceptualization of young deaf identity in the Arab world. Kam-yee Law and Kim-ming Lee re-examine the crucial debate on the issue of social work indigenizaton. In their article they argue that making use of indigenization as an interactive and non-linear process helps cultivate a multicultural social work practice within a society. In particu- lar, they challenge mainstream thinking by claiming that importing Western social work practice and indigenization are compatible. In their article they illustrate such compatibility by analyzing how political activists employ Western values and practice, the universal human rights discourse, and mainstreaming, to fight for the rights of Hong Kong ethnic minorities. The next article provides a thorough examination of the experiences of women leaving violent relationships in Lebanon. Jamil6 Khoury and Samantha Wehbi explore the process of making the decision to leave within the particularities of the Lebanese sociocultural context. Their findings

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