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54 Int'l Soc. Work 3 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/intsocwk54 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial e International Social Work 54(I) 3-6 Globalization: New R The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: sagepub. challenges and . .... ,sPermissi ... DOI: 10. 1177/00208728103 92123 opportunities for http://is.sagepub.com social work OSAGE Globalization has created new challenges and opportunities for social work theory and practice that are explored by the authors in this issue. These include culturally relevant forms of intervention, promoting indigenization as a counter to imperialistic relationships through practice and responding to social problems raised by the development of communities and the move- ment of people seeking to escape poverty and hardship. Seonmi Kim raises concerns about the decline in the quality of day-care provisions in South Korea as the government pursued a neo-liberal agenda of allowing private providers to make money in this sector. Neo-liberalism is presented as a negative effect of globalization because it prioritized prof- its above children's needs. Consequently, the government's attempts to raise the quality of the child-care services raise standards as anticipated despite increased monitoring requirements and subsidies granted. Interactions between peoples and countries have been facilitated by cheap modes of transportation and the internet and become key features of globalization. Movements of peoples between and within countries have increased awareness of diversity amongst populations that might inhabit a particular territory and raised the significance of developing culturally sen- sitive forms of practice. Ruby Chau, Sam Yu and Cam Tran compare two approaches - the shared cultural knowledge (SCK) and diversity-based (DB) approaches - to explore health and social care services delivered to populations of Chinese descent in the UK. They conclude that DB is better as a model for practitioners to adopt because it facilitates the provision of more appropriate services. The theme of culturally relevant service provision is also explored by David Rothwell, this time with regards to indigenous peoples from Hawai'i. There is a political movement in these islands that wishes to assert its

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