Handbook of Research on the Impact of Covid-19 on Marginalized Populations and Support for the Future (Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies)

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant risks to particular communities and individuals, including indigenous communities, migrant workers, refugees, transgender individuals, and the homeless population. The disadvantaged population is overwhelmed by deprivation, inequality, unemployment, and infections, both communicable and non-communicable, which make them more vulnerable to COVID-19 and its negative consequences. These marginalized groups struggle to obtain an admirable political representation and face marginalization and lack of access to health, education, and social services. It is imperative that these marginalized groups and their right to life and their livelihoods are supported, especially when they are put at risk during global crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The Handbook of Research on the Impact of COVID-19 on Marginalized Populations and Support for the Future represents a way of acknowledging an improved, pandemic-free, and prosperous environment for everyone in the future where society does not leave behind any poor or marginalized individuals. The book is a representation of the voice of the marginalized people in the new normal attempting to draw on a comprehensive knowledge bank, which includes anthropology, sociology, gender studies, media, education, indigenous dimension, philosophy, bioethics, care ethics, and more. This book focuses solely on the marginalized people, examines the oppressed communities in depth, and provides insights on how we should stand by these vulnerable people. This book is a valuable tool for social workers, government bodies, policymakers, social justice advocates, human rights activists, researchers in gender and race studies, practitioners, academicians, and students interested in how COVID-19 has impacted marginalized populations and how social justice can be advocated for in the future.

Haris Abd Wahab is a Professor at the Department of Social Administration and Justice, University of Malaya. His core area of expertise is Community Development. Over the last 20 years, he has been involved in developing and promoting teaching, learning, and research opportunities in community development and social work. He teaches social problems, social work, community development, social marketing, research methodology, and social theories. His research interests focus on community well-being, social care programs for at-risk children in Malaysia, children’s well-being, and social development for vulnerable social groups.

Jahid Siraz Chowdhuy is a Fellow Ph.D. program at the Department of Social Administration and Justice, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Ex-faculty of Anthropology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. Former Research Associate, Victoria University and the University of South Pacific, and former anthropology faculty at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. He is a creative writer, published 13 books in Bengali. One book is 'Purbo-Prantic' Eastern Corner’¬¬ a historical novel traced back from 600 to 1304 AD in the eastern part of Bangladesh. He initiated Covid-19 Trilogy: BOOK -1: The 2020 Pandemic and Social Science: Some Insights from the South Edited by- Jahid Siraz, Haris Abd Wahab, Rashid Bin Mohd Saad, Siti Hajar ABH. Publisher: In progress with University Malaya Press;Book 2: Handbook of Research on COVID-19 Impact on Marginalized Populations and Support for the Future, Edited by- Jahid Siraz, Haris Abd Wahab, Rashid Bin Mohd Saad, Siti Hajar ABH, Expected to come in June 2021, with IGI Global); Book 3: UBUNTU Philopshy for the New Normalcy (Authors: Jahid Siraz, Haris Abd Wahab, Rashid Bin Mohd Saad, Joseph Wronka (Springfield, USA), Mahitah Hamidi (UM) Palgrave MacMillan. We are working with the Philosophy of Reciprocity separately: 1. Reciprocity and its Practices to Social Sciences (IGI Global) 2. Philosophy to Practices of Reciprocity in Social Research. Email: ava180043@siswa.um.edu.my

Siti Hajar Binti Abu Bakar Ah is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Administration and Justice, University of Malaya. Her core area of expertise is Social Policy. Over the 20 years, she has been involved in developing and promoting the teaching, learning and research opportunities in the field of social policy and social work. She teaches social policy, social welfare system, social planning, social evaluation and monitoring, research methodology and social theories. Her research interests focus on social care programs for the at-risk children in Malaysia, children well-being and social development for vulnerable social groups.

Mohd Rashid bin Mohd Saad is an educationist and serving as an Assistant professor at the Department of Education at Universiti Malaya. At present, he is working in the Drug Discoveries of Indigenous communities in Bangladesh. He is editor of The 2020 Pandemic and Social Science: Some Insights from the South, University Malaya Press, Malaysia and Handbook of Research on the Impact of COVID-19 on Marginalized Populations and Support for the Future, IGI Global, USA(Eds). He is co-author of 'Reciprocity and Its Practice in Social Science', In progress with IGI Global, USA.2nd Book: 'Philosophy to Practice of Reciprocity' In progress, and 'A Reciprocal Ethnography of the Bangladeshi Rakhain: Seeing with Ubuntu in the New Normal', Under the Australia Pacific Publisher (2021 Upcoming). Also, Decolonizing and Indigenous Social Work (Eds, Forthcoming). Email: msaadmr@um.edu.my