Edited by Jun Sung Hong, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Wayne State University, USA and Visiting Professor, Department of Social Welfare, Ewha Womans University, South Korea, Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan, Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, UK, Annis Lai Chu FUNG, Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, China and Jungup Lee, Department of Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore