This book aims to scrutinize the wellbeing of hard-to-reach communities from social work perspectives. This book is the collection of writings of different scholars from Asian and South Asian countries. This edited book is exclusively focused on core interventions of social work useful to empower and making resilient hard-to-reach communities including the coastal and wetland community, the tea garden community, the ethnic community, and the socially marginalized community. This edited book would be a precious and expedient source for social work education on dealing with issues faced by these diverse hard-to-reach communities. 

Md Ismail Hossain is Professor of Social Work at Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh. He received his Ph.D. in labor studies. Dr. Hossain was International Visiting Scholar at Monmouth University and Pennsylvania State University in 2012 and 2017, respectively. He has been deeply engaged in searching for human rights issues of marginalized groups. He has extensive research expertise that covers disaster management, gender development, social protection, and wellbeing of disadvantaged communities. He has published numerous articles in various international reputed journals. He is Author of a book, Social Justice in the Globalization of Production: Labor, Gender and the Environment Nexus (New York: Palgrave Macmillan). In addition to research and publication, he is actively engaged in delivering intervention for bringing transformative change to the lives of the socially disadvantaged communities.