UID:
almafu_9961387701202883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 291 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-4473-6431-7
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1-4473-6430-9
Series Statement:
Policy Press scholarship online
Content:
This book rethinks social work's history of both political resistance and complicity with oppressive practice. Comparing international case studies, the book uncovers the role of social workers in politically tense episodes of recent history, skilfully navigating the profession's collective political past while considering its future.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2024).
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Front Cover -- Social Work's Histories of Complicity and Resistance: A Tale of Two Professions -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I Making amends with the past -- 1 Learning from the past to shape the future: uncovering social work's histories of complicity and resistance -- Introduction -- Mapping and recognising the typologies of institutional oppression -- Shaping the ideal-type family -- Racist and colonial social services -- Institutionalisation, incarceration and securitisation -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Legacies of colonialism and racism in social work -- 2 Canadian social work and the Sixties Scoop: reflections on the past, lessons for today -- Introduction -- Actions towards reconciliation -- The Sixties Scoop and social work: what happened? -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Reconciling systemic abuse of children and young women with social work's commitment to a human rights, transformative practice -- Introduction -- Removal of Indigenous children from their homes and culture: a national shame -- Child migration: policy of social engineering -- Child abuse in institutional care: multi-generational trauma -- Forced adoptions: uncomfortable reality -- Children in detention centres: ongoing abuse and neglect -- Challenges for social work -- Social work's response -- Way forward: hope for the future -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 The oppressive history of 'child welfare' systems and the need for abolition -- Introduction -- The racist origins of the child welfare system -- How the child welfare system produces and maintains harm -- The racism is in the discretion -- Social work and the child welfare system -- How long can social work be complicit? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 Colonial and apartheid South Africa: social work complicity and resistance.
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Introduction -- Complicity and resistance -- Apartheid -- Historical antecedents: imperialism, coloniality, racist capitalism and Afrikaner nationalism -- (White) social work foundations: Carnegie and 'the poor White problem' -- Social work education: embracing the state -- Social work foundations: liberalism, social hygiene and eugenics -- Tracing social work resistance -- Resistance efforts which included social workers -- Direct involvement in service provision -- Conferences as a strategy of conscientisation and challenge -- Social workers in resistance formations: resisting outside of the profession -- Notable social workers in the long struggle before and during apartheid -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Part III Social work's contested ideologies -- 6 Social services in Nazi Germany and the role of social workers between complicity and rare resistance -- What led to national socialist 'Volkspflege' (People's Care)? -- Dividing the 'worthy' and 'unworthy' clients: a modern idea -- Eugenic thinking and its long tradition -- The Weimar Republic in economic and political crisis -- The National Socialists seize power through terror and laws -- The concept of 'Volkspflege' (People's Care) -- Exclusion of Jews and others -- From exclusion to persecution and extinction in collaboration with social work -- Exclusion of the 'non-Aryan' from welfare care -- Political and moral persecution -- Youth welfare: hereditarily ill or educable? -- 'Ballast existences': mentally ill and disabled people -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Social assistance in Franco's fascist Spain (1939-75): a history of social control, family segregation and stolen babies -- Introduction -- Historical background: the Spanish Civil War and establishment of the francoist dictatorship -- Social assistance and social control in francoist Spain.
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Stolen babies: from Franco's eugenics to economically motivated baby trafficking -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 8 Social work in times of political violence: dictatorships and acts of resistance from the Southern Cone -- Introduction -- The context of dictatorships in Latin America and the neoliberal turn -- Social workers at the crossroads: victims, collaborators … survivors -- A window for hope: stories of resistance -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 9 Trade union mobilisation, resistance and political action of social workers in Portugal -- Introduction -- The dictatorship and the institutionalisation of social work in Portugal -- The Portuguese corporative state and the creation of the National Union of Social Workers (SNPSS) -- Renovation (with)in the National Union of Social Workers in the 1970s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 10 The radical roots of popular social work in Palestine -- Introduction -- Setting the context: Palestine, 'Nahad' and the establishment of a settler-colonial state -- Resistance, welfare and popular social work -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV Social work's complicity with institutionalisation and detention -- 11 Institutionalisation and oppression within the mental health system in England: social work complicity and resistance -- Introduction -- Social work, psychiatry and the integral state -- From the asylum to the hospital: institutional custodialism, eugenics and medicalisation -- From community care to neoliberalism: from psychiatric abuse to malign neglect? -- Social work in the mental health system -- Social work complicity with oppressive practices -- Radical approaches and resistance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 12 A refugee crisis or a crisis of anti-immigrant politics? Hostile refugee reception, the pandemic and new solidarities in Cyprus -- Introduction.
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The pandemic and mass migration immigration, asylum and neo-racist xenophobia in Europe -- The making of a detention-welfare humanitarian crisis in Cyprus: overcrowding, complicit social work and hostile environment -- The historical development of social services in Cyprus: complicity, failure and exclusion -- Another solidarity in the time of pandemic: socialities and mobile commons -- Solidarity and social work from below during the pandemic -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 13 Institutionalisation of certain children and mothers in Ireland: reflections on the 'troubled history' of child welfare social work -- Introduction -- A note on mass institutionalisation and incarceration of women and children in Ireland during the 20th century -- 'Received history' of child welfare social work in Ireland -- 2021 Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes -- Facing up to a troubled and contradictory history -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Part V Survivor perspectives and contemporary reflections -- 14 Facing the legacy of social work: coming to terms with complicity in systemic inequality and social injustice -- Introduction -- Can social work become a radical profession? -- Under the cover of kindness -- Social work in and against the state -- Is critical reflection enough? -- Facing complicity in social injustice -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 15 'We want social workers to hear our story': learning from parents whose children were taken away -- Introduction -- Reflections on social work's contradictions -- Main themes of the interviews -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 16 Decolonisation and critical social work pedagogies -- Introduction -- Decolonisation -- Decolonising the university -- Decolonisation without definition -- Where to? -- Ways and approaches.
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Integrated learning model -- Conclusion -- References -- 17 Adoption social work practice in Ireland: critical reflections on present-day injustices -- Introduction -- A note about terminology -- Social work practice: a personal perspective -- Present-day injustices in social work practice -- Adoption social work practice: access to information -- Adoption social work practice: tracing and reunion -- Adult adopted people and social work practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4473-6428-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4473-6427-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.56687/9781447364306
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