Disentangling an invisible trade : state interventions in Dutch and Dutch-Curacaoan single-mother families / Tessa Verhallen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verhallen, Tessa, author.

Series:

Willem Pompe Institute

Language:

Dutch

English

Papiamento

Subjects (All):

Children--Legal status, laws, etc--Netherlands.

Children.

Children--Legal status, laws, etc--Curaçao.

Fatherless families--Netherlands.

Fatherless families.

Fatherless families--Curaçao.

Netherlands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

The Hague : Eleven International Publishing, [2015]

Language Note:

In English; summaries in English, Dutch, and Papiamentu.

Summary:

This book sheds light on the interactional and institutional processes through which child welfare and child protection practices are delivered to 15 Dutch and 15 Dutch-Curacaoan single-mother families with multiple problems in the Netherlands in order to assess structures of power, dominance and oppression. It is important to 'Disentangle an invisible trade,' because state intervention practices remain largely 'invisible' from the public gaze. The author draws on a 30-month ethnographic study, undertaken with the single-mother families between 2009 and 2012, in order to demonstrate how state

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1 An introduction to state interventions in single-mother families; 1 Aim and focus of the study; 2 Conceptual framework; 3 Disentangling child protection interventions; 4 Epistemics; 5 Research methodology; 6 Research practices; 7 The institutional context of intervention: the Dutch Youth Care system; 8 Outline of the book; Chapter 2 Upon whom are we focusing? Defining a'multi-problem family' in theory and the consequences for social workers in practice; 1 Introduction; 2 Theory; 3 Methods

4 Results: the international literature on multi-problem family5 Results: Dutch multi-problem family policy; 6 Results: social workers' perspectives on multi-problem families; 7 Discussion and conclusion; Chapter 3 Caught in the Child Protection System: the impact of institutional diagnosis for Dutch and Dutch-Curaçaoan single-mother families in the Netherlands; 1 Introduction; 2 Theory; 3 The study; 4 The results; 4.1 Episode 1: entering the child protection system; 4.2 Episode 2: the child protection encounter; 4.3 Episode 3: the report; 4.4 Episode 4: judicial decision

4.5 Successive and interdependent episodes4.6 Diagnosis and power; 5 Conclusion and implications; Chapter 4 In whose interest? An analysis of exemplary interaction between a family supervisor and a Dutch-Curaçaoan single mother; 1 Introduction; 2 Theory; 3 Design of the study; 3.1 Selection, collection and interpretation of data; 3.2 Position of the researcher; 3.3 Selection of Flores' case; 3.4 Data collection in Flores' case; 3.5 Selection of the interaction; 4 Results of the study; 4.1 The case study; 4.2 Power (re)producing asymmetries: diagnosis

4.3 Power (re)producing asymmetries: directives5 Analysis of asymmetrical interaction; 5.1 Asymmetrical presentation; 5.2 Knowledge asymmetries; 5.3 Asymmetrical interactional control; 5.4 Asymmetrical communication strategies; 5.5 Asymmetrical perspectives; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 5 'Dancing in Dry Rain': ethics during situated fieldwork in single-mother child protection families; 1 Introduction; 2 Anticipatory ethical guidelines and principles; 3 'Dancing in dry rain': incongruity between ethnographic research andethical principles; 3.1 Epistemics and data quality

3.2 The 'do no harm' principle3.3 The principle of maintaining respectful and ethical professionalrelationships; 3.4 Forms of engagement; 3.5 The informed consent principle; 3.6 The transparency principle; 4 Ethics in practice: the case of Kate; 5 'Dancing in the rain'; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 6 Disentangling an invisible trade: state intervention in Dutch and Dutch-Curaçaoan single-mother families in the Netherlands; 1 The framework; 1.1 Macro-level; 1.2 Meso-level; 1.3 Micro-level; 1.4 Ego-level; 2 Disentangling an invisible trade; 2.1 Diagnosis; 2.2 Directives; 2.3 Reports; 3 Conclusion

Epilog: Beyond an invisible trade

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 4, 2015).

ISBN:

94-6274-344-4

OCLC:

918556729