Social work's histories of complicity and resistance : a tale of two professions / edited by Vasilios Ioakimidis and Aaron Wyllie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ioakimidis, Vasilios, editor.

Wyllie, Aaron, editor.

Series:

Policy Press scholarship online.

Policy Press scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social service--Political aspects.

Social service.

Social service--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 291 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Actions towards reconciliation

The Sixties Scoop and social work: what happened?

3 Reconciling systemic abuse of children and young women with social work's commitment to a human rights, transformative practice

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

4 The oppressive history of 'child welfare' systems and the need for abolition

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?

Notes

5 Colonial and apartheid South Africa: social work complicity and resistance.

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

Note

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

7 Social assistance in Franco's fascist Spain (1939-75): a history of social control, family segregation and stolen babies

Historical background: the Spanish Civil War and establishment of the francoist dictatorship

Social assistance and social control in francoist Spain.

Stolen babies: from Franco's eugenics to economically motivated baby trafficking

8 Social work in times of political violence: dictatorships and acts of resistance from the Southern Cone

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

9 Trade union mobilisation, resistance and political action of social workers in Portugal

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

10 The radical roots of popular social work in Palestine

Setting the context: Palestine, 'Nahad' and the establishment of a settler-colonial state

Resistance, welfare and popular social work

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

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

12 A refugee crisis or a crisis of anti-immigrant politics? Hostile refugee reception, the pandemic and new solidarities in Cyprus

Introduction.

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

13 Institutionalisation of certain children and mothers in Ireland: reflections on the 'troubled history' of child welfare social work

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

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

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

15 'We want social workers to hear our story': learning from parents whose children were taken away

Reflections on social work's contradictions

Main themes of the interviews

16 Decolonisation and critical social work pedagogies

Decolonisation

Decolonising the university

Decolonisation without definition

Where to?

Ways and approaches.

Integrated learning model

17 Adoption social work practice in Ireland: critical reflections on present-day injustices

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

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4473-6431-7

1-4473-6430-9

OCLC:

1380732606