Anti-oppressive practice with people seeking asylum in Australia: reflections from the field

Nipperess, Sharlene; Clark, Sherrine

doi:10.4324/9781003115380-17

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“…Non-doxic situations can be unknown, unstable, and often hostile social environments. People seeking asylum navigate multiple non-doxic social situations: within their home countries where they face violence and oppression, and, by definition, as they travel through various transit countries and navigate immigration regimes within which their physical and symbolic power and social, cultural, and economic capital is not only constrained but systematically destroyed (Nipperess & Clark, 2016).…”

Section: Border Situations: a Framework To Locate Agency Within Struc...mentioning

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“The Best Risky Point”: Agency and Decision-Making in Young Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers' Stories of Leaving Home and Travelling to Australia

Stratford,

Nethery,

Mansouri

2023

Refuge

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Seeking asylum is a perilous endeavour with unpredictable border crossings, protection prospects, and settlement outcomes. Young unaccompanied asylum seekers face even greater risks. Yet exclusively characterizing them as vulnerable or passive ignores their agency in making choices in a range of unique, dynamic, and challenging circumstances. In this article, we use deep ethnographic methodology to amplify young asylum seekers’ voices, examining their capacity to enact agency along the asylum journey. We employ Bourdieu’s non-doxic contexts and Jackson’s “border situations” to describe the unstable environments young people navigate at home and during their journey to Australia. Our findings reveal a nuanced picture of young people both as objects of other people’s decisions (with reduced agency) and as highly engaged in dynamic decision-making during their journey to Australia (with more salient agency). These findings indicate the importance of research methods that steer away from fixed assumptions around vulnerability and victimhood to recognize the agentic capacity of young people to make life-defining decisions even as they find themselves in transnational border situations that seek to control and constrain them.

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Section: Border Situations: a Framework To Locate Agency Within Struc...mentioning

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“The Best Risky Point”: Agency and Decision-Making in Young Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers' Stories of Leaving Home and Travelling to Australia

Stratford,

Nethery,

Mansouri

2023

Refuge

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“…The “superior” excludes the “inferior” from the available social resources through a systematic devaluation of the attributes and contributions of the latter [ 36 ]. Anti-oppressive social work was one of the approaches that fell under the umbrella of critical social work [ 37 ]. The social work profession, which is defined as one that “promotes social change, problem-solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being”, strongly resonates the idea of anti-oppressive practice (AOP) [ 38 ].…”

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“…Two studies [ 40 , 41 ] explored an anti-oppressive practice model to support queer and trans refugees in Canada using critical intersectionality analysis. Another study [ 37 ] reflected on their practice of working with asylum seekers in Australia by delving into the experience of oppression and privilege in addition to a commitment to personal, cultural, and structural change.…”

Section: Anti-oppressive Social Workmentioning

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Refugee and Asylum Seeker Women’s Experiences with Healthcare and Social Environment in Malaysia

Rajaratnam

Azman

2022

IJERPH

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The internal conflict in Rakhine State, Myanmar over the last few decades has forced Rohingyas to flee to other countries, including Malaysia. However, the non-recognition of the status of refugees in Malaysia keeps Rohingyas as “people without documents” and without adequate protection, access to healthcare services, education, and employment. Women among these groups face different challenges and are at risk of numerous physical and mental health issues. Thus, this research attempted to understand the experiences of Rohingya women in Malaysia, particularly in accessing public hospitals. Focus group discussions and key-informant interview techniques were used to collect data. The transcripts were then analysed using the thematic analysis method. The research found that Rohingya women experience numerous challenges despite being on safer ground in Malaysia. Their experiences of marriage and domestic violence, access to public hospitals, financial barriers to healthcare services, and the services provided by medical social workers in the country to refugees and asylum seekers are presented. Non-recognition of the status of refugees in the country is one of the primary barriers to the allocation and provision of resources for refugees and asylum seekers. Due to structural barriers, medical social workers are unable to provide their services to this population. This article provides recommendations for social workers in Malaysia on how to overcome these challenges and work more effectively with refugees and asylum seekers.

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“…The process of understanding risk can never be entirely objective (nor apolitical), as we cannot remove ourselves from the judgments we make, nor from the range of responses necessary for the presenting needs [35]. The role of the critical practitioner is to honour the complexity and the multi-layered identities of those experiencing oppression, such as the strengths located within vulnerabilities, in their constructions of risk [47]. This critical perspective highlights the ethical and political dimensions of conducting risk assessments and reminds us that actuarial tools used in isolation are an inadequate substitute for critical analysis and reflection.…”

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Can a Paradigm Shift from Risk Management to Critical Reflection Improve Child-Inclusive Practice?

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Child protection systems within Anglophone countries have been increasingly dominated by neoliberal managerial, risk-dominant paradigms over the past three decades. Assumed to deliver a cost-effective strategy to increase the safety of children, there are many ways this paradigmatic combination systematically undermines child welfare, participation, and well-being. This paper specifically focuses on the ways that risk assessment, neoliberal, and managerial discourses have infiltrated practice and operate to silence and exclude children’s voices. It draws on two case studies to showcase key findings of a comprehensive, state-wide research project called Empowering Children’s Voices, which was initiated by UnitingCare, a non-government organisation within Queensland, Australia, and conducted in partnership with researchers from Queensland University of Technology. It will be argued that a paradigm shift towards a critically reflective reinterpretation of risk can be far more effective at promoting child-inclusive practice and establishing children’s empowered voices as a protective factor against harm.

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Anti-oppressive practice with people seeking asylum in Australia: reflections from the field

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“The Best Risky Point”: Agency and Decision-Making in Young Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers' Stories of Leaving Home and Travelling to Australia

“The Best Risky Point”: Agency and Decision-Making in Young Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers' Stories of Leaving Home and Travelling to Australia

Refugee and Asylum Seeker Women’s Experiences with Healthcare and Social Environment in Malaysia

Can a Paradigm Shift from Risk Management to Critical Reflection Improve Child-Inclusive Practice?

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