Interrogating social work: Australian Social Work and the Stolen Generations

Yu, Nilan

doi:10.1177/1468017318794230

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“…Similar issues emerged from the companion piece by Yu (2019) that problematized the role of social workers in the removal of Aboriginal children in Australia. His article also reinforces that social work practice discourses align with broader socio-political discourses and thereby legitimate one another.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…This span of almost nine decades offers a unique perspective of mainstream, Canadian social work. This analysis also complements Yu's (2019) study which investigated the representation in the Australian Social Work journal of the Stolen Generations in Australia and problematized the role of social work in various contexts of colonization.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…His article also reinforces that social work practice discourses align with broader socio-political discourses and thereby legitimate one another. Further, Yu’s (2019) observation that key issues affecting the welfare and rights of Indigenous Australians were overlooked in the professional journal apply to the Canadian Social Work journal also.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…CASW published Canadian Social Work as a forum for Canadian social workers to share practice knowledge, research, and skills; debate contemporary social work concerns; and share information about social work educational resources (Novik & Schmidt, 2018). Professional journals embody views deemed to be relevant, acceptable, and noteworthy to the discipline and hence are archives of received and accepted knowledge (Yu, 2019). Taking this into account and noting that progressive social work demands accountability and intentional processes of decolonization (Chapman & Withers, 2019), this study attempts to interrogate social work professional discourse about practice with Indigenous persons as depicted in Canadian Social Work from its inception in 1932 to its conclusion in 2019.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Interrogating settler social work with indigenous persons in Canada

Morgenshtern

Schmid

2022

Journal of Social Work

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Summary This article, towards decolonizing social work, reports on a study that examined the record of Canadian social work regarding Indigenous Canadians through the lens of the national professional association's journal. Noting that the broad dataset of over 1,500 journal articles represents legitimized knowledge within the discipline, the study aimed to develop a history of the present to interrogate the discourses relating to such practice. The study involved an analysis of the contents over the life of the journal from 1932 to 2019. Findings The study found that minimal attention was given to Indigenous issues in Canadian social work, only 30 articles touching on Indigenous issues directly. These articles portray contrasting discourses on Indigenous subjectivities and social work responses, reflecting conflicting perspectives in social work. Applications These observations should inform the interrogation of contemporary social work practice in Canada regarding its positionality in relation to Indigenous persons. Further, it should contribute to forging social work's future in recognizing the injustices and challenges accompanying its colonial history and present.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 79%

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confidence: 83%

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Interrogating settler social work with indigenous persons in Canada

Morgenshtern

Schmid

2022

Journal of Social Work

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“…Social work practitioners’ conceptions of practice are potentially problematic given how, as has been pointed out elsewhere (see, for example, Yu, 2019), social work as a discipline tends to gravitate toward dominant ideology. Perhaps nowhere else is this more starkly evident than in Vietnam where the government circular prescribing the Professional Ethical Standards for Social Workers – the de facto code of ethics of Vietnamese social work practitioners – states that practitioners must have ‘knowledge about … culture, customs/norms, and religious practices’ that are needed to do the work well (Ministry of Labour - Invalid and Social Affairs, 2017: 3).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vietnamese social work practitioners’ conceptions of practice with sexual minorities

2021

Qualitative Social Work

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This paper presents the findings of a study that examined Vietnamese social work practitioners’ conceptions of practice with people who identified as lesbian or gay. The findings presented in this article, drawn from semi-structured interviews with 12 social work practitioners in Hanoi, Vietnam, form part of the findings of a bigger study that looked into the attitudes of Vietnamese social work practitioners toward sexual minorities and how they conceptualise practice in relation to this segment of the population. A notable proportion of the interview participants, all of whom presented as having moderate to positive attitudes toward sexual minorities, were found to hold a heterosexist assumption with regards to the sexual identity of their clients. And while there was consensus in the need for a social work response, there were differences in the practitioners’ conceptions of what form this should take. The participants were open to direct practice with individuals and a limited degree of community engagement but were apprehensive with the prospect of undertaking policy advocacy. It is argued that these conceptions of practice are informed by limitations imposed by their political environment as well as dominant ideological and philosophical influences.

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