Pub Date : 2020-02-25DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2020.1734425
H. Weaver
ABSTRACT Native Americans are members of sovereign nations that pre-date colonial settler societies. In settler societies, inclusion has often meant assimilation, a form of forced or coerced participation in the larger society and loss of Indigenous identity. On the other hand, inclusion can counterbalance prejudice and bigotry, thus, helping reduce stereotypes and oppression. The challenge is to provide opportunities for inclusion without mandating incorporation at the cost of Indigenous distinctiveness and ways of being. This article explores how Indigenous Peoples can reap the benefits of social inclusion while avoiding its pitfalls, including loss of identity and legal status.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-23DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2020.1732271
R. Kajiita, Simon Murote kang’ethe
ABSTRACT Irrefutably, many countries of the developing world continue to exhibit economic investments culture primarily premised on maximizing profit and accumulating wealth for oneself. Through this phenomenon, inequality has been glaring, with rich individuals becoming richer, while the majority poor continue to languish in poverty and their human dignity being highly compromised. South Africa as a country battling with pernicious legacies of apartheid presents such a good example. The country experiences a high level of gender inequality, poverty, a culture of violence, and unemployment of women and youth. In the awake of these predicaments, we need to question the dominant exorbitant profit-making investment approaches that undermine people’s dignity, freedom and self-value. This paper presents findings from social enterprises to gain insights and lessons on doing business differently. The findings are presented using a conceptual framework abbreviated as ‘SISTER’; S – Service; I – Integrity; S – Sustainability; T – Teamwork; E – Excellence; R – Respect. The study emphasizes that, investing in people has to take a paradgim shift by adopting distinctive models aganist the current capitalistic philosophies. The paper emphasis on focusing on peoples' values, capabilities, talents and cultural richness to generate wealth for societal and individual development, and thus lessening the ramifications associated with self-centredness of economic investment.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-23DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2020.1732272
A. L. Shokane, M. Masoga, L. Blitz
ABSTRACT Schools are important for the development and socialization of children to learn to function as responsible citizens, but there can be obstacles, including differences in culture, expectations, and lack of communication between adults at school and home. Family engagement with schools has been shown to improve learner outcomes and minimize differences in culture between home and school. School social work is a specialized field of practice that can strive to engage families, prevent problems, and promote education, but school social workers may not share families’ culture, and thus may not know how to offer optimal support. To better understand perceptions, focus groups with parents and school personnel were conducted to explore the question: What cultural indigenous practices can be incorporated in school social work to facilitate family engagement? Four themes were identified that together support indigenous knowledge and encourage local cultures and contexts to integrate Afro-sensed approaches toward a transformed school social work practice.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-16DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2020.1730143
Joshua R. Gregory
ABSTRACT Whiteness is a distinctive feature of historical and contemporary social work. Consequently, histories of social work do not reflect this fact; for a defining quality of whiteness is that it does not readily identify or critique itself. In keeping with its mission of social justice and obligation of critical self-reflection, however, social work faces the imperative of reckoning with its own whiteness. For lack of acknowledgment of the whiteness that characterizes the profession, social work exhibits theoretical shortcomings and practical incongruences, and lapses into a misrepresentation of its own history that compromises the authenticity of its ostensible identity and mission. The present article begins with the settlement of the first Anglo-American colony and proceeds to the turn of the nineteenth century, mapping the symbiotic evolutions of whiteness and social work, which demonstrate social work to be, in many ways, a product and project of whiteness. This article utilizes historical and historiographical analysis to exemplify a model for constructing counter-narratives that subvert the normative boundaries of hegemonic whiteness that constrain traditional social work histories.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2019.1583956
D. Franco
ABSTRACT This paper explores the history of anti-immigration U.S. policies and their impact on social work practice with lawful permanent residents (LPR) and undocumented Latinx migrants in the U.S. Stringent U.S. immigration laws have resulted in increased racial profiling and psychological consequences. Social workers play a necessary role in meeting the complex needs of this population by bridging the gap between micro and macro level interventions. This article will discuss Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Latino Critical Race Theory (LatCrit) as frameworks in social work practice with Latinx migrants. The role of social work through the LatCrit praxis will be explored.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2019.1634424
D. Rodriguez, Kathleen S. G. Skott-Myhre, H. Skott-Myhre
ABSTRACT This article examines the Trump administration’s family separation immigration policy within the context of the logic of 21st-century capitalism. It suggests that the events related to the policy are not anomalous, but profoundly indicative of a system of governance that is removing itself with increasing speed from the concerns of actual living material bodies. In this sense, the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border is less about the maltreatment of this group of parents and children than it is an indication of a profound shift in the logic of governance that is global in scope and affects all living things both human and more than human across the planet. The article argues that the current emerging system of global capitalist rule is premised on a system that uses abstract algorithms to turn the vital living concerns of people into media events disconnected from any material set of actual problems or struggles. Finally, a proposal is made for a response from the field of Human Service Practice.
{"title":"Shifting the Logic: Losing Children’s Bodies","authors":"D. Rodriguez, Kathleen S. G. Skott-Myhre, H. Skott-Myhre","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2019.1634424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2019.1634424","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the Trump administration’s family separation immigration policy within the context of the logic of 21st-century capitalism. It suggests that the events related to the policy are not anomalous, but profoundly indicative of a system of governance that is removing itself with increasing speed from the concerns of actual living material bodies. In this sense, the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border is less about the maltreatment of this group of parents and children than it is an indication of a profound shift in the logic of governance that is global in scope and affects all living things both human and more than human across the planet. The article argues that the current emerging system of global capitalist rule is premised on a system that uses abstract algorithms to turn the vital living concerns of people into media events disconnected from any material set of actual problems or struggles. Finally, a proposal is made for a response from the field of Human Service Practice.","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":"31 1","pages":"41 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10428232.2019.1634424","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44474617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2019.1703247
Carissa van den Berk-Clark
ABSTRACT Despite attempts to end homelessness in the United States occurring over the past 10 years, homelessness has only been reduced by about 10%. This article introduces a theoretical model for why some individuals have gained housing and other types of services while others have not. This model incorporates both the political economy theory and the street-level bureaucracy theory to explain service gaps for homeless individuals. Using this model, this article explains major policies affecting agencies which serve the homeless. It also uses current research to explain how practitioners manage these constraints. Recommendations for social service practitioners are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2019.1670004
Tina E. Wilson
{"title":"Welfare Words: Critical Social Work and Social Policy","authors":"Tina E. Wilson","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2019.1670004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2019.1670004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":"30 1","pages":"301 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10428232.2019.1670004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44453643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-30DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2019.1641008
P. Silva
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the contribution of social workers to the Portuguese democratic transition in the 1970s. Their involvement in urban social mobilizations and in the cooperative movement will offer a perspective on the participation of social workers alongside the Revolutionary process and how they, through engaging with social mobilization, grass-roots initiatives and socio-political activism deployed practices consistent with radical social work frames. It is argued that the Revolution provided the structural conditions for social workers to engage with radical practice and that their intervention constituted a form of agency for socio-political transformation while influencing professional self-representations and professional agency.
{"title":"Radical Experiences of Portuguese Social Workers in the Vanguard of the 1974 Revolution","authors":"P. Silva","doi":"10.1080/10428232.2019.1641008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2019.1641008","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article focuses on the contribution of social workers to the Portuguese democratic transition in the 1970s. Their involvement in urban social mobilizations and in the cooperative movement will offer a perspective on the participation of social workers alongside the Revolutionary process and how they, through engaging with social mobilization, grass-roots initiatives and socio-political activism deployed practices consistent with radical social work frames. It is argued that the Revolution provided the structural conditions for social workers to engage with radical practice and that their intervention constituted a form of agency for socio-political transformation while influencing professional self-representations and professional agency.","PeriodicalId":44255,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Progressive Human Services","volume":"30 1","pages":"239 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10428232.2019.1641008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42726570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-03-23DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2019.1581041
N. V. Pemunta
ABSTRACT Conservation organizations, missionaries and the State of Cameroon have put the indigenous hunter-gatherer Baka Pygmy people of southeast Cameroon at the limelight of development interventions that often do not reflect their needs and aspirations. Despite these benevolent initiatives, the indigenous Baka Pygmy people have remained on the margins of Cameroonian society. This paper attempts to answer the question: Why has service delivery been challenging to this population? The paper argues for a vision of people-centered ‘‘friendly’’ as opposed to economic development ‘‘as an act of aggression’’ or an exercise in epistemic violence that prioritizes conservation instead of people and that refuses the Baka’s right to development on their own terms. The factors stalling development and negatively impacting on the Pygmies’ quality of life include – the Bantu’s dominance of relations with Western(ity), Orientalism and paternalism that refuses the Pygmies freedom of choice and the right to be different. The paper suggests that epistemic decolonization, justice and reflexivity in the practice of social work will improve social service delivery among the Baka Pygmy.
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