Pub Date : 2023-05-01Epub Date: 2022-12-04DOI: 10.1177/08861099221137058
Sophie Namy, Sylvia Namakula, Agnes Grace Nabachwa, Madeleine Ollerhead, Laura Cordisco Tsai, Jean Kemitare, Kelly Bolton, Violet Nkwanzi, Catherine Carlson
Human trafficking is an egregious violation of fundamental human rights and a global challenge. The long-term harms to survivors' physical, psychological and social wellbeing are profound and well documented, and yet there are few studies exploring how to best promote resilience and holistic healing. This is especially true within shelter programs (where the majority of anti-trafficking services are provided) and during the transition out of residential shelter care, which is often a sensitive and challenging process. The current study begins to address this gap by centering the lived experiences of six women residing in a trafficking-specific shelter in Uganda as they unexpectedly transitioned back to their home communities due to the COVID-19 lockdown. We explore this pivotal moment in participants' post-trafficking journey, focusing on how these women described and interpreted their rapidly changing life circumstances-including leaving the shelter, adjusting back to the community setting, and simultaneously navigating the uncertainties of a global pandemic. Four core themes emerged from the analysis: economic insecurities as a cross-cutting hardship; intensification of emotional and physical symptoms; social disruptions; and sources of hope and resilience. By centering their personal stories of struggle and strength, we hope to elevate survivors' own accounts and draw on their insights to identify actionable considerations for future programming.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/08861099231173081
Giacinta Talarico
Social work praxis has long been in conversation with feminist praxis and has more recently been informed by an anticolonial feminist praxis that aims to center theorizing, activism, and service delivery around individuals and communities considered “most marginalized.” While this “most marginalized” class may be deemed newly worthy social service consumers this framing reinforces extant settler colonial hierarchies of power and oppression by constituting new classes of “deserving” and “undeserving” social service recipients. This article explores how the feminist organizing, scholarship, and activism of the past decade—specifically around the #MeToo movement and trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF) wars—have impacted social work praxis and laid bare the dualistic binds of a post-structuralism that has been consumed and recast within neoliberalism as demobilized identity politics. By examining these limitations, questions are raised regarding next steps for a social work praxis concerned with justice, transformation, and liberation.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.1177/08861099231173088
Kyunghee Ma
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Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.1177/08861099231165788
Suzanne C. Draper, Reshawna L. Chapple
The paradigms of academic and activist feminisms in the United States in the middle and later half of the 20th century were developed in part as critical explorations of exclusionary practices within feminist ideology. The strength of critical feminisms is their capacity to reimagine the limiting parameters of exclusion (e.g., of Black people and people of color, of butch lesbians, etc.) that are based in many of the same principles that bolster patriarchal definitions of gender and sexuality. Such patriarchal definitions include the pressure to express and experience gender and sexuality in a static manner that relegates all other expressions as Other or merely transitional. If the purpose of critical feminisms is to explore the “issues of power [and]…the ways that gender ideology… is produced, reproduced, resisted, and changed in and through the everyday experiences of” people, then the concepts that this paper explores should be of the utmost importance within critical feminisms. In doing so critical feminisms must examine the contributions and experiences of trans, non-binary, and queer people that help us to reimagine what it means to be a feminist in a world of free expression.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1177/08861099231163651
J. Zelnick, Mimi E. Kim, Sara Goodkind
The year 2022 came to a close with the sudden and swift removal of Professor Alan Dettlaff, a respected child welfare scholar and leader in the growing abolitionist movement, from his position as Dean of the University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work (Flaherty, 2023). While this was one of the more prominent dismissals in academic social work, it put in stark human terms the impact of a renewed and effective onslaught of political repression in education. An academic social work community quickly gathered over the holidays to support Dr. Dettlaff and forge a public response and call to action. Dr. Terri Friedline and Dean Beth Angell of the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work (2023) hosted a national forum in early January 2023 called Social Work and Abolition in the New Year to add transparency to the University of Houston’s dismissal of Dr. Dettlaff from his leadership position. The panelists, including two members of Affilia’s editorial leadership team, stood in support of Dr. Dettlaff, denouncing alarming efforts to silence and root out critical frameworks and those who speak out against racism and other systems of oppression. Dr. Dettlaff’s censure demonstrates that while lukewarm anti-racism might be tolerated or applauded, bold challenges to the institutions that uphold racism including policing, prisons, and the child welfare system—increasingly identified as the pillars of carceral social work—are not. Alan Dettlaff’s removal, of course, is just one result of the ongoing evisceration of racial and gender justice advances that have been made since the civil right era. In the summer of 2020, the global protests against police murders of Black and Brown people raised widespread public demands to “defund the police” that, for some, extended to calls to abolish policing, prisons, and the punishing systems represented, in part, by social work. The backlash has been swift. Today, the daily postings of new state legislation and school board policies quashing even the mention of race or gender beyond the binary—followed by silencing, admonishments, dismissals, and even threats to life—have become shockingly commonplace. We are aware that many of us as writers and readers of Affilia have been directly impacted by these frightening trends. We write this editorial as a tribute to Alan Dettlaff and the many of us who continue to champion critical thinking, scholarship, teaching, policies, and practice—even in the face of such threats—and to those of us who may do so with increasing wariness and even retreat. This piece further serves as an acknowledgment of the soberness of these times and as a call for solidarity. As we use these pages to document the terror of this moment of backlash and attack, we echo the recent Social Welfare History Group bibliography, “Red Scares, Political Repression, and Social Work: Why Now?” (Abramovitz et al., 2023) by asking if these current trends constitute a modern-day red scare. This timely bibli
2022年，休斯顿大学社会工作研究生院院长Alan Dettlaff教授突然迅速被免职，他是一位受人尊敬的儿童福利学者，也是日益壮大的废奴主义运动的领导者（Flaherty，2023）。虽然这是学术社会工作中最突出的解雇之一，但它以鲜明的人性化的语言表达了教育中新一轮有效的政治镇压的影响。节日期间，一个学术社会工作团体迅速聚集在一起，支持Dettlaff博士，并形成公众反应和行动呼吁。密歇根大学社会工作学院（2023年）的Terri Friedline博士和院长Beth Angell于2023年1月初主持了一个名为“新年社会工作与废除”的全国论坛，以增加休斯顿大学解雇Dettlaff博士的透明度。包括Affilia编辑领导团队的两名成员在内的小组成员支持Dettlaff博士，谴责为压制和根除批评框架以及那些公开反对种族主义和其他压迫制度的人所做的令人震惊的努力。Dettlaff博士的谴责表明，尽管温和的反种族主义可能会被容忍或赞扬，但对维护种族主义的机构的大胆挑战，包括警察、监狱和儿童福利系统——越来越被视为尸体社会工作的支柱——却不是。当然，Alan Dettlaff的免职只是自民权时代以来种族和性别正义进步不断被削弱的结果之一。2020年夏天，针对警察谋杀黑人和布朗人的全球抗议活动引发了公众对“削减警察经费”的广泛要求，对一些人来说，这一要求延伸到了废除警察、监狱和部分以社会工作为代表的惩罚制度的呼吁。反对声音很快。如今，每天都会发布新的州立法和学校董事会政策，甚至在二元之外取消对种族或性别的提及，随后是沉默、训诫、解雇，甚至威胁生命，这已经变得司空见惯，令人震惊。我们知道，作为《Affilia》的作者和读者，我们中的许多人都受到了这些可怕趋势的直接影响。我们写这篇社论是为了向Alan Dettlaff和我们中的许多人致敬，他们继续支持批判性思维、学术、教学、政策和实践——即使面对这样的威胁——以及我们中那些可能会越来越谨慎甚至退缩的人致敬。这篇文章进一步承认了这个时代的清醒性，并呼吁团结一致。当我们用这些页面来记录这一反弹和攻击时刻的恐怖时，我们呼应了社会福利历史小组最近的参考书目“红色恐慌、政治镇压和社会工作：为什么是现在？”（Abramovitz et al.，2023），问这些当前的趋势是否构成了现代的红色恐慌。这本及时的参考书目追溯了美国红色恐慌的演变，从1917年俄罗斯革命和大萧条之后的第一次红色恐慌（尤其是美国社会福利制度诞生的时期），麦卡锡主义时期的第二次红色恐慌（尤其是民权组织时期和第二波女权主义的早期煽动）。参考书目继续记录了“对进步政治思想的恐慌和对现状的批评如何继续在美国引发反弹和镇压”，询问“过去是否是序幕”，并鼓励我们将今天的事件视为过去引发红色恐慌的力量的延续（第2页）。我们求助于直言不讳的编辑
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Pub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1177/08861099231162582
Tahiya Mahbub, T. Mathur, P. Isaakidis, A. Daftary
Stigma related to drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), one of the world's most severe infectious diseases, is a major barrier to TB elimination particularly for women living in settings of gender inequity. Drawing on the participatory action research (PAR) framework of photovoice, we explored lived experiences of DR-TB stigma among nine affected women in Mumbai, India. Consenting women took, shared, and contributed to the critical interpretation of 37 non-identifying images and associated narratives with one another and with PAR researchers. The study surfaced vivid, untold stories of trauma and life-altering encounters with enacted, anticipated, and internal stigma, that were characterized by loss (of self, voice, status, mobility), abuse (mental, social) and deep internal distress (shame, isolation, suffocation, peril). The study also revealed how stigmatized women found means to build resilience and resist the impacts of stigma. We further witnessed the building of their collective resilience through study participation. Photovoice proved to be a uniquely compelling method of data capture and interpretation, with potential to develop meaningful engagement and solidarity among women affected by DR-TB.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-16DOI: 10.1177/08861099231164809
Melissa Hirschi
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Pub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.1177/08861099231160777
E. Danto
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Pub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1177/08861099231159650
P. Kolb
Dissenting Social Work: Critical Theory , Resistance , and Pandemic is important reading for social work practitioners, educators, students, theorists
不同意见的社会工作:批判理论，抵抗和流行病是社会工作从业者，教育者，学生，理论家的重要读物
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Pub Date : 2023-02-19DOI: 10.1177/08861099231157337
S. Guz, Brianna Suslovic
In this paper, we theorize toxic white femininities as a performance and persona in school social work. To develop the theory and analytic tool of “toxic white femininities,” we used critical discourse analysis to analyze school social work professional association materials from 1906 to 1936. Our analysis isolated three performances of toxic white femininities in early 1900s school social work: (1) the exclusionary social and material gains of “her” professionalization, (2) “her” reinforcement of racial-gender-class hierarchies, and (3) “her” strategic use of helper identity to mask social control. We trace how these performances coalesced into a collective professional persona, operating beyond the scope of individual practitioners. This persona institutionalized a racialized-gendered professional identity, presented in the archives as a universal “she”—white, middle class, and feminine. With private funding from white elites in the early 20th century, school social workers—constructed discursively as white women—would become the “right” profession to shape the lives of young people and guard the privileges of whiteness. We close with a discussion of “her” long shadow and contemporary performances, outlying the ways toxic white femininities operate as a form of incremental violence impacting the profession and social services.
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