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Child protection social workers and asylum-seeking families in Ireland : issues of culture, race, power relations, and mistrust

Title: Child protection social workers and asylum-seeking families in Ireland : issues of culture, race, power relations, and mistrust / Colletta Dalikeni.
Author: Dalikeni, Colletta, 1964-
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2022]

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Description

xiv, 243 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The issue of migration and asylum seeking has received increasing attention in the wider arena of international human rights and social service provision practice. Positioned within a liberal understanding of human rights and equality framework, providing asylum seekers with sanctuary is understood as an act of adhering to supranational and international humanitarian obligations. The issues generated by the culturally influenced needs of some asylum seekers have however challenged host countries' social service institutions, where social work interventions and organisational contexts may still be based on the assumptions of European monocultural traditions. These may not be universally appropriate for service provision to all cultures. Colletta Dalikeni supports readers who wish to understand the challenges of culturally different asylum-seeking families. These families engage, or are required to engage, with child protection social workers. She does so by framing such issues as the reception and integration of asylum-seeking families, in the context of social exclusion, marginalisation, mutual cultural incomprehension, health and wellbeing. This book has a clear agenda. On the one hand, it aims to contribute to the field of research by addressing the silence in current literature on the perspective of African asylum-seeking families. On the other hand, it allows the voices of those on society's margins to be heard in the creation of knowledge. As such, the author employs a progressive approach to develop understanding of child protection issues within the context of asylum-seeking communities"--

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Narratives of social exclusion, social isolation and enforced idleness -- Narratives of cross-cultural child-rearing practices -- Siobhán's story of working with Chipo, an abandoned child -- Race and racism narratives -- Narratives of cross-cultural communication -- Narratives of mutual mistrust : social workers and asylum-seeking parents -- International protection applicants : state and policy practice responses within the Irish context -- The need for a paradigm shift and the IASW plan for the future.

Call Number

Sc E 23-434

ISBN

9781800796836
1800796838
9781800796843 (canceled/invalid)
9781800796850 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021046926

OCLC

1287748760

Author

Dalikeni, Colletta, 1964- author.

Title

Child protection social workers and asylum-seeking families in Ireland : issues of culture, race, power relations, and mistrust / Colletta Dalikeni.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-434

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