Colletta Dalikeni

Child Protection Social Workers and Asylum-Seeking Families in Ireland

Issues of Culture, Race, Power Relations, and Mistrust

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Produktbeschreibung

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 issuesas 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 asylumseeking 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 79683
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9781800796836
• ISBN-10: 1800796838
• Artikelnr.: 63504122

Autorenporträt

Colletta Dalikeni is a Registered African-Irish Social worker and academic, currently based at Dundalk Institute of Technology. She is Board member of the Irish Association of Social Workers, and co-founder of the IASW Anti-Racism Advisory group. Collettäs local and international social work academic and practice experience encompass various areas that include but are not limited to child protection/welfare, medical social work and intellectual disability. Her research and teaching interests have a bias towards culturally sensitive social work practice with various ethnic minority categories such as immigrants, asylum seeker and refugees. Her particular focus is on how the intersecting discourse of race, racism, culture, come to bear on their human rights in the context of social citizenship entitlements. Collettäs emancipatory activist research and scholarship is evidenced through her ongoing active involvement in several community social inclusion and diversity projects. Some of her current work is focussed on creating safe spaces and conducive conditions for addressing race-based issues in both social work practice and education through asking difficult questions about Racism. Her other current preoccupations involve leading collaborative Erasmus Plus funded EU projects that are also aimed at challenging Racism and other injustices to promote successful social inclusion and integration at national and EU levels.

Inhaltsangabe

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.