Refugees, Islamophobia, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Challenging Social Work Co-Option
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. As global discourses on refugees and Muslims become more exclusionary, the ethics and traditions of our profession mean social workers arguably have a particular responsibility to work for transformative change. This column argues that social workers need to be wary of...
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| description | © 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. As global discourses on refugees and Muslims become more exclusionary, the ethics and traditions of our profession mean social workers arguably have a particular responsibility to work for transformative change. This column argues that social workers need to be wary of direct complicity with harsh policies through implementation roles and, indirectly, through co-option into dominant discourses about refugees and Islam more generally and Muslim women specifically. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-724032018-12-13T09:33:19Z Refugees, Islamophobia, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Challenging Social Work Co-Option Briskman, Linda Latham, Susanna © 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. As global discourses on refugees and Muslims become more exclusionary, the ethics and traditions of our profession mean social workers arguably have a particular responsibility to work for transformative change. This column argues that social workers need to be wary of direct complicity with harsh policies through implementation roles and, indirectly, through co-option into dominant discourses about refugees and Islam more generally and Muslim women specifically. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72403 10.1177/0886109916685801 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Briskman, Linda Latham, Susanna Refugees, Islamophobia, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Challenging Social Work Co-Option |
| title | Refugees, Islamophobia, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Challenging Social Work Co-Option |
| title_full | Refugees, Islamophobia, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Challenging Social Work Co-Option |
| title_fullStr | Refugees, Islamophobia, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Challenging Social Work Co-Option |
| title_full_unstemmed | Refugees, Islamophobia, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Challenging Social Work Co-Option |
| title_short | Refugees, Islamophobia, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Challenging Social Work Co-Option |
| title_sort | refugees, islamophobia, and ayaan hirsi ali: challenging social work co-option |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72403 |