Social Work's Histories of Complicity and Resistance

Part 1: Making Amends With the Past


1. Learning From the Past To Shape the Future: Uncovering Social Work's Histories of Complicity and Resistance - Vasilios Ioakimidis and Aaron Wyllie





Part 2: Legacies of Colonialism and Racism in Social Work


2. Canadian Social Work and the Sixties Scoop: Reflections on the Past, Lessons for Today - Filipe Duarte and Patrick Selmi


3. Reconciling Systemic Abuse of Children and Young Women With Social Work's Commitment to a Human Rights, Transformative Practice - Carolyn Noble


4. The Oppressive History of 'Child Welfare' Systems and the Need for Abolition - Alan J. Dettlaff and Victoria Copeland


5. Colonial and Apartheid South Africa: Social Work Complicity and Resistance - Linda Harms-Smith and Yasmin Turton





Part 3: Social Work's Contested Ideologies


6. Social Services in Nazi Germany and the Role of Social Workers Between Complicity and Rare Resistance - Carola Kuhlmann


7. Social Assistance in Franco's Fascist Spain (1939-1975): A History of Social Control, Family Segregation and Stolen Babies - Maria Ines Martinez Herrero


8. Social Work in Times of Political Violence: Dictatorships and Acts of Resistance From the Southern Cone - Gianinna Munoz-Arce and Melisa Campana-Alabarce


9. Trade Union Mobilisation, Resistance and Political Action of Social Workers in Portugal - Pedro Gabriel Silva and Alcina Martins


10. The Radical Roots of Popular Social Work in Palestine - Michael Lavalette





Part 4: Social Work's Complicity With Institutionalisation and Detention


11. Institutionalisation and Oppression Within the Mental Health System in England: Social Work Complicity and Resistance - Rich Moth


12. A Refugee Crisis or a Crisis of Anti-Immigrant Politics? Hostile Refugee Reception, the Pandemic and New Solidarities in Cyprus - Nicos Trimikliniotis and Vassilis Tsianos


13. Institutionalisation of Certain Children and Mothers in Ireland: Reflections on the 'Troubled History' of Child Welfare Social Work - Caroline McGregor





Part 5: Survivor Perspectives and Contemporary Reflections


14. Facing the Legacy of Social Work: Coming to Terms With Complicity in Systemic Inequality and Social Injustice - Bob Pease


15. "We Want Social Workers To Hear Our Story": Learning From Parents Whose Children Were Taken Away - Guy Shennan


16. Decolonisation and Critical Social Work Pedagogies - Caroline Bald and Akudo Amadiegwu


17. Adoption Social Work Practice in Ireland: Critical Reflections on Present-Day Injustices - Claire McGettrick