Contents

pp iii-iv

Notes on contributors

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-vii

Preface

pp viii-x

Part I - Making amends with the past

pp 1-2

1 - Learning from the past to shape the future: uncovering social work’s histories of complicity and resistance

pp 3-28

Part II - Legacies of colonialism and racism in social work

pp 29-30

2 - Canadian social work and the Sixties Scoop: reflections on the past, lessons for today

pp 31-40

3 - Reconciling systemic abuse of children and young women with social work’s commitment to a human rights, transformative practice

pp 41-53

4 - The oppressive history of ‘child welfare’ systems and the need for abolition

pp 54-72

5 - Colonial and apartheid South Africa: social work complicity and resistance

pp 73-94

Part III - Social work’s contested ideologies

pp 95-96

6 - Social services in Nazi Germany and the role of social workers between complicity and rare resistance

pp 97-108

7 - Social assistance in Franco’s fascist Spain (1939– 75): a history of social control, family segregation and stolen babies

pp 109-120

8 - Social work in times of political violence: dictatorships and acts of resistance from the Southern Cone

pp 121-133

9 - Trade union mobilisation, resistance and political action of social workers in Portugal

pp 134-147

10 - The radical roots of popular social work in Palestine

pp 148-162

Part IV - Social work’s complicity with institutionalisation and detention

pp 163-164

11 - Institutionalisation and oppression within the mental health system in England: social work complicity and resistance

pp 165-182

12 - A refugee crisis or a crisis of anti-immigrant politics? Hostile refugee reception, the pandemic and new solidarities in Cyprus

pp 183-203

13 - Institutionalisation of certain children and mothers in Ireland: reflections on the ‘troubled history’ of child welfare social work

pp 204-216

Part V - Survivor perspectives and contemporary reflections

pp 217-218

14 - Facing the legacy of social work: coming to terms with complicity in systemic inequality and social injustice

pp 219-232

15 - ‘We want social workers to hear our story’: learning from parents whose children were taken away

pp 233-243

16 - Decolonisation and critical social work pedagogies

pp 244-260

17 - Adoption social work practice in Ireland: critical reflections on present-day injustices

pp 261-277

Index

pp 278-291