The Role of Social Work in Contemporary Colonial and Structurally Violent Processes: Speaking to Aboriginal Social Workers who had Child Welfare and/or Criminal Justice Involvement as Youth

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dc.contributor.authorWest, Juliana Margaret
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeComack, Elizabeth (Sociology) Bracken, Denis (Social Work) Brown, Leslie (University of Victoria)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorMullaly, Bob (Social Work)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-22T15:58:14Z
dc.date.available2014-08-22T15:58:14Z
dc.date.issued2014-08-22
dc.degree.disciplineSocial Worken_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)en_US
dc.description.abstractAs a relatively recent phenomenon, the increasing overrepresentation of Aboriginal persons in both the child welfare and criminal justice systems is of critical importance to the field of social work. As social control systems, how do social workers contribute to or mitigate against overrepresentation as contemporary colonialism? What can social work professionals who themselves have been through these systems add to our social work discourse? A sample of fifteen Aboriginal social workers who had as youth been in either one or both of these systems were interviewed with respect to: what they found was helpful or unhelpful in their interactions as youth with social workers, why they subsequently chose social work as a career, the supports and barriers they encountered along their career path, and the difference their experiences had for their own professional practice. Using structural social work theory, overrepresentation as a contemporary colonializing process was re-conceptualised as structural violence. Institutional Ethnography (IE) and Hermeneutic Phenomenology were used to explore how these neo-liberal ruling relations are produced, maintained, and potentially deconstructed. The findings from this unique population have implications for decolonizing social work practice, education, and research.en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2014en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/23854
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectContemporary colonialismen_US
dc.subjectsocial worken_US
dc.subjectstructural violenceen_US
dc.subjectchild welfareen_US
dc.subjectcriminal justiceen_US
dc.subjectoverrepresentationen_US
dc.subjectstructural social worken_US
dc.subjectlived experienceen_US
dc.subjectreflexiveen_US
dc.subjectHermeneutic Phenomenologyen_US
dc.subjectInstitutional Ethnographyen_US
dc.subjectAboriginal social workersen_US
dc.subjectneo-liberalismen_US
dc.subjectdecolonizationen_US
dc.subjectclient experienceen_US
dc.titleThe Role of Social Work in Contemporary Colonial and Structurally Violent Processes: Speaking to Aboriginal Social Workers who had Child Welfare and/or Criminal Justice Involvement as Youthen_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayesen_US
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