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Title: AntiRacist Social Work Practice


1
Anti-Racist Social Work Practice
  • Kevin Webster
  • Health Board Social Work Team Leader

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Responses to Racism
  •  
  • (Racism Power Prejudice)
  • 1. Assimilation / Colour blind
  •  
  • 2. Multiculturalism / Cultural Diversity
  •  
  • 3. Anti-Discriminatory (Anti-Racist) Practice

3
Anti-Discriminatory Practice
  • An approach to social work practice which seeks
    to reduce, undermine or eliminate discrimination
    and oppression, specifically in terms of
    challenging racism. other forms of
    discrimination encountered in social work.
  •  
  • (Thompson, Anti-Discriminatory Practice 1997)

4
  • The difficulties faced by the black population
    are not the result only of migration and
    differences in culture and language but also of
    living in a society which is hostile to black
    people, denies them equal life chances and can
    expose them to enormous material and
    psychological pressure. The clients of social
    services present with not only linguistic and
    cultural complexities but also with the profound
    effects of racism.
  • (Roys in Britains Black Population A New
    Perspective 1988)

5
  • Modern anti-racism dismisses the oppression and
    cultural imperialism of assimilationism and
    transcends the cultural pluralism of
    multiculturalism. It recognises the structural
    basis of racism and how this underpins the
    cultural and personal dimensions of racial
    discrimination.
  • (Thompson, 1997)

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Two Social Work Responses
  • Punitive / Coercive approach
  • Where social workers do not hesitate to remove
    black children from their families, who according
    to them, are not suitable parents, or whose child
    care practices are perceived as sub-standard.
  •  
  • (CCETSW Improving Practice with Children
    Families 1992)

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Two Social Work Responses
  • Liberal / Safe approach
  • Where social workers, keen not be labelled as
    racist, tend to shy away from their duties of
    protecting the black child from abuse.
  •  
  • (CCETSW Improving Practice with Children
    Families 1992)

8
Cultural Relativism
  •  Many welfare professionals seek to believe the
    best of parents, and for black families, this
    manifested in the view that
  •  
  • Ø   All cultures are equally valid
  • Ø   Members of one culture cannot judge practices
    in another culture
  • Ø   Behaviours which might be termed child
    abuse in one culture are probably culturally
    appropriate in another

9
Cultural Relativism
  • This can lead to a type of reconstructed racism,
    which leads to a failure to act at all. A new set
    of stereotypical assumptions are brought into
    play which immobilise the worker.
  •  
  • (CCETSW Improving Practice with Children
    Families 1992)

10
Sexual Abuse and the Liberal Approach
  •  1. The suggestion that sexual abuse is
    acceptable in certain cultures.
  •  
  • 2. The suggestion that sexual abuse does not
    exist in certain cultures.
  •  
  • 3. Social work definitions of sexual abuse which
    exclude abuse which may be of concern to black
    children families.

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Sexual Abuse and the Liberal Approach
  •  
  • Good social work practice depends on seeing
    things from the perspective of family members
    not being hidebound either by agency regulations
    or the myopia of culture-bound generalisations.
  •  
  • (CCETSW Improving Practice with Children
    Families 1992)

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