Affilia - Journal of Women and Social Work
Volume 32, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 108-111

Refugees, Islamophobia, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Challenging Social Work Co-Option (Article)

Briskman L.* , Latham S.
  • a Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
  • b Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia

Abstract

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. © 2016, © The Author(s) 2016.

Author Keywords

Asylum seekers social workers Islamophobia

Index Keywords

responsibility occupation female Social Work Islam asylum seeker human ethics human experiment
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85008698674&doi=10.1177%2f0886109916685801&partnerID=40&md5=d57070f1b740ae151c09a22da79682ef
DOI: 10.1177/0886109916685801
ISSN: 08861099
Cited by: 3
Original Language: English