Migrant Detention, Subalternity, and the Long Road Toward Hegemony
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paddy Farr (0000-0002-9059-9381, Eugene Research Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-19 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics and Social Welfare (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6535 • E-ISSN: 1749-6543 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17496535.2021.1879889 |
| OpenAlex | W3129425468 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
Over the past 25 years, migrant detention and criminalisation has steadily increased in the United States. This state of affairs has triggered social workers to advocate through policy and service on behalf of migrants. In order to evaluate contemporary practice, a critical position is generated through a genealogy of social work practice with migrants where the colonial archeology of contemporary social work practice is found in the history of the settlement movement. Here, an irony becomes apparent within social work. Social work practice is a settler colonialism paralleled by Gayatri Spivak's reading of colonial discourses resulting in the subaltern condition. Following Spivak's analysis, social work advocacies affirm migrant subalternity by re-presenting the migrant as an image of nonagentive victimhood while simultaneously representing migrants through political advocacies on their behalf. As a liberation ethics counter to the colonial discourses, Spivak's exit of subalternity as the road to hegemony is drawn for social work practice. In this effort, Indigenous Action Media's distinction between allies and accomplices is central to develop a social work practice as an ethics of liberation. Social workers thus become accomplices with criminalised and detained migrants on the road to hegemony
Colonialism · Criminology · Hegemony · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Subaltern · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work
Contentious Traditions
The Conditions of Subalternity
Selected Subaltern studies
The settler colonialism of social work and the social work of settler colonialism
Piecing Together the US Immigrant Detention Puzzle One Night at a Time
The Criminalization of Immigration
Immigration Detention Centers
Sanctuary
The Last Colonial Massacre
For speaking against silence
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
The Evolution of Social Work Ethics
Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |