Administrative Burden and the Reproduction of Settler Colonialism
A Case Study of the Indian Child Welfare Act
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13103147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hana E Brown (0000-0001-6887-6664, Wake Forest University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 232-251 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2377-8253 • E-ISSN: 2377-8261 |
| Publisher | Russell Sage Foundation (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7758/rsf.2023.9.5.10 |
| OpenAlex | W4385552799 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 29 |
The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) sought to end the forced removal of Native children from their tribes. Decades later, American Indian children are still placed in foster and adoptive care at disproportionately high rates. Drawing on forty years of archival data, this study examines the role of administrative burden in reproducing these inequalities and the system of domination from which they arise: settler colonialism. Focusing on three arenas—notice, meeting and hearing involvement, and foster family certification—this article illuminates the burdens imposed on tribal governments that serve as mediating institutions in ICWA implementation. Findings suggest that burdens have particularly strong consequences for inequality when they fall on third-party organizations. They also demonstrate how administrative burden operates as a mechanism for the reproduction of settler-colonial domination
Certification · Colonialism · Economic growth · Economics · Foster care · Inequality · Notice · Political economy · Political science · Reproduction · Sociology · Welfare · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law
Blood struggle
“I Used to Get WIC . . . But Then I Stopped”
Contemporary Hurdles in the Application of the Indian Child Welfare Act
Processes of Native Nationhood
Kafka’s Bureaucracy
Third-Party Brokers
Native Americans and Monetary Sanctions
Administrative Burdens in Child Welfare Systems
Theorizing race and settler colonialism within U.S. sociology
The Indian Child Welfare Act (Icwa)
Refusing reconciliation with settler colonialism
Consequences of Administrative Burden for Social Safety Nets that Support the Healthy Development of Children
Long-Term Trends and Ethnoracial Inequality in U.S. Foster Care
The Effectiveness of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978
The Effect of Administrative Burden on Bureaucratic Perception of Policies
Empire of the People
Administrative Capital and Citizens’ Responses to Administrative Burden
The Associational State
Human Capital and Administrative Burden
Children of a Lesser God
Racialized Burdens
The Bite of Administrative Burden
It Takes a While to Get Used to
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
A Theory of Racialized Organizations
Who Is an Indian Child? Institutional Context, Tribal Sovereignty, and Race-Making in Fragmented States
Critique of Glenn on Settler Colonialism and Bonilla-Silva on Critical Race Analysis from Indigenous Perspectives
Against Teleology in the Study of Race
Settler colonialism and sociological knowledge
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |