Looping effects, settler colonialism, and the indigenous child removal system

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2149505
AutoresDorsey Spencer (0000-0001-6742-8915, Carleton University, autor de correspondencia), R Sinclair (0000-0001-6068-3489, University of Saskatchewan)
Año2025
Volumen48
Número1
Páginas185-205
Fecha de publicación2025-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2024.2323050
OpenAlexW4392471030
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas47

Between 1950 and 1985, a period now referred to as the "Sixties Scoop", over 24,000 Indigenous and Inuit children were removed from their families and placed into primarily non-Indigenous foster and adoptive homes across Canada. Whereas the Residential school system was explicitly racist and genocidal in its orientation, the Sixties Scoop racism was cloaked in accusations of neglect and child-saving rhetoric. Drawing on Hacking's concept of looping effects, we examine how social workers classify their work and the Indigenous children they removed from their homes. We analyse sixteen interviews with social workers working in child welfare during the Sixties Scoop who were involved with the removal of Indigenous children. This article links broader systems that are fraught with racism, to the rank-and-file individuals tasked with carrying out child protection policies, and it probes the interpretations and classifications used both then and now to understand Indigenous child removal

Biology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · Ecology · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Infant Health and Development · Law