Facilitating Injustice

The Complicity of Social Workers in the Forced Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941-1946

AvYoosun Park

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

"On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066-the primary action that propelled the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans. From the last days of that month, when California's Terminal Island became the first site of forced removal, to March of 1946, when the last of the War Relocation Authority concentration camps was finally closed, the federal government incarcerated approximately 120,000 persons of ""Japanese ancestry."" Social workers were integral cogs in this federal program of forced removal and incarceration: they vetted, registered, counseled, and tagged all affected individuals; staffed social work departments within the concentration camps; and worked in the offices administering the ""resettlement,"" the planned scattering of the population explicitly intended to prevent regional re-concentration. In its unwillingness to take a resolute stand against the removal and incarceration and carrying out its government-assigned tasks, social work enacted and thus legitimized the bigoted policies of racial profiling en masse. Facilitating Injustice reconstructs this forgotten disciplinary history to highlight an enduring tension in the field-the conflict between its purported value-base promoting pluralism and social justice and its professional functions enabling injustice and actualizing social biases. Highlighting the urgency to examine the profession's current approaches, practices, and policies within today's troubled nation, this text serves as a useful resource for students and scholars of immigration, ethnic studies, internment studies, U.S. history, American studies, and social welfare policy/history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-06
Mått:160 x 236 x 30 mm
Vikt:816 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:474
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780199765058

Utforska kategorier

Socialt arbete och välfärd inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Yoosun Park, PhD, MSW, is Associate Professor in the School for Social Work at Smith College and Editor-in-Chief of Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work. Dr. Park's scholarship, framed within the broad substantive area of immigration, is informed by poststructuralist theories of discourse and methods of inquiry. It pursues two overlapping lines of inquiry: social work's history with immigrants/immigration and the study of contemporary issues pertinent to immigrants/immigration. Her examinations of the current and past discourses of the profession aim to identify and engender the development of alternative lines of inquiry, question formulation, and conceptualization.

Recensioner i media

In Facilitating Injustice, Professor Park reveals the hidden role of U.S. social workers in the removal, incarceration, and resettlement of Japanese Americans during World War II. Using meticulous primary research, the author compels us to consider the consequences when the values of a social service profession are compromised in carrying out its government's political and policy agendas. As she demonstrates, Park's analysis holds profound lessons for the human services today.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface: An Occluded HistoryAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Discursive ElusionsChapter 2. The Start of WarChapter 3. The RemovalChapter 4. IncarcerationChapter 5. Social Work in the Camps Part I: Public AssistanceChapter 6. Social Work in the Camps Part II: "Abnormal Communities"Chapter 7. "The Emotional Crisis of Registration"Chapter 8. Resettlement Part I: The ScatteringChapter 9. Resettlement Part II: The Work of the Welfare SectionsChapter 10. Conclusion: The "Value of a Social Work Staff in a Mass Evacuation Program" Appendix A. Glossary of TermsAppendix B. WRA Incarceration CampsAppendix C. WCCA Station ListAppendix D. Relocation OfficesAppendix E. WRA Eligibility for Unrestricted ResidenceAppendix F. WRA Administrative Manual-WelfareAppendix G. Job DescriptionsIndex