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dc.contributor.authorWestoby, Peter
dc.contributor.authorIngamells, Ann
dc.contributor.editorEric Blyth and Helen Masson
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:37:49Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:37:49Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-06-16T06:02:01Z
dc.identifier.issn1468263X
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/bjsw/bcp084
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/30071
dc.description.abstractAlthough there have been many critiques of the central role that trauma plays in social work practice with refugees, nevertheless trauma discourse maintains a powerful shaping force on service delivery in Australia, intersecting with, and gaining power from, managerial discourses that specify individually focused approaches to practice. The outcome is a double bind for refugee populations, who quickly learn that, in this country, identifying themselves as vulnerable is a pathway to resources, yet who then find themselves caught in processes that have precarious effects for agency.Trauma work, the paper argues, however necessary at some points, is over-emphasised and over-legitimised, and a range of critiques are drawn on to substantiate this. Revisiting some of the traditional disciplinary bases of social work and human services may facilitate organisations and practitioners to engage more proactively and reflexively with people who arrive as refugees across a broader range of tasks associated with re-establishing themselves in a new country.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1759
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1776
dc.relation.ispartofjournalThe British Journal of Social Work
dc.relation.ispartofvolume40
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSocial Work not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSocial Work
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160799
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1607
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1608
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1701
dc.titleA Critically Informed Perspective of Working with Resettling Refugee Groups in Australia
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorIngamells, Ann T.


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