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dc.contributor.authorHolscher, Dorothee
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-23T06:28:35Z
dc.date.available2020-10-23T06:28:35Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17496535.2012.744845
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/398641
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the implications of cross-border migration for social work's normative commitment to social justice. Specifically, it interrogates Nancy Fraser's conceptualisation of social justice in guiding social work practice with refugees. The paper is grounded in an ethnographic study conducted from 2008 to 2009 in a South African church which had provided shelter to a group of refugees following their displacement by an outbreak of xenophobic violence. The study's findings reveal that various kinds of misframing created multiple forms of voicelessness amongst its foreign participants. These filtered out to justify, perpetuate and deepen other types of injustice, particularly misrecognition and maldistribution. There was some evidence of resistance, solidarity, recognition and small acts of redistribution. However, such positive practices proved difficult to sustain. The paper confirms the central importance of the notion of misframing for conceptualising and responding to social injustice in the absence of citizenship—as required of practitioners in the field of social work with refugees and indeed other groups rendered vulnerable within current economic, social, political and cultural constellations. In this regard, Fraser's contribution looks set to enrich social work's commitment to social justice both in normative and practical terms.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom20
dc.relation.ispartofpageto38
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalEthics and Social Welfare
dc.relation.ispartofvolume8
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSocial work
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied ethics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4409
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5001
dc.titleConsidering Nancy Fraser’s notion of social justice for social work: Reflections on misframing and the lives of refugees in South Africa
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHölscher, D, Considering Nancy Fraser’s notion of social justice for social work: Reflections on misframing and the lives of refugees in South Africa, Ethics and Social Welfare, 2014, 8 (1), pp. 20-38
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