Refugees, Islamophobia, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Challenging Social Work Co-Option
Access Status
Fulltext not available
Authors
Briskman, Linda
Latham, Susanna
Date
2017Type
Journal Article
Metadata
Show full item recordCitation
Briskman, L. and Latham, S. 2017. Refugees, Islamophobia, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Challenging Social Work Co-Option. Affilia - Journal of Women and Social Work. 32 (1): pp. 108-111.
Source Title
Affilia - Journal of Women and Social Work
ISSN
School
Centre for Human Rights Education
Collection
Abstract
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. As global discourses on refugees and Muslims become more exclusionary, the ethics and traditions of our profession mean social workers arguably have a particular responsibility to work for transformative change. This column argues that social workers need to be wary of direct complicity with harsh policies through implementation roles and, indirectly, through co-option into dominant discourses about refugees and Islam more generally and Muslim women specifically.