IMPLICATED SUBJECTS: SOCIAL WORKERS, SETTLER COLONIALISM, AND THE QUEST FOR NON-INNOCENCE

• Published in: Canadian social work review Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 113 - 132
• Main Author: Hoselton, Jill
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ottawa Canadian Assn for Social Work Education 01.01.2024
• Subjects: Antisemitism; Child welfare; Children; Colonialism; Employment; Genocide; Holocaust; Holocaust studies; Indigenous peoples; Marginality; Morality; Native peoples; Oppression; Political action; Social justice; Social work; Social workers; Society; Victimization; Violence; France; Canada

Drawing from Michael Rothberg’s (2019) concept of the “implicated subject,” this paper examines Canadian social work’s implication in settler colonialism from past to present through its role in Indigenous child removal from the Indian Residential Schools to the Sixties Scoop and contemporary child...