Set to See Us Fail

Debating Inequalities in the Child Welfare System of New York

Viola Castellano (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

234 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-803-4 (ISBN)

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Examining the interaction between families and professionals in the child welfare system of New York, this book focuses on how inequalities are reproduced, measured, managed, and contested. The book describes how state institutions and neoliberal governance police the groups which are most represented in the child welfare system, including low income, female-headed families living in racialized neighborhoods. The book also shows how these forms of policing produce unstable terrains, and give rise to contestation among families, communities, and professionals. It questions and re-thinks how state welfare and protection is administered.

Viola Castellano is Senior Research Associate at the Chair of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Bayreuth. Previously, she worked at the Department of Education of Bologna University and at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning. Her research interests revolve around ethnography of institutions, welfare and migration policies, borders externalization and global inequalities.

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Guilty of Being Poor: A Brief Itinerary in the Recent History of American Welfare

Chapter 2. What Does 'Racial Disproportionality' Mean and How Is Tackled: Genesis, Interpretations, and Practices

Chapter 3. Revolving Door: The Work of Child Welfare in Making Parents Chronically Unfit

Chapter 4. Contesting Child Welfare: Perceptions, Negotiations, and Counter-Narratives

Chapter 5. The Moral Economies of Community Participation: New Forms of Governance and Representative Ambiguities

Conclusions

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	Anthropology at Work
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-803-X / 180073803X
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-803-4 / 9781800738034
Zustand	Neuware