Transnational Social Workers’ Understanding of Australian First Nations Perspectives in Statutory Child Protection ...

• Main Authors: Modderman, Corina, McMahon, Mishel, Threlkeld, Guinever, McPherson, Lynne M
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: La Trobe 2022
• Subjects: Human society; Policy and administration; Social work; First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26181/21385590; https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/journal_contribution/Transnational_Social_Workers_Understanding_of_Australian_First_Nations_Perspectives_in_Statutory_Child_Protection/21385590

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0312407X.2020.1771389 Abstract: Chronic staff shortages and high rates of turnover in child protection programs create opportunities for social work mobility across the world. Australian child protection departments actively recruit social workers from the United Kingdom and Ireland. This strategy may cause tension relating to the application of known Western social work practice and theory and limited understanding of Australian First Nations worldviews. Australia continues to struggle with the ongoing impact of colonisation; First Nations children are overrepresented in child protection service delivery. The research explored the understanding held by overseas-born and -educated social workers from the UK and Ireland (transnational social workers or TNSWs) of Australian First Nations peoples, when they migrate to practice in frontline child protection. Interviews with 13 practitioners across two time points explored social work practice in the transnational ...