Issue 1: Caring Society v Canada: Neoliberalism, Social Reproduction, and Indigenous Child Welfare
In January 2016, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada v Canada (Caring Society) found that the Canadian government had discriminated against Indigenous children on reserve in its provision of funding for child welfare and certain other service...
| Published in: | Journal of Law and Social Policy |
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Osgoode Digital Commons
2018
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| Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/jlsp/vol28/iss1/8 https://doi.org/10.60082/0829-3929.1301 https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/context/jlsp/article/1301/viewcontent/uc.pdf |
| Summary: | In January 2016, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada v Canada (Caring Society) found that the Canadian government had discriminated against Indigenous children on reserve in its provision of funding for child welfare and certain other services. Caring Society is a case about the daily and generational work that is needed in any society to ensure social, cultural, and economic survival, or what feminist political economists call social reproduction. This article thus asks a central question of this decision: are the main constitutional issues it raises best understood as contests over, and crises of, care? |
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