Facilitating injustice : the complicity of social workers in the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941-1946 / Yoosun Park.
2019
D769.8.A6 P37 2019
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Title
Facilitating injustice : the complicity of social workers in the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941-1946 / Yoosun Park.
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ISBN
9780190081348 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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D769.8.A6 P37 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.53089956073
Summary
Nearly the entire Japanese American population was incarcerated by the federal government during World War II, and social workers were heavily involved in all parts of the process: they vetted, registered, counselled, and tagged all affected individuals; staffed social work departments within the concentration camps in which the Nikkei were held; and worked in the offices administering the 'resettlement,' the planned scattering of the population explicitly intended to prevent regional re-concentration. Though the broader history of the forced removal and incarceration has been analyzed by scholars, the role of social work has been entirely overlooked. 'Facilitating Injustice' highlights the profession's contradictory role as well as the dilemma's continued relevance in contemporary social work.
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Nearly the entire Japanese American population was incarcerated by the federal government during World War II, and social workers were heavily involved in all parts of the process: they vetted, registered, counselled, and tagged all affected individuals; staffed social work departments within the concentration camps in which the Nikkei were held; and worked in the offices administering the 'resettlement,' the planned scattering of the population explicitly intended to prevent regional re-concentration. Though the broader history of the forced removal and incarceration has been analyzed by scholars, the role of social work has been entirely overlooked. 'Facilitating Injustice' highlights the profession's contradictory role as well as the dilemma's continued relevance in contemporary social work.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 8, 2019).
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780199765058
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