Annual of social work, Vol. 10 No. 2, 2003.
Review article
SURVIVING ETHNICITY AND DISABILITY: MINORITY CHILDREN IN PUBLIC CARE
Darja Zaviršek
Abstract
The recent child centred perspective in social work theory and practice is driven by the "modernisation of childhood" which stresses the importance of a child as a subject and a citizen with his or her own group rights. At the same time children living in public institutions experience a lack of child's centred caregiving and a lack of personal visibility. This is especially true for the disabled and ethnic minority children who are most often recipients of public care where a traditional pattern of caregiving is maintained. They are infantilized through the medical gaze, institutional violence and stigma. At the same time the public care denies children's childhood through the spatial segregation from their family and community. I will demonstrate that both groups of children experience civic disability while experiencing institutionalisation in residential care.
Keywords
education for social work; international standards; social work as a profession
Hrčak ID:
3512
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2003.
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