Set to See Us Fail : : Debating Inequalities in the Child Welfare System of New York / / Viola Castellano.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Castellano, Viola,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropology at Work ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- 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 It Tackled? Genesis, Interpretations, and Practices -- Chapter 3 Revolving Door Th e Work of Child Welfare in Making Parents Chronically Unfit -- Chapter 4 Contesting Child Welfare Perceptions, Negotiations, and Counternarratives -- Chapter 5 The Moral Economies of Community Participation: New Forms of Governance and Representative Ambiguities -- Conclusion -- References -- Index