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

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 represent...

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