Mother America

After the Korean War, it became acceptable and expected that American families would adopt Korean children into their homes, symbolizing American prosperity and security. As significant a role as social work played in this process, there currently exists no research that examines the activities of the profession and the origins of Korean adoption. This chapter discusses the maternalist nature of adoption efforts during the 1950s by one international social welfare agency after the Korean War: the American Branch of International Social Service (ISS-USA). Predicated on maternalist ideologies that shaped the social work profession during the Progressive Era, in what the author calls Cold War maternalism, the gendered notions of motherhood were expanded to genderless notions of parenthood. Anticommunist sentiments thrust adoptive parenthood into the political spotlight on an international level, thus serving the best interests of adoptive parents and the nation long before serving those of the children.

Introduction: The Korean War in Britain

The Korean War in Britain ◽

10.7228/manchester/9781526118950.003.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1-29

Author(s):

Grace Huxford

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Social History ◽

Korean War ◽

British History ◽

History Writing ◽

The Social ◽

The Korean War ◽

History Of ◽

The Cold War

This introduction first gives an overview of Korean War historiography alongside a summary of the war itself, before exploring the position of the Korean War and the Cold War in British history-writing. It highlights how selfhood and citizenship have emerged as growing categories of analysis in Cold War studies and argues why it is important to consider them in the context of post-1945 Britain. It closes by exploring the challenges and possibilities of writing the social history of warfare and bringing domestic and military ‘spheres’ together in a meaningful way.

Conversions

MOVE ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190058777.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 15-36

Author(s):

Richard Kent Evans

Keyword(s):

Korean War ◽

Social World ◽

Sacred Text ◽

Shared Identity ◽

The Social ◽

The Korean War

This chapter introduces readers to the social world of MOVE. It features a biography of John Africa, also known as Vincent Leaphart. Leaphart was born in Philadelphia in 1936. He served a tour of duty during the Korean War. The chapter introduces readers to some of the early converts to MOVE, including Delbert Orr Africa, Louise James Africa, Donald Glassey, Gail Africa, Muriel Austin Africa, Janet Hollaway Africa, and others. By 1974, there were around two dozen MOVE people, most with the surname Africa. Many, though not all, were Black. Many were biological relatives. They spent their days working on the house, tending the animals, and cooking communal meals. What united these early MOVE people was a shared identity, a sense of family under the headship of John Africa, and a veneration of a sacred text.

International Social Work and Social Welfare: Central America

Encyclopedia of Social Work ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.567 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Maria Julia

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Social Welfare ◽

Central America ◽

Political Processes ◽

New Approaches ◽

Political Events ◽

The Social ◽

The Impact ◽

The social, political, and economic features of Central America are summarized and the impact of economic and political processes on the region is highlighted. Predominant global, historical, cultural, and political events are weaved together, in an attempt to understand the realities of the region. The challenges for social work profession and practice are presented, as well as their implications for new approaches to intervention and education.

Two sacred tales in the Seoul metropolis: The gospels of prosperity and development in modernizing South Korea

Social Compass ◽

10.1177/0037768619868611 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 66 (4) ◽

pp. 561-578 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Myung-Sahm Suh

Keyword(s):

South Korea ◽

Korean War ◽

Urban Poverty ◽

Urban Migration ◽

Surrounding Area ◽

Population Concentration ◽

The Social ◽

The Korean War ◽

Process Of Urbanization ◽

Religious Actors

This article examines the ways in which the emergence of the Seoul Capital Area offered both opportunities and challenges to religious actors in modernizing South Korea. South Korea rebuilt itself from the ruins of the Korean War through an accelerated process of urbanization and industrialization in accordance with a state-led modernization drive. This process, in turn, led to an unprecedented population concentration in Seoul and its surrounding area, where new political and economic centers emerged side-by-side with slums and shantytowns. Amid this turbulent social change, some of today’s most well-known Protestant leaders – especially Pentecostal Cho Yong-gi and Calvinist Kim Chin-hong – joined the caravan of rural-to-urban migration and commenced their ministries in Seoul, adapting their religious messages and practices to address the social aspirations of the growing urban population. This article demonstrates that despite their shared concern for the problem of urban poverty, Cho Yong-gi and Kim Chin-hong faced successes and failures in different ways as they adopted ministerial programs of the gospel of prosperity and the theology of development, respectively.

International Social and Economic Justice and On-line Advocacy

10.1177/0020872803046002002 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. 149-161 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Irene Queiro-Tajalli ◽

Craig Campbell ◽

John McNutt

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Economic Justice ◽

Global Level ◽

International Human Rights ◽

New Techniques ◽

New Methods ◽

The Poor ◽

The Social ◽

On Line ◽

Social work is unusual among the professions for its commitment to advocacy on behalf of the poor, the dispossessed and the disadvantaged. International human rights and the promotion of social and economic justice are clearly a part of this mission. The article addresses an emerging aspect of advocacy by examining the nexus between international social and economic justice issues and the social work response. It addresses the revolution in advocacy methods created by information technology. These new techniques can offer a wealth of opportunities to further develop the international advocacy component of the social work profession. The impacts these new methods can have on the creation of justice on a global level are discussed.

‘[W]e Find Families for Children, Not Children for Families’: An Incident in the Long and Unhappy History of Relations between Social Workers and Adoptive Parents

Social Policy and Society ◽

10.1017/s1474746412000097 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 415-427 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Marian Quartly

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Social Workers ◽

Adoptive Parents ◽

Adoptive Parent ◽

Inclusive Practice ◽

Australian State ◽

The Social ◽

History Of

Relatively little work on adoption focuses on the role of social workers. This article gives an account of the conflict between social workers and prospective adoptive parents which developed in Australia in the 1970s, taking as a case study the conflicting roles of adoptive parent advocates and professional social workers within the Standing Committee on Adoption in the Australian state of Victoria. Its overarching concern lies with the historical attitudes of the social work profession towards adoption, both domestic and intercountry, as these have changed from an embrace of both adoption and adoptive parents to mutual alienation. It concludes that the inclusive practice of radical social work could only briefly contain contesting client groups.

Transnational Social Workers: Making the Profession a Transnational Professional Space

International Journal of Population Research ◽

10.1155/2012/527510 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2012 ◽

pp. 1-11 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Allen Bartley ◽

Liz Beddoe ◽

Christa Fouché ◽

Phil Harington

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Mixed Methods ◽

New Zealand ◽

Social Workers ◽

Specific Focus ◽

The Social ◽

International Demand ◽

This paper draws on research conducted in New Zealand from 2009 to 2011 with overseas-qualified social workers as members of a global profession experiencing both great international demand for their skills and unparalleled flows of professional transnationalism. In line with the international social work literature, this cohort of migrant professionals offers a range of needed skill and expertise as well as unique challenges to local employers, client communities, and the social work profession as a whole. With a specific focus on mixed-methods data dealing with participants' induction experiences and engagement with professional bodies, this paper argues that migrant social workers have created in New Zealand a transnational professional space that demands a response from local social work stakeholders.

Research: Overview

Encyclopedia of Social Work ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.605 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Tony Tripodi ◽

Marina Lalayants

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Cultural Competence ◽

Evidence Based Practice ◽

The State ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Social Work Research ◽

The Social ◽

Practice Based Research ◽

This entry reviews the state of social work research from the appearance of the social work research overview in the previous encyclopedia to the early 2010s. Social work research is defined, and its purposes, contents, training, location, and auspices are briefly discussed. Continuing issues and developments, as well as the emerging developments of evidence-based practice, practice-based research, cultural competence, and international social work research, are featured.

Ubuntu and its potential impact on the international social work profession

10.1177/00208728211022787 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002087282110227

Author(s):

Bernard Mayaka ◽

Rory Truell

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Social Development ◽

Social Protection ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Social Work Theory ◽

The Social ◽

Global Agenda ◽

International Social ◽

Community Systems

Ubuntu is the current theme for the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development and represents the highest level of global messaging within the social work profession for the years 2020–2030. This article presents an in-depth description of Ubuntu as a philosophy of social development that can strengthen social work theory and practice in its global aims of supporting community systems of social protection and social justice. The article concludes with advancing proposals on how the learnings from Ubuntu can strengthen international social work ethics, principles and practice.