B2 Book section
Conclusion (2024)

Clarke, K., Lee-Oliver, L., & Ranta-Tyrkkö, S. (2024). Conclusion. In K. Clarke, L. Lee-Oliver, & S. Ranta-Tyrkkö (Eds.), Decolonising Social Work in Finland : Racialisation and Practices of Care (pp. 270-273). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447371458.con001

JYU authors or editors

Publication details

All authors or editors: Clarke, Kris; Lee-Oliver, Leece; Ranta-Tyrkkö, Satu

Parent publication: Decolonising Social Work in Finland : Racialisation and Practices of Care

Parent publication editors: Clarke, Kris; Lee-Oliver, Leece; Ranta-Tyrkkö, Satu

ISBN: 978-1-4473-7142-7

eISBN: 978-1-4473-7145-8

Publication year: 2024

Publication date: 28/03/2024

Pages range: 270-273

Number of pages in the book: 283

Publisher: Policy Press

Place of Publication: Bristol

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447371458.con001

Publication open access: Not open

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Abstract

The conclusion to the edited volume, Decolonising Social Work in Finland: Racialisation and Practices of Care, identifies the main themes in the book. The book examines how colonial structures, systems, knowledge and ways of being still influence society and social work practices in Finland. In pointing out the myriad ways that asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants inhabit precarious circumstances amid welfare state nationalism and homonationalism, the authors call for a more emancipatory Finnish social work praxis. It argues that decoloniality is not a vague futurism, but rather a practice that requires practitioners to imagine and design pathways for learning, engaging, revising and responding to the everyday ways that colonial ideology is rooted in systems of welfare.

Keywords: social welfare; social work; social services; welfare state; ethnic minorities; immigrants; racialisation; structural discrimination; structural violence; decolonisation

Contributing organizations

Ministry reporting: Yes

VIRTA submission year: 2024