The Stolen Children And Aboriginal Culture Governmental Policy And Institutions

Author : Carmen Peresich
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783656937166

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The Stolen Children and Aboriginal Culture. Governmental Policy and Institutions by Carmen Peresich Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, Klagenfurt University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Topics in Culture: Australia – Indigenous Cultures, language: English, abstract: The chapter of the so called "Stolen Children" is certainly one of the darkest in Australia’s history. White people determined by ethnocentric convictions attempted to assimilate Indigenous people and, therefore, destroyed countless lives. The film "Rabbit-Proof Fence" by Phillip Noyce (2002), which is well-known and often screened in classrooms, impressively depicts the fate and suffering of three of them and gave the impetus for the present paper. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the policy of removing children from their families did not accomplish any “good work” but happened with the aim of controlling and assimilating Aboriginal people.

Author : Sonia Harris-Short
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317186137

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Aboriginal Child Welfare, Self-Government and the Rights of Indigenous Children by Sonia Harris-Short Pdf

This volume addresses the contentious and topical issue of aboriginal self-government over child welfare. Using case studies from Australia and Canada, it discusses aboriginal child welfare in historical and comparative perspectives and critically examines recent legal reforms and changes in the design, management and delivery of child welfare services aimed at securing the 'decolonization' of aboriginal children and families. Within this context, the author identifies the limitations of reconciling the conflicting demands of self-determination and sovereignty and suggests that international law can provide more nuanced and culturally sensitive solutions. Referring to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is argued that the effective decolonization of aboriginal child welfare requires a journey well beyond the single issue of child welfare to the heart of the debate over self-government, self-determination and sovereignty in both national and international law.

Author : Linda Briskman
Publisher : Federation Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1862874492

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The Black Grapevine by Linda Briskman Pdf

The Black Grapevine tells the extraordinary story of Indigenous efforts to stop children becoming part of the 'stolen generations' and to end the government policies and practices which destroyed their families.Linda Briskman uses the story of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Island Child Care (SNAICC) to centre her book. Indigenous people involved tell how they came together to form a national organisation for child care, how they found similar experiences from one end of Australia to the other, how they pooled experience and emotion to provide support for one another, how they lobbied for a national inquiry.And they campaigned. Indigenous activists fought with astonishing resilience for recognition of past and present practices, for the right to have Indigenous viewpoints to the forefront, and for resources.Briskman's story goes beyond the contest with the state to give a convincing portrait of the ways in which Indigenous groups worked. There are connections with international action, educational and fund-raising projects, and the much-vaunted annual Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day.She concludes by reflecting on the successes of campaigns and actions to date, and the extent of 'unfinished business'. Her strong academic background combines with the oral testimony of the activists to produce a fast-moving book that is both entertaining and rigorous.

Author : Richard Hil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351875776

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Violations of Trust by Richard Hil Pdf

The past few decades have brought to light increasing evidence of systemic and repeated institutional abuse of children and young people in many western nations. Government enquiries, research studies and media reports have begun to highlight the widespread nature of sexual, physical and emotional abuse of vulnerable children and young people. However, while public attention has focused on 'episodic-dramatic' representations of institutional abuse, comparatively little emphasis has been given to the more mundane, routinized and systemic nature of abuse that has occurred. This book documents comprehensively a full range of abuse occurring in 'caring' and 'protective' institutions, with particular reference to the Australian case. The dominant theme is 'betrayal' and in particular the ways in which agencies charged with the care and protection of children and young people become the sites of abusive practices. The authors draw on a range of theoretical frameworks to explore issues of trust and betrayal in the context of the professional and ethical obligations which workers have to those in their charge. The authors argue that it is not sufficient merely to report on accounts of institutional abuse or the consequences of particular practices; rather it is necessary to locate the prevalence of institutional abuse in the wider context of institutional practices as they relate to the 'governance' of particular sections of the population.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : OCLC:1287848584

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Bringing Them Home by Anonim Pdf

Author : Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 1100199950

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They Came for the Children by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Pdf

Author : Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459410695

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Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Pdf

This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens. Even though the historical experience of residential schools constituted an act of cultural genocide by Canadian government authorities, the United Nation's declaration of the rights of aboriginal peoples and the specific recommendations of the Commission offer a path to move from apology for these events to true reconciliation that can be embraced by all Canadians.

Author : Australia. Aboriginal Education Policy Task Force
Publisher : Australian Government Publishing Service
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : IND:30000082032784

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Report of the Aboriginal Education Policy Task Force by Australia. Aboriginal Education Policy Task Force Pdf

Author : K. Daly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137414359

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Redressing Institutional Abuse of Children by K. Daly Pdf

Winner of the Christine M. Alder Book Prize in 2015 from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Historical abuse of children is a worldwide phenomenon. This book assesses the enablers of abuse and the reasons it took so long for officials to respond. It analyzes redress for institutional abuse in two countries, Canada and Australia, using first-hand accounts of survivors' experiences.

Author : Andrew Armitage
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774842709

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Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation by Andrew Armitage Pdf

The aboriginal people of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand became minorities in their own countries in the nineteenth century. The expanding British Empire had its own vision for the future of these peoples, which was expressed in 1837 by the Select Committee on Aborigines of the House of Commons. It was a vision of the steps necessary for them to become civilized, Christian, and citizens -- in a word, assimilated. This book provides the first systematic and comparative treatment of the social policy of assimilation that was followed in these three countries. The recommendations of the 1837 committee were broadly followed by each of the three countries, but there were major differences in the means that were used. Australia began with a denial of the aboriginal presence, Canada began establishing a register of all 'status' Indians, and New Zealand began by giving all Maori British citizenship.

Author : Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian,Nādirah Shalhūb-Kīfūrkiyān
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108429870

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Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian,Nādirah Shalhūb-Kīfūrkiyān Pdf

Advances theorization of childhood in contexts of racialized settler-colonial political violence while acknowledging children's power to interrupt it.

Author : Larissa Behrendt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780730390275

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Indigenous Australia For Dummies by Larissa Behrendt Pdf

A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming? How many different Indigenous tribes and languages once existed in Australia? What is the purpose of a corroboree? What effect do the events of the past have on Indigenous peoples today? Indigenous Australia For Dummies, 2nd Edition answers these questions and countless others about the oldest race on Earth. It explores Indigenous life in Australia before 1770, the impact of white settlement, the ongoing struggle by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to secure their human rights and equal treatment under the law, and much more. Celebrating the contributions of Indigenous people to contemporary Australian culture, the book explores Indigenous art, music, dance, literature, film, sport, and spirituality. It discusses the concept of modern Indigenous identity and examines the ongoing challenges facing Indigenous communities today, from health and housing to employment and education, land rights, and self-determination. Explores significant political moments—such as Paul Keating's Redfern Speech, Kevin Rudd's apology, and more Profiles celebrated people and organisations in a variety of fields, from Cathy Freeman to Albert Namatjira to the Bangarra Dance Theatre and the National Aboriginal Radio Service Challenges common stereotypes about Indigenous people and discusses current debates, such as land rights and inequalities in health and education Now in its second edition, Indigenous Australia For Dummies will enlighten readers of all backgrounds about the history, struggles and triumphs of the diverse, proud, and fascinating peoples that make up Australia's Indigenous communities. With a foreword by Stan Grant, it's a must-read account of Australia’s first people.

Author : Carmel Bird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021158436

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The Stolen Children by Carmel Bird Pdf

Following the unprecedented demand for the Report on the stolen children which was published by The Human Rights and Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (HEROC) and retailed at $60.00, here are extracts from the Report which are mostly comprised of the actual stories told by the stolen generations of their experiences. These stories are deeply moving and compelling. HEROC will not be printing any more copies of the Report and they have given Carmel Bird the right to use the stories in this book so that they become more accessible to the wider population. Carmel has also written linking text and included a range of comments from politicians, social commentators, actors, artists and other prominent people. At a time when the national attention is sharply focused on the tragedy of the stolen generations, and when various institutions, political leaders and groups are officially apologising for the policies which saw so many young children being taken from their families, this book is extremely timely and quite unique in its content.

Author : Anne-Katrin Eckermann,Toni Dowd,Ena Chong,Roy Gray,Lynette Nixon,Sally Margaret Johnson
Publisher : Elsevier Australia
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780729539364

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Binan Goonj by Anne-Katrin Eckermann,Toni Dowd,Ena Chong,Roy Gray,Lynette Nixon,Sally Margaret Johnson Pdf

The troubled state of Aboriginal health in Australia is a seemingly perennial problem, despite ongoing research, policies and interventions. The second edition of this book examines the processes and practices behind this situation, and provides practical strategies to assist in addressing this complex subject.

Author : Susanne Karstedt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847315236

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Legal Institutions and Collective Memories by Susanne Karstedt Pdf

In recent decades the debate among scholars, lawyers, politicians and others about how societies deal with their past has been constant and intensive. 'Legal Institutions and Collective Memories' situates the processes of transitional justice at the intersection between legal procedures and the production of collective and shared meanings of the past. Building upon the work of Maurice Halbwachs, this collection of essays emphasises the extended role and active involvement of contemporary law and legal institutions in public discourse about the past, and explores their impact on the shape that collective memories take in the course of time. The authors uncover a complex pattern of searching for truth, negotiating the past and cultivating the art of forgetting. Their contributions explore the ambiguous and intricate links between the production of justice, truth and memory. The essays cover a broad range of legal institutions, countries and topics. These include transitional trials as 'monumental spectacles' as well as constitutional courts, and the restitution of property rights in Central and Eastern Europe and Australia. The authors explore the biographies of victims and how their voices were repressed, as in the case of Korean Comfort Women. They explore the role of law and legal institutions in linking individual and collective memories in the transitional period through processes of lustration, and they analyse divided memories about the past and their impact on future reconciliation in South Africa. The collection offers a genuinely comparative approach, allied to cutting-edge theory