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Abolishing Carceral Social Work
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In Abolishing Carceral Social Work the authors argue against the idea of professional social work as a desirable alternative to policing and instead use ideas from radical social workers, mental health providers, social work educators, and social service workers to find a true solution. The chapter explores topics such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, Black Lives Matter, decolonizing Social Work Education, and others.
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Contributors
Edward Hon-Sing Wong
Edward Hon-Sing Wong (he/him; they/them) is a doctoral candidate at York University’s Social Work PhD program. His work and publications centre on social work abolitionism, disablism within Canadian immigration policy, Canadian social work and colonialism, and organizing in Chinese communities. He is also the co-chair of the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter and a founding member of Lausan—a collective of writers, researchers, activists, and artists from Hong Kong, engaging with the city’s political struggle from a decolonial and politically left perspective.MJ Rwigema
MJ Rwigema, PhD, MSW (she/her; they/them) is Rwandan-Ethiopian. She has taught social work since 2011 at the University of Toronto and at York University. She has twenty years of community work experience that includes mental health counselling/therapy, artsbased community development and research, group facilitation and documentary filmmaking working primarily with Black, racialized, immigrant, and LGBTQ2S+ communities. As a researcher and scholar, MJ’s work focuses on the interlinkages between political “voice” and “healing” from trauma for politically targeted groups. In her free time, MJ enjoys vipassana, basketball, reading fiction, and creative writing.Nicole Penak
Nicole Penak (she/her) is a woman of mixed Mi’kmaw, Wolastoqiyik, Acadian, and Ukrainian heritage. She was born, lives, works, and is raising her family in the vibrant Indigenous community of Toronto, where she is a long-time counsellor and community organizer. Nicole is an independent scholar, and her academic work seeks escape from the technology of colonialism known as social work.Craig Fortier
Craig Fortier (he/him; they/them) is a settler of mixed European ancestry and an Associate Professor in Social Development Studies at Renison University College (University of Waterloo). They have an MSW from the University of Toronto and a PhD from York University and worked for a number of years in community-based organizing with youth, precariously housed folks, undocumented migrants, and queer communities in Toronto.
