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Running head: MSW Qualifying 1MSW Qualifying Student’s NameInstitutional Affiliation
MSW Qualifying 2Impact of Australian Social Policy of Indefinite Mandatory Detention on the Shape and Practice of Social WorkThe Australian social policy of indefinite mandatory detention in the presence ofconvincing evidence on the harmful effect as enshrined in the Migration Act 1958 is anexample of a policy that directly impacts and shapes the social work practice according to theresearch done by Robinson (2013). Under this policy, tens of thousands of ‘”unlawfulcitizens” have been detained. The unlawful citizens are those who are not legal residents ofAustralia without a visa. The time limit of detention is not definite, and this has led to the risein the number of mental illness cases amongst the detainees. The refugees are the most recorded people with mental problems which are as a resultof the suffering, violence and persecuting they undergo. For instance, the research conductedby The Immigration Department (2016) showed that 1753 people were in the Australian onshore detention camps in 2016 for more than a year (Select Committee, 2015). Such a policydirectly impacts on social work practice, the work of social service among other is to improveon the situations of the clients and enable them to access their rights as refugees or asylums.This brings the social worker into logger's heads with the Australian law enforcers becausethe workers are considered as being illegally conducting their work. The social workers areled and guided by the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) Code of EthicsAASW (2010) which requires that the dignity and respect of every person are respected,respect of their human rights, provision of duty of care services and well-being among others.With the existing contradicting Australian policy on the mandatory detention of non-citizensdirectly contravenes the work of social workers. Therefore, the policy does not only impacton the social work practice but shapes it because now the social workers will have to workagainst the code of ethics which they once swore their allegiance to.
MSW Qualifying 3The Development of Human Rights and Social Justice from the Perspective of SocialWork Practice The current world today enjoys a safe and prosperous life partly due to the campaignfor the freedom of democracy and respect for the supremacy of the law and human dignity.However, the implementation of these values is mainly done by the social work practicethough faced with numerous challenges. The core of social work is to uphold and protect thesociety regarding social justice and human rights (Dolgoff and Feldstein, 2012). The twotypical examples of how the development of human rights impact on the social work practiceis the integration of human rights curricula into the social work and the use of human rightsas a framework for lobbying social work. The introduction of the modules or units of humanrights into the curriculum of social work as a mandatory course has led to the experience ofbetter understanding of social work and its deeper internalization. The human rights unitshave been introduced all over the learning period because the social work learners areexpected to be working with vulnerable groups. Thus they should thoroughly understand thehuman rights to identify their violation. The social work students are further supposed to practice the theories learned in classthrough internships, training and seminars (Grant and Kinman, 2012). Secondly, it is anexpectation of the social workers to stand up for others more so when their fundamentalrights are under attack. Therefore, the know how to use human rights as a framework forlobbying social work is critical to the social work learner so that he/she may know how tostudy situations and detect cases of injustice and the best way to respond. The use of humanrights as a framework for politicizing social work practice enables the learner to understandpower structures that are significant to the social work practice. Furthermore, the existing
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