Facilitating Injustice: The Complicity of Social Workers in the Forced Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941-1946 by Park, Yoosun - 2019

Oxford University Press, USA, 2019. First edition. . Hard cover. New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 478 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.

Hardback. New. "On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066-the primary action that propelled the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans. From the last days of that month, when California's Terminal Island became the first site of forced removal, to March of 1946, when the last of the War Relocation Authority concentration camps was finally closed, the federal government incarcerated approximately 120,000 persons of ""Japanese ancestry."" Social workers were integral cogs in this federal program of forced removal and incarceration: they vetted, registered, counseled, and tagged all affected individuals; staffed social work departments within the concentration camps; and worked in the offices administering the ""resettlement,"" the planned scattering of the population explicitly intended to prevent regional re-concentration. In its unwillingness to take a resolute stand… Read More

Hardback. New.

Oxford University Press. Hardcover. New. 9x6x1.

Oxford Univ Pr, 2019. Hardcover. New. 440 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches.

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