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Human Rights As Constructed and Understood by African Families From ‘Like gold scattered in the sand’: Human rights as constructed and understood by African families from refugee backgrounds Submitted by Maree Higgins Bachelor of Social Work (Honours, Class 1) A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Discipline of Social Work School of Allied Health Faculty of Health Sciences Australian Catholic University 26th February 2019 Declaration This thesis contains no material that has been extracted in whole or in part from a thesis that I have submitted towards the award of any other degree or diploma in any other tertiary institution. No other person’s work has been used without due acknowledgment in the main text of the thesis. All research procedures reported in the thesis received the approval of the Australian Catholic University Human Ethics Research Committee (ACU HREC) (Ethics Register Number: 2012 313N). Seven transcripts were prepared by Transcript Divas. Professional editing services were provided by Hazel Blunden, Corvus Consulting. Signed……………………………………………………………………………………. Date……………26 February 2019……………………………………………………. 2 Acknowledgements I owe a debt of gratitude to so many people. I thank my two supervisors, Joanna Zubrzycki and Jean Burke. Your incredible mentoring, collaboration and curiosity have sustained and guided me throughout this research experience. I also thank the research reference group and participants in this study. Each of you are very precious to me and have become a part of my life story. I hope this research is meaningful to you and your families and communities, and that together we can continue to build a more just, respectful and safe community. I thank the Australian Catholic University (ACU) for providing research funding that enabled my attendance and presentation at the ASSWA 2012 International Conference at White River, South Africa: Social Work: Towards Inclusion, Social Justice and Human Rights. I am grateful for the training I received in NVivo and Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), for the research seminars and research culture, and for funds that enabled transcription of interview files and purchases of gift vouchers for participants. I have valued being part of the intellectual communities of the Australian Catholic University (ACU) network, the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP), Australia and New Zealand Social Work and Welfare Education and Research (ANZSWWER), and UNSW Sydney. Your collective wisdom, collegiality, guidance and intellectual rigour are woven into this thesis. My thanks also go to Hazel Blunden who edited my thesis. I am blessed with loyal friends and mentors. Sr Sally Duigan, Sylvia Winton, Pat Hansen, Paul Andrews, Jane Dennis, Neil Hall, Agata Rostek-Robak, Mary-Lou 3 Desmond and the members of the Sydney University Graduate Choir and Via Dei Choir: thank you for nurturing and listening to me, recreating my spirit and believing in me. The same is true for my amazing work colleagues: Richard Hugman, Jane Mowll, Caroline Lenette, Sonia Graham, Michael Bowen, Ina Ismail, Eileen van Dijk and the Work Integrated Learning Unit. Mim Fox, I am grateful for your creativity, unflagging enthusiasm for ideas and determination to live life on your own terms which has continually opened new vistas for me. Bawa Bindi Bennett, you trod this path before me and always knew just what to say and when to say it. Thanks for calling out the greatness in me especially when I could least see it in myself. Bagaan Sue Green – thank you for opening my eyes to knowledge through your precious collection of books, and for asking Baiame to protect me. And Jan Breckenridge, I value your mentoring and ability to ground me with humour more than I can say. I feel fortunate to be surrounded by an amazing family. Thank you to Mum, Dad, Bernard, Catherine, Anne Maree, Jeremy, Steve and all the little ones. I am particularly grateful to you, Emma, for leading me on the path of learning as my older sister, and for reading chapters of this thesis before they were entrusted to anyone else. Jon Drummond, you and your girls came into my life eminently suited to the task of accompanying me through my thesis and beyond. I feel truly blessed. Thank you for creating wonderful spaces in which I found my voice as a writer. And finally, Jasmine, my joy and delight, the focus of my heart and my intellect. I treasure your awe, your listening, your discipline, your pragmatism and your belief in me. Everything I’ve done has been as a witness to you of what I think constitutes goodness and fierceness and honesty in the world. 4 Abbreviations used in the thesis AASW Australian Association of Social Workers ACHPR African Charter on Human and People’s Rights ACU Australian Catholic University AFSAAP African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific AHRC Asian Human Rights Commission ALRC Asian Legal Resource Centre ASC Asylum Seekers Centre ASSWA Association of Schools of Social Work in Africa AU African Union CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child CERD Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination CRPD Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities DRIP Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples FGM Female Genital Mutilation/Genital Cutting HREC Human Ethics Research Committee ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ICESCR International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights IFSW International Federation of Social Workers IPA Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis IWS Immigrant Womens’ Speakout NFPs Not For Profit Organisations NSW New South Wales OAU Organisation of African Unity PALMS Paulian Association Lay Missionary Society RCOA Refugee Council of Australia SIEV X Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel X SSI Settlement Services International STARTTS Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors TMHC Transcultural Mental Health Centre 5 UDHR Universal Declaration of Human Rights UK United Kingdom UN United Nations UNHCR United Nations High Commission for Refugees USA United States of America 6 Table of Contents Table of Contents ................................................................................................................ 7 1. Introduction and Thesis Overview ................................................................................ 18 1.1 Impetus for the study ....................................................................................... 19 1.2 Who I am and how this shaped the focus of the present study ....................... 19 1.3 Background to the study ................................................................................... 23 1.4 Human rights in African and social work scholarship ....................................... 27 1.5 Guiding theoretical perspectives ...................................................................... 28 1.6 Aims of the study .............................................................................................. 31 1.7 The research question ...................................................................................... 31 1.8 Methodology .................................................................................................... 32 1.9 Ethical conduct of the research ........................................................................ 33 1.10 Key research terms ........................................................................................... 33 1.11 Overview of the thesis ...................................................................................... 34 1.12 Conclusion ........................................................................................................ 38 2. Human rights ................................................................................................................. 39 2.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 39 2.2 Human rights definitions .................................................................................. 39 2.3 Positive contributions of human rights ............................................................. 42 2.4 Human rights in Australia ................................................................................. 44 2.5 Human rights and social work .......................................................................... 48 2.6 Limitations of human rights .............................................................................. 53 2.7 Human rights in African discourse .................................................................... 56 2.7.1 Dignity .......................................................................................................... 56 2.7.2 Communitarian principles ............................................................................ 58 7 2.7.3 Holism .......................................................................................................... 60 2.7.4 Socio-economic priorities ............................................................................. 60 2.8 Universalism, cultural relativism and pluralism in human rights discourse ..... 64 2.8.1 Universalism ................................................................................................. 64 2.8.2 Cultural relativism ........................................................................................ 65 2.8.3 Pluralism .....................................................................................................
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