Disentangling an Invisible Trade : state interventions in Dutch and Dutch-Curaçaoan single-mother families

The doctoral thesis sheds light on the interactional and institutional processes through which child welfare and child protection practices are delivered to fifteen Dutch and fifteen Dutch-Curaçaoan single-mother families with multiple problems in the Netherlands in order to reveal structures of power, dominance and oppression. Because state intervention practices remain largely ‘invisible’ from the public gaze it is important to ‘Disentangle an invisible trade’ (the title of the doctoral thesis). Tessa Verhallen draws on a thirty-month ethnographic study undertaken with thirty single-mother f... Mehr ...