ABSTRACT
This book starts with an acknowledgement in Chapter 1 that the book is being written on Stolen Homes in the colonial Australian context. This first chapter is presented as a themed ‘yarn’ between Amy and Carole. It reminds non-Aboriginal readers or the ‘qallunaat’ (white people) about critically reflecting on their own power, privilege and complicity with the destruction of homes (Rasmussen, 2001, p. 108). We expand on previous social work research literature (see also Zufferey et al., 2020) and reflect on how homes have been Stolen through the violence of the colonial state. The book is positioned within an intersectional frame that considers how home can be diversely experienced, imagined and understood. There are important social work considerations associated with building a sense of home, especially when home is disrupted by experiences of violence, abuse and forced dislocations. The book has two sections: ‘Revisioning home in social work’ and ‘Practice considerations’.
