Publication details
On the Move - European responses to migration
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Social work with immigrants has to face multiple challenges. In the book “On the Move”, which was written within EUSW network, the authors present the history, the developments of integration programmes and the treatment of immigrants and minorities in different European regions. It shows the approaches of social work and social workers that were developed through these processes. The articles can be read as regional studies that allow basic approximations of the different histories and situations, but also as case studies presenting elements that are similar in social work throughout Europe. Acc. to Ihle, in terms of interaction, process and change, three important dimensions of competence need to be understood also in social work: the construction of self as a multiple identity-project, the dynamics of interaction based on multiple identities, and shifting from a fixed definition of assigned qualities to a more process-oriented interpretation of the situation and the context. In this respect, the previously used strong bias on categories and fixed pre-understandings might be a hindrance to contextual sensitivity in the perception of minorities in the Welfare State. |