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- Gegner, Harald, 1973-, et al.
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Otydlighetens betydelse : de regionala utvecklingsledarna och evidensbaserad praktik inom den sociala barn- och ungdomsvården
- 2019
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Förbundet för forskning i socialt arbete, FORSA. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 26:2, s. 153-172
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The significance of ambiguity – Evidence-based practice in social service with children and youth. Evidence-based practice (EBP) has gained a central position as a model of knowledge for social work in the public sector. In the Swedish Government Report about knowledge-based social work from 2008, EBP is described as a useful way of structuring the social services on a scientific basis (SOU 2008:18). Following on this, and in order to establish EBP in social work practice, between 2009 and 2016, there were annual agreements between the government and the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR). As defined by the annual agreements, a national network of Regional Development Leaders (regionala utvecklingsledare) was given the task of producing regional plans of action for the establishment of EBP in the municipalities. The article examines how the Regional Development Leaders in the so-called Children and Youth Investment (Barn- och ungasatsningen) interpret and implement EBP as a model in public social work. The study is based on interviews with 22 out of the 37 Regional Development Leaders that were part of the Children and Youth Investment in 2016. Ernesto Laclau’s theory of empty signifier serves as an analytical tool. The analysis shows that the ambiguity surrounding EBP creates discretion for the Regional Development Leaders. This discretion allows them to use EBP as a ”signifier without a signified”; a model that they can fill with different meanings depending on purpose and context. In that perspective, EBP appears as a floating term and can be characterized as an empty signifier. One of the main results stresses the fact that the Regional Development Leaders describe EBP as a model of governance rather than a model of knowledge. Despite its ambiguity, EBP fills a significant function for the development of knowledge-based social work practices in the public sector.
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Inequalities and migration : Challenges to the Swedish welfare state
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sweden is often pictured as a country with a strong welfare system and low levels of inequality. But it is also described as a country that has undergone fundamental restructurings of its welfare system since the 1990s, and with inequality gaps that are among the fastest growing in Europe. This development is strikingly visible among people with a migration background. The question is how this might be understood. Inequalities and migration set focus on ongoing developments and debates about the Swedish welfare system in relation to migration. It introduces the international reader to ongoing developments of inequalities and migration in Sweden in broad historical and international perspectives. The book also offers in-depth insights to how the dynamics of growing inequality unfolds in regard to a range of phenomena and areas of intervention, including the role of civil society. The selected case studies focus on inequalities and hierarchies with regard to both various forms of cross-border mobility and the increased diversification of Swedish society. The book fills a gap when it comes to English language course literature about contemporary debates regarding social policy and social work in relation to migration in Sweden. At the same time it is well suited for a broader range of readers, including policy makers and practitioners outside of Sweden.
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- Righard, Erica
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Conceptualising Social Work Through the Lens of Transnationalism : Challenges and Ways Ahead
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Migration Research. - : De Gruyter Open. - 1799-649X. ; 8:4, s. 245-253
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Professional social work was established and expanded in a historical moment marked by intense nation-building; it was organized along and in parallel with other welfare state services which functioned to strengthen the nation-state. Today social work is at practice in a society marked by intensified globalisation; social needs and social problems that social workers are confronted with in their professional practice are sometimes transnational in their dynamics and cannot adequately be understood when limited to a local or national context. Drawing on insights from the transnational perspective, this article identifies challenges and ways ahead in the development of social work practice and theory with relevance for the globalised society. It argues that the transnational perspective can contribute to the dissolving of binaries between both ‘here’ and ‘there’, and ‘us’ and ‘them’ in social work, and pave the way for approaching social problems from a relational viewpoint beyond ‘given’ territorial and ethnocultural lenses.
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- Wikström, Eva, 1966-, et al.
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Responses to ethnic and 'racial' diversity in social work practice : The swedish development in a historical perspective
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Ingår i: 6th European Conference for Social Work Research : Reflective social work practices in contemporary societies: dialogues and new pathways between praxis and research. - 9789899948624 ; , s. 538-539
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social work responses to ethnic and ‘racial’ diversity varies over time and between places. In some countries it is mainstreamed; in others it tends instead to be side-lined to ‘cultural experts’ and ‘culturally matched’ social workers. The existing – but very limited – research drawing on the situation in Sweden, suggests that in Sweden ethnic and ‘racial’ diversity tend to be side-lined. This is typically understood as related to the universal and extended Scandinavian welfare state regime that frames social work practices; universalism seems to emphasize universal standards in front of particularism. The universal standards assume that the legislative and theoretical framework are so called (culturally) ‘neutral’. In practice this sometimes equals ‘colour or ethnic blindness’ with ‘whiteness’ as present but invisible. This presentation contributes to this research field, analysing how different meanings given to ethnic and ‘racial’ diversity in social work have developed over time in Sweden. The empirical material is drawn from the main Swedish professional journal of social work (Socionomen). The journal is considered an important platform for debating social work practice in Sweden and has existed for almost sixty years. We have systematically searched all issues from the first publication in 1958 up until 2014. Methodologically we rely on text and content analysis. This includes how issues on ethnic relations are presented, framed and what particular words that are used. This implies an analysis of choices of words and representations which carry underlying assumptions about the issues addressed. By way of analysing the content of the debates in this journal, we can show the varying meaning that has been given to ethnic and ‘racial’ relations in Sweden over time.The analysis indicates that throughout the years, there is a paradoxical interest in the international dimension of social work. However, for many decades, international dimensions in social work was understood as something situated ‘there’, not ‘here’. While social work practice early on was understood as (culturally) neutral, from the 1970s cultural representations of the ‘other’ begin to appear. While the representations of the ‘other’ varies over time, the cultural representation of ‘whiteness’ remains invisible. Hence, this study supports earlier studies arguing that the ethnic and ‘racial’ relations are side-lined in social work in Sweden. Its particular contribution lies in that it highlights how this has shifted over time.
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- Boccagni, Paolo, et al.
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Introduction to the special issue: social work and migration in Europe : a dialogue across boundaries
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. - : Tylor & Francis. - 1556-2948 .- 1556-2956. ; 13:3, s. 221-228
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this introduction, we argue for the need to better understand so- cial work with migrants and to enhance its research bases against a background of increasing mobility and ethnic diversification across Europe. While much has been written on the influence of international migration on national welfare regimes and on specific forms of social welfare provision, the ways in which mi- gration affects mainstream social work practices are relatively understudied—even less so in a comparative perspective, looking at social interventions as well as to the organizations and cultures of social services, without neglecting the broader policy arrangements in which social work practice is embedded. The political and pre- scriptive bases of social workers’ remit vis-a`-vis immigrant clients, the ways of framing and categorizing the latter, and the impli- cations for social workers’ training, supervision, and research are discussed. The main value added of the five contributions to this Special Issue of JIRS is highlighted at last.
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- Boccagni, Paolo, et al.
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Mapping transnationalism : Transnational social work with migrants. Introduction
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Ingår i: Transnational Social Review. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2193-1674 .- 2196-145X. ; 5:3, s. 312-319
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- Introduction Over the last few years, the concepts and categories of transnational migration studies (Faist, Fauser, & Reisenauer, 2013; Levitt & Jaworsky, 2007) – already well-established across other disciplines – have successfully entered into the educational, theoretical, and practical field of social work. In this article we briefly take stock of this new development, in order to build a framework for the papers that follow. The contributions in this Mapping Transnationalism Section are authored by European leading scholars, with distinct and complementary takes on the emergence of a transnational turn in social work. In the first article, Karen Lyons advances a theoretical approach to social work with mobile populations, based on a conceptual revisit of international social work; in the second paper, in an educationally-oriented perspective, Pat Cox makes a case for a transnational optic to be more systematically assumed in academic curricula; in the last article, Norma Montesino and Mercedes Jiménez-Álvarez discuss the prospects for social work practice with a client group with a strongly transnational profile, such as so-called “unaccompanied minors.”1 What is specific to our own introductory piece, instead, is a three-step argument: a discussion of the conceptual grounds and the external factors underlying the transition from international to transnational social work (Section 1); an overview of the practical forms of transnational social work in the context of migration and of the types of resources circulated through them (Section 2); a preliminary balance of the professional implications of transnational social work with migrants, and of the challenges ahead for its refinement and diffusion (Section 3).
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- Lundberg, Anna, et al.
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Reflections on the right to health
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Ingår i: Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities : Nordic Perspectives on Urban Marginalization and Social Sustainability - Nordic Perspectives on Urban Marginalization and Social Sustainability. - : Nordic Academic Press. - 9789187675737 ; , s. 251-264
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- Montesino, Norma, et al.
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Avslutning
- 2015
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Ingår i: Socialt arbete och migration. - : Malmö Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789140688750 ; , s. 221-223
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- Montesino, Norma, et al.
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Internationellt erfarenhetsbaserat lärande
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Ingår i: Socialt arbete och migration. - : Malmö Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789140688750 ; , s. 205-220
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- Righard, Erica, et al.
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Inledning
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Ingår i: Socialt arbete och migration. - : Malmö Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789140688750 ; , s. 7-16
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- Righard, Erica, et al.
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Mapping the theoretical foundations of the social work-migration nexus
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Ingår i: Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1556-2948 .- 1556-2956. ; 13:3, s. 229-244
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- This article revisits the social work–migration nexus by investigating the implications of the debate on mobility and transnationalism. The conceptual boundary between migration as single-directed movement and as an extended and multidirected process has been much discussed across the social sciences but not yet fully in social work. However, the dialectic of sedentarism versus mobility makes for a key challenge to the arrangements and the tacit assumptions of this field of research and practice. Building on an innovative analytical framework and on a variety of examples, we highlight the friction between sedentarism and mobility as central to social work with immigrants and their families.
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Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities : Nordic Perspectives on Urban Marginalisation and Social Sustainability
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- De skandinaviska länderna förknippas som regel med en utbyggd offentlig sektor och låga fattigdomsnivåer. Under de tre senaste årtionden har detta dock kommit att förändras, och städer i Skandinavien delar nu många av de problem och utmaningar som vi känner från städer i andra delar av västvärlden. Frågan är hur välfärdsstaterna hanterar dessa globala samhällsomdaningar? I boken Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities, belyser forskare förändringen av social hållbarhet och socialt sönderfall i skandinaviska städer. De bidrar med teoretiska och empiriska analyser av hur migration, ojämlikhet och boendesegregation formas av nationell och lokal politik, och hur detta återspeglas i det urbana landskapet i Danmark, Norge och Sverige. Författarna utmanar gängse bild av Skandinavien som jämlikt och fridfullt. Arbetslöshet, kriminalitet och undermåliga skolresultat i etniskt och socio-ekonomiskt segregerade bostadsområden är välkända problemområden som sedan 1990-talet bemöts genom urbanpolitiska åtgärder. I boken Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities kan vi läsa om exempel på hur detta manifesterar sig i ett antal olika Skandinaviska städer.
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Socialt arbete och migration
- 2015
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den här boken visar hur global migration ställer det sociala arbetet inför nya utmaningar. Författarna lyfter fram hur socialt arbete, både som praktik och utbildningsområde, fortsätter att verka utifrån det moderna projektet, med nationalstaten och de grupper som räknats som en del av befolkningen som utgångspunkt. Samtidigt har globaliseringen, där människor i större utsträckning rör sig över statsgränser, ändrat förutsättningarna för socialt arbete i grunden. Om socialt arbete ska kunna svara mot dessa förändringar krävs att migration inte ses som ett problem. För att nå dit måste man ifrågasätta gamla premisser och samtidigt ta tillvara på de erfarenheter inom det praktiska arbetet som kan leda till ny kunskap. Migrationsforskningen lyfter fram teoretiska perspektiv, där migration och andra former av rörlighet inte beskrivs som en avvikelse. Därmed skapas förståelseramar som kan inspirera socialt arbete att omdefiniera sina utgångspunkter. Det är just det som är författarnas syfte, att via ett migrationsperspektiv peka på nya vägar, inom både utbildning och praktik.
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- Wright Nielsen, Tabitha, et al.
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Empowerment och normalisering
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Ingår i: Socialt arbete och migration. - 9789140688750 ; , s. 127-146
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