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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-, et al.
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Conclusion : Current and future challenges for Nordic welfare states and social work
- 2018
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Ingår i: Neoliberalism, Nordic Welfare States and Social Work. - New York : Routledge. - 9781351620222 ; , s. 249-269
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How have three decades of neoliberalism affected the Nordic welfare states as well as the organisation, education and practices of social work in those countries?During recent decades the welfare states of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have gone through dramatic changes infl uenced by the political triumph of neoliberalism. This has led to both the electoral success of extreme right and mainstream neoliberal parties, and to the neoliberal ideological transformations of social democratic parties. The neoliberal doctrine of making governance cheaper has thus been made the focus of governance and has led to increased marginalisation and social problems.This is the first book to comparatively explore the role of neoliberal reforms on social work and social policy across the Nordic welfare states. The richly theoretical and empirical chapters explore and illustrate the consequences of the dominance of neoliberal policies and provide an analysis of the effects of globalisation, glocalisation, welfare nationalism, symbolic violence and forced migration. The book provides valuable insights into the shortcomings of retreating welfare states in a time of increasing glocal social problems.Neoliberalism, Nordic Welfare States and Social Work should be considered essential reading for critical social work education. Students, scholars, educators and researchers of Nordic countries and beyond have much to learn from this book.
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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-
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Det sociala arbetets dilemma och globala roll
- 2012
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Ingår i: Personlig och professionell utveckling inom socionomutbildningen. - Östersund : Mittuniversitetet. - 9789187103346 ; , s. 9-16
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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-
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Exkludering, globala utmaningar och kultursektorns ansvar
- 2012
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Ingår i: I valet och kvalet. - Stockholm : Riksantikvarieämnetet. - 9789172096127 - 9789172096134 ; , s. 67-74
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Riksantikvarieämbetet kraftsamlar kring området värdering och urval. Det behövs mer kunskap om hur kulturarvens värden tas tillvara i arbetet för utvecklingen av ett hållbart samhälle med goda livsmiljöer. Den här boken lyfter angelägna frågor kring kulturarv och kulturarvsaktiviteters värden.
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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-
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Förlorade visioner
- 2012
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Ingår i: i&m invandrare & minoriteter. - 1404-6857. ; :1, s. 24-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- I den växande marginaliseringens bakvatten ökar kriminalitet och motsättningar. Men i stället för att förändra de strukturer som skapar ojämlika villkor i samhället, vill politikerna stävja symtomen genom en ökad polisnärvaro.
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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-
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Integration och makt
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Ingår i: Att bilda ett samhälle. - : Föreningen för folkbildningsforskning. - 9789163385575 ; , s. 93-105
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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-, et al.
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Introduction : Neoliberalism and social work in the Nordic welfare states
- 2018
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Ingår i: Neoliberalism, Nordic Welfare States and Social Work. - New York : Routledge. - 9780367152154 ; , s. 1-22
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How have three decades of neoliberalism affected the Nordic welfare states as well as the organisation, education and practices of social work in those countries?During recent decades the welfare states of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have gone through dramatic changes infl uenced by the political triumph of neoliberalism. This has led to both the electoral success of extreme right and mainstream neoliberal parties, and to the neoliberal ideological transformations of social democratic parties. The neoliberal doctrine of making governance cheaper has thus been made the focus of governance and has led to increased marginalisation and social problems.This is the first book to comparatively explore the role of neoliberal reforms on social work and social policy across the Nordic welfare states. The richly theoretical and empirical chapters explore and illustrate the consequences of the dominance of neoliberal policies and provide an analysis of the effects of globalisation, glocalisation, welfare nationalism, symbolic violence and forced migration. The book provides valuable insights into the shortcomings of retreating welfare states in a time of increasing glocal social problems.Neoliberalism, Nordic Welfare States and Social Work should be considered essential reading for critical social work education. Students, scholars, educators and researchers of Nordic countries and beyond have much to learn from this book.
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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-
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Iranian Islamic Modernities
- 2009
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Ingår i: Multiple Modernities in Muslim Societies. - London : Aga Khan Award for Architecture. - 9781848851832 - 1848851839 ; , s. 49-66
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The third essay in the volume critiques the tradition of social science meta-narratives that frame modernity as an exclusively western invention, aligned with a linear model of development. The author provides a comprehensive overview of the history of modernization in Iran, examining in particular the changing role of Islam and the relationship between civil society and the state. Kamali argues that the concept of multiple modernities opens the way to generating more socially and historically specific understandings of modernities.
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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-
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Multiple Modernities : A Theoretical Frame
- 2009
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Ingår i: Multiple Modernities in Muslim Societies. - London : Aga Khan Award for Architecture. - 9781848851832 - 1848851839 ; , s. 131-135
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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-
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Multiple modernities and mass communications in Muslim countries
- 2012
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Ingår i: Global Media and Communication. - : Sage Publications. - 1742-7665 .- 1742-7673. ; 8:3, s. 1-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The concept of multiple modernities is increasingly influential in mainly Western academic circles. Although the multiple modernities thesis challenges established West-centric understandings of the modern world, it also risks praising ‘the modern’ as the end of history and our preordained destiny. Multiple modernities’ global history cannot be separated from the colonialism, slavery, wars and exploitation that have formed our modern world and its inequalities. The multiple modernities thesis also illuminates a cultural and religious battlefield in which a Western concept of linear modernity, with a ‘developmental path’ that should be followed by all countries, is highly contested. The division of societies into the dichotomous categories of modern versus traditional – a legacy of the ‘grand narratives’ of classical social theory – also creates the foundation for other divisions, including the dichotomy of the modern Christian ‘Us’ versus the traditional Muslim ‘Them’. Such West-centric history-telling is part of a field of cultural authority in which the battle over the right to shape the past and present of various societies is taking place. There is no singular model of modernity; global modernization programs and processes have taken place in a variety of cultural and political environments, creating multiple models of modernity. This article critically explores the shortcomings of the West-centric theory of singular modernity. By focusing on the modern transformation of mass communication in Muslim countries, it argues that both traditional means of mass communication, such as manbars, and modern media, such as newspapers and tape recorders, have been used effectively for mobilization of masses by revolutionary Muslim groups. It also argues that Islam is not incompatible with modernity or democracy, and that Islamic groups have been an integral part of modern democratic developments in Muslim countries.
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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-
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Platsen, kulturen och arven
- 2013
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Ingår i: Platsens mänskliga berättelser. - Malmö : Universus Press. - 9789187439018 ; , s. 9-18
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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-
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Vi och invandrarna : En jubileumsskrift för CEIFO
- 2009
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Ingår i: Vem älskar imerforskning?. - Stockholm : Centrum för forskning om internationell migration och etniska relationer, CEIFO. ; , s. 41-45
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Platsens mänskliga berättelser
- 2013
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Förord: "Antologin Platsens mänskliga berättelse har kommit till inom ramen för länsstyrelsernas projekt Kalejdoskop - sätt att se på kulturarvet. En viktig aspekt av projektet har varit att utmana bilden av ett homogent Sverige och visa upp en bredd i vår historieskrivning genom att lyfta fram dolda och förbisedda platser och berättelser."
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- Östman, Caroline
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Unaccompanied refugee minors and political responses in Sweden: Challenges for social work
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Currently, there are 68.5 million people forcibly displaced around the world, which is the highest figure since World War II. The affected individuals have fled their homes to seek protection elsewhere, either within their own country or across national borders. Approximately 16.2 million people were newly displaced during the year 2017 as a result of conflict, persecution, generalised violence and human rights violations. Against this backdrop of increased displacement, it is worthy of note that 52 per cent of the world’s refugee population is comprised of children under 18 years of age, which is the greatest number in a decade. Within this particular group, the number of unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) seeking asylum has increased significantly and has today reached its highest level since the United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) began collecting such systematic data in 2006 (UNHCR, 2018). Although statistics show that the number of URMs seeking asylum in Sweden has steadily increased since 2006, the sudden increase of this group in 2015 in particular was considerable and both caused a poisonous political debate concerning the country’s immigration policy and created a major challenge for Swedish reception and integration policy. This study is focused on the case of unaccompanied minors from Afghanistan who immigrated to Sweden in 2015.The main objective of this study is to examine how the Swedish reception system and social work institutions meet the needs and ambitions of URMs. The study seeks to answer the following research questions: how has the increase in immigration in 2015 influenced Swedish political parties’ programmes and policies?; how does the municipal receiving system for unaccompanied refugee minors in Sweden function according to the experiences of minors and their carers?; what are some of the possibilities and hindrances that exist in respect of unaccompanied refugee minors’ integration into Swedish society?; and how well-informed and prepared are Swedish social workers and the ‘staff from family-homes’ in meeting the needs and ambitions of unaccompanied refugee minors? The methodology used in this study is qualitative content analysis based on the Swedish political debate regarding migration and integration between 2014–2018, and the result of 29 interviews with 12 URMs, nine carers, three persons from ‘family-homes’, three municipal social workers and two legal guardians.The theoretical framework used to analyse the data in this study is postcolonial theory and critical intersectionalism. Given the fact that Afghanistan has, during the course of its modern history, been subjected to the colonial and imperialist politics of European countries, the recent increase of Afghan URM migration to Sweden cannot be separated from this: that is, foreign direct intervention in the home country of these refugees in the form of Western countries’ postcolonial political and economic policies. When used critically, an intersectional perspective helps us to avoid unqualified generalisations, which is often interwoven in the concept of ‘immigrants’ in general and URMs in particular.The analysis suggests that the political debate influencing Swedish migration and integration policies almost totally ignores the role of Western countries in the war and violence created in countries such Syria, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan, which is one of the major reasons behind increasing migration from those countries. It also suggests that there are many shortcomings and problems in the Swedish reception system, such as social authorities’, and carers’ lack of adequate knowledge about migration and integration in general and in relation to the life conditions of URMs and their personal histories and ambitions in particular. There is also evidence of a strong West-centrism in how reception staff work with URMs. Together, these factors harm URM’s future integration in society. It is argued that social work needs critical knowledge in the education of social workers, and adequate training in skills for working with transnational families and new global family formations and relations. Also important for progressive social policy and social work are special individual-adjusted education programmes for URMs, and educating the teachers and carers who work with URMs, in critical knowledge and skills and socio-political mobilisation against racism and xenophobia. The topics of the study are important in a time of increasing racism and right-wing populism in mainstream politics, trends which risk negatively influencing public policy and social work research, education and practices.
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