Other ‘lenses’: a training programme for social workers and others working with asylum seekers and migrants in Italy

Allegri, Elena; Eve, Michaël; Mazzola, Roberto; Perino, M. A.; Pogliano, Andrea

doi:10.1080/13691457.2020.1743239

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“…In their host countries, Akram and Paulo experienced processes of segmented inclusion and ethno-stratification, a precarious insertion (Iglesias-Martínez & Estrada, 2018) with downward social mobility. The uncertainty of their legal status, their situations of discrimination and labour exploitation, and their lack of social networks (Allegri et al, 2020;Iglesias-Martínez & Estrada, 2018) determined their loss of status, as well as a loss of the social and cultural capital they had acquired in their countries of origin. These young people also encountered many obsta-cles in accessing social resources (O'Higgins, 2012), including psychological help, due to deficiencies in the public system, as well the limited resources of NGOs that manage the reception program.…”

Section: A Segmented and Ethno-stratified Inclusionmentioning

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Vulnerability, Embedded Agency, and Downward Social Mobility of Young Asylum Seekers

Gabrielli

2023

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From an intersectional perspective, the situational and inherent vulnerability faced by two young asylum seekers in Catalonia, Spain, were analyzed through case studies that illustrate how these young people navigated within unpredictable and changing environments that hampered their embedded agency. Their settlement as social navigation highlights the temporal dimensions of the migration process. Waiting was also a key element that marked and regulated their settlement from a normative, relational, and existential dimension. The results highlight downward social mobility and precarious integration into the host society due to institutional, structural, and socio-cultural constraints.

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Section: A Segmented and Ethno-stratified Inclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vulnerability, Embedded Agency, and Downward Social Mobility of Young Asylum Seekers

Gabrielli

2023

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“…Nel definire i metodi delle azioni di co-ricerca si è fatto riferimento ad alcune esperienze che hanno posto al centro il confronto dialogico tra operatori dei servizi sociali e cittadini, in cui questi ultimi, supportati dai ricercatori, hanno trovato luoghi, tempi e spazi per elaborare il proprio punto di vista rispetto a un determinato tema, per poi esporlo come materiale di discussione con gli operatori dei servizi sociali (Allegri et al, 2020;Natland, 2015). Sulla scorta di queste esperienze, nell'autunno 2019 sono stati realizzati tre laboratori riflessivi in cui han-no partecipato complessivamente 16 operatori e 19 persone (definiti natural helpers, v. Tab.…”

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La vicinanza solidale in contesti di vulnerabilità familiare. La partecipazione nella comunità come strada per ricostruire i tessuti sociali

Serbati

Petrella²

2021

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Family vulnerability is a particular social situation, characterised by high levels of relational complexity, with serious consequences for the fulfilment of the developmental needs of a child. In the framework of the P.I.P.P.I. Programme (Programme of Intervention for the Prevention of Institutionalisation), social support is intended as a form of solidarity between families that aims to help a family through the support of another family, or individuals. In order to face vulnerability and social exclusion, P.I.P.P.I. promotes the mobilisation of these resources. The paper is therefore focused on a case study based in Sondrio (Italy), carried out within the P.I.P.P.I. Programme. The professionals together with the researchers tested their understanding, also promoting dialogue-meetings with families. These dialogical and interactive contexts generated new and unexpected interpretations of this phenomenon, framing it into an educational process that meets the needs of children and families, and promoting community participation as a way to reconstruct local social networks as well.

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“…There is so much to learn, for social workers, from ethnographies of the everyday life of people 'stuck in transit' or in recursive patterns of mobility that still leave them in social marginality, regardless of the context. Enhancing social workers' engagement with qualitative fieldwork, including participatory social research (in this issue, see Allegri et al, 2020;Börjesson & Forkby, 2020), is then a very urgent task in itself. Equally important is the development of comparative research across countries, for instance regarding the reception of unaccompanied refugee minors (in this issue, see Lietaert et al, 2020), or social inclusion initiatives for young refugees (in this issue, see Pratiwi et al, 2020).…”

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Social work with refugee and displaced populations in Europe: (dis)continuities, dilemmas, developments

Boccagni

Righard

2020

European Journal of Social Work

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Social work with displaced people has an extended background in the history of the profession. Yet, it has taken different forms and remits over time, parallel to the evolving legal and political definition of refugee themselves. Inside Europe, in particular, social work with forced migrants has gained new visibility and increasing complexity after the so-called refugee crisis. Aspects like people's limited visibility and eligibility towards formal welfare services, their uncertain legal status, their temporal "liminality" and their non-linear patterns of mobility have all major consequences for social work practice, research and education. In discussing them, we highlight the need to invest in students' (and practitioners') reflexivity, given both the complexity of building up trustbased relationships with forcibly displaced people, and the risk of cultivating essentialized, stigmatizing or nativist representations about them. In all of these respects, our introduction provides a conceptual basis for this Special Issue of EJSW, and for the broader debate in social work across Europe.

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Other ‘lenses’: a training programme for social workers and others working with asylum seekers and migrants in Italy

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

Vulnerability, Embedded Agency, and Downward Social Mobility of Young Asylum Seekers

Vulnerability, Embedded Agency, and Downward Social Mobility of Young Asylum Seekers

La vicinanza solidale in contesti di vulnerabilità familiare. La partecipazione nella comunità come strada per ricostruire i tessuti sociali

Social work with refugee and displaced populations in Europe: (dis)continuities, dilemmas, developments

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