Rethinking Cultural Competence: What Can We Learn from Levinas?

Ben‐Ari, Adital; Strier, Roni

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“…Respect for cultural and religious practices and genuine attempts by social workers to understand the meaning of these for families are important to parents and the carer. Their longings (and appreciation) in this regard concur with Howe's () and Trotter's () assertions about worker‐family relationships, thinking about practice issues (Bernard and Gupta, ; Chand, ; Wong and Vinsky, ) and the necessity to improve cultural competence in social work more generally (Ben‐Ari and Strier, ). Such respect and understanding also reflect social work's core values (Humphries, ), rather than reinforcing exclusionary social practices (Goodman, ).…”

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“…While acknowledging that current safeguarding procedures do not necessarily lead to greater certainty (Stevens and Cox, ), trust building and communication in relationships (Behnia, ; Howe, ; Trotter, ) and co‐working with and valuing interpreters (Križ and Skivenes, ; Valero‐Garcés, ) should feature in social work courses to improve safeguarding services to parents and families. Social work practice and education's cultural hegemony (Askeland and Payne, ) in relation to safeguarding policies and practices should be acknowledged: thinking and educating for both cultural sensitivity and to reflect international movements (Ben‐Ari and Strier, ; Hugman et al , ; Negi and Furman, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Workers' knowledge about how children's combat involvement may impact on their families' lives can improve social workers' understanding of what may or may not count as trauma for refugee and asylum-seeking families (Anderman, 2002;Zack-Williams, 2006). Feedback about culturally inappropriate assessments and practices reflects existing concerns (Chand, 2008;Wong and Vinsky, 2009) and awareness that other approaches are required (Ben-Ari and Strier, 2010;Guru, 2010).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The need for more culturally aware social work practice is acknowledged (Ben-Ari and Strier, 2010;Harrison, 2009), accompanied by a critique of social work's cultural hegemony (Askeland and Payne, 2006) and language use (Vojak, 2009). Influenced by migration issues, consideration of transnational or cross-border social work (Hugman et al, 2010;Negi and Furman, 2010) is developing and alternative approaches are discussed (Guru, 2010).…”

Section: Issues Of Culture and 'Race' In Safeguardingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Issues in Safeguarding Refugee and Asylum‐seeking Children and Young People: Research and Practice

Cox

2011

Child Abuse Review

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In this paper, the author describes and analyses undertaking a pilot study in which refugee or asylum-seeking parents who have been drawn into social work safeguarding children procedures reflect upon their experiences. This study is located within the context of political, policy and social work safeguarding practice developments in the UK which are relevant to refugee and asylum-seeking families. Interviews were undertaken with five refugee and asylum-seeking parents and one carer, three support workers and one social worker, and three conference chairs. Although the sample is small, the findings from the pilot study reveal some significant commonalities between comments from all three groupings, as well as significant differences. These findings will be of interest to refugee and asylum-seeking peoples, support workers, social workers, managers and policymakers and all who are concerned for the wellbeing of refugee and asylum-seeking parents, children and young people. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.KEY WORDS: refugee and asylum-seeking families; safeguarding; social work M igration is a major social issue (Castles and Miller, 2009), for both northern and southern countries (Abdelmoneum, 2010). While much UK research focuses on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (Crawley, 2010) or trafficked children (Bokhari, 2008), there is also interest in refugee and asylumseeking families † (parents, children and young people) (for example, Grillo, 2008). However, while research engages with current policies and practices in social work, education and health for * Correspondence to: Pat Cox, School of Social Work, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK. E-mail: pcox2@uclan.ac.uk † A note on terminology: 'asylum-seeking peoples/asylum-seeking families' is used throughout, rather than 'asylum-seekers' which has become a derogatory description.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Issues Of Culture and 'Race' In Safeguardingmentioning

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Issues in Safeguarding Refugee and Asylum‐seeking Children and Young People: Research and Practice

Cox

2011

Child Abuse Review

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“…Particularly Levinas's concept of 'infinity of the other', where the other cannot be reduced by the subject to something that can be understood. For example in the area of cultural competence, to reduce the others culture to something understandable for the subject is unethical since the subject defines the other purely in terms of itself [7].…”

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Revealing the ‘Face’ of the Robot Introducing the Ethics of Levinas to the Field of Robo-Ethics

Wohl¹

2014

Mobile Service Robotics

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This paper explores the possibility of a new philosophical turn in robot-ethics, considering whether the concepts of Emanuel Levinas particularly his conception of the 'face of the other' can be used to understand how non-expert users interact with robots. The term 'Robot' comes from fiction and for non-experts and experts alike interaction with robots may be coloured by this history. This paper explores the ethics of robots (and the use of the term robot) that is based on the user seeing the robot as infinitely complex.

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The Participation of Fathers in Child Protection Conferences: A Practitioner's Perspective

Goff

2012

Child Abuse Review

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Fathers’ involvement in child protection processes appears to remain low and is problematic given their influence over the lives and wellbeing of their children and partners. Men's views need to be taken into account, as part of consideration of risk and the meaning of their participation for others in the family. While the risk or presence of abuse may necessarily limit how the participation of a father is managed in case conferences, and needs to be explored and challenged, in most cases it does not justify failing to contact or seeking to involve fathers. Involving fathers is crucial to actively managing and tackling risks. Most work on engaging fathers has been focused on engaging them one‐to‐one or in families. This article focuses on the neglected issue of the participation of fathers in child protection conferences and subsequent inter‐agency team work on the child protection plan recommended at the child protection conference. It argues that, with careful preparation and chairing, fathers’ participation can be managed using the skills of relationship‐based and authoritative practice in tandem. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Key Practitioner Messages Including fathers' participation and views should be a requirement of good practice and forms an integral part of the assessment and management of risks; the extent of live participation depends on, and needs to be limited to manage, the immediate risks. Even in complex cases involving multiple fathers, careful planning and skilled chairing can make it possible to include all the men in conferences. The energy and commitment that can be generated for fathers at conferences can be harnessed to help enable them to change.

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Rethinking Cultural Competence: What Can We Learn from Levinas?

Cited by 84 publications

References 25 publications

Issues in Safeguarding Refugee and Asylum‐seeking Children and Young People: Research and Practice

Issues in Safeguarding Refugee and Asylum‐seeking Children and Young People: Research and Practice

Revealing the ‘Face’ of the Robot Introducing the Ethics of Levinas to the Field of Robo-Ethics

The Participation of Fathers in Child Protection Conferences: A Practitioner's Perspective

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