The humanitarian crisis of migration <i>versus</i> the crisis of humanitarianism: current dimensions and challenges for social work practice

Zaviršek, Darja

doi:10.1080/02615479.2017.1303043

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“…Although social workers can be expected to bear witness to the traumatic experiences of asylum seekers, they should also aim to encourage asylum seekers to be heard in society as a whole, as well as in the community where they seek asylum, in the local host communities and in communities consisting of both asylum seekers and local residents. In doing so, social workers should also be sensitive to individuals who feel that their world is vanishing due to increased migration (Healy, 2017;Zavir sek, 2017), In addition, there is a need to develop programmes aimed at breaking the social barriers between local citizens and the community of asylum seekers in an attempt to minimise social gaps and animosity. Such ongoing efforts may change the hostile policy and promote social justice as well as a human-rights-based policy.…”

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“…The current article examines the governmental and non-governmental social work services available in Israel to asylum seekers. In so doing, it can shed light on the ability of the social work profession to meet challenges such as the global migration crisis, which are both myriad and complex (Zavir sek, 2017). The article also examines the extent to which these interventions reflect a tendency in social work to 'sit outside' sites of power and to limit interventions to actions that do not impact policy.…”

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Asylum Seekers in Israel: Challenges to Social Work

Nuttman‐Shwartz

Levanon

2019

The British Journal of Social Work

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The challenges facing social workers in addressing the migration crisis are myriad and complex. Against this background, the current article presents a case study on the response of Israeli social work to the asylum seekers, which allows us to identify gaps between the social work profession’s global agenda and its implementation. The article examines how recent immigration policies have impacted Israeli social workers’ responses to these challenges. Following a brief description of Israel’s policies for controlling and limiting the entrance of asylum seekers to the country, the article offers insights into social workers’ involvement in some of the main social services that aim to assist asylum seekers in Israel. Insights are also offered into the response of Israeli social workers to the community of asylum seekers, which focuses on individual needs and on urgent needs. Several explanations for these emphases was offers, noting that they may reflect a more general gap between repeated statements about the significance of human rights for the social work profession on the one hand and the professional reality on the other. Finally, several strategies for social work in the community of asylum seekers and in society as a whole are recommended.

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Asylum Seekers in Israel: Challenges to Social Work

Nuttman‐Shwartz

Levanon

2019

The British Journal of Social Work

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“…Once the Balkans Corridor began to close, criminalizing and dehumanizing the migrants became the major preoccupation of the state authorities, especially on the first contact at the borders. In response, the majority of Western governments stepped up policing the migrant people, legislatively and in concrete handling (Hathaway 2016;Zaviršek 2017). The Hungarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian governments, in line with push-back politics, presently often return persons who cross the border illegally, including those who seek asylum.…”

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“…Certain very basic social work methods, providing practical support, cultural translation, emotional comfort, and challenging people's dehumanization were often perceived as adverse to the interests of the state. Thus, practicing social work at the borders, in the asylum camps, and in refugee centers became politicized and was considered subversive when social work activists disobeyed the orders of the security personnel regarding talking to the refugees and declined to wear gloves and protective masks (Zaviršek 2017).…”

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Anti-Refugee Sentiment without Refugees: Human Rights Violations and Social Work in Post-Socialist Countries of Southeastern Europe in their Social Contexts

Zaviršek

Rajgelj

2018

J. Hum. Rights Soc. Work

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In the article, the authors pose a question: to what extent can we speak of social work practice in support of refugees in postsocialist Southeastern Europe given that in the region, which was part of the Balkans Humanitarian Corridor in 2015 and 2016, state-supported social work practice is very limited and very prescriptive at the same time? The vocal anti-refugee sentiment in Central and Southeastern Europe that accompanied the migrants can be said to stem from the nineteenth-century primordialism: the one-state, one-nation ideology that also was embedded in the very construction of post-socialist states after 1991. Consequently, refugees are seen as the ultimate danger to everything Bours,^to women, men, and children of purportedly pure-blooded ethnonational origin, threatening Bour^transgenerational sense of cultural and pseudobiological homogeneity. The rising post-socialist ethnonational primordialism, intertwined with conservative neopatriarchal ideologies, directly affects human rights observance and social work education and practice. The predominantly government-funded social workers generally are neither trained nor encouraged to work with refugees, while the popular and party politics of hatred is directed toward those who support refugees, social workers included. Anti-refugee sentiment, culturalization, and neopatriarchy are rationalized with arguments of fear and care; protecting the cultural and biological homogeneity of native residents leads to processes that turn care into violence, and ultimately into coercive care.

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“…Los migrantes, sin embargo, en contra de cualquier expectativa razonable, salen de una crisis humanitaria solo para entrar en el grueso de una nueva (Zaviršek, 2017). No se puede aplicar el mismo tratamiento a 65,3 millones de desplazados forzosos al final de la década de los cincuenta, versus treinta y cinco millones de turistas que visitaron España en 2015 (Bernik, 2016).…”

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Las migraciones y la profundización de la crisis socioambiental

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2018

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Las migraciones humanas son fenómenos masivos que configuran crisis humanitarias de escala global, las cuales, en una mirada transversal, van más allá de una cuestión de derechos laborales, civiles o sociales. En el presente artículo se revisa este fenómeno desde los tópicos de las migraciones humanas como causa y consecuencia de las crisis políticas y sociales, y las migraciones como causa y consecuencia de las crisis ambientales; lo anterior con referencia a que este fenómeno puede profundizar la crisis socioambiental global, que hoy en día es percibida con mayor intensidad. Controlar y gestionar los flujos migratorios es un reto transversal e involucra el reconocimiento de los valores y limitaciones ambientales.

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The humanitarian crisis of migration versus the crisis of humanitarianism: current dimensions and challenges for social work practice

Cited by 26 publications

References 8 publications

Asylum Seekers in Israel: Challenges to Social Work

Asylum Seekers in Israel: Challenges to Social Work

Anti-Refugee Sentiment without Refugees: Human Rights Violations and Social Work in Post-Socialist Countries of Southeastern Europe in their Social Contexts

Las migraciones y la profundización de la crisis socioambiental

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