The article proposes the new challenges of Social Work with the important migratory movements in our country during the last years. The social workers find themselves confronted with new, socially very complex situations, with new inequalities, with social movements in interaction and in the process of change and therefore the need of new reflection, of a redefinition of their intervention models.
Primary care social services benefit from several methodologies to provide assistance to citizens according to the needs identified and any necessary diagnosis.
This article details the experience of community social work carried out in a neighbourhood in Barcelona which was gradually disappearing due to its unstable living conditions. Firstly, a description of the neighbourhood is provided, followed by an account of the historical context and the emergence of the group for promoting social work within the community. The article delves into the complex process giving rise to the disappearance of the neighbourhood and the role played by “the social worker” in it.
The age of globalisation has favoured international migration. Current studies on this topic have begun adopting the transnationalism approach. Accordingly, not only is the influence of migrants on the destination location being investigated; the relationships that occur at a distance with the place of origin are being examined also. In this respect, the family has come to form the core component of research on migration and transnationalism.
The main purpose of this paper is to explore the meanings that social work intervention takes on when it is guided by feminist and intersectional approaches. Both perspectives allow for reflection and action in gender-oriented contexts based on power relations that unfold according to people’s bodies, sexualities, and gender and ethno-racial identities. Throughout this paper, the feminist approach is highlighted with regard to its commitment to reveal the power and the intersectional approach in its intertwined perspective of power.
This paper addresses the figure of the Personal Assistant (PA), which is essential in order for persons with a disability to begin developing an independent life. To set out a framework for a PA, the various models for conceiving disability are presented, identifying the social model as a system based on the rights of persons with a disability.
This article proposes reflections based on the systematic organisation of the experiences of social workers in secondary education in the province of Santa Cruz amid the context of the pandemic.
This paper sets out proposals to foster the participation of families as agents of change in the reintegration processes of inmates in Catalan prisons. The document focuses firstly on the Model for Participation and Coexistence of Prisons in Catalonia (hereinafter, MPiC) framework programme, pursued by the Secretariat for Criminal Measures, Rehabilitation
This paper details the launch within the space of little over three weeks of a tool for providing shelter and quarantine for hundreds of homeless people in the city of Barcelona. The mission of the new tool was to assure the right of all people who were sleeping rough in the city at the time to comply with the strict lockdown enforced by the health and civil protection authorities.
This article strives to restructure one component of the practice of social work in the context of addictions. It focuses on the shelter process of receiving drug users and their relatives at the Association of Liberated Alcoholics of Jaén and Mágina, in the province of Jaén. The primary difficulties encountered by people with addictions and their relatives prior to starting treatment are set out and the way in which the reception process is undertaken at this organisation is described.
