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@Article{Husband:2007,
  author  = "Charles Husband", 
  title   = "Social Work in an Ethnically Diverse Europe: The Shifting Challenges of Difference",
  journal = "Social Work & Society",
  number  = "Festschrift Walter Lorenz",
  year    = "2007"
}

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Bibliographic Citation Social Work & Society, Volume 5, Number Festschrift Walter Lorenz (2007-05-15)
Title Social Work in an Ethnically Diverse Europe: The Shifting Challenges of Difference (eng)
Author Charles Husband
Language eng
Abstract This article addresses the inherently politicised context of social work practice located within the contested logics and values of national social policy and professional values and identities. Noting the key role of social work in delivering the state’s promise of social citizenship, it is argued that the increasing neo-nationalist sentiments and politics in European states generate significant pressures upon the universalist, inclusive, values of social work in a multiethnic Europe. The academic and policy debate around social cohesion is explored to illustrate how an assimilationist drift in multicultural state policies undermines the capacity of social work services to deliver appropriate, ethnically sensitive, services. It is further argued that the pervasive spread of populist counter-narratives to multiculturalism erode support for anti-racist and transcultural social work practice. In this context it is argued that social work must acknowledge its compromised situation and explicitly develop a political agenda committed to guaranteeing substantive equality in service delivery.
Subject Anti-racism, assimilationism, counter-narratives to multiculturalism, ethnic hybridity, politics of difference, social cohesion
Classified Subjects ddc: Social Science (300)
DDC 300
Rights DPPL
URN urn:nbn:de:0009-11-10524
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