International Social Work, Winter Term 2014/15
In this course I propose to treat the following themes:
- Social exclusion and poverty in Europe and the world
- Social policy in Europe and new forms of paid work
- Theories and Models of migration and immigration
- European asylum policy and Frontex and Eurosur
- Theories and practice of transculturality, transnationality and intersectionality
- Racism and postcolonialism and land robbery
- Human rights and social work
- Social work education in different countries
- Theories and practice of political transition- the cases of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya
- Cross national learning experiences
Reading:
Christine Labonté-Roset(2013), The recent economic crisis and their effects on social cohesion and social exclusion and the role of social work (copies will be distributed at the beginning of the course)
A.B. Atkinson, E. Marlier (2010), Indicators of poverty and social exclusion in a global context. In: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 29/2, p. 285 ff
P. Boccagni, Rethinking transnational studies: transnational ties and the transnationalism of everyday life. European Journal of Social Theory 15/1, p.117 ff
J.A. Buss, Have the poor gotten poorer? The American experience from 1997 -2007, Journal of Poverty 14/2 p.183 ff
Eurostat (2010), Combating poverty and social exclusion. A statistical portrait of the European Union, epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
Introduction, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 26/2, p. 173 ff
O.Lelkes, E.Zolyomi (2010), Poverty andsocial exclusion of migrants in the European Union
www..euro.centre.org
D. Padovan, A. Alietti, The racialisation of public discourse. In: European Societies, Routledge 2012
On our first seminar meeting on the
8. of October., 17 – 19 h
we can decide about the themes you are most interested in, which we will treat and discuss in depth.
And we can decide if we will have a weekly seminar of 2 hours or instead a block seminar ( 5 days à 8 hours for example)
Examination can be done as
- Seminar paper
- Assignement
- Oral examination
- Written examination
(Besides the seminar paper the other forms of examination can be done besides English also in German, French or Italian)
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