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Mobility, Transnational social work

Abstract:

Social workers are increasingly confronted with mobile people who move multiple times, whose social networks are transnational, and, combine complex migration trajectories and whose social lives are shaped by various sites. Social workers who work with these transnational mobile clients are critically confronted with locally grounded, “one-nation state” solutions to response to their clients’ needs. Social work will need to cross borders to cope with increasing mobility and temporality. Building upon a qualitative research on social work with transmigrants and on a research project with refugee families, this lecture will explore and describe emerging social work practices that aims to respond to these mobile populations. They range from individual practices with one client to those forms which are embedded in transnational networks of social work organisations.