Original scientific paper
EXPERIENCING ALIENATION IN REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS: SELF-PERCEPTION AND PERCEPTION OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS
Mladen Knežević
; Faculty of Law, Zagreb
Abstract
Alienation is by definition congruent to the status of refugees
and displaced persons. Almost in all areas of individual and
social life, refugees and displaced persons live a life deprived of
its basic dimensions. However, it seems that the perception of the
difficulty and complexity of the refugee's and displaced person's
situation is far more serious in those who observe this situation
from the outside, who are not directly involved. Examining the feeling
of alienation of refugees and displaced persons as well as the
perception of their alienation by social work students, we have found
that the students assess this population's alienation far more
seriously than the population itself. Seeman's questionnaire was
used and completed with the newly constructed scale "Alienation
of proper corporeality". In all modalities, social work students assess
the alienation of refugees and displaced persons significantly
more seriously than the refugees and displaced persons
themselves.
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Hrčak ID:
31702
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Publication date:
1.3.1997.
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