Annual of social work, Vol. 24 No. 3, 2017.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.3935/ljsr.v24i3.132.
PROBLEM OF RACISM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL WORK
Jovana Škorić
orcid.org/0000-0001-9028-2176
; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Srbija
Abstract
The paper presents the problem of racism and its relevance in the context of social work. The aim of the paper is to briefly analyse the main features of racism as a social construct and a dynamic force that evolves over time and is strongly influenced by political, economic and social forces. Further, the paper seeks to locate its various forms within the structures of social institutions and to present the anti-racist practices of social work, as well as the roles social workers perform in reducing this phenomenon. As ethnic sensitivity, empowerment and cultural competence are constituents of anti-racist social work, the operationalisation of these concepts is analysed further in the text. Finally, in order to approach this problem in a more proactive and effective way, room is left for a discussion on how to improve the competences of social workers.
Keywords
racism; social work; anti-racist practices, social workers
Hrčak ID:
196186
URI
Publication date:
5.3.2018.
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