TY - BOOK A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - do Carmo dos Santos Gonçalves, Maria A1 - Daňková, Petra A1 - Munck, Ronaldo T1 - Migration and social transformation: engaged perspectives Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370220695_Migration_and_Social_Transformation_Engaged_Perspectives SN - 978-1-908689-43-6 PB - Machdohnil Ltd CY - Dublin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Neureither, Franziska A1 - Klages, Anna-Lisa A1 - Lutz, Ronald A1 - Daňková, Petra T1 - Projekte und Lehrformate Sozialer Arbeit im Kontext postkolonialer Perspektiven T2 - Projekte und Lehrformate Sozialer Arbeit im Kontext postkolonialer Perspektiven N2 - Curricula der Sozialen Arbeit besitzen in vielen Bereichen eine eurozentrische Ausrichtung, welche historisch-kolonial gewachsene Strukturen der Ungleichheit und Machtgefälle zwischen und innerhalb Regionen verdecken. Daraus entwickeln sich Dynamiken zwischen sozialen Gruppen und diversen Identitäten und damit verbunden, gesellschaftliche Inklusions-und Exklusionsprozesse, welche in der Forschung, Lehre und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit nicht ausreichend berücksichtigt bzw. reflektiert werden. Die postkoloniale Situation beeinflusst weiterhin tiefgreifend die Wissensproduktion innerhalb der Profession sowie den Transfer von Wissen innerhalb der Lehre und Praxis im Globalen Süden und Norden. Da postkoloniale Theorien und Praxisansätze globale Machtverhältnisse und soziale Ungleichheiten, Rassismen, Diskriminierungs- und Stigmatisierungsprozesse in den Blick nehmen, sind sie von besonderer Bedeutung für die Internationale Soziale Arbeit. Am 12. November 2021 werden die Fachgruppen Internationale Soziale Arbeit (ISA) und Flucht, Migration, Rassismus- und Antisemitismuskritik (Migraas) der DGSA eine gemeinsame Fachtagung, falls möglich in Präsenzform, an der Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS) abhalten. Im Rahmen der Veranstaltung sollen fokussiert Projekte und Lehrformate im Kontext postkolonialer Sozialen Arbeit vorgestellt, in Workshops ausprobiert, diskutiert und gemeinsam weiterentwickelt werden. Die Tagung wird deshalb partizipativ folgende Fragestellungen ins Zentrum rücken: Wie können postkoloniale Perspektiven in der Lehre und Praxis Sozialer Arbeit verankert werden? Welche Formate sind dafür besonders geeignet? Welche kreativen Möglichkeiten gibt es, Studierenden Aspekte postkolonialer Sozialer Arbeit partizipativ zu vermitteln? Welche Herausforderungen lassen sich dabei erkennen? Diesen Fragen wollen wir uns im Rahmen der Tagung stellen. Dabei geht es auch darum von bereits bestehenden Ansätzen zu lernen, vorhandene Ideen aufzugreifen, sie weiter zu entwickeln und uns dabei zu vernetzen. Die Tagung ist interdisziplinär ausgerichtet und offen für Akteur*innen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, welche unterschiedliche, für die Soziale Arbeit relevante, postkoloniale Perspektiven einbringen wollen (z.B. Soziologie, Ethnologie, Ökonomie, Politikwissenschaft, Theologie, Literatur-und Geschichtswissenschaften, etc…). Das Ziel ist gemeinsam auf den Weg zu gehen, um postkoloniale Perspektiven und dekoloniale Ansätze innerhalb der Theorie und der Praxis Sozialer Arbeit zu stärken. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348705439_Projekte_und_Lehrformate_Sozialer_Arbeit_im_Kontext_postkolonialer_Perspektiven ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Neureither, Franziska A1 - Daňková, Petra A1 - Klages, Anna-Lisa A1 - Lutz, Ronald T1 - Ethical Considerations for Social Work Education and Research in Africa: COVID-19, White Privilege, Structural Inequalities and its Implications for European Social Work T2 - Innovation and Resilience: Preparedness of Social Work Education in Uncertain Times N2 - The current pandemic forces parts of Social Work practice, research and education to reinvent itself. Alongside new online formats and blended-learning models, new ethical questions and dilemmas arise. These include issues of resources, control and power, access, accessibility, mobility and rising inequalities, positionality of researchers, data protection and the duty of care in social scientific research and education with migrants and other ,vulnerable’ populations. While individual-oriented models which have arguably been a hallmark of the European Social Work practice, come to its limits during the pandemic, communal practices and local self-organized support systems come to the forefront. How can the Global North learn from approaches of the Global South? The symposium draws on this notion of joint learning and raises important questions about the (im)possibility of equal research partnership during times of worsening structural inequalities. This symposium draws on Social Work related research projects in cooperation with partners in Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria and Ethiopia. The situatedness of the research projects has implicit and explicit ethical implications that pointed out the need for postcolonial reflections. The first perspective focuses on critical whiteness in research practice and pandemic-related challenges regarding field access and exchange opportunities. The second part of the discussion calls for situated ethics based in transnational multi-site research with migrating persons. Drawing on the theory of Social Work as a human rights profession in a global context, the final part of the discussion then moves to emphasize the mandate of Social Work researchers, practitioners and education to consider the perspectives of those unheard and unseen in the current discourse. The range of papers point towards the dilemma of a predominantly white Northern perspectives of Social Work profession that is only slowly reflecting upon and researching its own role in upholding and reproducing the colonial matrix of power. This symposium concludes by making some suggestions how to work towards an ethical space of engagement in which power imbalances are recognized and an in-between space, in which one can in fact only stumble forward together, created. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349773193_Ethical_Considerations_for_Social_Work_Education_and_Research_in_Africa_COVID-19_White_Privilege_Structural_Inequalities_and_its_Implications_for_European_Social_Work ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Daňková, Petra A1 - Klages, Anna-Lisa T1 - Beyond the Single Story of "Migration Management": Creating Space for "Epistemic Disobedience" in Engaging with Migration in Social Work T2 - The 21st International Conference of Migration "Border Thinking" N2 - In recent years, Mignolo’s concept of “border thinking” became an increasingly relevant critical framework to analyze the complexity of migration processes to postcolonial Europe (Lutz, Sachau, & Stauß, 2017; Zannou, & Pfaffenstaller, 2020). It differentiates between external and internal borders; whereby the latter refers to the modern/colonial world system and its epistemological conceptualizations in the postcolonial era that continue to be dominated by the hegemonic order of Eurocentric discourses - here on migration (Mignolo, 2000). Within a reductionist approach to the complexity of migration processes (Mayblin, 2016), motives of migration are often analyzed within a single-story framework that considers solely the perspectives of European-destination countries – disregarding the external border that considers the perspectives of the subaltern (Zannou & Pfaffenstaller, 2020). In addition, the applied framework constructs Europe as in need to protect its welfare systems from overload and exploitation, and its societies from infiltration (Mayblin, 2016). The so-called “root causes” for migration are sought in “underdevelopment” and inter- and intraregional conflicts for land/resources and power. Its close and complex relations to colonial legacies however, are often left unconsidered (Zannou, & Pfaffenstaller, 2020; Lutz, Sachau, & Stauß, 2017). Yet, the imprints of colonial rule on former colonized states continue to impact social, political and economic structures on both sides, thereby shaping knowledge production (Mignolo, 2013). In our presentation, we critically discuss the dominant Eurocentric discourse on “migration management” and its universality claims. Focusing specifically on social work, we sketch out how the production of research and the (self) understanding of the social work profession within the welfare state are often entangled in (re)producing hegemonic discourse. With Mignolo, we reflect on the possibilities of “epistemic disobedience” (Mignolo, 2009; 2013) and its demands for universality in social work education, research and practice. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349693595_Beyond_the_Single_Story_of_Migration_Management_Creating_Space_for_Epistemic_Disobedience_in_Engaging_with_Migration_in_Social_Work ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Neureither, Franziska A1 - Klages, Anna-Lisa A1 - Lutz, Ronald A1 - Daňková, Petra T1 - Projects and Teaching Formats of Social Work in the context of Postcolonial Perspectives T2 - Projects and Teaching Formats of Social Work in the context of Postcolonial Perspectives N2 - Social Work curricula in many areas have a Eurocentric orientation, which obscures historical-colonial structures of inequality and power imbalances between and within regions. This leads to the development of dynamics between social groups and diverse identities and, connected to this, social inclusion and exclusion processes, which are often not sufficiently taken into account or reflected in the research, teaching and practice of Social Work. The postcolonial situation continues to profoundly influence knowledge production within the profession as well as the transfer of knowledge within teaching and practice in the Global South and North. Since postcolonial theories and practice approaches focus on global power relations and social inequalities, different forms of racism, discrimination and stigmatization processes, they are of particular importance for International Social Work. On November 12, 2021, the Expert Groups "International Social Work" and "Flight, Migration, Racism and Anti-Semitism Criticism" of the German Association of Social Work (DGSA) will hold a joint symposium-if possible in attendance at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS). Within the framework of the event, focused projects and teaching formats in the context of postcolonial Social Work will be presented, tried out in workshops, discussed and jointly developed further. The conference will therefore focus on the following questions: How can postcolonial perspectives be anchored in the teaching and practice of Social Work? Which formats are particularly suitable for this? What creative possibilities are there for communicating aspects of postcolonial Social Work to students in a reflective and participatory way? What challenges can be identified? These are the questions we want to address during the conference. The aim is to learn from existing approaches, to take up new ideas, to develop them further and to network. The conference is interdisciplinary and open for actors from science and practice who want to bring in different postcolonial perspectives relevant for Social Work (e.g. sociology, ethnology, economics, political science, theology, literature and history, etc...). The goal is to set out together in order to strengthen postcolonial perspectives and decolonial approaches within Social Work theory and practice. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348741813_Projects_and_Teaching_Formats_of_Social_Work_in_the_context_of_Postcolonial_Perspectives ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Daňková, Petra A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Xypolytas, Nikos A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders N2 - The dramatic pictures of violence on the Polish - Belorussian border are just the latest manifestation of the dehumanization, securitization and externalization of the EU migration management policies. A trend that can be traced to early 2000s has achieved a new level in recent years after a brief opening of EU borders in 2015. The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified these dynamics in different ways and deepened inequalities of the transnational mobility (Lee 2020; Sumba 2021; Afeworki Abay, Kassaye & Kleibl 2022; Matela & Maaza 2022). In addition to physical violence by state and non-state actors along the EU external border, EU migration management employs strategies that condone prolonged exposure of mobile people to death and to a host of human rights violations (Mbembe 2003, 2019; Mayblin & Turner 2020; Mayblin 2016, 2019; Abuya, Krause & Mayblin 2021; Sadeghi 2019). At the same time, civil society members, media representatives and those who attempt to assist mobile people are also increasingly criminalized, exposed to right-extremist violence and targeted by excessive legal, financial and bureaucratic burdens that make their work difficult, if not impossible. Externalization as a central characteristic of EU border management refers to the propounding mechanisms of moving the border forward (Andrews 2021; Getachew 2019; Gutiérrez Rodríguez 2018a, 2018b; Mayblin, 2017; Mayblin, Wake & Kazemi 2019). Outside of the EU, externalization policies construct EU border controls in so-called countries of origin and transit. In this process, EU migration management is fused with foreign policy, international development and international trade mechanisms. These incursions disrupt socioeconomic dynamics and local mobility patterns as far as Iran-Turkey borderlands, West African ECOWAS region or the border between Ethiopia and the Sudan. The internal and external EU migration management developments are inseparable and materialized legacies of colonialism, enduring gender inequalities, politics of citizenship and racialized economies (Andrews 2021; Getachew 2019). This book therefore aims to critically analyze how Social Work and EU migration management regimes co-constitute each other. The here presented book will offer theoretical discussions and practical experiences around the following questions: In which way is Social Work complicit in the EU migration management regime? Where do Social Workers find opportunities to build solidarities, become subversive of the hegemonic structures and work for empowerment? How do Social Workers deal with the increasingly restrictive political, legal and economic environment, in which they engage with mobile people? How can Social Work become more apt to working with people who are at times highly mobile and at times immobilized in remote camps, forests or desert outposts? Moreover, this book espouses the broadest definition of Social Work as a human rights profession and an academic discipline but also as an indigenous way of social assistance and social change (Staub-Bernasconi 2012, 2016; Healy & Link 2011; Kleibl, Lutz & Noyoo 2020). By paying attention to the temporal and spatial aspects of Social Work with mobile people, we explicitly refuse the apolitical, decontextualized view of Social Work as neutral „helping“, instead we plea for critical reflection on the entanglements of Social Work in complex, intersecting power dynamics. Hence, this book seeks to critically analyze how Social Work becomes entangled in categorization of people to make them „legible“ and „visible“ to EU migration management and how Social Work itself is categorized in order to be disciplined as a „helping“ profession and an instrument of the state/EU migration management. We ask how Social Work could be transformed to work in a multiscalar, transnational scale, truly living up to the ambition to employ „glocal“ approach. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358676111_Transnational_Mobility_and_Externalization_of_EU_Borders PB - Lexington Books ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Daňková, Petra A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Xypolytas, Nikos A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Introduction to externalization of EU borders T2 - Transnational mobility and externalization of EU borders: social work, migration management and resistance N2 - The dramatic pictures of violence on the Polish - Belorussian border, preventable shipwrecks off the coast of Italy and Greece or the killing of people attempting to cross the border into the Spanish exclave of Melilla are just the latest manifestation of the dehumanization, securitization and externalization of the EU migration management policies. A trend that can be traced to early 2000s has achieved a new level in recent years after a brief opening of EU borders around 2015. The Covid-19 pandemic has amplified these dynamics in important ways and deepened inequalities of transnational mobility (Lee 2020; Sumba 2021; Afeworki Abay, Kassaye and Kleibl 2022; Matela and Maaza 2022). The flight of people from Ukraine into the EU after the Russian invasion has highlighted the differential treatment of refugees based on intersecting hierarchies of racialization, gender and citizenship. Y1 - 2023 PB - Lexington Books ER -