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 - TY - JOUR A1 - Munck, Ronaldo A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - NGOs and the political economy of international development and development education: an irish perspective JF - Policy & Practice: A Development education review N2 - In Ireland the role of development non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is rarely interrogated. There is, rather, a shared discourse across the government, NGO and academic sectors which does not really encourage critical enquiry. One of the reasons is, arguably, the reduction of support for development education that would have kept that critical lens more active. In light of the recent Oxfam and Goal scandals, we must ask if development NGOs are now ‘part of the problem’ rather than ‘part of the solution’ to use a 1960s phrase. After a brief context-setting section "Why Now?" which discusses recent events around the NGOs, we start our enquiry with a set of Deconstructions of relevant terms such as ‘development’, ‘civil society’, ‘human rights’ and the term ‘NGO’ itself, too often referred to in reverential or uncritical ways in the NGO literature and more widely. We then move on to consider whether it is a case of Irish exceptionalism which explains why the political economy of development and NGOs debate in Ireland seems so insulated from international debates. Finally, we open up a Discussion which tries to pose some of the main matters arising from our enquiry. We understand our discussion might seem challenging to some, but we hope to spark an open debate on whether NGOs are part of the solution or, rather, part of the problem. This debate is too important to be left to the NGOs alone and requires the critical engagement of development education we would argue. Y1 - 2019 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337937421_NGOS_AND_THE_POLITICAL_ECONOMY_OF_INTERNATIONAL_DEVELOPMENT_AND_DEVELOPMENT_EDUCATION_AN_IRISH_PERSPECTIVE?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InByb2ZpbGUiLCJwYWdlIjoicHJvZmlsZSJ9fQ SP - 31 EP - 53 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Neureither, Franziska A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Lutz, Ronald T1 - Internationalisation of Social Work JF - Pedagogika Społeczna Nova N2 - The article explores the internationalisation of social work from a historical point of view to Indigenous approaches and discusses the concepts of indigenisation, authentication and reconceptualisation. It demonstrates the importance of shifting away from the dominant western perspective on knowledge as well as away from the idea of a universal Social Work and focuses on philosophies and approaches of the Global South. Dialogue as praxis, enablement, and empowerment as well as translation and an ethnological view as methods of internationalisation of Social Work are emphasised. Subsequently, perspectives of Radical as well as Green Social Work and postcolonial feminist approaches within the profession are presented, which can contribute to a desired interwoven, mutually supporting Social Work. The outlook shows the importance of international and cross-cultural exchange between social workers. It emphasizes on sharing of and learning about local methods and practices from other parts of the world, to develop common ideas. In this context self-reflection of the profession and social work- ers is crucially value. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14746/psn.2023.3.6.11 VL - 3 IS - 6 SP - 175 EP - 195 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Xypolytas, Nikos T1 - ¿Opresión o liberación? - La Función del trabajo social en la gestión de la migración T2 - Migración y transformación social: Perspectivas comprometidas N2 - Este volumen cuestiona las formas tradicionales de crear conocimiento en la investigación sobre migración y se propone a descentralizar el sesgo eurocéntrico del país receptor y explorar los procesos de migración Sur-Sur proporcionando perspectivas del país de origen sobre la migración. El libro está dividido en secciones sobre Perspectivas, Experiencias e Intervenciones para buscar activamente posibilidades para como moldear procesos sociales vitales conectados con la migración. Con este fin, en la sección final hay la tradición del trabajo social como disciplina académica y práctica profesional enfocada en la transformación social, más que como una práctica a nivel micro de “control” o “educación” de personas y familias que se consideran fuera de la sociedad “normal”. Este volumen persigue el objetivo de reivindicar la misión política del trabajo social como fuerza activa de transformación social y mostrar cómo el trabajo social puede ser una fuerza para diseñar políticas activamente, en lugar de ser solo una herramienta de control de la migración. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.61301/isbn.978-65-85775-03-8.2023.v24.p322-248 SP - 322 EP - 348 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Khoo, Su-ming A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Addressing the Global Emergencies of Climate and Human Rights from Below: A View from the Pedagogy of Development Ethics and International Social Work JF - Irish Studies in International Affairs N2 - Acknowledging that the climate emergency is a transdisciplinary challenge that changes everything, this paper offers reflections on teaching and research, attending to the public and students' demands, witnessed at a global climate protest- ‘to not remain as bystanders, but join in action!‘ It asks, what could we begin to do to teach, research and write for climate action, and for solidarity? We offer a joint reflection on the experience of a collaborative Erasmus+ Disciplinary Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Assessment (Erasmus DELTA) training exchange and consider the challenges and benefits for engaged scholarship, subject specific curriculum enhancement and creative pedagogy. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1353/isia.2020.0001 VL - 31 IS - 1 SP - 27 EP - 42 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Afeworki Abay, Robel A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Xypolytas, Nikos T1 - Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Social Work, Social Policy and Beyond T2 - Decoloniality, Social Policy and Social Work N2 - The history of social work and the modern Western university paradoxically represents both the high point and low point of human progress. Conceived in an epoch of immense human discovery, it is important to understand this period as characterised by white Western Imperialist and Colonial projects and the rise of capitalist accumulation. In combination, these processes, not confined to the geo-political points of origin, continue to have devastating impacts across the world, characterised by the exploitation, displacement, and destruction of human beings as well as natural ecosystems. Hegemonic colonial structures and practices created and reproduced global racialised hierarchies with the dominance of the Global North and the 'Othering' of knowledge forms and ways of life emerging from the Global South. Struggles for decolonisation and anti-racism come from an ongoing refusal by the victims of capitalism and imperialism to accept defeat and to continue to struggle for life, liberty and dignity. In the current moment, especially following the brutal public execution of George Floyd in the US and the Black Lives Matter movement, especially amongst youth, we have witnessed a global response, incorporating gestures of solidarity, through the ‘taking of the knee’ through to direct action to remove statues and monuments celebrating various characters associated with Empire, slavery and colonial exploitation. Decolonial perspectives are often neglected in the Global North. At the same time, activist intellectuals such as Freire, Fanon, and also Gandhi remain important sources for social work practice otherwise. Decolnialism refers both to a specific global conjuncture and to a broad range of theoretical analyses and political dispositions, borne out of the struggle of countries in the Global South to escape from colonial rule and from neo-colonial global power relations. In parallel, post-colonial thought critiques the Northern and Western-centrism of what passes for global knowledge, distrusting particularistic knowledge forms that pretend to a universal understanding and reach and, instead, seek to bring back pluriversal thinking. Crucially, an anti-colonialist paradigm focuses on dismantling global structures of domination – in thought, language, action, suggesting that political and conceptual work is needed, constantly, to challenge the powerful legacies of the colonial past. This bias is as present in social work as it is in other disciplines and practices, eroding the memory and relevance of alternative traditions and practices. Alongside geo-political colonisation there were parallel processes of the colonisation of madness, childhood, sexuality, poverty, gender, disability and old age. In all of these examples, the dominant powers use the same, or similar, patterns of subordinating, even erasing, ‘The Other’, through disciplines of care and control that involve oppression and exploitation. Crucially, the planet, and its finite resources, are being colonised for profit through unfettered extractivist productivism. Social work's emergence as a profession was deeply implicated in social Darwinism and eugenics, trends that have re-emerged in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding global inequality as a phenomenon deriving from colonialism, imperialism and capitalism, this course seeks to address the prosepcts for a decolnial social work, a social work otherise, a social work of the South and the ways these can and should be reflected in social work education, training and rpactice. How can international documents (conventions, treaties etc.) be used to combat the colonialist paradigm? What kinds of alternative understandings of the relationship between people and nature exist and how can these be used as part of the anti-colonial struggle? What are some of the colonising and de-colonising effects of international efforts in social work? How can indigenous wisdom, local and hidden intelligence and skills, be preserved and built upon? How can patriarchal values be turned off and around, providing the openings for values of care, solidarity and kindness? Can minor subversions of social work contribute to major changes? Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354735732_Anti-Colonial_Perspectives_in_Social_Work_Social_Policy_and_Beyond 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 - CHAP A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Kolbe, Simon Wilhelm T1 - Soziale Arbeit neu denken - eine katholische Perspektive T2 - Kultur- und religionssensible Wohlfahrtspflege - Herausforderungen und zivilgesellschaftliche Perspektiven in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.32181.19687 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 - Kasaye, Demelash A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Overcoming the socio-economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic: social work perspectives and postcolonial reflections from Ethiopia T2 - The coronavirus crisis and challenges to social development: global perspectives N2 - The coronavirus pandemic is the most challenging health emergency in generations, as it has already impacted on the capacities of health infrastructures and is dramatically affecting the local and global economy. Since the global spread of the pandemic, the importance of social distancing as well as the hygiene measures for self-protection and protection of other persons has been enforced, to reduce the rapid spread of the coronavirus. However, these ever-more restrictive protection measures are often not feasible for many, especially marginalized and subaltern groups in the Global South, as state-funded social security systems are very limited there. Therefore, it is not surprising that these developments pose a huge socioeconomic threat as well as potential for social and political unrest, especially to those communities living in already politically fragile and precarious situations in countries such as Ethiopia. Developing Santos’s understanding of social work epistemologies of the South’ and based on a small-scale explorative qualitative study in cooperation with Addis Ababa University, this chapter highlights the impact of historical postcolonial inequalities as well as contemporary political conflicts on the agency of Ethiopian Social and Community Workers as well as their perspectives regarding the multiple crises they confront. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84678-7_37 SP - 431 EP - 442 PB - Springer International Publishing ER - TY - CHAP A1 - do Carmo dos Santos Gonçalves, Maria A1 - Gutwald, Rebecca A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Lutz, Ronald A1 - Noyoo, Ndangwa A1 - Twikiriz, Janestic T1 - Concluding Remarks and Summation T2 - The Coronavirus Crisis and Challenges to Social Development N2 - This chapter serves as the conclusion to the whole book, which covers different regions around the globe. In this regard, it proffers global perspectives to social development’s responses to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and how the world was impacted by this virus. In essence, it examines a multiplicity of issues pertaining to COVID-19. It must be noted that the issues raised in this book’s chapters are not exhaustive. Nevertheless, they encompass the following: social issues, social work strategies and responses at the local and global level, responses of social work educators and students, and a focus on a post-pandemic global scenario. In arriving at the book’s conclusion, the editors also reflect on their personal journeys, which they had embarked upon when they started writing this book, in dire and perilous circumstances. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357531441_Concluding_Remarks_and_Summation SP - 443 EP - 446 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Noyoo, Ndangwa A1 - do Carmo dos Santos Gonçalves, Maria A1 - Gutwald, Rebecca A1 - Lutz, Ronald A1 - Twikiriz, Janestic A1 - Kleibl, Tanja T1 - Epilogue - coronavirus book T2 - The coronavirus crisis and challenges to social development: global perspectives Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358511086_Epilogue_-_Coronavirus_Book SP - 447 EP - 449 PB - Springer International Publishing ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Abay Afeworki, R. A1 - Dankova, P. A1 - Kleibl, Tanja A1 - Xypolitas, N. T1 - Verstrickungen Sozialer Arbeit in die Externalisierung der EU-Migrationsregime JF - Externalisierung von Asyl: Ein Kompendium wissenschaftlicher Erkentnisse Y1 - 2025 UR - externalizingasylum.info/de/verstrickungen-sozialer-arbeit-in-die-externalisierung-der-eu-migrationsregime/ ER -