Although it is widely recognized that the most marginalized people tend to face extra barriers when accessing mainstream services intended to serve everyone, few studies have dealt with the specific barriers and challenges that immigrant and refugee youth from small, marginalized communities encounter when seeking access to services aimed at facilitating their settlement and integration into Canadian society. Our exploratory study of the participation of young African newcomers in youth programs in Metro Vancouver goes some way towards filling this gap. In this paper, we report our key findings and their policy implications. The central finding of this study is that there are many gaps between the needs of young African newcomers and the services available in the wider community. While gaps inhibit successful integration by maintaining a separation of youth from mainstream society, bridges create a continuum of services that offer a stable pathway for youth and promote their integration into mainstream society. Unfortunately, in their attempts to access formal support networks, young African newcomers encounter more gaps than bridges. While newcomers from all countries have particular needs and challenges, the experiences of the young Africans described in this study provide an important reference point for scholars and practitioners who are concerned about the predicaments of newcomer youth, particularly refugees and those from marginalised communities. Bien qu’il soit largement reconnu que les personnes les plus marginalisées ont tendance à faire face à des obstacles supplémentaires quand ils cherchent à accéder aux services conventionnels destinés à tous, peu d’études ont porté sur les obstacles spécifiques et les défis auxquels les jeunes immigrants et refugiés, de petites communautés marginalisées rencontrent lorsqu’ils cherchent à accéder aux services pouvant faciliter leur établissement et intégration dans la société canadienne. Notre étude exploratoire de la participation des jeunes nouveaux arrivants africains dans les programmes de jeunesse de Metro Vancouver, va dans le sens de combler cette lacune. Dans cet article, nous présentons nos conclusions principales ainsi que leurs implications politiques. La conclusion principale de cette étude est qu’il y a beaucoup d’écarts entre les besoins des jeunes nouveaux arrivants africains et les services disponibles dans la communauté plus large. Pendant que les écarts empêchent l’intégration réussie en maintenant la jeunesse séparée de la société principale, les ponts créent une continuité des services qui offre une voie stable aux jeunes et promeut leur intégration dans la société principale. Malheureusement, dans leurs tentatives d’accès à des réseaux formels de soutien, les jeunes nouveaux arrivants africains rencontrent plus d’é-carts que de ponts. Alors que les nouveaux arrivants de tous les pays ont des besoins et défis particuliers, l’expérience des jeunes africains décrite dans cette étude fournit un point de référence important pour les chercheurs et praticiens qui sont préoccupés par les conditions précaires des jeunes nouveaux arrivants, particulièrement les réfugiés et ceux des communautés marginalisées.
English In their efforts to promote the Global Standards for the Education and Training of the Social Work Profession, the authors discovered the withering of the moral and political bases of social work practice in the West. The revitalization of the roots of social work is important to the promotion of social justice. French Dans leurs efforts pour promouvoir les Standards Mondiaux pour l’Enseignement et la Formation aux Professions Sociales, les auteurs découvrent le déclin des bases morales et politiques de la pratique du travail social en occident. La revitalisation des racines du travail social est importante pour la promotion de la justice sociale. Spanish En su esfuerzo para promover los Estándares Globales para la Educación y el Entrenamiento en la Profesión del Trabajo Social, los autores descubrieron el marchitar de las bases políticas y morales de la práctica del trabajo social en occidente. La revitalización de las raíces del trabajo social es importante para la promoción de la justicia social.
Indigenization is a key issue in the development of professional social work in China. Chinese social work scholars have adopted the century-old conceptual formulation of ‘Chinese corpus, western application’ to balance the need for western knowledge and the need for intellectual autonomy. This article explores major current debates on ideology, teleology, epistemology and technology within the social work profession in the West and their implications for social work development in China.
Community-based research (CBR) is a relatively new methodology characterised by the co-generation of knowledge. As CBR is integrated into institutional frameworks, it becomes increasingly important to understand what differentiates CBR from other research. To date, there has been no systematic study of CBR values and principles, which tend to be offered as a list of considerations that are taken as given rather than problematised. Similarly, research has not explored the ways in which understandings of CBR's underlying values differ among individual researchers compared to the broader research values of a large university. In this article, we report the findings of a Delphi study which addresses these gaps through a systematic, cross-disciplinary survey of CBR researchers at a large Canadian research university. Our findings indicate diverse and complex understandings of both the potentially political nature of CBR and the perceived values of the respondents' institution.
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