The paper draws attention to the loss of contract power of service users. It shows a gap between policies and ideology of participation on the one hand and lived experiences of participation practices in the services on the other. Users’ participation seems to be a trademark of contemporary European social policy or mental health policy, while children’s participation is the most emphasised part of children friendly justice discourse, but the question arises whether they really are in place. The national and European research projects, conducted by the author and her colleagues in the last years are used to emphasise the most problematic points, but also innovative social work and advocacy practices.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 4303205The article presents a mixed methodology research about the impact of growing poverty (2013-2014) which was done by the author and carried out among students of social work. It shows that the increase of living costs, decrease of wages and social transfers and the externalisation of workplaces have strongly influenced the everyday life of the students and the level of economic stability in their primary families. The research has shown an increase of fear, anxiety and family conflicts, and the decrease of different life opportunities for young people including social and economic mobility. The data has been reflected and framed within a broader statistics of the poverty among the EU-28 countries, especially among the young people. The analysis clams that poverty is a form of the culture of dominance.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 4343141A policy of the neosocial is being strengthened, which is characterized by redefining the objectives of the welfare state as was established after the second world war in the European countries. In this proces, there is a teleological conveying of the meaning of social rights. The economic doctrine of neoliberalism is the form of this process (penetration of economics in the social sphere), rather that its cause.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 4469861The concept of the autonomy of migration makes it possible to consider refugees and migrants without resorting to victimization and security discourse. Control is broken down by presenting typical discourses (the distinction between refugees and economic migrants, security discourse, victim discourse, asylum abuse) and countermeasures (incarcerating “illegal” migrants and the externalization of European borders). The main argument is that in practice, immigration control blocks not only the autonomy of migration, but also the system of international protection (asylum). These concepts and practices are reflected in Europe’s externalized borders – “buffer zones”.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 58665314There are many reasons for deinstitutionalisation: total institutions dehumanise the living conditions of their inmates, severely breach their basichuman rights, make people unwell and seem deviant and disable the professionals from helping people. Total institutions are not only ideal typesthey are abstract machines with material effects. Their main functions are to contain and control people; and to produce an excess of counterproductive professional power. Deinstitutionalisation, in order to succeed must function like an abstract machine too - polemic against the elements of total institution in the practice of community services, and programmatic in escaping from the patterns of subordination and control. It isa machine of opening, enabling movement, it has to provide escape and resettlement to the people with the most severe distress in order to avoid "skimming and parking", be an alternative to institutions and have a zero tolerance for any restraint. It must cease to be a separate, special social body, not only include people in the community but connect with the most social parts of it. The role of the professionals must change from guardians to advocates, the knowledge used from axiomatic deductive to inductive and experimental. It must seek the ways to cherish the uniqueness of each person but fight against isolation and create new kinds of collectivities.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 4348773