The Social Street Worker: Grain of Sand or Cog in the Machine of Social Marginalisation
- Discussion in French -
Throughout its history and still today, social street work has been an excellent analytical indicator of the social environment, its structure, and the power struggle present in our societies. Globalisation and its many shortcomings exacerbate inequalities and social marginalisation, and thus the need for this work. However, in an international context in which concerns tend to be focused more on symptoms than on causes, is social street work not merely a salve to cover social failings, a crutch for government inadequacy or a cast on a wooden leg? How can it be made into a vector for social transformation?
With Jean Blairon (Director of Réalisation Téléformation Animation - RTA), Marie-Anne Paraskevas (Director-General of Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities - European Commission) and members of the International Network of Social Street Workers from over thirty countries from the Southern and Northern hemispheres, coordinated by Dynamo International: Edwin de Boeve (Director of Dynamo International), Graeme Tiffany (Vice President of the Federation for Detached Youth Work in Great Britain).
In partnership with Dynamo International
On the same theme, see the film When I Cry, My Heart Beats
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