The “Padró per a totes” (municipal register for everyone) task force – whose members include anti-racist bodies and local community groups – has worked throughout 2023 to improve access to municipal registration for individuals suffering from racialisation in the city of Tarragona. The origin of this campaign stems from the participatory diagnosis “Derives Migrades”, which identified institutional racism within local authorities, particularly emphasising the obstacles encountered by migrant communities in accessing municipal registration.
This article sets out the testimonies of social workers of basic social services in Catalonia, focussing on the primary problems related to the internal operation of these services and the practice of the profession in our nation when it comes to addressing the chronic nature of poverty. The research underpinning this paper is qualitative and encompasses a SWOT analysis and semi-structured interviews with 18 social workers from across the region who carry out their professional activity locally at both town and county councils.
The situation that has arisen as a result of the pandemic not only expedited the use of digital technologies, it also accelerated the digitisation process of society at a global level, especially during lockdown.
This research shows us various perceptions and experiences of individuals facing housing issues when it comes to the professional support they have received from social workers within the social services system. It does so specifically for the towns of Cerdanyola del Vallès and Ripollet (Barcelona).
A qualitative research project has been proposed. To this end, we have worked alongside users of the social services system experiencing housing problems who are part of the PAH Ripollet-Cerdanyola (mortgage victim platform) collective.
Homelessness is a multi-factor, multi-dimensional, structural and dynamic phenomenon that hinders professional intervention and, on certain occasions, causes the person to fall back into homelessness after having achieved social integration. This research addresses the “revolving door” phenomenon, analysing both its scope and the potential intersectionality that exists among the factors that generate recidivism.
The article proposes the new challenges of Social Work with the important migratory movements in our country during the last years. The social workers find themselves confronted with new, socially very complex situations, with new inequalities, with social movements in interaction and in the process of change and therefore the need of new reflection, of a redefinition of their intervention models.
Primary care social services benefit from several methodologies to provide assistance to citizens according to the needs identified and any necessary diagnosis.
This article details the experience of community social work carried out in a neighbourhood in Barcelona which was gradually disappearing due to its unstable living conditions. Firstly, a description of the neighbourhood is provided, followed by an account of the historical context and the emergence of the group for promoting social work within the community. The article delves into the complex process giving rise to the disappearance of the neighbourhood and the role played by “the social worker” in it.
This paper seeks to show and promote, among the professional prison community, the experience of creating and applying a procedure that we refer to as the Protocol for Joint Intervention involving Families (or PICFA from the Catalan, for short) at Lledoners prison. This working protocol encourages relatives of inmates inside the prison to become involved and to gain access to interventions so that joint meetings can be organised among inmates and with professionals from the multidisciplinary teams (abbreviated herein with EMD).
The age of globalisation has favoured international migration. Current studies on this topic have begun adopting the transnationalism approach. Accordingly, not only is the influence of migrants on the destination location being investigated; the relationships that occur at a distance with the place of origin are being examined also. In this respect, the family has come to form the core component of research on migration and transnationalism.
