Reflections about Development Perspectives of Social Workers in the Reception Centers for Immigrants in Italy

Journal title EDUCATIONAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICES
Author/s Mario Giampaolo
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/2
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 109-125 File size 218 KB
DOI 10.3280/ERP2016-002008
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During the years 2014 and 2015, the Mediterranean Sea was the theater of a huge migratory flow. Only in these two years, thousands of people left their countries for a long journey hoping to find a place, in Italy and in Europe, where to live with dignity. From November 2015 to April 2016, the work experience in the reception center for asylum seekers in Conetta, a small village in the province of Venice, allowed to identify some practices of the community (Wenger, 2006; Wenger, McDermott, & Snyder, 2007) of social workers that every day are committed to address the challenges of the reception and relate to people with a different culture. Founded at the end of July 2015, the center, one of the largest in the north-east of Italy, hosted more than 500 immigrants from Africa and Asia. The second part of the work identifies, thanks to an initial literature review of institutional and academic sources, three models of competencies needed for the development of this professional involved in the management of migratory flows. Starting from the identified competency models and the experience of participation in the community of social workers, the work suggests some core themes and methodologies for the design of development programs.

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Mario Giampaolo, Riflessioni sulle prospettive di formazione per gli operatori dei centri di accoglienza per richiedenti asilo in Italia in "EDUCATIONAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICES" 2/2016, pp 109-125, DOI: 10.3280/ERP2016-002008