3rd Bachelor in Social Services

Problems of immigration

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ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffCECCHETTO, Milva
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0028/3
Prerequisite

None

Aims and Objectives

Bring students to awareness of problems encountered on the field in cross-cultural settings.

Call their attention to cultural shocks in populations consisting of people of different origins.

Show the stand which can be taken by social workers in the face of these problems.

Description

Anthropology today ; intercultural approach for social workers

Historical context : the current situation ; migration ; immigration problems

Integration. Can democracy and public recognition of cultural differences be conciliated?

Cultural shocks : problems of multi-cultural coexistence

Therapies and cultures

Bibliography

MORELLI A., Histoire des Etrangers et de l'immigration en Belgique de la préhistoire à nos jours, Vie Ouvrière, 1992.

MARTINIELLO M., Sortir des ghettos culturels, Presses de sciences Po, 1997.

CAMILLERI C., COHEN-EMERIQUE M., Chocs de cultures: concepts et enjeux, pratiques de l'interculturel, L'Harmattan, 1998.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Group seminars or workshops

Lectures by invited field workers, information from videos, press material, to show a series of reflectins on these subjects, to be confronted worth students’ personal experience from placement work and with all intercultural situations thery will have to face.

Assessment MethodsWritten and/or oral examination
Essays

Interview during which student is expected to show quality of thought, understanding, and adaptation concerning these contemporary problems

NotesNo
LanguageFrench

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