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Refugee Social Work Positioned Between Transnationalization, State Services and Volunteering: A Review from the German Context

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Social work has always been basically organized at the local and national levels. Nevertheless, in the face of globalization, social work has to be reconsidered far beyond national boundaries, because its clients’ social life worlds extend beyond local and state borders. This chapter analyzes the state of the art in the field of volunteering, refuge and social work and argues that due to its double mandate, social work could act as a bridge between state services and initiatives of the civil society and offer an insight into the ambiguities of cooperation between volunteering activities and professional social work using selected examples.

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Olivier-Mensah, C. (2019). Refugee Social Work Positioned Between Transnationalization, State Services and Volunteering: A Review from the German Context. In: Feischmidt, M., Pries, L., Cantat, C. (eds) Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92741-1_13

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