INDIA - RAJAGIRI COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

3rd Symposium - 2018

Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, University of Utah, and University of Applied Sciences Landshut held the  the 3rd international symposium on Valuing Diversity in Global Social Work: Practice with People on the Move. The symposium was one of a series of themed scholarly gatherings building on an emerging network of European, United Kingdom, Australian, Asian, African and USA academics committed to developing frameworks for global social work education, research, theory and practice. The challenge of diversity and people on the move is one of a number of emerging global issues, including population movement across borders, civil conflict and violence, populism, ageing demographics, environmental sustainability, which are placing new demands on the relevance of social work. The question of how to research, theories and operationalise the notion of global social work in response to migration and integration was the theme of this year’s symposium.