tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16274541233031339032024-02-06T18:03:31.632-08:00Kuulumisia sosiaalityön oppiaineestaLapin yliopiston sosiaalityön oppiaineLapin yliopiston sosiaalityön oppiainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12929956364311981342noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-71770767525864301702018-07-02T04:38:00.000-07:002018-07-02T04:38:17.635-07:00
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the 21st International Summer School in Social Work we had guests from 10
different countries. The atmosphere in the course was really cosy and
conversational. We had student panels from different countries and we had also
presentations about many interesting subjects. We chose to write about burnout
and selfcare for the social work profession, because it’s interesting topic and
also current issue in Finland. Dr. Donna Wampole from University of Southern
Maine, USA, was giving us presentation about this theme. The presentation was
really interesting, beneficial and also really entertaining. Donna Wampole
encouraged us to take care of ourselves in the future when we are working as
social workers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Burnout
is an international phenomenon which can happen to everyone around the world,
especially to people who have demanding job, where they are helping other
people and see all kinds of issues. In Finland there has been a lot of
discussion about burn out among social workers. Many social workers have had to
take a break from their profession to recover from it. Recovery from burnout
can take many months. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Donna Wampole was telling us that compassion fatigue can turn into burnout. She
was telling us that when we meet sad or unpleasant things, we begin to feel
tense. Sometimes some cases can hit you and somehow really touches you and you
can’t seem to let it go. Then you became emotionally exhausted. When you are
emotionally exhausted, you might feel anxious, depressed, distress and anger
and you need additional sleep. When someone is suffering from burnout, there
can also be challenges falling or staying asleep, weight gain, poor eating
habits and so on. However, burnout is a different experience for everyone. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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work as a profession is quite demanding, because there is so many people that
need help but there’s not enough resources to help everyone as fast as should.
Especially in child protection there has been a huge crisis in Finland; one
social worker has too many children to work with. This kind of situation can
easily lead to social workers burnout.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When
someone is suffering from burnout or stress, it is helpful to find ways to
relax. For example, you can do something active and exercise or take a walk,
whatever you find relaxing. Creative art and music can be helpful to someone,
or spending time with family and friends. It also helps if you know yourself,
for example if you are introvert, you might relax easier by yourself and
extrovert relaxes better being with other people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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has been truly effective exercise in taking care of burnout patients. The
origin of mindfulness is from Buddhism and it is commonly used in many
therapies nowadays. Doing mindfulness, you need to concentrate on how you feel.
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">¨The awareness that emerges through
paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally to the
unfolding of experience moment by moment¨</i> (Kabat-Zinn 2003, pg. 145). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the end of presentation, we tried to do mindfulness and it was really relaxing.
We closed our eyes and just focused on to this moment. We also repeated
positive thoughts and hoped positive things, even to people that we find a
little bit challenging. It might be good to all of us to start doing
mindfulness already, maybe we could prevent burnout that way!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön oppiainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12929956364311981342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-2636253862604138012018-06-13T08:40:00.005-07:002018-06-13T08:40:37.576-07:00Finland -The happiest country <br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The idea for this blog
text came from the first summer school lecture “Finland as a Welfare State”. A
lot of people have asked us why Finland is the happiest country in the world. We
wanted to write this text from the student’s point of view and focusing on
combining studying and family life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Finnish Ministry
of Education and Culture has published results of the Eurostudent VI- survey. Results
are to be used more efficiently at the national level as part of the key
project of Prime Minister Sipilä’s Government on developing higher education. The
EUROSTUDENT VI survey was conducted in Finland in spring 2016 using an online
questionnaire sent to a sample of 24,000 higher education students. (Potila,
Moisio, Ahti-Miettinen, Pyy-Martikainen, Virtanen, 2017, 7.) It says on the
survey that the average age of Finnish university student is 26 -years old. (Potila
ym. 2017, 24). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">University studies
in Finland last about five years, so basically it means that average Finnish
student will be 31 years old when they graduate. If they work besides studies
the time can be even longer than five years. Out of all the higher education
students, including University of Applied Students every sixth person has one
or more children. (Potila ym. 2017, 28). It means that it is really important
that Finnish welfare system supports students with little children or studying while
on parental leave. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In Finland when
you get pregnant you are legitimate to have maternity leave and parental leave.
Maternity leave starts about 5-8 weeks before the expected due date and lasts
about four months. When your maternity leave starts you will begin to get
maternity allowance from Kela which is a Finnish institution that
literally <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">means </span>"People's
Pension Institute. The parental leave starts right after maternity leave and
lasts about six months. Parental leave can be shared between mother and father.
During the parental leave, Kela pays parental allowance. (Kela, Our Services,
Families, Parental allowances, 30.5.2018). Basically, it means that you child
will be about 9-months old when your entitlement to the parental allowance
ends. The amount of parental allowance is combined to earned incomes before
maternity leave. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Does this mean you
have to suspend your studies for 9 -months? Of course not! If the mother or
father is a full-time student and receives financial aid for students, the
parental allowance is paid on top financial aid for students. So, do you have
to go to work or back to studies after nine months. No. The Finnish welfare
system will provide you with child home care allowance, which basically means
that KELA is paying you money to take care your child at home and you can get
student allowance at the same time if you want to study. After maternity leave
you have a choice to stay at home with child home care allowance until the
child is 3 years old. Home care allowance ends when a child enters to
municipality funded day care. The government also pays a child support monthly
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When parents of little, under school-aged children
decides to go back to school or to work, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;">municipalities have the obligation to provide a
daycare place for children. We have a subjective right for children to have an </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin;">early childhood education. Fees for day care are rated
by household’s income. If family’s monthly incomes are less than 2000€, day
care is for free. So basically, student’s children get day care for free if
their mainly incomes are social benefits (and part-time jobs). Finnish day
cares provide high educated staff and organized facilities to take care of
children, 3 free and healthy meals per day for children and great support for
studying parents if parents informal networks (the grandparents) lives far
away, which is quite common in Finland, because students move to other places
to study. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Government
supports also students and families at housing costs. Housing allowance is for
supporting the rental cost for low income households. Housing allowance is
calculated based on incomes and how many people lives under a same roof. Students
usually gets housing allowance and when they have children the allowance
increases. Kela pays up to 80% of the rent when family’s income is low, such as
in student-parents families.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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And of course, we have the baby box that the Finnish student panel group mentioned. Baby box is a box that all the new mothers receive, containing all the necessary items that you might need with a new baby. At the end of this text we have couple of pictures about the baby box 2018, because one of us is having a baby this summer. <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">And of course, you can choose if you want the
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family life, government is supporting especially women to achieve high
education and combine children and student/ work life. Nevertheless, Poverty
among families with children have increased especially in student-parent
families. Student-, housing-, and child care allowances haven’t developed at
the same pace that living costs in Finland. That creates pressure to go to work
along studying and parenting, which can truly be described as traffic years.
When you are given a choice to choose whatever you want to do in life, you end
up doing it all, at the same time </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-char-type: symbol-ext; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">😉</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Mindfulness
skills are truly required when you live your life at the fullest. Although, we
want to emphasize that Finland is a good country from the university student’s
point of view because we have good opportunities to combining family life and
studies. And for us, that is one of the reasons why Finland is the happiest
country in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön oppiainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12929956364311981342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-58216232568366638412017-06-26T03:17:00.000-07:002017-06-26T03:17:26.751-07:00<u>Excursion to Monika – Multicultural Women’s Association</u>
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In the 20th International Summer School in Social Work we did an excursion to Helsinki between 3-7.6.2017. Part of the excursion was the visit to Monika – Multicultural Women’s Association. Monika-Naiset is a Finnish NGO that operates as an umbrella organization for 13 multicultural women’s organizations in Finland. Organization has three core activities. Most importantly it provides help, support and therapy services to immigrant women and their children who have experienced violence or are under threat of violence. Organization has a crisis shelter Mona for women and their children. Mona shelter is accessible 24/7 through helpline, and it is available nationwide and located secretly. Organization also operates women’s resource center Monika which is open in office hours. The resource center offers therapy, advocacy and practical help individually and in peer groups for victims of violence. <br />
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Second, MoniNaiset space offers social activities, counselling and workshops to support women’s integration into the Finnish society. Workshops and individual counselling concentrates on job searching and mapping professional and educational paths. <br />
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Third, organization acts as an agent to produce and forward information of immigrants and discriminative attitudes and structures. It empowers member associations and individuals to reduce and dispute racism and prejudices against immigrants. The organization is a highly regarded and visible actor in matters of integration and immigration in Finland.
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Organization gets its funding mainly from the city of Helsinki, city of Vantaa, STEA, European Social Fund, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and Ministry of Education and Culture.
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<em>The Mona shelter and the resource center Monika</em>
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Past years have been time of growth for Monika as the flow of immigration to Europe and Finland has accelerated. Last year was busiest so far for both the shelter and the resource center. The number of children in Mona has doubled in past two years. There are also an increasing number of customers who are still waiting for an asylum decision. Obviously it indicates a large number of asylum seekers but also effective spreading of information in reception centers and immigrant society, according to the annual report of organization.
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Violence that is faced by immigrant women can be various. Honor-related and culturally bound violence such as girls subjected to female circumcision and forced marriages are executed by community. Therefore for migrant women who are in dangerous situation the threshold to find help can be very high. Also I find it noteworthy that for example last year in 30 percent of cases in Mona shelter the perpetrator of violence was Finnish. A victim is particularly vulnerable if she/he has come to country alone through marriage or relationship.
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<em>The MoniNaiset space and Osaavat Naiset project
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MoniNaiset has grown too in past years. It offers support for integration and promotes networking and social activities for migrant women. Finnish official integration program is pretty stiff. It is planned individually and takes 1-3 years, depending on person’s education, language skills and age. Women with small children and many pregnancies have difficulties to achieve decent language skills as they have to drop off from integration courses. It is often used possibility among migrant women to get home care allowance for three years after baby’s birth. It also prevents women in certain age and position to finish official integration path. MoniNaiset offers Finnish courses and wider counselling to make a plan for studies and/or to find a job. During group meetings and language courses there are nannies for small children, so mothers are able to join. Children are more than welcome to all activities so it is not a reason to leave out. People get help also in matters of residence permits, family reunion, applying of substitutes and apartments and other advices. There are only few people actually working for MoniNaiset, but nannies, language teachers and workshop leaders are volunteers.
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Osaavat naiset is a separate project offering more detailed and long-term support individually and in workshops to get on track with education and working life. Volunteer mentors offer individual support for particularly academic women and they have had good results in past years. <br />
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Monika-Naiset organization is a necessary add to services for migrant women. There is no doubt that it is important to have accessible and easily reached help for women who have experienced violence or are under threat of violence. It is also undoubtable that help has to be provided in a multicultural and multilingual way. Violence, whether it was physical or psychological, often weakens victim’s agency and therefore ability to recognize and explicate the situation. The organization has multicultural competence that is needed to confront women and children with wide variety of backgrounds in situations that might be also culturally bound. <br />
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Organization’s position as a meeting place, a supporter and an integration catalyst is solid. Being an advocate and an informant between women and organizations and the government has become even more important in past years. At the moment we are living in times when funding cuts and diminishing resources are daily news. Still trust on continuity is strong in the association. Who would like to cut from immigrant women, said coordinator Marisel Soto Godoy as she gave us a tour in the premises of Monika-Naiset in Kalasatama. I truly hope that nobody!
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More information about the association can be found: <a href="https://monikanaiset.fi/en/">https://monikanaiset.fi/en/</a>
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Sarita Kauppinen
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Social work student, University of Lapland
Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön laitoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429667525053224574noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-22332698108098729492017-06-21T00:46:00.003-07:002017-06-21T00:46:54.655-07:00<u>Mining as a slow violence in Northern Finland?</u>
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Dr. Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö gave a fascinating presentation on 30th of May in the International summer school in social work. Ranta-Tyrkkö is a Finnish postdoctoral researcher from the University of Tampere. Her expertise is on eco-social and international social work, and she’s been doing research on mining industry’s implications on socio-ecological environment in Northern Finland and India. In her presentation she brought up suggestions on what social work as a discipline has to offer to study such implications. Furthermore she says that we can actually use our expertise and position to intervene in the unequal and excessive use of natural resources. <br />
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There are few features that make Finland a perfect destination to invest in mining, so it is Europe’s number one and fifth in global comparison. Firstly, Finland is politically stable and the infrastructure is already safe and comprehensive. Second, when mining permit is given, yield is nearly free for mining company, whether it is in foreign or Finnish ownership. Third, there is strong political will to get investments on mining in Finland as it creates employment and temporary growth to areas that would otherwise be economically stagnated. Ranta-Tyrkkö says that the employment effect is around 7000 jobs at the moment, which is many on Finnish scale.
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Ranta-Tyrkkö has focused on Sodankylä area to have closer look at Kevitsa and its influence on community. Kevitsa is a large scale metal mine and it has given to small town of Sodankylä a significant economic boost. The employment influence is remarkable although many jobs are related to construction of mining area: when the construction of a mining area’s infrastructure and foundation is completed employment influence starts to decrease. Naturally, there are local people who have reacted to growth in mining industry and educated themselves to suitable field like engineering or geology, but it is relatively rare. Highly educated experts are often operating from abroad or posted to Sodankylä. Shorter vocational education in mining is provided in Lapin ammattiopisto, and it offers longer employment. The mine has indirect effect on services that the increasing population requires. <br />
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Ranta-Tyrkkö says that municipal social work practice needs to bend schedules to fit with working hours of miners and construction workers. The same applies to child day-care system, schools and other social and healthcare services as well as service sector operators. The problem is that mines deplete or are otherwise deactivated usually in 20-30 years.
Ranta-Tyrkkö says that although Finnish Lapland is sparsely populated, community cohesion is tight. People keep trying to find ways to stay near to relatives, friends and nature. Up North there are very few ways to find a living. Tourism and service sector do not attract men who were earlier working in forestry and logistics. Nevertheless they are men who stay and therefore gender distribution is often skewed. <br />
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Perhaps Lappish men tend to have closer connection to nature. Traditional gender roles address men outside and women inside the house in rural Finland. With urbanization leaving to cities and getting high education is strongly women’s act. However people face a difficult conflict when mining industry is spoiling beloved and empowering nature but is also only way to make a living. Ranta-Tyrkkö brings up Rob Nixon’s concept of slow violence. In this case, slow violence refers to a change in the environment that is difficult to detect during the process. The socio-ecological effects of change will only be visible gradually. Also small and perhaps disadvantaged communities have very little to say about mining permits and establishments. Large scale mining investors have political and economic power and Finnish legislation is mainly supportive to industrial development.
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Municipal social work has an orientation of here and now, but it needs to be widened, says Ranta-Tyrkkö. Social work deals with and produces knowledge of people’s lives in society. Research and social workers have a perfect position to start discussions on socio-environmental implications of large scale mining and to bring out that extractive industry operators are only visiting but people have to stay in the exploited areas. Ranta-Tyrkkö suggests also that social work as a discipline and as a practice has a chance to stand on front line taking forward transition to more sustainable living. She reminds us that the ecological crisis is also a social crisis.
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Sarita Kauppinen<br />
Social work student, University of Lapland
Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön laitoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429667525053224574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-50739732941274472482017-06-21T00:35:00.001-07:002017-06-21T00:35:26.423-07:00<u>Cultures and Intercultural Social Work</u>
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During the 20th International Summer School in Social Work I began to wonder about the concept of culture. How does the culture effect on behavior of people? And how should a social worker take client’s cultural background into account or should it be considered at all? Professor Christian Stark from the University of Applied Sciences, Upper Austria Linz had an interesting lecture about intercultural social work. Different cultures and their impacts on people was also one of the discussed themes of workshop groups during the summer school.
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In workshop groups there were conversations about cultural perceptions and how they are seen on behavior and thinking of people. Culture is not something that just exists around us but it is the values, norms, attitudes and the habits that people share. This means that culture affects us via people, groups and communities. There cannot be cultures without people expressing them which means that both people and cultures change each other constantly.
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Christian Stark refers people as cultural puppets. This means that every person is primarily a member and a representer of their own cultural group instead of an individualistic subject. Culturalisation causes the idea that knowledge about culture can solve all differences, problems and misunderstandings. But when cultures are continuously developing there is no certainty if the cultural knowledge you have is still relevant. It is also hard to recognize the cultural characteristics when there are multiple subcultures inside the culture and they are constantly mixing and reforming.
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Cultural norms and habits can be openly and upfrontly expressed but they also affect subconsciously. One person can have several cultural and subcultural groups to be connected. Social workers need to be aware of that enormous affect cultures have on people’s thoughts and behavior to be able to understand their clients. The successful confronting requires letting the person you meet to be the most valuable information about that person’s own social situation including the culture, not your perceptions.
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It is important to be sensitive when you meet people from different backgrounds - but when does awareness and politeness turn into being cold and alienating people? According to Stark there should be a balance between minimization and exaggeration of culture. This includes recognizing differences in a way that does not essentialize being different. It also means to support being different and not subject to the pressures of normalization and homogenization.
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Stark talked about canonizing of aliens making a point that being respectful does not mean having no criteria for judgement. Understanding something or someone does not automatically include acceptance. When meeting a person it is different to value the actions of a person and the person itself. As a social worker it is essential to be aware of your own perceptions and values. Reflecting your thoughts and pursuing openness and tolerance are crucial when meeting people with different backgrounds.
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In a workshop there also arose an idea of future world where there are no cultures. This means that instead of cultural groups there are only individuals. This idea sounds almost impossible because people have a tendency to categorize and build stereotypes to control and simplify all the information that they are forced to receive and deal with in everyday life. Maybe this world without cultures could be a world without intolerance and value-free stereotypes where all the groups and categories are equally dignified.
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Sari Riipi
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Social work student, University of Lapland
Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön laitoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429667525053224574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-31024881562827341642017-06-21T00:16:00.003-07:002017-06-21T00:21:53.656-07:00<u>“There’s no planet B”</u>
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Kelly Melekis, assistant professor from Skidmore College (USA), gave an inspiring lecture about connections between social work and sustainability in the International summer school in social work, 27th of May. In my view, social work needs to take a clear stance in environmental and economical agendas on a structural level and I hope Melekis gave new thoughts to other Summer school attendants as well.
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There are different estimates about the amount of climate refugees in the world. The United Nations estimates 25 million climate refugees exist today. By climate refugees we understand people forced to leave their home region due to sudden or long-term changes to their local environment. These are changes like draughts, desertification or floods which compromise peoples’ well-being or secure livelihood. These changes have connections to the climate change.
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Seeking for a solution to restrict emissions and slow down the global warming has not been simple as there are contradicting views on the responsibility. The latest page in this book was turned by president Trump who declared the United States pulls out from the Paris agreement. USA is the second biggest producer of the greenhouse gases globally so their decision may well speed up the global warming. In the Arctic area the warming of the weather is in fact faster than in other parts of the world. Our winters are becoming warmer than what we have used to in the 1990’s with more rain and less sun due to cloudiness. As a result, our spring and autumn seasons will become longer. All this will have effects on our economy, for example the forest and paper industry may suffer from the changes in what grows in our forests.
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Are we as social workers contributing enough to the discussions on climate change or restriction of the emissions? Melekis argues that we are long overdue for developing a vision of what our role will be in a society plagued by environmental crises. Social work is well situated to join this conversation and support a paradigm shift toward a just and sustainable world but our engagement with ‘environment’ has been focused on the sociocultural and psychosocial. <br />
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While social work schools and programs articulate a general commitment to social justice and human rights that is not always reflected in specific ways throughout curriculum and does not generally translate to attention to issues of environmental justice and sustainability. In a recent study of US social work students’ attitudes, interests in, and practices related to environment, it was found that majority view environmental justice as an important aspect of social justice and an area of concern for social workers. Melekis calls for more content on environment, sustainability and eco-social issues in social work studies and it is easy to agree with her from the Finnish student perspective.
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Lena Dominelli defines green social work (2012): “That part of practice that intervenes to protect the environment and enhance peoples’ well-being by integrating the interdependencies between people and their socio-cultural, economic and physical environments, and among people within an egalitarian framework that addresses prevailing structural inequalities and unequal distribution of power and resources”. Green social work is built on the insights of radical and anti-oppressive social work. <br />
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There is no universal definition of sustainability. Many current conceptualizations are rooted in the United Nations Brundtland Report (1987) definition of sustainable development: “a form of development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.“ Melekis reminded that language of sustainability carries a tension. Many argue that sustainability has been hijacked and twisted to suit government and business that really want to continue with business as usual. It is important to critically consider the use of various terms. <br />
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It is important for social work students to realize the concrete effects of the global warming on our lives. It is not only the nomads in the distant Africa who face difficulties practicing their livelihoods. In our professional life, we will all the time meet service users whose difficulties have connections to environmental and economic issues. We just need to be trained to see those connections.
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The context in which social work operates has changed radically in the era of globalization and neoliberalism with significant consequences for the lives and the relationships of the people social workers serve. How will we respond to increasing environmental degradation and the intensification of impoverishment of disadvantaged nations and groups? Due to the centrality of human rights and social justice in the profession, social work must collectively take a stand on ecological degradation and the climate crisis. As Melekis put it: “There’s no planet B”.<br />
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What can we do when we see our clients living in areas where the environment is being neglected, housing conditions are poor and air is polluted? Melekis mentioned 10 million Americans live amongst such high levels of air pollution the federal government considers it to be harmful to their health. There is a concept connected to this and worth having a look at: environmental racism. <br />
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Social workers can, of course, support communities affected by natural disasters and many of us are already involved in this work. But what we can do as preventive work is for example raise questions about an equitable sharing of the planet’s resources, establish ‘green’ policies and serve on committees for policy change. Dominelli (2012) calls for community work. In Kelly Melekis’s words we can also engage in sustainable development when mobilizing local communities and ensure that locally relevant and culturally appropriate strategies are in place to respect people, living things sharing their habitats, and the physical environment.
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Kati Hjerp
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Social work student, University of Lapland
Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön laitoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429667525053224574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-19301457208836971752017-06-15T04:12:00.000-07:002017-06-15T04:12:19.466-07:00<br />
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yourself, you change the world<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">Being part of
the summer school was definitely one of the most eye opening experiences of my
studies. It wasn’t only educative, but also made me reflect on my own mind and
thoughts about different cultures and prejudices. At first I was a bit unsure
about how I will succeed in the course, because I’m not so confident about my
language skills. When I think it now, I couldn’t be more wrong. After a first
day it felt like everyone were friends with each other and people were so
curious about other countries, that there were always lots of issues we could
talk about. Nobody could care less about how fluently you speak English. Sometimes
it felt almost like it was easier to talk to people from different cultures, because
there were so many thinks you could talk about. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">When I think what
summer school gave me the most is that I know myself better now and the thought
process that happens in my head, when I am with people from different countries
and cultures. I can also see now how important it is to social workers that
they can communicate with different cultures because of the globalization and
issues that comes with it. For the first time it really felt like social work
can make big things happen in the world, if we just can work together. Lectures
were very inspiring and interesting. Also working in groups was very good way
to not only know each other better, but also hearing things from different
perspectives. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">’Pot Luck’ dinner
was one of the best meals in my life. It also seemed to connect people and we
went after the meal to the beach to spend time together. Time seemed to have
stopped when we talked about our own experiences and our cultures. By comparing
our cultures and countries we also found lots of similarities. I also really
felt that I got some new friends around the world. I also started dreaming
about travelling and the desire to explore new cultures grew even more. </span></span></div>
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interesting debates was the debate about refugees. During the debate it
appeared that many have prejudices against refugees, but they rarely speak
about it. One reason for this seemed to be the fear of being stigmatized as a
racist if raising their own feelings. I think feeling can never be wrong. We
should think about what makes different feelings and how to interpret our own
feelings. As the world is changing and different cultures meet, I believe it is
important for people to understand that adapting to a new world may also
require exit from our own comfort zone. It is hardly easier to prevent and
resolve the various problems of globalization by highlighting cultural
differences and people's differences.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">My favorite
lecture was about death and dying from the perspective of social work. Death is
really little spoken issue in our society and I haven’t thought that it is also
important element when thinking about social work. I think that everybody thinks
about death once a while but rarely ever speak about it. It opens different
kind of feelings in people’s minds and when we talked about it in the workshop,
it was interesting to see how different cultures have different ways to relate to
death and dying. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is hard to summarize
all about the summer school. First time in my life I thought that I could
participate in the same course again. Not only because of the wonderful people
and super interesting lectures, but also because it made me think so much about
my own behavior and attitude when I meet people from other cultures. I feel
like most of the social work students have same kind of drive to leave some
kind of positive mark in the world and I remembered the words of one song where
it is said ”When you change yourself, you change the world”. After the summer school
those words make me so much more sense.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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student, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">University of
Lapland<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span>Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön laitoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429667525053224574noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-57032295277313257992017-06-07T03:30:00.000-07:002017-06-07T03:32:16.221-07:00<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">20th International Summer School in Social
Work, </span></u></span><span lang="EN-US"><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">25<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup> May 2017<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We had an honor to
have Professor Johanna Hefel from University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg,
Austria, to tell us about Death and Dying in the Context of Social Work
Studies. Johanna Hefel´s notion is that death and dying is often seen through
mass media glasses that also creates our language. Thereby it also constructs
our reality. Linguistic terms that media uses often provokes fear and denial by
threatening scenarios, subtext, stereotypes and oversimplifying by using direct
causality. Death and dying are often a taboo or shrouded issue when Johanna
Hefel rather sees them as natural as life. Social workers should engage in
discourse and uncover the power of discourse about death and dying and provide
alternative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Johanna Hefel likes a participatory
approach that means social workers and clients work and learn together and speak
with rather than speak about. Social workers should be willing to reflect their
personal fears and learn about complexity of life, death and dying. This should
be done by sharing instead of keeping in secret. Social workers should be aware
of cultural and religious diversity but also aware of their personal vulnerability.
This among sharing is empowering. That also means ability and willingness to
perceive and accept the transience of life in all fields of social work.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In social work education
knowledge of death and dying is mainly focused on suicidality, suicide, crisis
and trauma and so professional competences mainly focused on crisis
intervention and crisis management. Language at university is often oriented,
established and uncritically adopted by the vocabulary of economics. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would say that this is more and more universal
and concerns most universities that are today dependent on business life
funding. Language that comes from economics, means also that students are
recruited as customers and studies are referred to as products. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Inspired by
Johanna Hefel´s presentation, later Friday in our work shop group, we had an
interesting discussion about the language we use when talking about death and
dying. We discussed for example about impression it gives if somebody
“committed a suicide” or it was “unsuccessful suicide”. It comes from a history
when suicide was illegal. What should be a punishment for a suicide? And if you
happen to fail in killing yourself, you are a total looser. There are a lot of
cultural issues what comes to death and dying and most of all suicide. There
are also cultural differences what comes to treating elder and disabled people.
How do we treat people that are not like most of us or not as good strength as
expected? Doesn´t that also show us how much we respect life? Do all the people
have same value despite their race, age and gender? Certainly not like we perceive
during the Summer School presentations. Language, how it is used and how it
constructs our reality, was a major issue in many speaker´s presentations and a
topic that included various work shop groups.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We should respect
life and understand its value but death has a value as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact is that we are all going to die one
day. And that is natural and will be natural by talking about it. Johanna
Hefel´s presentation was a good reminder of that. Death is natural but can also
be described by many other words like painful, touching, and comforting and its
peaceful presence can be found in graveyard or an old woman’s hands like
Johanna Hefel showed us in a very beautiful way in her presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Heli Keränen, Social
Work student, University of Lapland, Finland</span></span><br />
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Summer School in Social Work in the Social Sciences 2017, organized at the
University of Lapland, I got a chance to attend Assoc. Professor Valdas
Rimkus’s lecture on 29th of May. Professor Rimkus is a head of the social work department in <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Klaipėda University in Lithuania. His
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work as a profession is very new in Lithuania. Social workers are not highly
considered and the profession is trying to find the way to be heard. In
Lithuania social work is considered a part of the health sciences and social
issues are seen part of the health care. However, the social workers’ opinions
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Rimkus told in his presentation how social workers could use the positive
approach in the client meetings to make a difference to one’s feelings and
emotions, self-esteem and capability of function. One way is to find the
positive skills together with the client and work with those as a tool to get
an effort to client’s life. Rimkus especially made a point of believing to
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found those will be used to improve the client’s life situation. Social worker
will stand a side and provide help if in needed. Informal social support
networks, like a family and friends, are valuable and important and if there is
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the end of the presentation professor Rimkus pointed out five ways to
well-being: CONNECT to another; friends, family, community, society. BE ACTIVE
and participate. Often the participation gives you a lot. TAKE NOTICE and open
your eyes to see the world which is surround you. Nature, flowers… KEEP
LEARNING will keep your brains working and motivated to investigate the life
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work should be done. I feel, that this is hopefully the way in the future how I
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International Summer School can scare you before it has even started? A lot.
How can I speak English in public? Do I understand what other students say?
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the questions that rolled in our heads when we started the first lecture of
International Summer School on Wednesday. We sat on the back of the lecture
room wondering how to survive the whole week. At first we did not talk anything
with other students but they seemed to know each other already and had small
talks right away. Maybe this was natural for them because most of them stayed
in the same hostel. For us, maybe because we are Finnish, small talk feels
really difficult and weird and we noticed that it was also difficult for other
Lapland students. We wondered how it is so hard ask who or how are you or even
just say “hello”?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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we got to know each other better by making short discussions and introduced our
new friend to the class saying a few little things about him/her. We noticed
that during the first break some people had discussions in little groups so
apparently introducing ourselves was pretty useful. Yet again, the Finnish
students had their own conversations. That clearly shows that we need more time
to warm up. However when we had welcome reception in the evening the atmosphere
was already more relaxed. Obviously outside the classroom people dared to speak
English more easily, maybe because it is easier to talk about something else
than the subjects of social work. At least, we felt this way because we think
that some subjects are quite difficult to speak even in Finnish.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in English-speaking happened on Saturday. During the weekend it was time for
the unofficial part of the program and on Saturday some of us made a day trip
to the Amethyst mine. There everyone had chance to dig their own amethyst.
Students were wondering and admired Finnish wildlife, especially our clean air.
It is usually forgotten that these things are not self-explanatory for
everybody. We also got to see some reindeer so the day was fun and successful
and hopefully everyone found their own lucky stone. Informal environment opened
our word for coffins and we got to know other students better. We wouldn’t care
if some words or grammar were not perfect, because we noticed that we were
still understood. So we were able to have real conversations with international
students. It was surprising that other students asked us to forgive that we
will have to speak English even though we are in Finland. Clearly, many Finns
are asking the forgiveness of their poor English language. Wonder why?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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we had pot luck dinner where everyone brought their own country and culture
dishes. Food really is the thing that connects people. Everyone was excited to
present their own home country food and all those looked really good and tasted
even better. Some foods like Finnish black sausage or Chinese black sesame soup
raised eyebrows but the first impression by looking were often wrong and the
food actually tasted really good. Students seemed to come along with each other
really well, as if they have known for a long time. Every nation were in
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and what we got? We didn’t lose our sleeps instead we got to know many new
people and got many new perspectives of our social work studies. Over all,
International Summer School was a great opportunity to meet new people all
around the World, improve our English and to talk a little bit of global social
work too. Maybe after this week we will dare to speak English more easily.</span></span><br />
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International Summer School of social work continued with the lovely
guests from far, far away. We had a great opportunity to listen to
lecturers from the United Arab Emirates and the USA. The student
panelists of the day came from Guatemala, Iran, Turkey, the United
Arab Emirates and the USA. The day was packed with very interesting
presentations, enriching conversations and important topics, such as
the human rights in the context of the United Nations sustainable
development goals (Professor Josephine Allen), transnational
considerations in understanding intergenerational adversity among
Latino families in the U.S (Ph. D. Sharon Borja) and the Affordable
Care Act which also is known as the Obamacare (the USA student
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the very first time in the history of International Summer school of
social work, we had a chance to learn about the Islamic culture. Dr.
Lacey Sloan and Dr. Khadia Alhoumad from the Abu Dhabi Zayed
University told interesting, and for many of us, unknown facts about
the Islamic world. We learned, for example, about Islamic values and
the rights of women in Islam. They also talked about social work
practice in Islamic countries. One of the main key points in their
presentation was to increase knowledge about cultural differences and
humility. Especially important is to unlearn stereotypes, which I
found the biggest learning lesson of the day, and maybe even of the
whole Summer school. To see the person behind all the problems,
stereotypes, outfits and other things like that, that is the most
important thing to keep in mind. Not only in globalizing social work
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the social work student's point of view, it has been very
enlightening to learn how the social work studies have been organized
in different parts of the world. Many of the student panels during
the Summer school have dealt with this interesting topic. For example
in the USA<span style="font-family: inherit;"> social work stu</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">dents
take therapy lessons, because clinical social workers are able to
work as therapists.</span> In Finland</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">
that is not possible. And in the United Arab Emirates you can study
to become either an assistant social worker or social worker. In
Finland there are the bachelors of social sciences from the
university of applied sciences and masters of social sciences from
the university. Maybe that relates so</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">mehow to the United Arab
Emirates social work education system.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön laitoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429667525053224574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-12719168956058917902016-05-25T09:16:00.000-07:002016-06-13T08:16:39.285-07:00Welcome to the 19th International Summer School!<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I got here just this morning after traveling
by night train all the way from Turku to Rovaniemi. I didn’t get that much of
sleep, but I woke up quite fresh and looking forward for the first lecture day.
I had been quite exited to participate in the International Summer School for the
global social issues and for new friends from all over the world to share my
thoughts and experiences in social work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At the campus, it was obvious that there was
something special to begin. You could sense the atmosphere and hear people
talking in English or in other languages. It’s is not that usual to have
someone passing by and smile back at you in Finland. Not to mention them all
saying “Hello” or “Hi!” to you as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I believe we all, as the future social workers, have a big and loving
heart and it’s easy to contact to a stranger. But, I could definitely adjust to
this kind of gesture. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So, the Welcoming speakers, Liisa Hokkanen from
the University of Lapland, Finland and Professor Stanley L. Witkin from the
University of Vermont, USA, made us all warmly welcome and we had some good
moments while getting introduced with the Finnish ways of life and mostly about
the secrets behind the happiness of Finnish people. It was also interesting to
know how we all were a part of a tradition that has now been going on for 19
years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There is a story behind International Summer
School project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before the International
Summer School officially started, Kyösti Urponen – now the co-founder of the
International Summer School and Professor Emeritus in the University of
Lapland, Finland -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had asked Stanley to
come to Finland and have a lecture done in University of Lapland. Stanly
accepted the invitation without knowing that Kyösti would ask him again the
next year and year after that, and so on. Somehow the participants in Stanleys
lectures were each year more and more foreigners, coming from different parts
of the world. The idea of the International Summer School was born during these
years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The rest of this project we all know. It was
clear that this way as we connect in International Summer School we will have
more perspective for our future careers in the social field. Stanley outlined
how important it is for all of us to get together and have personal
relationships with people from different countries, so that a country would
have a face instead of just being a foreign land you sometimes hear news about.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For me, the first day was very nice experience
and it seems obvious already how appreciative this is to be part of the
International Summer School and how worthwhile this week will be for my future
as a social worker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all are here to
get multiple perspectives by sharing thoughts and experiences and having
different points of view for different issues that we might have taken for
granted before and getting visible things that have been invisible or unseen.
At the end, perspectives can be different, but none one of them is the Truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön laitoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429667525053224574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-22920391789306675222015-05-29T06:30:00.000-07:002015-06-13T08:18:43.309-07:00Struggle for the Sámi Homeland<div class="Standard" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">”<i>I'm trying to get up
that great big hill of hope</i>” Remembering the echo of our last nights’
singing of the 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up?”, on May 29th 2015,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>I feel driven to find out what the
Sámi's are missing here in Finnish society. From my own perspective, I have
always considered the Sámi people important for allowing Finnish people to
settle peacefully on this continent. However, during this excursion to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.inarisaariselka.fi/en/attractions/kevo-nature-reserve/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666699;">Kevo</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>I have begun to reflect on our culture
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time in this institution</i><span style="background-color: transparent;">” </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The meaning of culture is generally
defined from the perspective of the majority, in western countries, the white
man’s idea and understanding of a cultures’ content. Differing from this, Sámi
culture (and indigenous culture in general) tends to affect things on a lot
wider level and their culture can be seen in almost everything they do.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>During our course, I have begun to
understand how much a society's culture influences social- and health policies
and the diverging impact it has on social sustainability globally.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Globally, there’s likeness in the
socio-economic issues we all struggle with today, however the social problems
they cause vary greatly in scale. For example, there’s a stark contrast between
the way<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ssn.fi/en/info/about-the-samis/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666699;">Sámi people</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>are treated in Russia, and the way
they are treated in Nordic countries.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>As
I felt sadness because of our last day together, the expedition headed to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.inarisaariselka.fi/en/companies/saamelaiskulttuurikeskus-sajos/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666699;">the Sámi Cultural Centre Sajos</span></a>, Inari.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">”<i>What's going on</i>”
For recognizing the issues of indigenous people here in Finland, and
Scandinavia in general, we had the possibility to hear about the work of the
Sámi parliament.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Suddenly, it
became clear that although the Sámi are mentioned in the Finnish constitution (<a href="http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2003/en20031086.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666699;">1086/2003</span></a>), Sámi's are
struggling to sustain their cultural identity in their own homeland because of
the colonizers’ governance, politics, and control over natural resources. For
example,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>there are around 10,000
Sámi people living in Finland, however, 70% of Sámi youngsters nowadays live
outside of the Sámi Home Region due to the fact that they have to move far away
to get an education.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>On matters
concerning the Sámi as indigenous people, the Finnish government has an
obligation to consult Sámi’s and the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.samediggi.fi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119&Itemid=196&lang=english" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666699;">Sámi Parliament</span></a>, however
this rarely has any influence on governmental decisions. In 2007, the
UN-countries accepted the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><u><a href="http://www.ilo.org/indigenous/Conventions/no169/lang--en/index.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666699;">ILO-declaration No.169</span></a></u>,
however the Finnish parliament hasn't been able to legally ratify it yet.
Overall, Sámi’s are being marginalized even though their rights are
acknowledged in the <a href="http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/1995/en19950974.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">constitution</a>.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I was very surprised by
their holistic approach to their identification, which is one of the key
elements of being officially recognized as an indigenous person. Their identity
as a divergent people manifests itself in the traditions of their language, art
and professions which are the vital links into their culture and
self-understanding. I am also impressed by their unanimous cultural strength in
protecting their wellbeing. Although individually it is a continuous
work for making a living in Lapland, they are able to keep on living strong as
a whole community. That is something to learn from in this lonely and
individual-based western society. While their lands are being used
unsustainably for profit by colonizers, it’s becoming a necessity for the
preservation of the Sámi culture to actively promote the preservation of the
Sámi languages, despite their residence outside Sámi Homeland. Because of our
history together with the Sámi people, one could even debate we owe it to
them to give better support to for example keeping the Sámi language alive,
than we currently are. If you are interested to share the experience, please visit <a href="http://www.siida.fi/contents/sami-museum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sida</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">What about my own
self-understanding? Because of the people I met, my self-understanding as a
social worker focuses more on being courageous and cherishing of people. I am
grateful for all of you, who made it possible to learn, about different
discourses and solutions to social issues in your homeland. I almost feel
overwhelmed by this opportunity for broadening my horizons the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ulapland.fi/InEnglish/Units/Faculty-of-Social-Sciences/Studies/Study-programmes/International-Summer-School-2015/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666699;">International Summer School 2015</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>gave me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">”<i>And I say Hey!</i>”
Thank you each and every one of you. And, while feeling a little blue, it is
time for farewells. Cherish hope! Be courageous Social Workers! I miss you all.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön laitoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429667525053224574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-33595118871458904432015-05-27T11:11:00.000-07:002015-06-21T00:28:56.755-07:00Kevo excursion 27-28st May 2015<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We are
sitting in cosy sofas in the basement of the main building of Kevo subartic
research institute. First day of our trip is just becoming to its end. Even the
day has been full of interesting activity, people still have energy to sing and
have good time in sauna house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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today from Rovaniemi about seven o`clock in the morning. Most of students were
tired, but there was special spirit of expectation in the air. Stanley told us
some facts about Finnish nature and visiting places that we were about go. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our first
visiting place was day care centre called Kylälaakson päiväkoti in Sodankylä,
about two hours drive from Rovaniemi. There were happy kids and friendly staff
members showing us places and giving some coffee and pulla. The director of the
place told us some information about their care centre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Students were really impressed that in
Sodankylä and in all over Finland the family have a subject right to have their
children in a day care. And the waiting list for day care is maximum two weeks,
at least in Sodankylä.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as it said
that one picture tells more than thousand words, let the pictures tell the
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stop was in Ivalo. We had a delicious meal in the Hotel Kultahippu. Then we had
some free time to explore huge Ivalo centrum, buy some souveniers and eat some
ice cream. We hopped on the bus and drove to Sami museum called Siida in Inari.
For those, who were awake Stanley told good jokes and those who were sleeping,
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visiting the Siida we head up towards our sleeping place, Kevo subarctic
research institute, where the heart of the place, Emilia, was waiting for us.
Chefs had made some really good food, that we enjoyed with good appetite. Then,
we spread in our rooms, some had to row their way over the lake to their
cabins. Some of the student enjoyed the Finnish sauna including swimming in the
lake with lots of screams. We bet, all the animals nearby had run away becouse
of the noise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the way, as a Finnish
students, we<span style="color: #ffc000;"> </span>really appreciate the courage
of those who went swimming into extremely cold water. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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clean and fresh, we gathered together in the sauna house. Tables were full of
all the good snacks and sausages. Stanley just had to play a few notes with his
guitar and the evening was ready to start! We were all feeling like one big
family, sitting very close to each other, singing and laughing together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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morning we went to the Utsjoki elementary and high school. It is the only high
school within 100km. The amount of students in the high school is six at the
moment and in the elementary school about seventy. The speciality in the school
is that one of the major languages is Sami. The surprise could be seen in
student’s, when the staff told us about the lifestyle here in the north. Even
it is -45 degrees celsius outside, there is no change to skip the school, it
will be open! Except in extremely important time in reindeer herding, when even
childrens of families are needed to help, some students might be out off school
for weeks.<span style="color: #ffc000;"> </span>Teachers will give them some home
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church village. Ladies were trying to make us believe that in those little huts
had been staying even ten persons at the same time. Now you are probably
thinking what are those huts? Well you can just google.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="http://www.saamivillage.fi/etusivu/kohteet/utsjoen-kirkkotuvat/" target="_blank">http://www.saamivillage.fi/etusivu/kohteet/utsjoen-kirkkotuvat/</a></span></span></span></div>
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to have place to stay over, so they built those huts. Every extended family had
their own hut. As you probably know, there were no supermarkets at that time,
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the day we had time to explore the nature in Kevo, take some sleep and sauna
again. The bravest ones went swimming again. This is going to be our last night
together in Kevo, so we are going to stop this typing and go enjoying time with
awesome people!:)<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön laitoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429667525053224574noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-26610190731203332252015-05-26T07:17:00.000-07:002015-06-21T00:38:30.150-07:00<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Diversity of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On Tuesday,
we discussed very topical issues. Dr. Heather Ottaway´s lecture
"Conceptualising and working with risk in child protective services: The
UK experience" considered speak about social risks and how they are
constructed culturally and locally construct. More and more social risks are
constructed as they are the responsibility of individual themselves. Ottaway´s
lecture emphasized how important it is for a social worker to understand the
way the social risks are constructed culturally and locally. Understanding the
risks is crucial for being able to help the customers from various with very
different backgrounds. We have to take into account the globalization and
internationalization in the social work even if it´s not part of our work
environment at the moment. The world is getting smaller and one day even the
remotest little village in Finland might have inhabitants from another end of
the world whose background differs drastically from our own. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The British
student panel was about homelessness in the UK. Students reviewed told about
their own experiences about working with homeless people. It was astonishing to
hear that in UK legislation local authorities do not have a duty to secure
housing for all homeless people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
has resulted in that homelessness is a real problem in the UK. During the
Pakistani panel we saw very touching and heart breaking pictures and a video
how people live in refugee camps in Pakistan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Social work has its own unique features in every country, but still all
the students share the same goal to take care of people in weaker and unequal
position. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What stick
into our minds was the discussions how much environment, circumstances and
standards of living infects on human rights. In many countries, like in
Finland, human rights are mostly taken as for granted, what they are not all
globally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In discussion, we built up the
idea of making human rights as a global brand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Could human rights be as well-known and wanted as CocaCola is nowadays
all over the world? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In closing
ceremonies, we reflected the contents of the International Summer School 2015.
The general opinion of the participants was that the International Summer
School 2015 has been a success: the atmosphere has been warm and lectures and
panels were educative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the
participants were inspirited about the possibility to discuss with other people
who<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are interested in the same issues –
the social work. Summer School was awesome experience especially for the
students. We got to know the students of social work from all around the world
and got new friends, too. We hope that co-operation between universities will
continue and there will be International Summer School also in 2016 in
Rovaniemi!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As educating
and informing the International Summer school has been, we are looking after
deeper discussions about the concepts that regard social work. We found out,
for example, the concept of wellbeing at the general level as easy to define
and understand. For deeper and global level and in social work practice it
probably differs hugely between welfare states and developing countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Anita Tervo
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new people all around the World, but the main idea was to understand social
work from a global perspective. The Summer School program included a wide range
of interesting lectures, leisure time activities and five workshops. In my
opinion, the workshops were a great space for reflection and brainstorming. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">In the first workshop, we basically just introduced
ourselves: who we are, why we wanted to study social work etc. We discussed the
differences of our education. The most shocking thing was to hear about the
high fees students have to pay especially in the USA and UK. I have to say that
we are really lucky here in Finland and we don't really understand that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">In the second workshop, our group considered about learning
disabilities: how these disabilities are faced and understood from the
perspective of our countries. Everyone in our group was telling how people and
especially schools react on learning disabilities in their country. In many
countries (1) people with learning disabilities are easily stigmatized, (2)
these people are ''covered up'', (3) the first way to ''help'' these people is
giving them a medication. We also compared how social services are organised
and what way we can support better for example kids with ADHD in school. We
brainstormed some ideas over physical activities and animal-assistance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Workshop number three was similar with the workshop number
one. Our tutor was Dr. Johanna Hefel from the University of Applied Sciences
Vorarlberg (Austria) and she gave us free rein to choose the topic for our
workshop. This workshop was one of my favorite because discussion was very
natural and smooth. We analyzed the Finnish student panel. Dr. Hefel was really
impressed about the student panel and we talked about the theme of stereotypes
and taboos. The original topic for this workshop used to be environmental
changes: what impact do environmental
issues have on social work practice, how im-portant environmental issues are in
our countries and how they are identified and what is being done etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">In the workshop number four, we talked about migrations of
people across national borders, e.g., im-migrants, refugees, asylum seekers. In
our workshop group, we had students from the UK, Finland, Vietnam, Pakistan,
Austria and USA, so it was a wonderful chance to hear about the stereotypes or
be-liefs that are used to describe people who belong to non-national cultural
groups in our countries. We also talked, what are the main reasons why they
have come for example to Finland. In the UK, for ex-ample, the biggest reason
for migration is studying. About 50% of the migrants comes from the EU, and the
other 50% from other parts of the World. In Pakistan, the situation is very
different. There are about 3.7 million refugees! In our workshop group, we
pondered about the differences between our countries, but we also find
something sad we have in common: non-national cultural groups are often seen as
the freeloaders in our society. Can we change this belief?</span></div>
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workshop, Professor Stanley Witkin from the University of Vermont (USA) showed
us a video about human rights. Our job was to discuss about our reactions to
the video, are human rights universal or natural etc. The video was criticized
about being made from the perspective of European Union. One student said that
it was like an advertisement. In the end, we had a great discussion about the
human rights and how those rights are actualised in our countries. From the
Finnish perspective, we have quite good situation, but in some countries human
rights are just an ideological castle in the air. </span></div>
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Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön laitoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429667525053224574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-45979129983730724932015-05-25T11:28:00.000-07:002015-06-21T00:33:29.773-07:00Transnational social work, self-criticism and learning new perspectives<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">The main
theme of the day was immigration and its effects on culture. The first lecture,
“Transnational social work and transcultural perspectives”, was provided by
Juri Killian from the University of Kassel, Germany. Killian analyzed the
meaning of identity and the importance of understanding the dynamicity of
cultures. Killian’s lecture raised many questions among students. An
interesting point was how social surroundings, after all, play an important
role in affecting people becoming radical. We, as social workers, must
reconsider if there is room for demonization and ponder how we can truly relate
to social change. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">The German
students held a presentation about unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) in
Germany. The students discussed the reasons why there are URM’s ( = people who
are under 18 years of age, who are outside their country of origin and who are
separated from both of their parents or their previous legal caregiver) and how
they are taken care of in the various states of Germany. Furthermore, the
students told us what kind of projects there are in Germany for the URM’s, for
example regarding their living situation, education and language. Because of
their geographical position, some states are more concerned with refugee
situations without enough resources to deal with the issue. Are we lucky in
Finland while our country isn’t the first place for example for the African
boat refugees to go to? Can we just decide to close our borders from any
inconvenient occasions? Another case to reflect is the gender issue among the
URM’s. Because most of the URM’s are boys, what happens to the girls?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">In the
presentations of Serbia, Switzerland and Russia, the students considered the
implementation of social work in their home country. We discovered similarities
of doing and studying social work in different countries. However, it is not
the similarities but the differences between the countries we should learn more
about. One goal of the summer school was to review our system from other
perspectives. Learning how social issues are confronted within other countries
and comparing it to our way of operating with them, is a step towards it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Professor
Julie Cooper from the California State University discussed self-criticism in
social work practice. Cooper asked if the self-criticism is always a negative
issue or could it be constructive or helpful, especially when it comes to the
contemporary social work practice. She has been working in the field of social
work for 30 years which is, in our opinion, a long time considering the
demanding and challenging nature of social work practice. She has found self-criticism,
working with young students and openness for new ideas important for herself.
While the world around us changes all the time, it is needed to modify our
understanding about society and social issues, too. That is a valid thing to
remember in our social work career. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">The students
from the USA gave a wide image of what the social work can be like in the USA.
The insurance based health care system and investing in prisons instead of
education gives a harsh image of the social politics and the society. It seems
like there’s a huge and long lasting need for social workers. Even though the
student panel focused on things that need to be paid attention to and brought the
flaws of the society to light, the students somehow created a very positive
atmosphere in the lecture room. What we learned from the USA students was that the
realization of social work greatly differs between countries. Being Finns felt
relieving because in the USA, for generating even a little progress in the
society, social workers have to work extremely hard. Nevertheless, what
connects us social workers across the world is the shared duty of keeping up
hope for a better life and better tomorrow. Even if it sounds cliché. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;">Despite the
hunger and too-much-caffeine-head-ache we managed, in the workshop groups, to
compare the immigration policies and services of our countries. It was
surprising to figure out that in some countries there’s no policy concerning social
work’s role in migration at all even if it is a big issue. We found the Finnish
number of asylum seekers ridiculously small compared with the other European
countries or countries outside of the Europe. It was such an interesting learning experience
to be in a room with at least six different nationalities and to hear each of
their opinion about migration and some aspects regarding cultural changes. The
raising multiculturalism and how cultural diversity affects our societies are
the questions to ponder in contemporary social work.</span></div>
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Rajalahti & Taru Le Flock, University of Lapland, Finland</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön laitoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429667525053224574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-25339503781748145602015-05-22T04:55:00.000-07:002015-06-21T00:29:57.371-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span class="normalchar"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Friday is the third day
of the Summer School, and another day for us all to participate in inspiring
lectures and conversations. It is absolutely fantastic to have this kind of
opportunity to listen and learn from professionals and students all over the globe.
The atmosphere is filled with enthusiasm and empowerment! From the wide range
of subjects today, we chose to focus on two themes. One is managerialism and
the other is the issue of ageing people in need of social security.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="normalchar"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Dr. Vivian W.Q. Lou from
<st1:place w:st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place> gave us a presentation about the
professional development process of social work. She argued that social work
develops when facing social changes and challenges. Today the challenge to
concur is: how to adopt managerialism in social work processes without
compromising the ethics of the profession? Managerialism is about
administration, where c</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">ompetition, efficiency
and economy are the core values.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span class="normalchar"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">It offers principles on governing
services, but it does not offer solutions to social problems. The principles of
managerialism are relevant to managing an enterprise, but in social work that
is not the case to manage. In the development process of social work, this
challenge provokes to define social work again. Who are we as social work
professionals and how do we act in that position? In other words, it is
defining the identity, ethics and core competence of the profession.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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student panel. This program has been developed there to improve the situation
of the rapidly growing population of ageing people. The program’s aim is to
empower the elderly people. It focuses on giving them opportunities to
influence the society by introducing them their true potential and
opportunities to make changes. Key concept is “active ageing”, a transformation
from needs-based to rights-based approach. Students argued that even though
ageing people have got rights, they need shared information about that, and
understand the impact of their own significant role as change-agent in the
society. Students remarked that ageing people seem to require permission to
express their opinions. Active ageing means optimizing their chances in life
and makes it possible for them to participate. This is important for them in
experiencing worthiness, dignity and sense of belonging to society. Instead of
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their parents or grandparents were. Today’s young people find it difficult to
take care of the needs of three generations: their ageing parents, their own
growing children and their own wants. Therefore ageing people have to cope with
their daily lives more and more independently. Many of them are forced to work
because they do not have enough money to cover the basic needs like housing,
food and health care. That is why a public safety net and proper pensions are
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up taboos that we have in our society. One of the taboos is how do we treat
ageing population in <st1:place w:st="on">Finland</st1:place>? Headlines in the
news for past six months have revealed “expensive but poor quality food,
violence in a nursing home and loneliness”. In general, it can be easier among
people to look away than to act against and start discussing something that
others would rather ignore. When it comes to social work, social workers are
dealing with taboos all the time. It is necessary, even though taboos are
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evening program and there will be The International Evening -party at the
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described that a single type of sex work/sex worker does not exist and sex work
is complex, hierarchically organized and highly stigmatized. Sex work and human
trafficking has become a major international problem, which nowadays has
recognized also in Finland. The Starks's lecture related to the intercultural social
work between the poles of thematisation and dethematisation of culture. The
more economic and political globalization takes root, the more important
initiatives of intercultural learning and intercultural social work become.
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also more generally with diversity. At their student panel, the students from Austria told us,
for example, that the amount of foreigners in Austria is growing. At the moment,
12 percent of Australian have an immigrant background. The economic situation
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choose to go listening to Prof. Dr. Nijole Petronele Veckiene’s and Dr. Julija
Eidukevicute’s lectures about the aspects of Interculturality of family social
work in Lithuania, and Roberta Motieciene’s lecture about what it is like to do
social work with the families in Lithuania. It was very interesting to hear
about social work in Lithuania. The number of families at social risk has been
rising in the past 18 years. It also seems that in Lithuania women have greater
responsibility to take care of the children and household than men do. The term
"family at social risk" is associated with the term "multi
problem family" used in the academic literature of social work. The most
common reasons why families live in demanding life situation are alcohol
addiction and lack of social skills. According to the study, social workers
describe their work interesting, hard, responsible, societal, complicated,
special, interesting and requiring. Sensibility, docility and support are
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about the perspectives and analysis of social work and social workers in
Nigeria. We were very excited to hear about social work in Nigeria, because we
think that compared with Finland it is so different. Early missionaries were
Salvation Army, Roman Catholic and the Green triangle. But first of all,
Nigeria has a traditional support system, which includes for example the
extended family system, the clans and traditional beliefs. Also the voluntary
organizations and the associations have the important role in social welfare.
Social work in Nigeria is mostly therapeutic work and religion has a remarkable
role in it. Social work is a response to social problems that prevails in the
society. According to Magbagbeola, social work is also not just as a course to
study but a passion to fulfil and social work can be considered as a tool
solving societal challenges, which arise usually from modernization or
globalization and rural-urban migration. Social work is a paradox of order and
chaos and balancing between the traditional and the modern social work
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Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön laitoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429667525053224574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-49392739822570399202014-05-27T10:40:00.000-07:002014-05-27T11:04:14.683-07:00Risks, identities and a variety of social security systems made our last day in the summer schoolFriday<br />
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Lectures of the last day of the summer school were provided to us by Heather Ottaway from the University of Cardiff, Wales and Svajone Mikene from the University of Mykolas Romeris, Lithuania. Ottaway talked about risks in the child protection. People's understanding about risk has changed over time. A Globalisation of the world has changed the nature of the risks and the way of people reacting to them. People don’t trust professionals such as social workers as tight as before. In the globalizing world, the social worker must be well aware of the society around him or her when assessing the risks. That’s because the risks are placed in social, historical and cultural contexts. For example, children’s working is seen as the risk in western countries but in some societies it is taken as a necessity.<br />
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The second lecture to us, the summer school students, was offered by Svajone Mikene from the University of Mykolas Romeris, Lithuania. The topics of her lecture were an identity and a professional identity. The identity means the person's own understanding about whom he or she really is. People have many identities tied to their contexts. One of these is the professional identity. The identity, including professional, changes and develops in their contexts. For example, the social worker's professional identity shapes among environments and the work experience.<br />
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On Friday, we had six student panels from different countries. The presentations were offered by the UK, Swaziland, the Czech Republic, Pakistan, Zambia, Nepal and Japan. The students reported on their presentations about their societies, social problems and social work. The societies and social security systems of Swaziland, Pakistan, Nepal and Zambia are certainly the most different from ours. Society of Pakistan is affected by the state religion, Islam. In Swaziland, Zambia and Nepal the lack of the resources of the societies affects the well-being of citizens. The student of South African’s Swaziland told us how 43 percent of the citizens of their society are chronically poor. The State and the government of Swaziland don’t have effective structures to repair and to control these things. Social work in Swaziland is still a developing profession and there are only six social workers in the country! Lack of money has complicated the Nepalese life, too. Nepal is patriarchal society where there is a lot of gender-based discrimination, domestic violence, trampling of the children’s and women's rights, plenty of involuntary abortions, marriages tied at very young ages and human trafficking. In the presentation of the student of Zambia, the topic was social problems faced by elderly people. They very often face poverty, abuse, lack of social protection and discrimination. Social work could help those elderly people by providing them free healthcare and homes.<br />
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The United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and Japan seemed to have quite well-developed social security systems. In those countries, also a role of the social work is more stabilized than in the countries that I have considered before. The topic of the student panel presentation offered by the UK was learning difficulties in England. This is an important issue in England where up to 905 000 citizens have some kind of learning difficulties. Social Work helps people with learning difficulties assessing their needs and sharing payments so that these people can buy supporting services to themselves. Nowadays the UK has begun to pay more attention to the treatment of people with disabilities. For example, they have given more regulations to the physical interventions, the controlling of hospitals has been tightened up and generally thinking that home care is the best place for disabled people has risen.<br />
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Especially, from the presentations of the Czech Republic and Japan I found things that Finland could learn about. The major in the Czech social security system is a special protection for people with disabilities in the labour market. Employers must provide the sheltered works for disabled people. This kind of system would maybe solve the problem of the social exclusion that also Finnish disabled people usually face. Japan, in turn, seemed to be the empire of the elderly people! Like in Finland, population of Japan is aging rapidly. The percentage of elderly people is high, so the care of the elderly -related issues are an important part of the social policy. In Japan, the elderly are very often at work. The resources of the elderly people are utilized by supporting the interaction between generations. Japanese student showed us a video clip, where the elderly were taking care of the children in the playschool. I think that Finland would have much to learn from the Japanese way to relate to their elderly people. Their resources should be recognized and they should not be seen only as a burden of the society.<br />
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The lecture week of the 17th international summer school in social work ended at the participants' grateful thanks and the students getting their certificates. Also I want to thank all of the students, the lecturers and the organizers! We are the ones who can make a better day.<br />
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War II. Although the history and the present of immigration are very different
in Finland and in Germany both countries seem to share the same expectations
for the future immigrants: ”high qualified migrants” i.e. people with good
education as well as young and healthy people for low paid jobs in elderly
care, construction sites etc. At the same time as they are welcomed inside the
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Cultural Diversity<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>by UNESCO. She
challenged us to think about which cultures we belong to and what European
identity is and could be. Our cultural background plays an important role when
in contact with different cultures. Ms. <em><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Gaižauskaitė</span></em> reminded us that
culture is inherited and learned and it is not easily changed. We as social
workers and individuals experience cultural diversity and globalization from
our own cultural perspectives. As an EU member Lithuania is prepared for
immigrants on macro level e.g. in legislation. But there is a huge cap between
macro and micro level as individuals and communities are still not prepared for
multiculturalism.</span></div>
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interesting insight in social work in Germany, in both private and public
services. The biggest social work field in Germany is working with young
people. The students presented a hypothetical case of a young drug addict and
his treatment options as well as plenty of information and first-hand
experience about the work at a youth center in Kassel. The American students gave
us a glimpse of the areas of social work they have expertise in. It was
interesting to learn about the different methods and programmes they use to
help people as many social problems are similar in Europe and in the USA. We
were impressed by the large amount of practical training both the Germans and
the Americans have in their curriculum as they had clearly gained expertise
from these experiences. Apparently, the Americans also knew that ice hockey is
a good ice breaker in Finland.</span></div>
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Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön laitoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429667525053224574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-29634446195320483222014-05-23T05:12:00.000-07:002014-05-27T01:24:56.700-07:00Learning Disabilities, Whistle-blowing and Cage HomesWednesday<br />
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On the third day of the International Summer School in Social Work we got to learn about a few current social work topics in Hong Kong
and Finland. Dr. Ben Law from University of Hong Kong introduced us to his
special field of expertise, social workers’ role in helping children with
learning difficulties along with their families. In Hong Kong social worker may
be the only person to teach a dyslexic child and his or her family how to cope
with learning disabilities in school and everyday life when professional help
is out of reach because of low income. The topic raised good questions about
what social work consists of. How do we separate problems that social workers
should tackle from those that should be left to other professions? Or is such
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Laura Tiitinen from University of Lapland presented us her research topic,
freedom of speach violations, silencing and media whistle-blowing in social
work. According to her study all these are phenomena that Finnish social
workers face when trying to talk about and change unethical and illegal policies
and social work practices. After facing silencing social workers may turn to
social or mass media for whistle-blowing and often risk losing their jobs. This
raised questions such as what are the true motives for silencing and what needs
to be done to get the commercialized mass media interested in these topics to
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panels from Finland and Hong Kong also took place on Wednesday. Finnish
students’ informative and entertaining presentation introduced various views of
the Finnish welfare state, its services and their clients. Both teachers and
fellow students were impressed by the Finnish students’ acting skills and rewarded
them with a storm of applause. Students from the University of Hong Kong gave a
very thought-provoking and shocking presentation about the housing problem in
Hong Kong. Due to high population density and high apartment prices people are
forced to live in inhumane conditions that risk their health and wellbeing.
Lack of affordable and adequate housing prevents people from starting a family
and living the kind of life they dream of. As the group pointed out having your
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When I was assigned to write the blog about the
evening gatherings of the international summer school of social work, I was
like “Oh grab!” In English. Double Grab! Because, as you might know us, the gawky
Finns: not talking to the strangers, avoiding to speak another language besides
the Finnish (if that) to other people? Sulking and pouting, being formal and
avoiding making ever so awkward eye contact? If you think the Finns are something
else, it is just some kind of postmodernist jargon related to the discussion
about multiple and varied identities… Right.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">After listening to the <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5zg_af9b8c&feature=kp" target="_blank"><u>Finlandia</u></a>” </span> (<span id="goog_1507512285"></span><span id="goog_1507512286"></span>the
classical peace composed by the famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius during
1899-1900) I was in a mood, called in Finland as “Sisu” (if translated, it has
something to do with your stamina or guts, I guess…). Well, despite the Sisu, when I
arrived at the first gathering on Monday evening, The Welcoming Reception, I
took my seat from the back of the room as far from the center of the action as
possible and respectfully tried to hide myself behind my laptop as if to look
very busy. Unfortunately, my disguise attempt hold no longer. So, I gave the machine
away and started to eat. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And the food! On the top of the iceberg, there was the
reindeer pie, my favorite. While eating the Rudolf, I pondered how the
contemporary western food culture as a ritualistic act has become a central
point to us to be with each other. Food brings people together, even the
serious and formal Finnish people like me. The shared ritual of eating
interconnects us; eating together reminds us of our family and friends. By
eating your needs get to be satisfied, you feel safe and relaxed; the ice
breaks. You boldly participate and get the conversation and even your “Rally
English” starts to sound not so bad anymore. Imagine that! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Afterwards, I thought that being in the welcoming
reception it was like being in the most vivid and talkative night club party
ever, from my Finnish perspective at least. Although there were not shimmer lights,
music too loud or persuading drunken men after you, people from many countries
around the globe were mingling, talking and laughing and exchanging their
thoughts and experiences. There weren’t any trace of the shy, embarrassed
English tangling people trying to make sense whatever does it mean you are talking
about (as it may was in the lecture hall earlier, I think). Actually, before I
even noticed I had bubbled passionately all the topics of my master thesis and
didn’t even have a clue to have so many English words to describe about it! So,
Thank You Vera from Austria!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yeah, that was a great evening! But the best was yet
to come! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When the Wednesday evening arrived, I put my Kalevala
shirt on (You know the famous painting “</span><a href="http://www.wikiart.org/en/akseli-gallen-kallela/the-defense-of-the-sampo-1896" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Defense of the Sampo</span></a><span style="color: blue;"><span id="goog_1507512241"></span><span id="goog_1507512242"></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">” (1896) made
by the iconic Finnish painter Akseli Gallen Kallela illustrating the mythological
story of stealing the Sampo (some kind a magic device) from the Finnish National
Epic: it´s a very daunting image of the two supernatural witches fighting each
other… but no, it was not a statement!) and headed to the University premises
to participate in the second gathering, The International Evening. I think the
main aim of the evening was to get to know each other and one´s national and cultural
characteristic by an informal way. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> And what did I learn? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Well, I already knew Finns fancy to the saddest and
melancholic music (as it seems to be with the Lithuanians too). Austrians like
to get together in pubs, drink Schnapps made out of pine cones while exchanging
their opinions about the behavioral patterns of human reproduction. Hong Kongers
have the most vivid New Year´s traditions originating from the myth of an old
man and dragon and of course they have “the ever so easy to use -chopsticks”.
The Germans are quite good in organizing masses to move, but that´s not so
strange after you have met the Angela Merkel who tells everybody to be in love
with them. Besides the similar music taste, Lithuanians have the oldest
language in the world. How cool is that! Also the geographical middle point of Europe
is located in the Lithuanian ground. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As-Salamu Alaykum Pakistan! You have the most
beautiful and extraordinary architecture in your country! I wish to visit there
someday. UK, the land of magic and muggles and the world famous Royal Family
and Rock Stars. Your music unites the people! And what can I say: Your language
is ever so fascinating! And finally the US, the country of Jeopardies! I never
stop be amazed by the Americans’ everlasting enthusiasm, joyfulness and the spirit
to throw oneself to the task at hand.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yeah, despite my exhaustion after a long day, I think
the evening was really nice!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Afterwards, while I was walking back to home with the
fierce witches Väinämöinen and Pohjan Akka, (who had made a truce!), I was
contemplating considering myself a very privileged person in many ways. Although
I myself remain spouting gawky Finn, I really am grateful to have a chance to
experience the summer school´s liberating spirit in the gatherings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So, I´d like to Thank all the participants for the
most interesting, inspiring and unforgettable evenings! It was really great
meeting all of you! And one day, at the corridors of the headquarters of the UN
in New York, when I meet you there, I´ll remember that despite all the overwhelming
ferocity in the world, there are people, the social workers, who have the most
vivid spirit to cooperate with to make The World a Better Place </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">:)</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Johanna Puolakka</span></div>
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Lapin yliopiston sosiaalityön laitoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01429667525053224574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627454123303133903.post-89874917015605268842014-05-22T02:49:00.001-07:002014-05-22T02:49:32.384-07:00About Sex Work, Asylum-seekers and Neoliberalism on the same day <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On
Tuesday in the International Summer School, we concentrate on some actual
social problems in Europe. According to Dr. Johanna Hefel´s lecture sex work is
not just the oldest profession in the world but a very big business, too. Sex
work is illegal and punishable by law in some countries for example in Albania
and Romania. In many others, like in Finland, sex work is legal, but regulated.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a huge diversity in sex work.
At the movies, like Pretty Woman, we can see one aspect of the phenomenon.
Other aspects are not so pretty. Worldwide there are 4.5 million people in the
world and about 70 000 - 140 000 people in Europe who are forced
sexual exploitation. The actual and global problem in sex work is human trafficking,
which is one kind of slavery. Human trafficking is defined as a crime. Nowadays
everyday life is filled by sexuality. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still
attitudes towards sex work are diverse. Like sex work, also attitudes toward
sex work have different cultural and social backgrounds in different countries.
In Finland sex work is hidden. We don´t speak about it, because it’s so
sensitive a subject. In summer school, we discussed if sex work is an individual
or a social problem? In our view it is a social problem, because the structures
of society should be preventing from being exploited to sex work.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the
Austrian student panel, we became aware of another big social problem in Europe.
The problem is the situation of asylum-seekers. The amount of asylum seekers
has rise rapidly in Europe, especially in Lampedusa in Italy and in Melilla in
Spain. The problem is so huge that Italy and Spain can´t handle it by
themselves. To Lampedusa asylum-seekers come in old boats and they are often
brought back to the sea. Many of them are drowned and dead.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> How
can we solve this social problem? The best way to help asylum-seekers is to help
them in their own country. Another way is to let them come to Europe and
organize basic living, housing, health services. Most of all they need mental
support to survive traumatic experiences, which they have had.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dr.
Christian Stark told us about neoliberalism and how it influences on social
work. Including this ideology we can’t afford the welfare state any longer. This
could mean the economization of social work. In that case the weak and
powerless people in need are replaced by profitable customers. Then competition
will dominate instead of solidarity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kirsti
Pöyliö & Eveliina Ojaniemi, students from University of Lapland</span></div>
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