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Martínez Herrero, María Inés

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    Building from the Ashes: Towards a Three-Dimensional Approach for Social Work Intervention Facing Social Conflicts in Vulnerable Neighbourhoods.
    (Oxford University Press, 2021-07-27) Sergio Barciela Fernández; Lorenzo Gilsanz, Francisco Javier; Martínez Herrero, María Inés; https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4212-054X
    About 56 percent of the world’s population lives in urban environments. In more economically developed countries, this percentage is considerably higher. Increasingly, cities’ more vulnerable and culturally diverse neighbourhoods are the context of violent conflicts linked to interconnected socio-economic (inequality), ethnocultural (discrimination) and public-institutional (delegitimation) causal factors. Social outbursts such as London (2011) or Husby’s (Stockholm, 2013) riots are amongst the most notorious recent examples of these. Both the frequency and intensity of these conflicts are only expected to worsen as the economic impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic takes hold. This article introduces the ‘Theory of Rupture Frames (TRF)’, which offers a new three-dimensional explanatory model of violent conflicts in vulnerable neighbourhoods with high socio-cultural diversity. The ‘TRF’, it is argued, offers a novel and suitable framework for founding and guiding social work’s preventative and healing-oriented interventions facing these. This is in relation to the TRF’s dual potential for (i) contributing to the theoretical understanding in the social work profession of this type of conflict and for (ii) offering a tool for guiding the assessment of needs and strategic planning of social work-led actions in the context of the neighbourhoods affected by the conflicts or at risk of their outburst.
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    ¿Es la Intervención Social Comunitaria un buen punto de partida para el cambio social radical hacia la justicia social? Una reflexión en torno al contexto político-ideológico de la Intervención Social Comunitaria en el Reino Unido
    (UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 2024-12-13) Paz Oliva, Víctor; Martínez Herrero, María Inés
    Este artículo busca ofrecer una reflexión sobre la complejidad de la relación entre el Estado de Bienestar, la intervención social comunitaria y la ideología política, a la luz del ejemplo del Reino Unido. Para ello analiza las ideologías subyacentes a las políticas sociales de intervención social comunitaria en el país desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX, prestando una particular atención a los desarrollos más recientes relativos a la política de Reino Unido ante la soledad no deseada (implementad desde 2018). Partiendo de este análisis, el artículo pasa a abordar la cuestión de si la intervención social comunitaria puede y debe promover un cambio social radical hacia la justicia social en las sociedades democráticas contemporáneas. En base a los estándares profesionales y éticos para la práctica del trabajo social y el desarrollo comunitario en el Reino Unido y a nivel global, así como a los datos sobre la desigualdad imperante en el país, se argumenta que perseguir este cambio radical, efectivamente debe ser un objetivo principal de la intervención social comunitaria contemporánea. Aunque a menudo promovida por los gobiernos como una forma de autoayuda que no cuestiona el orden social, la intervención social comunitaria tiene un potencial radical inherente al reunir a las personas para resolver problemas sociales, fomentando mediante el diálogo la concientización sobre las causas estructurales de su desventaja.
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    Whether or not to open the Pandora´s box: an analysis of latent conflict in vulnerable neighbourhoods with high socio-cultural diversity in Spain
    (Taylor and Francis Group, Routledge, 2024-02-23) Lorenzo Gilsanz, Francisco Javier; Barciela Fernández, Sergio; Martínez Herrero, María Inés; https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4212-054X
    Worldwide, vulnerable neighbourhoods of large cities are often the scene of collective violent conflicts linked with migration and ethnic minorities’ struggles for social justice. However, urban conflicts of this kind have not taken place in Spanish cities with high immigration rates, even though the country has been deeply affected by two recent socioeconomic crises (2009 and 2020). This article reports findings of a study aimed at understanding what lies behind this apparent social peace. The research methodology was based on an analysis of secondary socio-economic and socio-relational data from the Spanish Institute of Statistics and from key national surveys and reports. Results confirmed that immigrant population living in the country are strongly segregated in the lower strata of the labour and socioeconomic structure and have been disproportionately affected by the crises. However, research findings also pointed to the existence of strong closed support networks where social capital has been effective at palliating members’ disadvantage and unrest. Drawing on the Theory of Rupture Frames, we argue that this is a fragile and unsustainable social peace, rooted in social injustice, and anticipate that unless actively prevented, uncontrolled conflict will eventually emerge in main cities’ neighbourhoods in Spain.
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    Social assistance in Franco’s fascist Spain (1939– 75): a history of social control, family segregation and stolen babies
    (Bristol University Press, 2023-05-14) Martínez Herrero, María Inés
    The founding of the first Spanish school of social work in 1932, in Barcelona, is a well-known and celebrated milestone in the development of the social work profession in Spain. The school was financially supported by Raül Roviralta and was linked to a Belgian Catholic school of social work. The activity of this first school of social work was short lived, as it came to a halt with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. But very little is known or discussed about some dark ramifications of the school´s work and the pro-fascist political trajectory followed by its patron, Roviralta, during and after the war. This is just one small reflection of a significant area of political blindness affecting most historical accounts of the evolution of social work in Spain: a lack of explicit acknowledgement of its history of complicity and collaboration with the social control, oppression and indoctrination methods of the far-right dictatorship which was established at the end of the civil war in 1939 and lasted until 1975. Extreme implications of this complicity include instances of involvement in human rights abuses such as forced removal and stealing of babies from political prisoners and other families deemed unworthy or incapable to raise their children, according to the Spanish religious and cultural values which the dictatorship vowed to protect and enforce. Little is known, either, about histories of social workers´ individual and collective resistance to such abuses.
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    The theory of Rupture Frames: a new map for social work education and practice to understand, explain and address urban conflicts in vulnerable neighborhoods with high socio-cultural diversity
    (Routledge, 2023) Barciela Fernández, Sergio; Lorenzo Gilsanz, Francisco Javier; Martínez Herrero, María Inés; https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4212-054X
    Conflicts linked to immigration and ethnic minorities—especially those settled in the poorest neighborhoods of large cities— are frequent in contemporary democracies and are expected to continue to gain notoriety worldwide. The prevalence and complexity of these conflicts lead to the need for a solid analytical framework to accurately address these. This chapter presents and argues for the adequacy of a macro theoretical proposal, the Theory of Rupture Frames (TRF), for guiding social work analysis and intervention facing the specific events of urban conflicts in vulnerable neighborhoods with high socio-cultural diversity. After offering a synthesis of the main lines of contemporary research on social conflict, the chapter will argue that the TRF provides solidarity to the social work approach in these contexts and is well aligned with the Ethical Principles of Social Work (IFSW, 2018). The chapter will also highlight the importance of social work’s contribution to knowledge development and to society as an applied discipline capable of putting scientific knowledge into action and returning critical assessments of the different theories’ adequacy to explain and improve life in society.
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    Seeking to fulfil the human rights promise: practitioner perspectives and an assessment tool for realising human rights based social work education and practice.
    (Taylor and Francis Group, Routledge, 2024-10-23) Martínez Herrero, María Inés; Lorenzo Gilsanz, Francisco Javier; Barciela Fernández, Sergio; https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4212-054X
    International social work organizations emphasize human rights (HR) as a main social work principle. However, a focus on HR is often lacking in social work education. This often results in an inspirational, rather than deep and meaningful application of HR commitments in social work practice, with kindness and respect being conflated with a realization of HR. Nevertheless, without a critical HR awareness, social workers may inadvertently neglect or hinder service users’ rights. This article presents the findings of an exploratory study which examined, through in-depth interviews with six practitioners working in HR sensitive contexts in Spain, how the experience (or lack thereof) of HR education influences practitioners’ engagement with HR. Findings indicate that, for social workers to overcome inspirational approaches and achieve an HR based social work practice, training and support mechanisms need to be developed at different contexts: 1. In social work education, importantly including social work placements and a practice orientation of teaching 2. At social work services’ organizations and 3. At the broader social work professional organizations and political-institutional contexts. Drawing on the findings, the researchers developed a Human Rights Practice Assessment Tool to support lecturers, students and practitioners in applying HR principles meaningfully in social work.
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    Luces y sombras del trabajo social en la dictadura franquista (España, 1939-1975): una historia aún por contar
    (Universidad de Chile, 2024-05) Martínez Herrero, María Inés
    Las diferencias entre la dictadura franquista (España, 1939-1975) y aquellas que, como la de Chile (1973-1990), asolaron América latina en las últimas décadas del siglo XX, son claras y numerosas. Hace 50 años, durante el golpe de Estado en Chile, la prolongada dictadura española ya estaba inmersa en un proceso de desintegración que culminó con la muerte natural del dictador en 1975 y el inicio de la transición democrática. Sin embargo, ambas dictaduras consolidaron su poder mediante una brutal represión política y han ganado notoriedad internacional en las últimas décadas al desvelarse la práctica de robo de bebés a familias opositoras. No obstante, en la literatura sobre la historia del trabajo social en España encontramos un gran silencio en torno a estas temáticas y una narrativa centrada de manera casi exclusiva en las “luces” de la trayectoria de la profesión (hitos, logros y aspiraciones). Si bien este enfoque se entiende atendiendo al contexto histórico en el que tuvo que desarrollarse entre muchas dificultades el trabajo social en el país, y desde “el espíritu de la transición”, este artículo defenderá que se vuelve fundamental, al día de hoy, volver la vista atrás e investigar también “las sombras” y recovecos de la historia de esta profesión. Explorar estas sombras develará episodios de los que no estaremos orgullosos/as, pero también historias de valiente resistencia. Más importante todavía, ayudará al trabajo social en España a conocerse mejor (incluido su peligroso potencial) y a ocupar su lugar en los procesos de recuperación de la memoria histórica y reconciliación, tanto de puertas adentro como al servicio de la sociedad, de acuerdo con su compromiso ético con los derechos humanos y la justicia social.
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    Resisting neoliberalism in social work education: learning, teaching, and performing human rights and social justice in England and Spain
    (Taylor & Francis, 2020-04-03) Martínez Herrero, María Inés; Charnley, Helen
    In an increasingly complex, globalized world, many of the problems confronting social workers are rooted in structural inequalities created or deepened by uncontrolled neoliberal market mechanisms. Yet neoliberal political agendas dominating the global order encourage individualistic models of social work intervention, characterized by managerialism and deprofessionalization. Critiquing the impact of neoliberalism, those aligned with critical and radical social work traditions have highlighted the use of narrow technicist interventions to disguise the root social causes of people´s suffering and contradicting values of human rights (HR) and social justice (SJ) that lie at the heart of social work as a profession. For social work students to locate themselves confidently within HR and SJ frameworks, they must experience HR and SJ as central to their education. This article draws on doctoral research exploring how HR and SJ are operationalized in social work education in England and Spain. A web survey of social work educators and students was complemented by interviews with educators in both countries. Findings revealed key opportunities for learning, teaching and performing HR and SJ in social work education. We discuss each in turn, reflecting briefly on the implications for enhancing the profile of HR and SJ in social work education
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    Criminal records and public sector professional education: The role of criminal background checks in admissions to social work courses in England
    (SAGE Journals, 2022-08-01) Bald, Caroline; Wyllie, Aaron; Martínez Herrero, María Inés
    Over 11 million people in England and Wales have criminal records, with men, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds and people from poorer communities being over-represented. A gatekeeping discussion is developing across the social work profession regarding the role of criminal records in decision-making at the point of admission to social work programmes. Balancing risk, representation, and the right to move on, who becomes a social worker is an issue of debate among practitioners, educators, and policy makers, where notable instances of media and political focus on social work failure has led to public mistrust, and moral panic about the state of the profession. Whilst internationally many social work education providers have moved away from interview gatekeeping, in England this has continued, alongside wider checks including for criminal records. This discussion article reviews what social working with a criminal record represents in the profession and why course admissions is a site for restorative justice and the human right to move on.
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    Interrogating the Colonial Past: The Conflicting History of Social Work as a Human Rights Profession
    (Springer, 2023-07-13) Martínez Herrero, María Inés; Tedam, Prospera
    The evolution of social work as a human right profession is rooted in a legacy of struggle against a supremacist ideology that legitimized colonialism with its fascist and racist character. Social work is often understood as promoting social change, the emancipation and liberation of people. Indeed, this chapter will highlight how many early framers of human rights in social work were anti-colonialists who asserted humanistic values that upheld the dignity and equality of all people. Whilst this is true, there appears to be resistance to acknowledging and remembering the professions' complicity with processes, practices and systems which destroyed people, places and prospects through colonisation, oppression and subjugation. The chapter addresses this part of social work history, too.