TY - CONF

T1 - Youth work in a marginalized area and its contribution to social mobility and social justice

AU - Tireli, Üzeyir

AU - Brønsted, Lone Bæk

AU - Larsen, Vibe

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - This paper addresses the question of how professionals involved in social pedagogical work in a marginalized area deal with young people’s possibilities of social mobility. Based on interviews with teachers, social pedagogues, pedagogical assistants, educational supervisors, street workers and municipalemployees and observations in youth clubs this paper carries out an analysis of the conditions for social pedagogical work in a socially deprived area in Copenhagen as experienced by these professionals. The paper puts special emphasis on the fact that the youth work takes place in an area that in itself poses a potential risk for the young people living there. One of the main conclusions is that the professionals do not include the specific terms and conditions that the marginalized residential area represents in their practice.The professionals’ good intentions and initiatives for youth mobility therefore results in a form of social reproduction. The paper draws on data from an ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Copenhagen in 2013-2015 as part ofa larger research project: “Youth, Social Communities and Educational Challenges”

AB - This paper addresses the question of how professionals involved in social pedagogical work in a marginalized area deal with young people’s possibilities of social mobility. Based on interviews with teachers, social pedagogues, pedagogical assistants, educational supervisors, street workers and municipalemployees and observations in youth clubs this paper carries out an analysis of the conditions for social pedagogical work in a socially deprived area in Copenhagen as experienced by these professionals. The paper puts special emphasis on the fact that the youth work takes place in an area that in itself poses a potential risk for the young people living there. One of the main conclusions is that the professionals do not include the specific terms and conditions that the marginalized residential area represents in their practice.The professionals’ good intentions and initiatives for youth mobility therefore results in a form of social reproduction. The paper draws on data from an ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Copenhagen in 2013-2015 as part ofa larger research project: “Youth, Social Communities and Educational Challenges”

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Territorial stigmatization

KW - Youth work

KW - social pedagogy

UR - https://blogs.helsinki.fi/nera-2016/files/2014/09/Abstracts_NERA2016.pdf

M3 - Paper

Y2 - 9 March 2016 through 11 March 2016

ER -