Mirrored Social Representations of Canadian Caseworkers with Migratory Paths Intervening with Refugees in the Host Country

被引：2

作者：

Negura, Lilian ^{[1
]}

Buhay, Corinna ^{[1
]}

de Rosa, Annamaria Silvana ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Ottawa, Fac Social Sci, Sch Social Work, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

[2] Sapienza Univ Rome, Dept Social & Dev Psychol, I-00185 Rome, Italy

来源：

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH | 2021年 / 18卷 / 16期

关键词：

social representation; refugees; caseworkers; mirrored social representations; social identity; PUBLIC-ATTITUDES; SYRIAN REFUGEES; IDENTITY; ACCULTURATION; IMMIGRATION; ENGLISH; WOMEN;

D O I：

10.3390/ijerph18168648

中图分类号：

X [环境科学、安全科学];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0830 ;

摘要：

In 2015, the resettlement of 25,000 Syrian refugees in Canada placed a strain on social services. Caseworkers employed in these agencies often come from similar migratory trajectories to those of the refugees. This experiential proximity requires an understanding of the subjective perspectives that caseworkers with migratory paths have of refugees in the context of their professional practice. We analyzed fifteen individual interviews with Canadian caseworkers and conducted field observations of resettlement activities in the Ottawa-Gatineau region using inductive reasoning inspired by grounded theory. Adopting a sociogenetic approach to social representation theory, this qualitative study illustrates how the social representation of refugees among foreign-born caseworkers is highly informed by their migratory past experience, as well as by the social identity and social context from which that representation was socio-generated. Our analysis reveals the mirror effect of the caseworkers as a fruitful concept for understanding the identity-otherness dynamics in the encounter between the distant other (refugee) and the self.

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