The handbook was written in collaboration with social care professionals and focuses on the harmful social norms which exist in some especially disadvantaged Roma families. Among the harmful social norms are the reproduction of patriarchal socialization patterns on children; early marriage of girls and violence against women. The topics were neglected among social welfare workers, labelling them as a "Roma culture". Roma families were culturalised and ethnised. The handbook addresses the necessity that the welfare professionals intervene and prevent the continuity of the harmful social norms in order to decrease the reproduction of transgenerational poverty, illiteracy among women and their long-term marginalization. The book has been available in open access since 2020 at http://www.dlib.com/details/URN:NBN:SI:doc-X9LIMKMB. The ZRC ZAZU online newspaper invited the first author of the textbook to write a contribution for the on-line journal Alternator (April 9, 2020) during the week of the International Romani Day. https://www.alternator.science/sl/daljse/skodljive-druzbene-posledice-mladoletnih-porok-med-romi-v-sloveniji/
F.01 Acquisition of new practical knowledge, information and skills
COBISS.SI-ID: 301967872The book chapter addresses the question of social memory with special attention to crisis times, and the ways in which separate histories/interpretations in real time, and with them, diverse notions and convictions on the need of preventative social action. V: SANCIN, Vasilka (ur.). Responsibility to protect : lessons learned and the way forward. 1st ed. Ljubljana: Pravna fakulteta: = Faculty of Law, 2019. Str. 33-42. ISBN 978-961-6447-84-3.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 5172069The achievement relates to a lecture at an important European conference Managing mental health system complexity (ENMESH - The European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation, Lisbon, 6.-8.6.2019) where Mojca Urek was invited keynote speaker. The majority of EU countries nowadays discuss the possibilities of increasing the quality of community services; nevertheless, some EU countries still discuss for a thirty years old-topic around basic question concerning the closure of large, asylum-type institutions. Slovenia is a country with a long history of deinstitutionalisation and development of the community forms of care, but without a real systematic change. However, the challenges of organizing community care need to go beyond the sole question of moving people out of institutions. Through the shift of care into community, people have not automatically gained more contractual power in their lives and the participatory power in social services. On the contrary, in political and organisational processes of re-organising long-term care, their voice got lost and their impact is predominantly tokenistic. The existing research conducted by Urek shows a gap between the declarative participation policy, stemming from ratified conventions and lived experiences of limited participation. At the same time it shows innovative participatory and advocacy practices and their potentials to transform social services and to impact the deinstitutionalisation process.
B.04 Guest lecture
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