Tamar Shwartz‐ziv
Biographic Data
| ID | 4431532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamar Shwartz‐ziv |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamar |
| FAMILY NAME | Shwartz‐ziv |
| SIGNATURE | ZIV T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7769-3237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The meaning of home among disadvantaged renting families
In recent years, amid a global affordable housing crisis, there has been growing scholarly and political interest in the problem of housing insecurity among poor families. Although housing is one of the key forms of disadvantage affecting those who engage with social services, the profession of social work has given only scant attention to this pressing issue. Guided by theories of home as an ongoing political process, this study advances the und…
Between Institutional Loneliness and Visibility
In recent years, as countries worldwide have experienced an affordable housing crisis, housing insecurity among poor families has drawn increasing and diverse scholarly attention. In contrast to other disciplines, social work scholarship has given only scant attention to housing problems. Connecting scholarship on housing insecurity and social work with people living in poverty, this study explores how low‐income renting families experience vario…
Bridging worlds
This study examines the challenges involved in community interpreting in multicultural social services in Israel. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews with interpreters and social workers working with Ethiopian and French immigrants, the findings reveal three types of challenges: translation of sensitive content, ethical issues, and interpreter employment policy. Consequently, the study suggests employing the concept of ‘experiential knowledge’…
Negotiating housing insecurity
The Role of Organizational and Client Reactions in Understanding Representative Bureaucracy
The public administration literature has long observed the efforts of street-level bureaucrats to actively represent the clients with whom they share a social or demographic identity. However, it has not examined the responses that street-level bureaucrats receive when they represent minorities and how these responses shape how they use discretion in implementing policies. We explore these issues empirically through in-depth interviews with 23 Is…
The aftermath
Social workers play a vital role in making violence-stricken communities into safer places for human development. However, research examining the experiences of community practitioners in political conflicts is scarce. Using a place-making analytical framework, this study addresses this gap exploring community practitioners’ practices around outbreaks of violence in Israeli Jewish-Arab mixed cities. Based on 50 semi-structured interviews, the fin…
Community practice as street-level bureaucracy
Social work research has increasingly focused on the role of social work in shaping policies on behalf of disadvantaged individuals, families, and communities. However, scarce research has examined the contribution of social work community practitioners to policy development and practice. This qualitative study addresses this gap in the literature, exploring public community practitioners’ discretion patterns within Israeli Jewish-Arab mixed citi…
Bringing in the third wheel
Activist Mothers in Need of Public Housing and the Welfare Services
Recent decades have witnessed an increasing trend towards the development of critical approaches to the study of poverty, which call upon social workers to perceive people living in poverty as active agents who resist their condition. Relatively few studies, however, have examined how women living in poverty, who embody collective-political agency, experience the encounter with the welfare services, and how their manner of organisation is shaped …
Place-making
Since its very inception, the field of social work has acknowledged the importance of place in shaping communal identity, construing shared meanings and generating collective actions. Nevertheless, the analytical framework of place-making, which enjoys growing interest in other disciplines, has little impact on social work and its incorporation into social work community practice is still embryonic. The place-making perspective is particularly re…
Social workers’ construction of cultural competence in polarized cities
Mixed cities are defined as ethnically diverse cities located within turbulent contexts of intensive, ongoing intergroup political conflict. As such, they may pose serious challenges to social workers’ efforts to develop culturally competent practices, especially in the public service sector. This article examined social workers’ constructions of cultural competence in the social public services delivered to Arab and Jewish clients in Israeli mix…
Social Services in Ethnically Mixed Cities
There is a paucity of research examining street-level bureaucracy in cities affected by ongoing ethnopolitical conflict. This study addresses this limitation by exploring the work of social workers in the public services of mixed cities in Israel. It shows the interconnection between ambiguous institutional policies, varying workers’ views of the role of social services, and changing discretion patterns. Findings also suggest that episodes of con…
Activist Mothers in Need of Public Housing and the Welfare Services
Recent decades have witnessed an increasing trend towards the development of critical approaches to the study of poverty, which call upon social workers to perceive people living in poverty as active agents who resist their condition. Relatively few studies, however, have examined how women living in poverty, who embody collective-political agency, experience the encounter with the welfare services, and how their manner of organisation is shaped …
Between Institutional Loneliness and Visibility
In recent years, as countries worldwide have experienced an affordable housing crisis, housing insecurity among poor families has drawn increasing and diverse scholarly attention. In contrast to other disciplines, social work scholarship has given only scant attention to housing problems. Connecting scholarship on housing insecurity and social work with people living in poverty, this study explores how low‐income renting families experience vario…
The Role of Organizational and Client Reactions in Understanding Representative Bureaucracy
The public administration literature has long observed the efforts of street-level bureaucrats to actively represent the clients with whom they share a social or demographic identity. However, it has not examined the responses that street-level bureaucrats receive when they represent minorities and how these responses shape how they use discretion in implementing policies. We explore these issues empirically through in-depth interviews with 23 Is…
The aftermath
Social workers play a vital role in making violence-stricken communities into safer places for human development. However, research examining the experiences of community practitioners in political conflicts is scarce. Using a place-making analytical framework, this study addresses this gap exploring community practitioners’ practices around outbreaks of violence in Israeli Jewish-Arab mixed cities. Based on 50 semi-structured interviews, the fin…
Community practice as street-level bureaucracy
Social work research has increasingly focused on the role of social work in shaping policies on behalf of disadvantaged individuals, families, and communities. However, scarce research has examined the contribution of social work community practitioners to policy development and practice. This qualitative study addresses this gap in the literature, exploring public community practitioners’ discretion patterns within Israeli Jewish-Arab mixed citi…
Bringing in the third wheel
Place-making
Since its very inception, the field of social work has acknowledged the importance of place in shaping communal identity, construing shared meanings and generating collective actions. Nevertheless, the analytical framework of place-making, which enjoys growing interest in other disciplines, has little impact on social work and its incorporation into social work community practice is still embryonic. The place-making perspective is particularly re…
Social Services in Ethnically Mixed Cities
There is a paucity of research examining street-level bureaucracy in cities affected by ongoing ethnopolitical conflict. This study addresses this limitation by exploring the work of social workers in the public services of mixed cities in Israel. It shows the interconnection between ambiguous institutional policies, varying workers’ views of the role of social services, and changing discretion patterns. Findings also suggest that episodes of con…
Social workers’ construction of cultural competence in polarized cities
Mixed cities are defined as ethnically diverse cities located within turbulent contexts of intensive, ongoing intergroup political conflict. As such, they may pose serious challenges to social workers’ efforts to develop culturally competent practices, especially in the public service sector. This article examined social workers’ constructions of cultural competence in the social public services delivered to Arab and Jewish clients in Israeli mix…
Social Services in Ethnically Mixed Cities
There is a paucity of research examining street-level bureaucracy in cities affected by ongoing ethnopolitical conflict. This study addresses this limitation by exploring the work of social workers in the public services of mixed cities in Israel. It shows the interconnection between ambiguous institutional policies, varying workers’ views of the role of social services, and changing discretion patterns. Findings also suggest that episodes of con…
Community practice as street-level bureaucracy
Social work research has increasingly focused on the role of social work in shaping policies on behalf of disadvantaged individuals, families, and communities. However, scarce research has examined the contribution of social work community practitioners to policy development and practice. This qualitative study addresses this gap in the literature, exploring public community practitioners’ discretion patterns within Israeli Jewish-Arab mixed citi…
Bringing in the third wheel
Activist Mothers in Need of Public Housing and the Welfare Services
Recent decades have witnessed an increasing trend towards the development of critical approaches to the study of poverty, which call upon social workers to perceive people living in poverty as active agents who resist their condition. Relatively few studies, however, have examined how women living in poverty, who embody collective-political agency, experience the encounter with the welfare services, and how their manner of organisation is shaped …
Place-making
Since its very inception, the field of social work has acknowledged the importance of place in shaping communal identity, construing shared meanings and generating collective actions. Nevertheless, the analytical framework of place-making, which enjoys growing interest in other disciplines, has little impact on social work and its incorporation into social work community practice is still embryonic. The place-making perspective is particularly re…
The Role of Organizational and Client Reactions in Understanding Representative Bureaucracy
The public administration literature has long observed the efforts of street-level bureaucrats to actively represent the clients with whom they share a social or demographic identity. However, it has not examined the responses that street-level bureaucrats receive when they represent minorities and how these responses shape how they use discretion in implementing policies. We explore these issues empirically through in-depth interviews with 23 Is…
The aftermath
Social workers play a vital role in making violence-stricken communities into safer places for human development. However, research examining the experiences of community practitioners in political conflicts is scarce. Using a place-making analytical framework, this study addresses this gap exploring community practitioners’ practices around outbreaks of violence in Israeli Jewish-Arab mixed cities. Based on 50 semi-structured interviews, the fin…
Negotiating housing insecurity
Between Institutional Loneliness and Visibility
In recent years, as countries worldwide have experienced an affordable housing crisis, housing insecurity among poor families has drawn increasing and diverse scholarly attention. In contrast to other disciplines, social work scholarship has given only scant attention to housing problems. Connecting scholarship on housing insecurity and social work with people living in poverty, this study explores how low‐income renting families experience vario…
Bridging worlds
This study examines the challenges involved in community interpreting in multicultural social services in Israel. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews with interpreters and social workers working with Ethiopian and French immigrants, the findings reveal three types of challenges: translation of sensitive content, ethical issues, and interpreter employment policy. Consequently, the study suggests employing the concept of ‘experiential knowledge’…
The meaning of home among disadvantaged renting families
In recent years, amid a global affordable housing crisis, there has been growing scholarly and political interest in the problem of housing insecurity among poor families. Although housing is one of the key forms of disadvantage affecting those who engage with social services, the profession of social work has given only scant attention to this pressing issue. Guided by theories of home as an ongoing political process, this study advances the und…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Social Work (6 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (6 works)