Nuzha Allassad Alhuzail
Biographic Data
| ID | 817420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nuzha Allassad Alhuzail |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nuzha Allassad |
| FAMILY NAME | Alhuzail |
| SIGNATURE | ALHUZAIL N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapir College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4747-1531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Indigenous Women's Resilience, Leadership and Social Change: Intersection of Knowledge, Tradition, and Justice
Minoritized Arab social workers’ attitudes and strategies concerning welfare services for Palestinians working with Israeli security services
The research traced the attitudes of minoritized Arab social workers in Israel toward Palestinian “collaborators” with Israeli security forces and strategies that the social workers employ in interventions with them. Using a phenomenological approach, the research drew data from semi-structured in-depth interviews with 15 Arab social workers in Arab welfare bureaus in Israel. Findings The social workers voiced three main attitudes concerning thei…
The struggle for professional recognition of Bedouin social workers in Israel, graduates from Palestinian academic institutions
This qualitative study examined professional experiences of 34 female Bedouin social workers, graduates of academic institutions in Palestinian Authority territories, who were employed in Israel’s social welfare services. The research aimed:to explore their lived experiences of exclusion, professional delegitimization, and o examine the implications of such exclusion for their professional practice, identity, and well-being, within a complex cros…
Silencing the professional voice: Institutional barriers and policy implications for Bedouin social workers in Israel
This study examined the experiences of Bedouin social workers from Israel who attained bachelor’s degrees in social work at Palestinian Authority colleges and then worked in Israeli welfare services. Using a qualitative exploratory design, the researchers conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 34 Bedouin social workers and thematically analysed reflective autobiographical texts written by their mentors in a professional-support progra…
The experiences of palestinian migrant workers in the context ofpolitical conflict
This study examines how Palestinian migrant workers understand the meaning of global citizenship within two distinct political contexts: Israel and Germany. Based on in-depth interviews with 40 workers, 30 employed in Israel under an occupation-based permit regime and 10 residing in Germany within a formal international migration system, the findings reveal that global citizenship is understood less as a legal status and more as a relational and …
Indigenous Knowledge among Elderly Bedouin Women in the Negev: Memory, Practice, and Intergenerational Transmission
Solidarity in the Shadows: Bedouin Support for Undocumented Migrant Workers in Israel
Supervision of minoritized Arab social work students overshadowed by the 7 October 2023 war: Challenges and coping strategies
This study joins recent research focusing on social work’s colonial legacies and the structural implications of political violence. This approach provides us with important new directions on how to rethink and reshape social work education in contexts influenced by colonialism. The study investigated challenges faced by minoritized Arab social work students, supervised by Jewish supervisors, mainly in Hebrew-speaking Jewish practicum settings, an…
Life on hold: Bedouin youth, counter-terrorism charges, and the social work implications of criminalization in Israel
This article explores the lived experiences of fourteen Bedouin youth from southern Israel, who were arrested following the May 2021 protests, and charged under Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Law. The young men, most of whom had no prior criminal records, were held for extended periods under harsh conditions, including solitary confinement and severe post-release restrictions. Through in-depth qualitative interviews, this study examines their percept…
Solidarity as a value, emotion, and practice: Arab social work students’ perceptions in a multicultural society
This article explores how Arab social work students in Israel conceptualize solidarity, navigating between ethnic identity, community loyalty, and universal professional ethics. Using a phenomenological qualitative approach, 25 in-depth interviews were thematically analyzed. Findings revealed that students view solidarity as a multidimensional phenomenon, including moral value, emotional empathy, daily mutual aid, and professional identity. A dis…
Decolonising social work practice field education: A scoping review
Decolonisation is redressing colonial legacies and reaffirming self-determination. Understandings of decolonisation in social work field education literature were examined using a social justice lens. This scoping review combined systematic database searching with decolonising methods including relational searches. Data synthesis included thematic and deductive analysis to critical frameworks. The 43 studies included were primarily English-speaki…
Balancing acts: The intricate role of child protection officers in empowering Bedouin girls for gender equality in patriarchal families
Arab minority social workers’ interventions in taboo topics: Challenges and coping mechanisms
Navigating the Labyrinth: Challenges Faced by Child Protection Officers in Polygamous Bedouin Families in Israel
Polygamy is widespread in Israel's Bedouin population. Israeli law forbids polygamy, but Bedouin tradition and custom, as well as Islam—which conditions polygamy on just relations, physical and economic capability and maintenance of religious observance—allow a man to take more than one wife. This article presents the findings of an exploratory qualitative study of 18 child protection officers (CPOs) and social workers involved in parental custod…
Decision‐Making in Child Welfare Among Arab Child Protection Officers in Israel: The Cultural Context
Child protection officers (CPOs) play a critical role in protecting children at risk and make important decisions that significantly impact children and their families. These decisions are influenced by wider contexts such as family, system, organization and multiple cultural contexts. Working in the Arab community, which has different values and norms from mainstream Israeli society, requires the CPOs to consider the cultural context within thei…
Secondary traumatization of child protection officers in Bedouin society in Israel
In the Bedouin society in Israel, Child Protection Officers (CPOs) are exposed to the risk of secondary traumatization due to their work’s challenging character. They navigate through a complicated, complex field of cultural traditions and institutional structures. Protecting children at risk becomes a daunting task and often puts CPOs at high risk because of the families’ resistance. Treating difficult cases such as murder and sexual abuse leave…
Buds of critical social work in the welfare bureaus for the minoritized Arab population in Israel
The research supplements scarce literature discussing direct critical social work intervention in the public sector. It highlights the value of minor but incremental critical practices by minoritized and underprivileged social workers in public welfare institutions. Qualitative tools elicited data from semi-structured interviews with seventeen Arab social workers employed in welfare bureaus in Israel. Buds of direct critical activity were identif…
Being a part of the community and working within it: Arab child protection officers in Israel and their unique challenges
Israel’s Youth Law (Care and Supervision), enacted in 1960, outlines protocols for addressing the needs of minors at risk, particularly those subjected to maltreatment within their families. Arab child protection officers (CPOs) in Israel operate within a multifaceted social milieu characterized by a patriarchal and traditional structure and undergoing transformation. This society contends with substantial violence and the pervasive influence of …
The potential value of home visits as experienced by social workers belonging to the minoritized Arab population in Israel
The study joins the calls for the ‘authentication’ of social work interventions in ‘real-life contexts’, investigating the potential value of home visits as perceived by minority group social workers in Israel. Data were collected from in-depth semi-structured interviews with 15 Arab social workers employed by local authority welfare bureaus. Beyond the home visit’s universal potential, the interviews revealed authentic ways to utilize the home v…
The Ausj program: Empowering Bedouin social workers in Israel through indigenous knowledge and professional development
Arab social workers in Israel face unique challenges when working with Bedouin Arabs, balancing Western-secular and traditional-religious orientations. This qualitative study interviewed 14 Arab social workers participating in the 2-year Ausj project, which trained them to elicit indigenous knowledge from their experiences. Two main themes were revealed: ‘a unique and successful experience’ and ‘echoes from the program that continued to motivate …
The challenges faced by Bedouin soldiers after release from IDF military service and their struggle to reintegrate into civilian life within their community
A qualitative study focused on the experiences of young Bedouin Israeli citizens who volunteered to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces. The study aimed to understand the challenges encountered by discharged Bedouin soldiers in their first year following release from complete military service. Thematic analysis revealed three major themes. The first exposed the challenges of entering the labor market following their service. The second disclosed …
“Masculinity is responsibility toward your family”: Masculinity in the shadow of Bedouin patriarchy in Israel
Sharing Your Husband: Adult Attachment Styles and Emotional Responses of Israeli Bedouin-Arab Women to Potential Polygynous Marriage
Polygynous marriage is prevalent among Israel's Bedouin-Arab community, despite being explicitly banned by state law. Cultural traditions and customs permit men to take multiple wives, and Islamic teachings do not prohibit the practice. The impact of polygyny is significant, affecting women, children, and society as a whole in various ways. We examined the connections that attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance had with hypothetical response…
Encouraging professional excellence among social workers from disadvantaged minorities: Palestinians in Israel as a case study
This article investigates the way in which disadvantaged minority social workers’ professional excellence is encouraged, drawing data from an analysis of primary documents and in-depth semi-structured interviews with 21 Palestinian welfare bureau managers in Israel. It finds that the Jewish voluntary sector is the sole player encouraging Palestinian minority social workers’ excellence, but its encouragement maintains the status quo regime, politi…
The struggles of Arab social workers in Israel: Professional success among minority group social workers
The article investigates the scope, motivations, considerations for, and implications of minority group social workers' professional success. Data was collected with primary and secondary documents and in-depth semi-structured interviews with 21 Arab welfare bureaus managers in Israel. The message of "success" has almost disappeared from the relevant formal institutions. One nonprofit organization provides a role model of "learning from successes…
Challenges Facing Social Work in the Indigenous Arab Minority in Israel: Voices from the Field
The article identifies challenges to social work practice voiced by 43 Arab social workers in Israel, aimed at clarifying whether there is a need to indigenise their practice in Israel's hegemonic Jewish society in view of four challenges to their interventions that they identified: inappropriate professional training; insufficient knowledge of English as the international language of social work; local Arab authorities failure to recognise many …
The Blessing” in the Lives of Three Generations of Bedouin Women
In this article, I address the meaning of the blessing in the lives of Bedouin women in Israel as it is reflected in their life stories and discuss the significance attributed to “the blessing that has vanished.” The Bedouin sector in the State of Israel is undergoing radical changes in terms of types of residence, lifestyle, society, and culture, with far-reaching consequences for Bedouin society in general and for women in particular. In certai…
The professionalization of social work in Israel’s Arab society
Social work in Israel’s indigenous Arab society developed late relative to its Jewish counterpart. Based on primary and secondary sources and semi-structured interviews with Arab social workers who were employed in social welfare bureaus during the years under review, the article describes and explains the development of social work in Israel’s Arab society in its formative years. The findings indicate this social work developed under government …
The Sane Voice in an Insane Situation’ the Perspective of Arab Social Workers Regarding the Palestinian–Israeli Conflict
Israel’s Arabs are citizens, but they are an ethnic minority and a national minority (Palestinians) in a Jewish-majority state. The decades-long Palestinian–Israeli conflict has erupted in recent years in violent outbursts between Arab and Jewish citizens. April–May 2021 saw severe violence against individuals and businesses on both sides and damage to holy sites. In this context, a qualitative study using in-depth interviews was conducted amongs…
Culturally competent social work in Arab–Palestinian locality welfare bureaus in Israel: Is it possible
Ethnic groups exist almost everywhere. Generally, each group is related to uniformly, although it may comprise several subgroups. An example is Israel’s Palestinian-Israeli population, which consists of three ethnic–religious subgroups: Muslims, Christians and Druze. They coexist in nearly all domains of life, but maintain separate schools and family law courts. Most of the professional literature on Palestinian-Israelis, especially in Israel, ig…
Social work in a conflict context: Challenges facing social workers with indigenous inhabitants of unrecognised villages in Israel
This qualitative study presents the experiences of social workers whose clients are the inhabitants of unrecognised Bedouin Arab villages in Israel. It used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 25 participants, recruited by the snowball method. These social workers reported that they are caught between their personal and professional values, on the one hand, and employer regulations, government policy and government law, on the other – which…
Male Bedouin Social Workers in Israel
The purpose of this study was to examine gender perceptions within the Bedouin community in Israel, particularly the perception of masculinity among male social workers of the community. These men work in a field in which most of the employees are women, and their professional values conflict with the values of Bedouin culture and society. The research employed a qualitative methodology in the phenomenological tradition. Semi-structured interview…
The struggles of Arab social workers in Israel: Professional success among minority group social workers
The article investigates the scope, motivations, considerations for, and implications of minority group social workers' professional success. Data was collected with primary and secondary documents and in-depth semi-structured interviews with 21 Arab welfare bureaus managers in Israel. The message of "success" has almost disappeared from the relevant formal institutions. One nonprofit organization provides a role model of "learning from successes…
Addressing the Ongoing Effects of the Nakba: Experiences and Challenges that Israel’s Arab Social Workers Face
The Nakba (‘catastrophe’ in Arabic) began in 1948 with the displacement and dispossession of many Palestinians, leaving a lasting impact on Palestinian society and individual identity. To this day Palestinian social workers must address the difficulties of Palestinians deriving from the Nakba whilst they themselves contend with its ramifications. This descriptive qualitative study, conducted in 2021 using in-depth semi-structured interviews, expl…
The adjustment process of young Bedouin women who were child brides
Qualitative study explores the adjustment process of young Bedouin women in Israel who were minors and legally underage when they married. Child brides have always existed in Bedouin society, which sees marriage as a social and religious framework that protects the girl. This study's participants, 30 young women who were 13–17 when they married, shed light on the long and continuing process of adjustment, the sharp transitions in their lives, and…
The Arab Lecturer on a Zionist Campus: Student Practices Replicating National Hegemony
Minority groups tend to experience the academic campus as unpleasant and excluding. Relevant literature attempts to analyze the position of these groups, using terms such as 'race' and investigating how higher education institution mechanisms replicate the inequality between the minority group and the hegemonic majority population. In Israel, unresolved problems cause continuing tension between two national groups: citizens who are members of the…
Social Workers as Leaders Rather than as Agents of Change
Arab citizens of Israel constitute 21 per cent of the country’s population. In April and May 2021 violent conflict erupted between Arab and Jewish Israeli citizens, more severe than ever before. It was manifested on both sides in physical brutality, destruction of property and torching of homes and places of worship. The political leadership on both sides was divided over how to respond. Some tried to restore calm; others tried to use the conflic…
An Arab Lecturer, Jewish Students, and Social Work in a Conflict Area
Being an Arab lecturer in a Jewish academic institution under fire has challenged me as a professional, a researcher, and a lecturer. Social workers often function in the context of conflicts, but the practice focuses on normative social problems such as domestic violence, poverty, and crime rather than the effects of the conflict on social workers and their clients. In my academic institution, which for years has been in a conflict area and unde…
The social representation of the Bedouin woman
How religious women students of social work in Israel experience academe
Although the values of pluralism and diversity are enshrined in social work’s Code of Ethics, the literature indicates that religious students will experience hostility within social work schools. This qualitative study explores how religious Jewish and Arab-Muslim social work students in Israel experience the secular academic context, in light of the profession’s values. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted over a 6-month period, …
The Meaning of Power for Female Arab Social Workers under the Youth Law
Israel’s Youth Law (Care and Supervision), 1960 grants social workers power, authority and responsibility to intervene to protect minors at risk. But female social workers in Israel’s Arab population function in a traditional society in which women’s power is often labelled as negative and unfeminine, and power is primarily seen as indicating masculinity. Moreover, the law is perceived as symbolising the Israeli establishment, which the Arab popu…
We Taught You How to Teach Us’: An Autoethnography of Decolonising of Social Work Education in a Programme for Bedouin-Arab Social Workers in Israel
The need to decolonise social work education has become prominent in curricula developed over the past years. The curriculum in social work schools defines and shapes ways of knowing largely in terms of privileged Western knowledge. It is therefore necessary to change it and adopt pedagogical approaches more suitable for populations from different cultures. This article presents a study on a dedicated training programme for Bedouin-Arab social wo…
Minority Social Workers Share Their Previously Tacit Knowledge: Patterns and Importance of Sharing and the Context
The gap between fieldwork demands and academic knowledge necessitates the sharing of tacit knowledge to ensure continuity of context-appropriate professional knowledge. The research describes and explains patterns of minority social workers’ sharing of their previously tacit knowledge, the knowledge’s significance and the context where it was acquired. In data drawn from in-depth semi-structured interviews with twenty children and youth workers i…
A bride without a home and a groom without a future: The ramifications of Israel’s home demolition policy for young Bedouin men
A place of many names: How three generations of Bedouin women express the meaning of home
This article examines how three generations of Bedouin women in southern Israel express what home means to them through the names they give it: bayt , maskan , and dar . Home has always been significant in the lives of Bedouin women, but Bedouin society is undergoing major changes-culturally, socially, and in the form of settlement. The external form of the Bedouin home has changed, too, from a tent to a stone house, from an open structure to a c…
Encouraging professional excellence among social workers from disadvantaged minorities: Palestinians in Israel as a case study
This article investigates the way in which disadvantaged minority social workers’ professional excellence is encouraged, drawing data from an analysis of primary documents and in-depth semi-structured interviews with 21 Palestinian welfare bureau managers in Israel. It finds that the Jewish voluntary sector is the sole player encouraging Palestinian minority social workers’ excellence, but its encouragement maintains the status quo regime, politi…
Social Workers’ Professional Failures as Perceived by Welfare Bureau Managers within Arab Society in Israel
Social workers’ professional failures are considered inevitable occurrences. However, virtually all research on professional failure management relates to the healthcare field. The scant literature on professional failure does not give much weight to the profound implications of context on professional functioning. This pioneer study illustrates how important it is to consider the context to understand the daily workplace occurrence of social wor…
The Complex Role of Child Protection Officers in Arab Society in Israel: Focus on Power, State Connections and Absence of Indigenous Knowledge
The Arab population in Israel is an ethnic, national, Indigenous minority experiencing discrimination and inequality, especially in education, health and welfare. This population’s constant societal change is coupled with social problems such as violence, crime, unemployment and poverty. These characteristics pose many challenges to social workers, particularly those empowered by the Youth Law (Care and Supervision), 1960, known as child protecti…
The meaning of masculinity for educated young Bedouins
Israel's Bedouin population—an Indigenous, traditional, collective, patriarchal society—is at the height of social change, introducing modernization, religion and altered gender relations. Young Bedouin men are experiencing the ramifications of their masculine identity. As in other collective societies that emphasize mutual dependence and cooperation, honour has great meaning and unlike individualistic societies, maintaining masculine and family …
I just live in the village, but I don’t belong to it” educated young bedouin men and belonging
I Earn, Therefore I Exist”: Impoverished Bedouin Mothers Who Become Entrepreneurs
The changes among Bedouin in the Negev since the establishment of the State of Israel have had far-reaching implications for Bedouin women and their families. Bedouin women are marginalized, excluded from public life and the labor market. This exacerbates the economic inequality between Arabs and Jews, institutionalized, inter alia, in the 'Arab enclave', which lacks industrialization and is allocated fewer resources. This is a qualitative study …
The Blessing” in the Lives of Three Generations of Bedouin Women
In this article, I address the meaning of the blessing in the lives of Bedouin women in Israel as it is reflected in their life stories and discuss the significance attributed to “the blessing that has vanished.” The Bedouin sector in the State of Israel is undergoing radical changes in terms of types of residence, lifestyle, society, and culture, with far-reaching consequences for Bedouin society in general and for women in particular. In certai…
A place of many names: How three generations of Bedouin women express the meaning of home
This article examines how three generations of Bedouin women in southern Israel express what home means to them through the names they give it: bayt , maskan , and dar . Home has always been significant in the lives of Bedouin women, but Bedouin society is undergoing major changes-culturally, socially, and in the form of settlement. The external form of the Bedouin home has changed, too, from a tent to a stone house, from an open structure to a c…
My private kingdom and sometimes my private jail' The meaning of home in the lives of Bedouin women: Changes in the home and social spaces and their implications for Bedouin women
Home has always been significant in the lives of Bedouin women. At times it has been considered a ‘private kingdom’ – an intimate space, a jurisdiction, a sphere of influence and a space of creativity and well-being. In other periods it has been perceived as a ‘private jail’ – suffocating and limiting. The Bedouin communities in southern Israel, which are part of the country’s Arab-Palestinian population, are undergoing major changes – cultural a…
Male Bedouin Social Workers in Israel
The purpose of this study was to examine gender perceptions within the Bedouin community in Israel, particularly the perception of masculinity among male social workers of the community. These men work in a field in which most of the employees are women, and their professional values conflict with the values of Bedouin culture and society. The research employed a qualitative methodology in the phenomenological tradition. Semi-structured interview…
Beyond the officially secular: Female religious students in the academic space
Social work in a conflict context: Challenges facing social workers with indigenous inhabitants of unrecognised villages in Israel
This qualitative study presents the experiences of social workers whose clients are the inhabitants of unrecognised Bedouin Arab villages in Israel. It used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 25 participants, recruited by the snowball method. These social workers reported that they are caught between their personal and professional values, on the one hand, and employer regulations, government policy and government law, on the other – which…
The adjustment process of young Bedouin women who were child brides
Qualitative study explores the adjustment process of young Bedouin women in Israel who were minors and legally underage when they married. Child brides have always existed in Bedouin society, which sees marriage as a social and religious framework that protects the girl. This study's participants, 30 young women who were 13–17 when they married, shed light on the long and continuing process of adjustment, the sharp transitions in their lives, and…
How religious women students of social work in Israel experience academe
Although the values of pluralism and diversity are enshrined in social work’s Code of Ethics, the literature indicates that religious students will experience hostility within social work schools. This qualitative study explores how religious Jewish and Arab-Muslim social work students in Israel experience the secular academic context, in light of the profession’s values. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted over a 6-month period, …
The professionalization of social work in Israel’s Arab society
Social work in Israel’s indigenous Arab society developed late relative to its Jewish counterpart. Based on primary and secondary sources and semi-structured interviews with Arab social workers who were employed in social welfare bureaus during the years under review, the article describes and explains the development of social work in Israel’s Arab society in its formative years. The findings indicate this social work developed under government …
Being a social worker in the unrecognized villages in Israel
This qualitative study presents the experiences of social workers whose clients are the inhabitants of unrecognized Bedouin Arab villages in Israel. Bedouin Arabs are an indigenous people, a minority population residing throughout Israel. Half of those in the south of the country inhabit villages that are not recognized by the authorities. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted over two years by both researchers with 25 social worker…
The Experience of Bedouin-Arab Adolescent Girls in Polygamous Families
This study explores the experiences of Bedouin-Arab adolescent girls in polygamous families in Israel. It represents an initial effort to give a voice to daughters in such families. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 young women who described their experiences, as adolescents, of a polygamous family structure. The findings highlight a highly complex family form in which fairness and ethics may be severely challenged, which in turn can res…
Arab Muslim social workers between the Sharia and Western interventions and their coping mechanisms
This exploratory study of 34 religious, traditional, and secular Arab Muslim social workers in Israel traces the dilemmas caused by potential clashes between their professional and religious values. The findings suggest that although all the interviewees were aware of such clashes, only the religious ones adopted coping strategies to address them. The traditional workers regarded the conflicts in universal moral terms, and the secular workers dis…
An Arab Lecturer, Jewish Students, and Social Work in a Conflict Area
Being an Arab lecturer in a Jewish academic institution under fire has challenged me as a professional, a researcher, and a lecturer. Social workers often function in the context of conflicts, but the practice focuses on normative social problems such as domestic violence, poverty, and crime rather than the effects of the conflict on social workers and their clients. In my academic institution, which for years has been in a conflict area and unde…
The social representation of the Bedouin woman
How Religious Jewish and Muslim Students of Social Work Cope in a Secular College
The social work profession’s worldview, which is expressed through education and practice, is ‘almost exclusively secular in colour and context’. This qualitative study in the phenomenological tradition of ten religious Jewish and ten religious Arab-Muslim students of social work in Israel found that both groups coped similarly with the secularity, despite their ethnic, national and religious differences. Most of them adopted emotion-focussed cop…
Sudden violent death: Social workers’ strategies for coping with a traumatic event in a Bedouin community
This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to explore challenges and coping strategies of social workers following the traumatic death of eight women from a Bedouin village in southern Israel. The data highlight how religion and indigenous Bedouin knowledge and customs both assisted and impeded the study participants’ strategies. The findings suggest that familiarity with religion and indigenous knowledge and customs may be useful to …
Social workers’ challenges in working with deaf bedouin service users
Arab-Bedouins, a minority in Israel, have a higher incidence of deafness than that reported for other populations. They also have a high incidence of familial deafness, which poses lifelong challenges to the family and requires an intensive array of treatment and familial organization, as well as the use of many, varied sociomedical and rehabilitative services. Most of Israel’s Arab-Bedouins live in the Negev desert region, where the social conte…
The Meaning of the Marital Relationship in the Lives of Three Generations of Bedouin Women
Since Israel’s establishment in 1948, its Bedouin population has undergone many changes—from a traditional society to a modern one and from a nomadic life to permanent settlement—that have greatly affected the marital relationship. This is a qualitative study, using a narrative paradigm, of perceptions of the marital relationship in three generations of women in10 Bedouin families. An interpretive analysis of their life story interviews revealed …
In a changing society, the well remains a resource for Bedouin women
I just live in the village, but I don’t belong to it” educated young bedouin men and belonging
Being a deaf Bedouin young woman: Suffering in silence
Deaf Bedouin young women must contend not only with the typical developmental tasks of young adulthood but also the traditional demands of Bedouin society. They aim to fulfill themselves and develop, but discrimination and institutional neglect, coupled with their society’s traditions, pose a complex challenge. This qualitative study of 14 deaf Bedouin young women in Israel found that they display self-esteem, apparently to cope with the challeng…
Culturally competent social work in Arab–Palestinian locality welfare bureaus in Israel: Is it possible
Ethnic groups exist almost everywhere. Generally, each group is related to uniformly, although it may comprise several subgroups. An example is Israel’s Palestinian-Israeli population, which consists of three ethnic–religious subgroups: Muslims, Christians and Druze. They coexist in nearly all domains of life, but maintain separate schools and family law courts. Most of the professional literature on Palestinian-Israelis, especially in Israel, ig…
Social Workers as Leaders Rather than as Agents of Change
Arab citizens of Israel constitute 21 per cent of the country’s population. In April and May 2021 violent conflict erupted between Arab and Jewish Israeli citizens, more severe than ever before. It was manifested on both sides in physical brutality, destruction of property and torching of homes and places of worship. The political leadership on both sides was divided over how to respond. Some tried to restore calm; others tried to use the conflic…
Challenges Facing Social Work in the Indigenous Arab Minority in Israel: Voices from the Field
The article identifies challenges to social work practice voiced by 43 Arab social workers in Israel, aimed at clarifying whether there is a need to indigenise their practice in Israel's hegemonic Jewish society in view of four challenges to their interventions that they identified: inappropriate professional training; insufficient knowledge of English as the international language of social work; local Arab authorities failure to recognise many …
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