Translators, Advocates or Practitioners? Social Workers and Human Rights Localization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12930248 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alicia Dibbets (Alicia Dibbets is an independent human rights researcher in the Netherlands who carries out research for government, educational institutions, and NGOs on human rights implementation at the local level, corresponding author), Quirine Eijkman (University of Applied Sciences Utrecht) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 212-228 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Rights Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-9619 • E-ISSN: 1757-9627 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jhuman/huy018 |
| OpenAlex | W2886180890 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
The importance of specific professions for human rights realization is increasingly recognized. Journalists, teachers, and civil servants are all considered to play a role because their work affects individual rights. This is also the case for social workers. The connection between social work and human rights is evident in the large amount of literature explaining how human rights relate to social work. At the same time there is more attention for human rights localization. These fields of knowledge are related: social workers are local professionals and if they start applying human rights in their work this may influence human rights localization. This article contributes to existing debates on human rights localization by reflecting on the potential role of social workers in local human rights efforts in the Netherlands. Since human rights localization in general and human rights application in social work are recent phenomena in the Netherlands this provides a useful case study for a qualitative analysis on whether and how social workers can be regarded as actors in human rights localization. By connecting different actors that are said to play a role in human rights localization to proposed forms of human rights application by social workers this article identifies three possible roles for social workers in human rights localization: as human rights translators, as human rights advocates, and as human rights practitioners
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |