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Martínez Herrero, María Inés

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    Seeking to fulfil the human rights promise: practitioner perspectives and an assessment tool for realising human rights based social work education and practice.
    (Taylor and Francis Group, Routledge, 2024-10-23) Martínez Herrero, María Inés; Lorenzo Gilsanz, Francisco Javier; Barciela Fernández, Sergio; https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4212-054X
    International social work organizations emphasize human rights (HR) as a main social work principle. However, a focus on HR is often lacking in social work education. This often results in an inspirational, rather than deep and meaningful application of HR commitments in social work practice, with kindness and respect being conflated with a realization of HR. Nevertheless, without a critical HR awareness, social workers may inadvertently neglect or hinder service users’ rights. This article presents the findings of an exploratory study which examined, through in-depth interviews with six practitioners working in HR sensitive contexts in Spain, how the experience (or lack thereof) of HR education influences practitioners’ engagement with HR. Findings indicate that, for social workers to overcome inspirational approaches and achieve an HR based social work practice, training and support mechanisms need to be developed at different contexts: 1. In social work education, importantly including social work placements and a practice orientation of teaching 2. At social work services’ organizations and 3. At the broader social work professional organizations and political-institutional contexts. Drawing on the findings, the researchers developed a Human Rights Practice Assessment Tool to support lecturers, students and practitioners in applying HR principles meaningfully in social work.
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    The theory of Rupture Frames: a new map for social work education and practice to understand, explain and address urban conflicts in vulnerable neighborhoods with high socio-cultural diversity
    (Routledge, 2023) Barciela Fernández.Sergio; Lorenzo Gilsanz, Francisco Javier; Martínez Herrero, María Inés
    Conflicts linked to immigration and ethnic minorities—especially those settled in the poorest neighborhoods of large cities— are frequent in contemporary democracies and are expected to continue to gain notoriety worldwide. The prevalence and complexity of these conflicts lead to the need for a solid analytical framework to accurately address these. This chapter presents and argues for the adequacy of a macro theoretical proposal, the Theory of Rupture Frames (TRF), for guiding social work analysis and intervention facing the specific events of urban conflicts in vulnerable neighborhoods with high socio-cultural diversity. After offering a synthesis of the main lines of contemporary research on social conflict, the chapter will argue that the TRF provides solidarity to the social work approach in these contexts and is well aligned with the Ethical Principles of Social Work (IFSW, 2018). The chapter will also highlight the importance of social work’s contribution to knowledge development and to society as an applied discipline capable of putting scientific knowledge into action and returning critical assessments of the different theories’ adequacy to explain and improve life in society.
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    Building from the Ashes: Towards a Three-Dimensional Approach for Social Work Intervention Facing Social Conflicts in Vulnerable Neighbourhoods.
    (Oxford University Press, 2021-07-27) Sergio Barciela Fernández; Lorenzo Gilsanz, Francisco Javier; Martínez Herrero, María Inés; https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4212-054X
    About 56 percent of the world’s population lives in urban environments. In more economically developed countries, this percentage is considerably higher. Increasingly, cities’ more vulnerable and culturally diverse neighbourhoods are the context of violent conflicts linked to interconnected socio-economic (inequality), ethnocultural (discrimination) and public-institutional (delegitimation) causal factors. Social outbursts such as London (2011) or Husby’s (Stockholm, 2013) riots are amongst the most notorious recent examples of these. Both the frequency and intensity of these conflicts are only expected to worsen as the economic impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic takes hold. This article introduces the ‘Theory of Rupture Frames (TRF)’, which offers a new three-dimensional explanatory model of violent conflicts in vulnerable neighbourhoods with high socio-cultural diversity. The ‘TRF’, it is argued, offers a novel and suitable framework for founding and guiding social work’s preventative and healing-oriented interventions facing these. This is in relation to the TRF’s dual potential for (i) contributing to the theoretical understanding in the social work profession of this type of conflict and for (ii) offering a tool for guiding the assessment of needs and strategic planning of social work-led actions in the context of the neighbourhoods affected by the conflicts or at risk of their outburst.
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    Whether or not to open the Pandora´s box: an analysis of latent conflict in vulnerable neighbourhoods with high socio-cultural diversity in Spain
    (Taylor and Francis Group, Routledge, 2024-02-23) Lorenzo Gilsanz, Francisco Javier; Barciela Fernández, Sergio; Martínez Herrero, María Inés; https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4212-054X
    Worldwide, vulnerable neighbourhoods of large cities are often the scene of collective violent conflicts linked with migration and ethnic minorities’ struggles for social justice. However, urban conflicts of this kind have not taken place in Spanish cities with high immigration rates, even though the country has been deeply affected by two recent socioeconomic crises (2009 and 2020). This article reports findings of a study aimed at understanding what lies behind this apparent social peace. The research methodology was based on an analysis of secondary socio-economic and socio-relational data from the Spanish Institute of Statistics and from key national surveys and reports. Results confirmed that immigrant population living in the country are strongly segregated in the lower strata of the labour and socioeconomic structure and have been disproportionately affected by the crises. However, research findings also pointed to the existence of strong closed support networks where social capital has been effective at palliating members’ disadvantage and unrest. Drawing on the Theory of Rupture Frames, we argue that this is a fragile and unsustainable social peace, rooted in social injustice, and anticipate that unless actively prevented, uncontrolled conflict will eventually emerge in main cities’ neighbourhoods in Spain.