Empowering Migrant Inclusion Professional Skills and Tools UNIPA Springer Series

This book explores key issues on the relational and operational dimension of the professional actions aimed at ensuring the well-being and inclusion of migrants in the reception system. Starting from the assumption that well-being is a multi-level phenomenon related to different and complex questions, the chapter authors articulated their reflections developing some thematic contents, complementary to one another, from the perspectives of different social actors involved in the inclusion process. A special attention is paid to the risk factors as potential obstacles to the inclusion, not only in the achievement of well-being but also in the relationship with the receiving society and with the reception system. Case studies will be presented to show how this complexity is explored integrating different theoretical perspectives with the participation of all social actors involved in inclusion pathways (unaccompanied migrant minors, immigrant families, refugees, social operators, voluntary guardians).

The authors share the social responsibility in investing in human and professional resources in the reception system and in connecting it with the local community. Updating the social workers? tools and methods become more and more relevant to enable the diffusion of new skills, functions, and roles in the management of reception of migrant minors and adults.

OVERVIEW.- Unaccompanied migrant minors in Italy: numbers and the transition to adulthood Rita Bichi.- The reception system for unaccompanied migrant minors Italy: an overview Gabriella Argento.- ISSUES.- Vulnerability and well-being: unaccompanied migrant minors in Italy Giuseppina Tumminelli.- Relational challenges for social workers with unaccompanied migrant minors Roberta T. Di Rosa .-  SUGGESTIONS.- Working for and with unaccompanied migrant minors: methodological suggestions from the field Nicoletta Pavesi.- Voluntary guardians of unaccompanied minors: methodological suggestions from a model of training and support in the North-West of Italy Elena Allegri.- Collaborative methods and tools in the training of social workers in the reception of minor and adult migrants Tiziana Tarsia.

Brings together top researchers on the much-debated issue of unaccompanied migrant minors and social works

Offers suggestions to improve education and training of social workers and guardians dealing with UMMs

Addresses the challenges of the helping relationship in the reception pathways