Members of the MIGREC team, Natalija Perišić and Danijela Pavlović, participated on June 17, 2021 at the conference „Innovation and Resilience: Preparedness of Social Work Education in Uncertain Times“ organized by the European Association of Schools of Social Work and the University of Tallinn with presentation „The Creation of Understanding of Migration-related Developments in Social Work and Social Policy Education in Serbia“.
The conference was structures around six topics:
- Lifespan and Social Work in an Era of Innovation
- Social Work Education for Sceneries of Exception (Crises, Disasters and Unexpected Events)
- Post-Traumatic Approaches in Social Work
- Innovative Social Work Teaching Practices Involving Service Users
- Innovative Skills for Social Work Practice with Distressed Groups: Migrants, Refugees, War and Conflict Victims and Health Crises Victims
- Social Work Ethics in Times of Uncertainty: Balancing Innovation and Tradition
Professor Perišić showed that the influence of various kinds of migration on Serbian society was deep. She pointed out that the migration trends were diverse: forced and voluntary, regular and irregular, internal and external. It is reasonable to expect that all this will be enhanced in near future. As the result, she mentioned the necessity for stronger support to vulnerable population and the need for reshaping the developmental concept of the society. Her presentation focused on the impact of the MIGREC project on emerging understanding of migration-related developments in education for social work and social policy in Serbia.
In addition, the presentation contained the thematic fields of the project: integration of migrants, migration governance, development and migration nexus, theories and methods in migration studies and knowledge, discourses and representation of migrants. Prof. Perišić pointed out that researching each of the thematic fields and putting them within the research centre to be developed within the project would lead to development of theoretical, practical and political knowledge and understanding of importance for education in social work and social policy at the doctoral studies level.
