TY - JOUR
T1 - Career choice in the context of political conflict
T2 - the case of Palestinians social workers in Israel
AU - Kadan, Sameer
AU - Bekerman, Zvi
AU - Roer-Strier, Dorit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2019/1/2
Y1 - 2019/1/2
N2 - The helping professions in general and social work in particular pose particular challenges and opportunities for national minority group members. This article adds to the present knowledge in the literature concerning the interaction between career choice in the welfare professions and minority status, by looking at the voices of Palestinian Israeli social workers. The article is based on data gathered through in-depth interviews with 32 Palestinian Israeli social workers, describes the motivations, the process of choosing social work as a profession and the barriers that Palestinian Israeli professionals face in the context of the political, social and economic factors shaping their lives as belonging to a national minority in Israel.
AB - The helping professions in general and social work in particular pose particular challenges and opportunities for national minority group members. This article adds to the present knowledge in the literature concerning the interaction between career choice in the welfare professions and minority status, by looking at the voices of Palestinian Israeli social workers. The article is based on data gathered through in-depth interviews with 32 Palestinian Israeli social workers, describes the motivations, the process of choosing social work as a profession and the barriers that Palestinian Israeli professionals face in the context of the political, social and economic factors shaping their lives as belonging to a national minority in Israel.
KW - Palestinians
KW - Social work
KW - career choice
KW - minorities
KW - motivations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051962315&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14675986.2018.1495425
DO - 10.1080/14675986.2018.1495425
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AN - SCOPUS:85051962315
SN - 1467-5986
VL - 30
SP - 31
EP - 50
JO - Intercultural Education
JF - Intercultural Education
IS - 1
ER -
