José Luis Sarasola Sánchez-Serrano

Risks Associated with Reality: How Society Views the Current Wave of Migration; One Common Problem—Two Different Solutions

This chapter is dealing with migration problems in general, in particular with the immigration, and is covering two territories, Andalusia (Spain) and the Czech Republic. The problem is described in a pre-case study, which covers results concerning citizens’ approach to an urgent social topic, i.e., migration and immigration and risks related to these questions. First, there is given a summary about the history of migrations in both regions; next, the current situation in those regions is characterized; after that, the questionnaire was prepared with the idea of how people feel this phenomenon, and survey was made. Finally, based on the results obtained, possible risks are presented and some strategies how to deal with inconvenient situation, which might arise, are suggested. Since the pre-case study showed highly different approaches of both nationalities, the authors concluded to continue this study, expand the number of respondents so that results obtained later on could be considered significant.

Sociability and Dependence

In this article, we are going to talk about the social aspect of elderly people in urban areas, especially about disabled elderly people and how disability affects their socialization. With the aim to cover this topic we have done research which involves a survey, an interview and a discussion group, with the idea to collect all relevant information, we have compared the results of these three techniques and made a complete evaluation of these findings.

Estudio sobre la aplicación de la Teoría del Trabajo Social a su práctica diaria

El siguiente articulo, deriva de un reciente estudio realizado en Provincia de Sevilla (finalizado en Junio de 2007), en trabajadores sociales de ambitos tanto privados como de la administracion. Este estudio, trabajo la relacion entre los conocimientos teoricos que posee el trabajador social, y su utilidad en la aplicacion laboral. Para ello, utilizo esencialmente la metodologia de investigacion cuantitativa para analizar elementos del propio contexto laboral del trabajador social, sus perfiles profesionales, ambitos de intervencion, tipos de tareas mas comunes que realizan, relacion con la organizacion, percepcion subjetiva de su labor profesional, asi como los modelos de intervencion que mas utilizan. Esta metodologia, se cruzo con entrevistas, para obtener una mayor calidad de la informacion. Los autores aportan unas reflexiones sobre la dualidad teoria/practica en la disciplina de Trabajo Social y su conexion con los modelos de bienestar.