A Study On The Applications Of Social Work In The Ethnic Communities In China:Local Practice And Theoretical Construction

Since the mid-1990-s, China has entered a transitional period. And the development of modernization and urbanization led to more and more social conflicts and ethnic issues in china. Community has become the focus point and field of the social conflicts and ethnic issues.Social work how to respond to the problem above in ethnic community has high theoretical and practical significance.The literature suggests that People pay less attention on the study of the ethnic social work in China, which is not systematic and abundant. The ethnic social work in China is primary development.The practice and the study of social work in ethnic community are poor and not systematic too. To discuss social work how to be applied in ethnic community is so significant and innovative.Therefore, the dissertation discusses the following subject s:Subject1is to define related concepts at home and abroad about social work in the ethnic community and their correlations. Subject2is to carding the practical and educational history of social work and social work practice in the ethnic community in China and abroad. Subject3starts from the reality analysis to China’s urban ethnic communities, using the method of case analysis to discuss about how the social work intervene ethnic work in mixed community and how to intervene the predicaments in the ethnic community. Subject4discusses about social work how to intervene the protecting of traditional ethnic culture, how to face disaster social work with high cultural sensitivity and how to make use of local knowledges to carry out the community governance. Subject5is to construct the social work system of the philosophical thoughts, values, code of ethics, theoretical and practical tendencies etc. Subject6discusses the social work how to localize successfully in the multi-ethnic field in China. At the end, the dissertation discussed the subject on social work how to intervene in the foreign country in China.The main conclusions and viewpoint of the dissertation as follow:Ⅰ.When social work encounter the ethnic minority or ethnic groups, the ethnic social work appears, which applies social work and the related theory, knowledges and method to face the problems and the needs in the ethnic communities. Ethnic community social work is just the applications of social work in the ethnic community.Ⅱ.The history of social work practices on the ethnic group has more than100yeas, which mainly focus on the minorites of the immigrant and the indigenous peoples. Anti-oppressive practice, anti-discrimination practice and the ethnic sensitivity are the main social work practice views. Lots of the studies have not been translated into Chinese. The Social Work in the Borderland writeen by Lee an-zhai is considered to the origin of the ethnic social work study in China. Current studies on the ethnic social work and the applications of social work in ethnic communities is not systemic and too theoretical.III The subject basis of ethnic social work is social work not ethnology. Comply with the tradition of social work, live in a compact community, the mixed or scattered community and the foreign community are all the objects of the ethnic social work.Ⅳ Academic world in China think that western social work was introduction to China by a American missionary named John Stewart Burgess in1909, who taked office in Peking Young Men’s Christian Association. After100years of development, social work in China is entering a speedup time. Before western social work was introduced to China, China has developed the local social work. Help people to help themselves, Long lasting and be trained on the social work and the related theory and method are the significant standards which are the differences from other helping activities.Ⅴ.Ethnic social work must face the subjects like development and the culture-maintain. Social work can become the new power for the urban community ethnic affairs, also can help the floating children and the old who are the ethnic minorities effectively. When social work intervene to the disaster-aid, social worker must have high cultural sensibilities. Local knowledges in the ethnic communities should be mad use of effectively to carry out ethnic community governance.Ⅵ.Social work is a process of social construction in essentially. Multi-origin is a significant characteristic of social work in China. China is a united multi-ethnic country, which lead to that local and systemic social wok system must be reconstructed in urgent.Ⅶ. Because of the differences from the China and the western, the professional values etc., localization is necessarily in China. When social work applied to ethnic community, the task of localization must face the culture, religion and others.