Trabajo Social, colonialidad y fronteras. La intervención en la declinación de la cuestión social en cuestión cultural

Abstract

The article analyzes the traces of the post-colonial border regime -which assigns different degrees of citizenship to people based on their position in racialist, classist and sexist global social structures- concerning the practices of Social Work in multicultural environments. Two sources of production of meanings attributed to socio-cultural diversity that influence not only social policies but also the visions and interventions of professionals are analyzed: the meaning of the cultural issue in a postcolonial migratory framework and the global context of borders. These two sources of imaginaries and discourses are sometimes metabolized in professional practices in the form of culturalism, cultural racism and sociocentrism. The article ends by reflecting on inspiring alternatives from and / or for Social Work that allow to circumvent the operation of the post-colonial border device.