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Social Work Practice with Beggars and Vagrants in Romania. Lessons from the Past for a Better Future

Version 1 : Received: 8 April 2024 / Approved: 12 April 2024 / Online: 14 April 2024 (17:07:01 CEST)

How to cite: Ilie, C.; Serban, I.; Dan, A.N. Social Work Practice with Beggars and Vagrants in Romania. Lessons from the Past for a Better Future. Preprints 2024, 2024040831. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0831.v1 Ilie, C.; Serban, I.; Dan, A.N. Social Work Practice with Beggars and Vagrants in Romania. Lessons from the Past for a Better Future. Preprints 2024, 2024040831. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0831.v1

Abstract

Social support in working with beggars and vagrants has always been and still is a challenge for all social protection systems. This paper aims to analyze the social work system in working with vagrants and beggars, starting with the presentation of the concept and seeking to evaluate the evolution of this particular sector of the social protection system in Romania, presenting, on one hand, the legislative changes and, also, the situation found in reality which could be (slightly) different. In the paper we describe two research models, a case study, which starts from the situation found in Romania and is based on the model of good practice (social enterprises) developed by Nicolae Minovici in the interwar period (1934) and also presents the opinion of citizens from Craiova city, investigated during a sociological survey conducted in 2021-2022 on a sample of 1494 persons, on the opportunity to set up such centers for beggars and vagrants in Romania. The article seeks to extract the good practices used by the national system for the purpose of comparing and issuing proposals to regulate and improve the current situation in Romania.

Keywords

social work; beggars; vagrants; Romania; good practices; sociological survey

Subject

Social Sciences, Sociology

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