THE ENCLAVE-EFFECT IN SOCIAL CARE. FROM SOCIAL ENCLAVES TO SOCIAL EXCLAVES
THE ENCLAVE-EFFECT IN SOCIAL CARE. FROM SOCIAL ENCLAVES TO SOCIAL EXCLAVES

Summary/Abstract: The paper proposes a new concept referring to social integration(social inclusion): social enclaves. It also analyses the so-calledenclave-effect.The social enclave defines a situation of pseudointegrationof groups (populations), living in a certain „socialspace“(social areal or territory).The social enclaves and the enclave-effect are to be found in differentcultures, different countries and periods of time. The phenomenon isnot recent, but was less identified and analysed as a particular caseof social integration. The usual approaches are mostly focused onterms like integration, inclusion, marginalization and exclusion. Thein-between social dynamic was less considered as a distinct item withdistinct characteristics and specific evolution in differentcircumstances, but simply as an intermediate status of an integrationprocess.The enclave-effect is, in our opinion, not only a transitional status: inmost cases we can consider it as a permanent live condition, stronglyinfluenced by different social and political determinations, culturaland conjectural factors, like the formal and ideological rejection ofsome categories of people, social incomprehensibility, prejudges,political orientations.The enclave effect is not only a temporary one. Sometimes it could beseen as a fiasco of some governmental social programmes andstrategies, as a failure of the traditional social policies.

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