Social work with marginalized communities in the community - developing services for drug users in the Roma community Cover Image

Социјална работа со маргинализирани заедници во заедницата-развивање сервиси за корисници на дроги во ромска заедница
Social work with marginalized communities in the community - developing services for drug users in the Roma community

Author(s): Voskre Naumoska Ilieva
Subject(s): Civil Society, Welfare systems, Social development, Substance abuse and addiction, Family and social welfare, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Филозофскиот факултет во Скопје
Keywords: social work; marginalized communities; drug users; Roma community; Macedonia;

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, a number of changes have occurred in Macedonia, and at the same time there have been many problems that have contributed to certain communities to find themselves out of the social flows, socially excluded and marginalized. In 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, a decade of regional conflicts, instability, and increased population movement began. The political, economic and social transition meant a marked decline in the living conditions and deterioration in access to services, opportunities for education, employment, and a decline in health indicators, leading to an increase in poverty. These changes affected vulnerable groups of population, especially Roma Tozija, 2008: 59). Due to this situation, the possibility for bigger development of the civil sector as a third sector has opened up, as a complement to the government and the private in the area of social protection, due to the inability to respond to the increase of social problems and social testing of certain communities.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 11/2
  • Page Range: 569-585
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Macedonian