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Lo scopo di questo articolo è di analizzare empiricamente il ruolo che le imprese sociali giocano all'interno di una più ampia strategia per lo sviluppo rurale in aree del sud Italia afflitte dalla presenza di criminalità organizzata e difficoltà di sviluppo. La ricerca è basata su 20 interviste in profondità con presidenti e dirigenti di organizzazioni di agricoltura sociale in quattro regioni meridionali: Puglia, Calabria, Campania e Sicilia. I risultati mostrano come le imprese sociali sono attori rilevanti per il cambiamento e per lo sviluppo economico e sociale nelle aree rurali. L'indagine mette in luce inoltre come anche altri fattori politici, organizzativi e di contesto sono importanti per rendere capaci le imprese sociali di promuovere sviluppo locale.

AbstractInvolvement of the community is a topic that is gaining increasing importance in the debate on child protection social work. However, the empirical findings that help to understand the factors which enable social workers to involve community actors successfully are still scarce. The article presents the results of an empirical pilot study carried out on a sample of 24 child protection social workers employed in four public agencies in Italy. The results of the research highlight the complexity of the factors that influence the ability of social workers to involve the community in schemes involving children and their families and the importance of constructing a community‐based approach that directly involves local‐level institutions and policy programmes.

The relationship between the emergence of political populism and social work has not been well investigated. This article reports the results of research conducted by means of in-depth interviews and questionnaires on a sample of 90 social workers employed by municipalities governed by populist parties in Italy, where the phenomenon of xenophobic politics has recently grown to particularly worrying proportions. The article describes the effects of populist programmes on social work and highlights the different reactions of social workers in response to the new scenario.