Low-threshold social work in supporting the emergence from exploitation

Author: Zadra, Franca; Ursula Elsen, Susanne; Bragagnolo, Cinzia & Scarone, Sabrina

Abstract: This chapter presents a first systematization of low-threshold social work in the context of labor exploitation, built during the two years of coordination with partner organizations on the subject of emergence, mostly belonging to the anti-trafficking network: In Veneto the NAVIGARE project, then NAVE, an anti-trafficking organization of the public sector with long experience in multi-agency work, and the Città Solare cooperative active in the sector of migrant reception, the Lule association and the Somaschi Foundation, private social organizations active in the anti-trafficking sector in Lombardy, and the Alba Project, an anti-trafficking body that brings together five different private social organizations: La Strada/Der Weg, Volontarius and Consis in Alto Adige, as well as the Centro Italiano Femminile and Punto d'Approdo in Trentino. The contents presented here are the result of an iterative dialogue between the operators of these social organizations and the Free University of Bolzano, which gratefully acknowledges their valuable contributions, as well as the contribution of Dr. Claudia Lotito, in the deepening of the helping relationship through the tools of ethnopsychiatry.

Keywords: human trafficking, labor exploitation, social work, emergence