Community social work and shanty town settlements: Comparative study of social intervention experiences

Abstract

Abstract: The eclectic and dynamic nature of the Community Social Work makes it an intervention unit that adjusts to the demands and challenges that today's society faces in situations and contexts of social vulnerability such as shanty towns. The comparative analysis of three scenarios that have similarities in terms of problems, needs, intergenerational maintenance of poverty, unemployment and school absenteeism, show us how community intervention must be dynamic and capable of adapting to an increasingly individualized society.The study has been carried out through qualitative methodology based on the bibliographic study through various sources and, also, through the visit to the contexts that attention is paid: Asperones (Málaga), El Vacie (Seville) and El Gallinero (Madrid). Territories are analyzed taking into account various categories of community intervention such as the intercultural community approach, community action and the community approach, since in this way, analytical optics is placed in the communities' own social development, the interaction of the social and educational agents, the empowerment and the asymmetric power relations and the specific demands taking into account that these house in many situations a general interest.