Mobilidade acadêmica e suas repercussões na formação profissional de assistentes sociais: adelante negra!

Abstract

The present research is an experience report about the period of academic mobility experienced by the author in 2019 in the city of Valparaíso in Chile. The proposal was to show how much the internationalization of knowledge in Social Work still lacks references to address the subject but it is an interesting field to be investigated. Social Work African Centred is a concept to understand the profession from a non-hegemonic point of view. In this sense, we sought to reflect on race and the anti-racism struggle. This study also analyze the impact of the campaign “Social Workers in the fight against racism” (2017-2020). Mainly through the perspective of black qualitative authors who dialogue about racial and ethnic relations. The study of a social approach is allied to the writing methodology created by the black thinker Conceição Evaristo because the author describes how each stage of the exchange process was until returning to Brazil and still experiencing the reverse culture shock. A few black social workers that marked the history of the professional category were honored since they are an inspiration of belonging and resistance. Therefore, to write more about Social Work at an international level with clippings of race, gender and class can be beneficial to strengthen a social network for workers engaged with social transformation.