Social work as a democratically constituted profession committed to
human rights is currently facing cross-border encroachments and attacks
by right-wing populist movements and governments. With the Bundestag
elections in September 2017, the question of the extent to which
right-wing populist forces can succeed in influencing the discourse with
xenophobic and nationalist arguments has arisen in Germany as well. This
book examines how social work can respond effectively to nationalism,
exclusion, de-solidarization, and a basic skepticism about science and
position itself against this background.