Against rationalist assumptions on human nature, Gulliver’s Travels… offers a trip through human passions to reveal how far are humans from being rational creatures as it has been philosophically assumed. The set of passions embodied by characters-symbols are shown in action through different perspectives, assuming rational appearances and outcomes. All this leads us to question whether reason is capable of describing and ultimately amending passions, without becoming or discovering itself as the most powerful of them at once, but not being ultimately more than “a slave of passions” or a passion itself.

The essence of the field of social work began with issues regarding poverty, abuse, maltreatment, education, neglect, exploitation, health, and safety. For over 300 years, these issues have been at the forefront of Child Welfare policy, which deems to help children and their families remediate adverse life events. This paper will review the history of child welfare policy and its connections to the social work profession. As a dialogic, insights will be shared on how this relationship affects current social work practice.

In 1997 the Adoption and Safe Families Act was enacted in response to the number of children that had been in foster care for an extended amount of time. Many of the children that spent an extended amount of time in the foster care system also experienced multiple placements. While children languish in the foster care system their ability to form healthy attachments to caregivers and establish a sense of stability suffers greatly. The hope was that the Adoption and Safe Families Act would facilitate more adequate permanency planning and thus, providing more stability and security for the children. This writing will explore the impact that key provisions of the Adoption and Safe Families Act has on the permanency rate for youth that are removed from their family of origin, what the consequences are, and where improvements could be made.

Before I could walk, I have been told, I jumped. In the Minneapolis apartment my parents rented, using a convenient door frame, they hung what was called a Johnny Jump Up. Often, when my parents, now in their 80’s, take me on a journey down memory lane, they recall my spending hours in the Johnnie Jump Up and share how they then thought I was destined for an athletic future. Suspended from hanging springs, I jumped without a care and certainly no concern for landing. My observing parents didn’t imagine that my energy and joy in jumping would later find itself a home in ballet. They didn’t consider this option because, other than the likes of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, the popular male movers of the time were athletes. The athleticism of dance was not generally celebrated in America. And besides, was dance really meant for boys?

Europe is facing the most serious migrant crisis since World War II with the majority of migrants from Syria and other African countries. It is worth mentioning that this challenge has increased dramatically and complicatedly, affecting many fields, not only in terms of socio-economy, but also shakening the "humanistic" values inherent in the Old Continent. In addition to the complicated and severe impacts of the global Covid19 pandemic, the migration crisis in Europe, to make a bad situation worse, poses major challenges for pandemic control. In this article, the author presents the state of the migration crisis in Europe and the implications for controlling the global Covid-19 pandemic.

Caught between tradition and modernity, India has increasingly taken women and their status into account since the 1970’s. That raises the question of the conditions of Indian women empowerment. How are Indian women in Rajasthan part of a movement going on for a long time but still debated today – feminism and the affirmation of women’s political power in the broad sense (affirmation of their identity, their legitimacy within the public space and their will to assert themselves as equal to men in a society which is still strongly influenced by patriarchal norms)? Following interviews and observations in the region, the somatic style appears to be the favourite medium through which women assert their political and social role and presence in the public space of Rajasthan. The ritual preparation of the body takes place in a singular temporality, as if the woman had to stop in time so as to observe herself and turn her body into a tool aimed at assertiveness and empowerment. So, is the consciousness of the body and of its potentialities the base of the process of empowerment? And does this process contribute to create a contradictory heterotopia – in Foucaldian terms – i.e. the specific spatiality, temporality and rhythm of somaesthetics as it unfolds in order to proclaim the power of women? We show how women, growing aware of the power their bodies contain, can now invest the public space and the political sphere in a country traditionally governed by men.

In this discussion, of a socio-historical nature, within the scope of the [Social] History of Education and Childhood, we analyze the child / childhood in the intricacies of the 19th century and part of the 20th century in Portugal. We used the hermeneutic approach methodology in the construction and interpretation of the documentary corpus, which was supported by specialized literature of the time and recent on those childhoods that did not have a process of normalization and schooling imposed by the society of the time. These childhoods are limited to an abnormality of behaviors and situations, due to the family, social and surrounding environment. The structure of the text, composed of 4 points, coincides with the established objectives: to understand the emergence of childhood that accompanied the social, family and political changes of the 19th century, causing social situations and conditions with an impact on children; explaining the emergence of social reforms with assistance and educational measures for the child / childhood, with emphasis on hygiene; analyzing the visibility of disadvantaged and marginalized children and the protection and institutionalization’s responses; to know the intervention measures on offending and delinquent children. It was up to social (political) reformers, with emphasis on the State and philanthropists to implement assistance, educational and moral regeneration measures, using specific protection institutions.