This qualitative study presents the experiences of social workers whose clients are the inhabitants of unrecognised Bedouin Arab villages in Israel. It used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 25 participants, recruited by the snowball method. These social workers reported that they are caught between their personal and professional values, on the one hand, and employer regulations, government policy and government law, on the other – which greatly limits their ability to fulfil their professional role. The social workers also comment that they are working in a ‘grey area’ in which the government’s policy is unclear. This adds another layer of complexity to their work and reveals the differential implementation of critical social work principles by social workers with different cultural identities.

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冲突中的社会工作：以色列未认出村庄的土著居民的社会工作者面临的挑战

这项定性研究介绍了社会工作者的经历，他们的客户是以色列未认出的贝都因阿拉伯村庄的居民。它采用通过雪球法招募的25名参与者进行了深度，半结构化的访谈。这些社会工作者报告说，他们一方面陷入个人和专业价值观之间，另一方面又受到雇主法规，政府政策和政府法律的束缚，这极大地限制了他们履行专业职责的能力。社会工作者还评论说，他们在政府政策不清楚的“灰色地带”工作。这给他们的工作增加了另一层复杂性，并揭示了具有不同文化身份的社会工作者对关键社会工作原则的不同实施。