Abstract
Like many post-socialist countries, Ukraine has a high level of social inequity, while tools to tackle it, including social services, could not be regarded to be efficient. The COVID-19 pandemic turns to be a far-reaching crisis for the Ukrainian state, market, and population. The lockdown measures introduced at the beginning of the pandemic were not supported by the public opinion, leaving room for political speculations and violation of social rights.
In Ukraine, as well as in other countries, the pandemic has a significant impact on deepening social inequity and social vulnerability of certain population groups, worsening access to social services, further digital injustice and erosion of social solidarity, and deterioration of psychological well-being. What is peculiar to Ukraine and some other post-socialist countries is that the social work (as it is not a finished “professional project”) engagements are limited. In times of the pandemic, Ukraine was also undergoing decentralization reform and changes in the legal context of social services provision.
The chapter compares the responses to the pandemic situation in Ukraine with the international models of social work and the experiences in other countries on the national and community levels. Special attention is paid to the social conditions of children. This chapter reveals the prospective changes in post-socialist social work practice and discusses the lessons learned from the local context and feasibility of employing the international approaches to combat the social inequity.
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Semigina, T., Karagodina, O., Baidarova, O. (2022). Global “Corona Crisis” as a Further Challenge for Social Equity. In: Baikady, R., Sajid, S., Przeperski, J., Nadesan, V., Islam, M.R., Gao, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68127-2_220-1
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