Nivedita Prasad (born 1967) is a German sociologist and
human rights activist. She is professor of methods and gender-specific social work at the
Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin
The Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (german: Alice-Salomon-Hochschule Berlin, or ASH) is a vocational university for social work, public health and early childhood education in Berlin, Germany.
History
The university was f ...
, and a specialist in the human rights of
migrant women.
Life
Prasad studied sociology at the
Free University of Berlin, and gained her PhD at the
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Since 1993 she has taught at several universities in Germany, the Netherlands and Austria.
In 2012 Prasad received the first
Anne Klein Women's Award
The Anne Klein Women's Prize is given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation to women from anywhere in the world who are committed to gender democracy. The award was named after Anne Klein the German lawyer and State Senator. The prize includes €10 ...
,
for her work on the human rights of migrant women. In 2013 she was appointed Professor at the
Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin
The Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (german: Alice-Salomon-Hochschule Berlin, or ASH) is a vocational university for social work, public health and early childhood education in Berlin, Germany.
History
The university was f ...
, where she is active in
social work
Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being. Social work ...
with
refugees
A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution. and directs a masters' program in social work as a human rights profession. She has studied the migrant hostel opened in 2013 in
Berlin-Hellersdorf, where there have been racist attacks and far-right protests.
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In 2020 she was appointed to the advisory board of the Berlin-based NGO ]Center for Intersectional Justice
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Works
* ''Mit Recht gegen Gewalt: die UN-Menschenrechte und ihre Bedeutung für die soziale Arbeit : ein Handbuch für die Praxis''. Leverkusen: B. Budrich, 2011.
* (ed. with Iman Attia and Swantje Köbsell;) ''Dominanzkultur reloaded : neue Texte zu gesellschaftlichen Machtverhältnissen und ihren Wechselwirkungen''. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2015.
* (ed.) ''Soziale Arbeit mit Geflüchteten: rassismuskritisch, professionell, menschenrechtsorientiert''. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2018.
* (ed. with Katrin Muckenfuß and Andreas Foitzik) ''Recht vor Gnade Bedeutung von Menschenrechtsurteilen für die diskriminierungskritische (Soziale) Arbeit''. Weinheim: Juventa, 2020.
References
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1967 births
Living people
Free University of Berlin alumni
University of Oldenburg alumni
German sociologists
Academic staff of the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin