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Social services and indigenous populations in remote areas

Alaska Natives and Negev Bedouin

Gerald S. Berman

Departments of Sociology and Social Work, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USAffgsb{at}uaf.edu

English

Two factors – distance and cultural dissonance – have been identified as obstacles in the provision of social services to Indigenous populations in remote areas. This article examines these obstacles as they affect Alaska Natives in rural Alaska and Negev Bedouin in Israel. Strategies to overcome these obstacles are then suggested.

French

Deux facteurs - la distance et la dissonance culturelle - ont éteŽ identifiés comme obstacles à la capacitéd'offrir des services sociaux aux populations indigè nes des régions éloignées. Cet article examine l'impact de ces obstacles sur les populations autochtones rurales d'Alaska et sur les bédouins du Negev en Israël. L'article suggè re des stratégies pour vaincre ces obstacles.

Spanish

Se han identificado dos obstá culos en la provisió n de servicios sociales a poblaciones indígenas en á reas remotas: distancia y disonancia cultural. Se examinan estos obstá culos según afectan a los Nativos de Alaska en á reas rurales, y a los Beduinos del Negev en Israel. Se sugieren estrategias para superar los.

Key Words: Alaska • Bedouin • indigenous rural social services

International Social Work, Vol. 49, No. 1, 97-106 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0020872806059406


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