THE ENCLAVE-EFFECT IN SOCIAL CARE FROM SOCIAL ENCLAVES TO SOCIAL EXCLAVES

Abstract

The paper proposes a new concept referring
to social integration (social inclusion): social enclaves.
It also analyses the so-called enclave-effect.
The social enclave defines a situation of pseudointegration
of groups (populations), living in a certain
„social space“ (social areal or territory).
The social enclaves and the enclave-effect are to be
found in different cultures, different countries and
periods of time. The phenomenon is not recent, but was
less identified and analysed as a particular case of social
integration. The usual approaches are mostly focused on
terms like integration, inclusion, marginalization and
exclusion. The in-between social dynamic was less
considered as a distinct item with distinct characteristics
and specific evolution in different circumstances, but
simply as an intermediate status of an integration
process.
The enclave-effect is, in our opinion, not only a
transitional status: in most cases we can consider it as a
permanent live condition, strongly influenced by
different social and political determinations, cultural
and conjectural factors, like the formal and ideological
rejection of some categories of people, social
incomprehensibility, prejudges, political orientations.
The enclave effect is not only a temporary one.
Sometimes it could be seen as a fiasco of some
governmental social programmes and strategies, as a
failure of the traditional social policies.