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Call for Papers. Special Number "100 Years of Social Work: Discussions and Perspectives on the Discipline's Past, Present and Future". Submissions in Spanish or English until the 30th October 2024 for publication in April 2025 (Issue 9). For more information please see the following link.

Care as a right. Reflecting on care from a perspective of redistribution and recognition

Authors

Abstract

In this issue dedicated to the struggle for redistribution and recognition, we share this interview conducted by Carlos Andrade Guzmán, academic of the Department of Social Work of the University of Chile, to the Conventional Mariela Serey, representative of District 6 and founder of the Organization "Yo Cuido", an association oriented to the struggle for the protection and safeguarding of the rights of caregivers and people with disabilities. Mariela leaves the presidency of "Yo Cuido" to serve as a Convention member and include the issue of caregiving in the text of the new Constitution that will be plebiscited on September 4, 2022. We hope you enjoy this conversation that puts the issue of care at the center, from a perspective of recognition and redistribution. Many thanks to Mariela and Carlos for sharing this conversation with those who read our magazine.

Author Biographies

Carlos Andrade Gúzman, Universidad de Chile

Academic of the Department of Social Work, Universidad of Chile. PhD in Social Work and Welfare Policies, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile. PhD in Social Work, Boston College, United States. Master in Management and Public Policies - MGPP, Universidad de Chile. Engineer in International Trade, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Chile. 

Mariela Serey, Convencional Constituyente del Distrito 6

Founder of "Yo Cuido", an association formed by women caregivers of family members with dependency due to illness, severe disability and/or chronic condition, who joined together to fight for the rights of both. Until July 4, she served as Conventional for District 6 in order to install the issue of the right to care as an integral part of the text of the New Constitution.