Building Bridges, Breaking Bricks. Impact of social street work on marginalized people’s lives

Doctoral Thesis of Evelien Rauwerdink-Nijland (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences), 2024

The aim of this dissertation is to provide an insight into Social Street Work (SSW) in the Netherlands, especially the working relationship between marginalized people and workers, and to determine the impact of SSW on the lives of these people in terms of their societal participation and to examine the experiences of clients’ caregivers when clients have support from the Social Street Worker.