Nivedita Prasad

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Nivedita Prasad (2016)

Nivedita Prasad (* 1967 ) is a professor of action methods and gender-specific social work and an activist for human rights.

Life

Nivedita Prasad studied social pedagogy at the Free University of Berlin and did her doctorate at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg on the subject of "Violence against female migrants and the danger of their being instrumentalized in the context of migration restrictions".

In the early 1990s she played a key role in establishing Women of Color Spaces (spaces for the perspectives of black / migrant women) in Germany. She co-organized the first and second nationwide congresses for black women, migrant women, exiled and Jewish women, helped to implement them and documented them with May Ayim . In 2013 she initiated the FEMOCO conference, a conference on feminisms of color in Germany by and for women, trans * and inter *, who consider themselves black, of color, Jewish, Muslim, living in exile, Sinti, Rroma or migrants understand.

From 1997 to 2013 she was a project coordinator at Ban Ying, an advisory and coordination office against human trafficking . From 1993 to 1996 she worked in the autonomous girls' house in Berlin. Since 2010 she has been leading the master's degree in “Social work as a human rights profession”. Since April 2013 she has been a professor at the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin .

In 2012 she received the first Anne Klein Prize from the Heinrich Böll Foundation for her commitment to combating human rights violations against migrant women.

Fonts (selection)

  • Rightly against violence. The UN human rights and their relevance for social work. A guide for the practice. Opladen, [u. a.] Budrich 2011. ISBN 978-3-86649-378-0
  • (Ed.): Dominance culture reloaded. New texts on social power relations and their interactions. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2015. ISBN 978-3837630619 .
  • Position paper: Social work with refugees. PDF
  • (Ed.): Social work with refugees. Critical of racism, professional, human rights oriented. UTB, Leverkusen 2017. ISBN 978-3-8252-4851-2

Web links

Commons : Nivedita Prasad  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nivedita Prasad - winner of the Anne Klein Women's Prize 2012 - Heinrich Böll Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Prasad, Nivedita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Social pedagogue and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1967