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What is a human being according to Augustine of Hippo? This question has occupied a group of researchers from Brazil and Europe and has been explored at two workshops during which the contributors to this volume have discussed anthropological themes in Augustine's vast corpus. In this volume, the reader will find articles on a wide spectrum of Augustine's anthropological ideas. Some contributions focus on specific texts, while others focus on specific theological or philosophical aspects of Augustine's anthropology. The authors of the articles in this volume are convinced that Augustine's anthropology is of major importance for how human beings have been understood in Western civilization for better or for worse. The topic is therefore highly relevant to present times in which humanity is under pressure from various sides.

This article delves into the evolving significance of kinship among non-Western migrants residing in Western Europe. In the migrants' countries of origin, kinship generally encompasses a rule-based and normative way of life, hinging on each individual member's adherence to kinship values. In contrast, life in their new Western host countries is expected to revolve around the individual's personal engagement in education, employment, and healthcare within the context of the nuclear family. This shift is often framed in integration policies and practical social work as a transition from viewing migrants as passive recipients of their homeland traditions to recognizing them as active agents responsible for shaping their own lives. However, this transformation raises the question of whether kinship diminishes in significance in these new surroundings or if it can assume a new role as a foundation for complex individual lives. In this context, active participation (and integration) would be built upon a secure base strengthened by kinship.
Our analysis focuses on how migrants grapple with two equally crucial systems: the kinship of their home country and the nuclear family structure of the host country. Upon their arrival in the host country, migrants confront a weighty choice: Should they relinquish their kinship relationships because they seemingly serve no purpose in the host country? And must the migrant assimilate into a nuclear family structure where welfare is guaranteed by the welfare state, but where each individual citizen is expected to contribute to community-building and a sense of belonging? These questions should be considered by both migrants themselves and within the domain of social work.
This analysis revolves around a single concept central to migrants, namely kinship, and how it evolves through their experiences in the host country. Migrant relations encompass group dynamics and cultural values not always comprehensible to most people in the host country. However, following migrants' experiences, kinship emerges as a crucial bridge to integration within a Western welfare state. In our analysis, we primarily draw upon Pierre Bourdieu's distinction between official and practical kinship. We perceive kinship as a tool of power for managing social and cultural conflicts (Bourdieu 1979, Brighenti 2010) due to kinships serving as bastions of emotional and value cohesion among their members. Nevertheless, kinship can also serve as a secure foundation for migrants in novel surroundings, characterized by foreign demands and expectations (Carsten 2020).
The article concludes by briefly outlining how educational practitioners can monitor migrant families' percep-tions of and attachment to their new locale.

This article focuses on social pedagogical work with young people from minority ethnic communities who are at risk of becoming radicalised. The aim is to contribute to the further qualification of general social pedagogical work, so that radicalisation and extremism can be more effectively prevented. In Denmark there has been an increased focus on radicalisation and extremism in recent decades. Radicalisation is often characterised as a process where extremist attitudes develop before an act of violence takes place. It is a politically charged subject with a series of discourses that link radicalisation with parallel societies and a lack of integration. The prevailing discourse often portrays ethnic minorities as living in ethnic enclaves that are isolated from the majority of society, where they reproduce their religious and cultural values which can lead to a form of radicalisation and a threat to the national social cohesion. One profession that engages with this topic is social pedagogy, which aims to intervene in such situations. However, we are far from seeing social pedagogy succeeding in this intention. In practice, many social pedagogical initiatives take an individualising and disciplinary approach and are therefore ineffective solutions to young people's challenges. In this article, we first analyse the dominant political discourse on ethnic minorities and connect it to the Danish government's various action plans against radicalisation and extremism. We then discuss the implications of European and Danish prevention work against radicalisation and raise a criticism of this work for its individualising, disciplinary and uncritical nature. We highlight the need for a community-oriented approach to prevention work, where the cornerstones are involvement, network building and critical insight.