PERSPECTIVA DA EMANCIPAÇÃO NA AMÉRICA LATINA E DESAFIOS PARA O SERVIÇO SOCIAL NO BRASIL E NA COLÔMBIA

The article points out the historical analysis about challenges of Social Work in Brazil and Colombia concerning the perspective of the emancipation in Latin America, considering the historical period opened with the counter bourgeois revolution under the neoliberalism. Results of researches on the topic of social struggles and Social Work supports itself on the Marxist analysis of emancipation as a category and historical perspective of humanity, developing the hypothesis that: there is setback in relation to the movement of construction of emancipatory alternative in this continent, but there are also resistance forces regrouping and keeping the expectation alive; the binding of Social Work to this alternative, as a profession that takes part of strategies to deal with social issues, follows the trends of the correlation of forces in the social movement. It concludes that this binding poses challenges in all dimensions of professional practice by participating in the peculiarities of the two countries, of the resistance and support of emancipatory struggle undergoing in the re-articulation of forces of the fighting subjects