摘要：In the April 2011 issue of JCSW, there are four articles. In each one, the comparative feature is to be found in the study of different nations.In her student essay on community work in a rural village in Nepal, Shovita Adhikari reflects on her position as a social worker who also adopts an advocacy researcher role. She sets herself the task of helping to integrate people from the lower Dalit caste into their local community. This is difficult because the higher caste, whose members occasionally inhabit some of the same social spaces as the lower caste, insist on rigid demarcation. The fact that the researcher herself is from the higher Brahmin caste created numerous communication problems with the Dalits, but to her credit, she persevered. Using critical incidents and critical reflections based on anti-oppressive theory, Adhikari exposes a whole variety of sometimes open, sometimes nuanced conceptions of upper and lower castes towards each other. Particularly revealing is the author's disclosure of the awkwardness that members of both castes often feel if another caste member "breaks the rules".Adhikari also finds that gender factors permeate caste culture, noting how Dalit women suffer more discrimination than their male counterparts. Put simply, these women suffer the burden of both gender and caste discrimination
