Vol. 5 No. 8 (2026): Revista ACANITS Redes Temáticas en Trabajo Social

Fifteen years ago, we began this great endeavor that today we know in Mexico as ACANITS (National Academy of Research in Social Work), and seven years ago we launched the vast and ambitious task of organizing the Thematic Research Networks in Social Work. This effort has enabled the development of specialization processes in disciplinary and professional areas and fields of intervention, thereby strengthening our identity as social workers and allowing us to engage in new emerging fields resulting from the changes taking place within society.

Amid these transformations—between the old and the new—and in the construction of new ways of seeing and doing things in order to contribute to the solution of the major problems faced in Mexico, the Thematic Research Networks in Social Work represent an alternative for understanding and investigating such issues through the use of the scientific method. This approach provides validity and confidence to act with rigor and certainty in social processes that promote change and transformation for those experiencing marginalization, exclusion, and vulnerability.

Within this framework of new knowledge and ways of knowing, Issue Eight of the ACANITS Journal: Thematic Research Networks in Social Work is presented, bringing together nine major proposals for in-depth analysis and intervention, all of them the result of scientific inquiry.

Martín Castro Guzmán

President of ACANITS