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The task of the social workers, particularly in institutions, is in the need of finding new ways of research. The problem is not so much in the everyday issues to manage social alterity (people insane or not adapted, people with behavioural problems, in the need of protection for situations of social risk or in the case of this paper, boarding schools and other institutions for children). On the contrary, the problem is to understand what happens "inside" these institutions, that seems to be to be irrational and alienating form the perspective of labour. These institutions have their own dynamics, and these cannot be only seen as situations of labour conflict (from outside) and difference of competencies (from inside). We propose a methodology towards labour desalination that understands the social practice of experts (in education, psychology or social attention) as politics and with creative resources (metaphoric translations) that help to disassemble the expertise practices of an absorbent reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]