...This book intends to identify the reality of migration and asylum in Europe through the lenses of the research done by social work academics from nine different countries. Along its 11 chapters a true European perspective is also provided and many questions arise regarding the role of social work...

...Uncovering the complex political history of social work requires more than archival research, historical analyses and engagement with international scholarship. At a time when forms of collective soul-searching have resulted in the very future of social work being openly debated, the editors felt...

...This chapter looks at the roots of what we might term an ‘organic’ Palestinian popular social work. There is a growing interest in social work within the Palestinian Authority, but too often this focuses on the introduction and implementation of formal international standards of social work...

...This chapter examines the challenges for grassroots social work that emerge when states fail or refuse to meet basic requirements for the protection of asylum-seekers, or when states choose to neglect or even expel them, thereby generating a racialised hostile environment. It focuses on de facto...

...The premise of this book is that ‘by engaging with both the oppressive and resistant histories of the social work profession, this book aims to contribute to a more nuanced and fulsome account of our profession’s history’. In this chapter, the role of Irish social work in relation...

...Social work is often presented as a benevolent and politically neutral profession, avoiding discussion about its sometimes troubling political histories. This book rethinks social work’s legacy and history of both political resistance and complicity with oppressive and punitive practices. Using...

... professional judgement decision making protection safeguarding principle social workers transparency Adrian defensive practice Louise positive risk taking Social work Adult safeguarding Risk work Care Act 2014 Personalisation Making Safeguarding Personal Austerity Chapter 3 identified how...

... and neglect of older adults in the 1960s. The theoretical framework for the book is set out in Chapter 2, which introduces key theories from the sociology of risk and uncertainty and shows how these have been applied to social work. The concept of risk work, which focuses on risk knowledge, interventions...

...This chapter explores the complexity of the erasure of racialisation in Finnish social work. Narrated from a personal standpoint, Hubara outlines how the silences surrounding race in Finnish social work have an impact on racialised people. Arguing that social work must do the ‘work’ to find...

... Three academics moving and living in Nordic countries and the West Coast of the US explore practices of city walking as a means of challenging colonial public archives. City walks from Gothenburg, Sweden and Fresno, California, are scrutinised as examples of decolonial social work pedagogy that build...

... that decolonised mindfulness can engage practitioners in systems thinking and change, and offer mindful meditations for students and practitioners to use. We encourage both social work students and practitioners to use mindfulness to promote their own individual health and well-being and also to engage in wise...

... relationality Adolescent social work child protection context weighting Contextual Safeguarding (CS) framework innovation implementation Some might think of it as a ‘buzzword’. Others consider it a term to describe what they have known for some time. While some practitioners, policy makers and academics...

... workers actively putting the social into their work. A focus on rights in social work requires us to have a critical view of the way we work with people and the policies and resources provided for our work. It means we need to move beyond the individual in our focus. Sometimes that means we need...

... S B overcoded abduction Peirce C S Danermark B theory driven research and abduction Carey M managerialism British social work history Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels Evans T Harris J Orgreave moment parochial professionalism Radical Social Work Movement RSWM Dardot P Laval C...

... and questions this position before moving on to consider the ‘discretionary space’ within which social workers operate. This space is seen as being constructed by social work's location as a state-mediated profession and the duties social workers perform on behalf of the state, within that location. Next...

...This chapter describes and analyses co-teaching in tandem in both Belgium and the Netherlands, focusing on values, objectives, programmes, and actions, evaluation, and organisational conditions. It looks at a collaborative practice in social work education that is applied in a similar way...

...This chapter describes Human Library events in the United Kingdom and Finland. It explains that a Human Library or Living Library is a metaphorical version of an actual library where Living Books, people with experience using social work services narrate a chapter from their experiences to a small...

...This chapter talks about experts by experience (EBE) that have participated in the learning journeys of social work students at the University of Dundee, Scotland, and the Catholic University of Milan, Italy for many years. It explores the experience and impact of user involvement on student...

... of the model. It also refers to multiple communities of development (CoD) in different domains of social work and healthcare. The chapter claims that students should not only be taught theories about social inclusion but should also experience what inclusion and exclusion mean in the daily lives of service...

...This chapter provides an infrastructure for understanding the social work–social policy interface and, in doing so, sets the stage for the following chapters, which explore components of the conceptual framework. It discusses the types of social policies that social workers are likely to interact...