Transnational Social Policy: Social Welfare in a World on the Move

ISBN-13: 9780367871543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 294 str.

Luann Good Gingrich; Stefan Kongeter

Opis

Transnational Social Policy highlights the changing face of social policy and social work against the background of accelerating transnationalisation of economies, labour markets, education, social services and care. The contributions of this book provide unique case examples on the interplay of social policies, mobile populations and traveling

Spis treści

1. Transnational Social Policy and Social Work – an Introduction

Stefan Köngeter and Luann Good Gingrich

I. Sharing knowledge: Setting the policy agenda

2. Surveilling and surveying slums: The transnational translation of the city as a social problem

Stefan Köngeter

3. "Good" Child Labour, "Bad" Child Labour: Translating Global Policy in the Post-Soviet Context

Sofiya An and Adrienne Chambon

4. Child Protection: Policy translations

Daniel Kikulwe and Karen Swift

II. Beyond transfer: Translating policies and shaping welfare

5. Translocal Policy as Process: Bricolage and the ‘Messy' World of Local Policymaking

Dean Herd and Daniel Cohen

6. The Traveling Idea of Clubhouse from the West to the East

Frank Wang and Yu-Hui Lu

7. From "Benefit Ladies" to "Professionals": Polish Social Workers in the Context of Neoliberal Reform of Social Policy

Gwen McEvoy

8. Humanitarian Assistance, Refugee Management, and Self-Reliance Schemes: Nakivale Refugee Settlement

Suzan Ilcan, Marcia Oliver, and Laura Connoy

III. Lost in translation: The social repercussions of transnational policy, and the reinforcement of global inequality

9. Transnationalism and secondary schooling policy in Ontario, Canada: Globalisation, privatisation, and competing priorities

Naomi Lightman

10. Tactical borderwork: Central American migrant women negotiating the southern border of Mexico

Julie Young, Luann Good Gingrich, Adrienne Wiebe, and Miriam Harder

11. National old-age care regimes and the emergence of transnational long-term care arrangements for the elderly

Anita Böcker, Vincent Horn, and Cornelia Schweppe

12. Transnational Social Respons

O autorze

Luann Good Gingrich is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and a Scholar in Residence at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Stefan Köngeter is Professor for Social Pedagogy at the Department of Education, University of Trier, Germany.