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Transnational Social Policy Social Welfare in a World on the Move
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
Biography
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.
This collection of rich, diverse, case studies addresses the complex relationship between social policies, mobile populations and knowledge production in transnational spaces. It underscores the importance of a translation lens for the understanding of these processes theoretically, politically and ethically. It is an important addition to the literature on global and transnational social welfare, of great interest to social policy and social work scholars, researchers, and students.
Paul Stubbs, Senior Research Fellow, The Institute of Economics, Zagreb.
This volume brings together a set of timely chapters covering developments in numerous countries that will be a welcome addition to social policy literature. It speaks forcefully to the ways in which social policy is being radically transformed in the context of globalization and neoliberalism. The examination of largely neglected immigrant/migrant populations in the volume is a particularly valuable and insightful contribution to social policy scholarship.
John Shields, Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson, Canada.
In this path-breaking volume, Good Gingrich and Köngeter assemble a wide-ranging array of rich case studies to argue for a transnational perspective on social policy and social work. They claim convincingly that we can no longer ignore the impact of the transnational movements of people, ideas and resources on economies and welfare systems and on the dynamics of social exclusion and inclusion across the world. This is an essential eye-opener for anyone seeking to understand contemporary social policy and social work.
Prof. John Gal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
This book contributes important new insights into the consequences of globalization and transnationalism for both social policy and social work. The book could not be more timely in light of dramatic social, political and economic changes r
