Transnational Social Policy
Social Welfare in a World on the Move
Stefan Köngeter editor Luann Good Gingrich editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:10th Dec '19
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Transnational Social Policy highlights the changing face of social policy and social work against the background of accelerating transnationalization 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 travelling knowledge about welfare within an increasingly asymmetrical global context. This innovative volume also includes historical studies on the transformations of social policies during the last century and reflects the developments of social welfare across the Global North and the Global South. With its emphasis on theoretical assumptions of policy translation, the case studies show the importance of adjustments, negotiations, and participation of various actors in the transnational social field of welfare production. Thus, within ever-shifting contexts of new political agendas promoting the free play of the market and a neoliberal agenda of competition and austerity, this insightful book reveals new transnational forms of social exclusion that function within, across, and in-between nation-states.
Presenting a major and much needed addition to current discussions on globalization and the increasing complexity of worldwide social relations, this volume will be of interest to scholars and graduate students interested in fields such as Social Policy, Social Work, Public Administration, Development Studies, Political Science, and Sociology, as well as many interdisciplinary fields including Global Studies, International Development Studies, and Immigration and Settlement Studies.
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
ISBN: 9780367871543
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294 pages