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Child Rights in Humanitarian Crisis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 185

Child Rights in Humanitarian Crisis

  • Categories: Law

This book demonstrates how a focus on children’s rights can help practitioners to safeguard children during humanitarian crisis. Child Rights in Humanitarian Crisis focuses on understanding and advancing child rights through practical applications of a child rights perspective in crisis response. The book establishes that with accessible, child-friendly participatory means, crisis response can improve from a child rights perspective and even advance children’s rights whilst also supporting and furthering the development of a child’s agency. The volume presents the reader with a clear focus on children from a range of backgrounds, including those most marginalised, such as children with...

Revitalising Critical Reflection in Contemporary Social Work Research, Practice and Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Revitalising Critical Reflection in Contemporary Social Work Research, Practice and Education

Globally, social work faces increasingly complex cultural, political, economic, legal, organisational, technological and professional conditions. Critically reflecting on the subject, this book heightens critical consciousness among social work researchers, educators, practitioners and students about the structural dimensions of social problems and human suffering; it highlights the inter-relationship between agency and structure and discusses strategies to challenge and change both individual and societal consciousness. Offering the reader an opportunity to gain in-depth understanding of how critical reflection is possible in contemporary social work research, practice and education, it will be required reading for all social work scholars, students and professionals.

Neoliberalism, Nordic Welfare States and Social Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 425

Neoliberalism, Nordic Welfare States and Social Work

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-04-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

How have three decades of neoliberalism affected the Nordic welfare states as well as the organisation, education and practices of social work in those countries? During recent decades the welfare states of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have gone through dramatic changes infl uenced by the political triumph of neoliberalism. This has led to both the electoral success of extreme right and mainstream neoliberal parties, and to the neoliberal ideological transformations of social democratic parties. The neoliberal doctrine of making governance cheaper has thus been made the focus of governance and has led to increased marginalisation and social problems. This is the first book to comparat...

Global Social Work in a Political Context
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Global Social Work in a Political Context

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-01-10
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

How is social work shaped by global issues and international problems and how should it address them? Taking a radical perspective, this book reveals what we can learn from different approaches from across the globe.

The Humanitarian Exit Dilemma
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 139

The Humanitarian Exit Dilemma

How should humanitarian organisations respond when their aid goes awry? Should they stay and remain engaged with the needy, or should they withdraw and leave? Investigating the choices involved and the judgements required when tackling these questions, this book explores the unique ‘Humanitarian Exit Dilemma’ that confronts humanitarian organisations. Humanitarian practitioners often are too concerned with the outcome of action but fail to recognise that there are other equally weighty moral considerations they should consider. Focusing simply on the results of projects, such as the number of lives saved alone, is inadequate. To address this problem, this book highlights three value-base...

The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 796

The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work

The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work is a companion volume to the Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work. It brings together world-leading scholars in the field to provide additional, in-depth and provocative consideration of alternative and progressive ways of thinking about social work. Critical social work is increasingly involved in a global conversation, and as a subfield of social work it is rapidly becoming an interdisciplinary field in its own right and promoting novel forms of political activism. The Handbook showcases the global influences and path-breaking ideas of critical social work and examines the different stances taken on important political and ...

The Humanitarian Parent
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

The Humanitarian Parent

Aid sector staff work in some of the world’s most challenging environments, from conflict zones to sites of natural disaster and refugee camps. For a long time, the aid worker was typified by the lone white male, flying from place to place and seeing his family during the holidays. But now, as the world changes and the sector diversifies, how can family life be reconciled with the challenges and travel commitments of this particularly difficult career? This book delves deep into these challenges, exposing the problems that persist and pointing a path for organisations to adopt a more human-centred, staff-centred, parent-centred, feminist approach to humanitarian and development work. Drawi...

Young Children in Humanitarian and COVID-19 Crises
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

Young Children in Humanitarian and COVID-19 Crises

The long-term consequences of COVID-19 have been tough for children around the world, but even more so for young children already in humanitarian crisis, whether due to conflict, natural disasters, or economic and political upheaval. This book investigates how organizations around the world responded to these dual challenges, identifying solutions, and learning opportunities to help to support young children in ongoing and future crises. Drawing on research and voices from the Global South, this book showcases innovations to mobilize new funds and re-allocate existing resources to protect children during the pandemic. It provides important evidence on understudied and overlooked vulnerable p...

The Handbook of Social Work and Social Development in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

The Handbook of Social Work and Social Development in Africa

All recent books on international social work mention Africa only briefly and few engage with the broader field of development studies. This book focuses solely on the unique African context engaging with issues relating to social work and development more broadly thus enabling a deeper examination and more complex and nuanced picture to emerge. Unlike most academic works, this book highlights multiple practitioner voices, with authors or co-authors that have recently been or are currently practising social workers. As an edited book, it draws from both academic research as well as lived practice experience, supported by strong theoretical positioning and guidance in introductory chapters, d...

What Did I Do?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

What Did I Do?

'Jessica Jarlvi is a hugely talented writer and definitely one to watch' SOPHIE HANNAH. I CAN'T REMEMBER... Kristin is on the run. From her life. From herself. When two murders take place in Chicago, Kristin quickly finds herself a prime suspect. The problem is she can't be sure of what she did or didn't do. DID THEY MAKE ME DO IT? In fear for her life, Kristin flees abroad to start her life over. But it's not that easy to escape the past. And whatever she's done, someone is on her tail, wanting her to pay. The question is: could she be a killer and not even remember? Page-turning, gripping, dark, and utterly addictive, this is one thriller that you won't be able to put down. Perfect for fans of Cara Hunter, Mark Edwards and Caroline England. Praise for What Did I Do: 'This booked kept me up way into the small hours' Elaine Lydon, NetGalley. 'This book was insanely good and I loved it from beginning to end' Simra Sadif, NetGalley. 'It's gripping and gritty, dark and intense' Lucii Grubb, NetGalley.