Description
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.
Table of Contents
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 Responsibility: The Case of the Swedish Retirement Pension, 1913–2013
Erica Righard
IV. Conclusion
13. Social exclusion and social welfare: Within, across and in between nation-state boundaries
Luann Good Gingrich and Stefan Köngeter
