Social Workers Without Borders: Voices for Justice

Briskman, Linda; Dean, Yasmin

doi:10.1080/17496535.2016.1167159

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“…This is limited to sectors such as housing (JCWI 2015) and higher education (Jenkins 2014) in the UK, and the impact of such practices on specific migrant populations, such as Romanians in Helsinki (Tervanon and Enache 2017). However, whilst professional practice with migrant populations is an expanding research field, existing literature relating to social work is often country-specific (Shier et al 2011;Briscman and Dean, 2016) or considers work and outcomes with specific groups such as irregular migrants (Björngren Cuadra and Staaf 2014), asylum-seeking adults (Chantler 2012;Fell and Fell 2014) and unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors (Cemlyn and Nye 2012;Sundqvist et al 2015). Subsequently, Cox and Geisen (2014) assert that comparing approaches to migration in different social and welfare contexts is an underdeveloped area of social work research.…”

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‘Everyday Bordering’ in England, Sweden and Bulgaria: Social Work Decision-Making Processes When Working with Migrant Family Members

Walsh

Khoo

Nygren

2021

Int. Migration & Integration

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The global movement of people is a growing feature of contemporary life, and it is essential that professionals providing support services know how to best engage with migrant families. However, despite globalisation and the related processes of de-bordering, borders continue to remain significant and, in contemporary life, the ways in which immigration is controlled and surveilled—bureaucratically and symbolically—are multiple. The paper draws on data gathered in the immediate period following the so called 2015 European ‘migration crisis’ and examines whether and in what ways social workers in three European countries—Bulgaria, Sweden and England—enact bordering in their work with migrant family members. We apply the concept of ‘everyday bordering’ to the data set: whilst borders are traditionally physical and at the boundary between nation states, bordering practices increasingly permeate everyday life in bureaucratic and symbolic forms. Overall, the data show that everyday bordering affects social work practice in three ways: by social workers being required to engage in bordering as an everyday practice; by producing conditions that require social workers to negotiate borders; and in revealing aspects of symbolic everyday bordering. Our analyses shows that ‘everyday bordering’ practices are present in social work decision-making processes in each country, but the forms they take vary across contexts. Analysis also indicates that, in each country, social workers recognise the ways in which immigration control can impact on the families with whom they work but that they can also inadvertently contribute to the ‘othering’ of migrant populations.

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‘Everyday Bordering’ in England, Sweden and Bulgaria: Social Work Decision-Making Processes When Working with Migrant Family Members

Walsh

Khoo

Nygren

2021

Int. Migration & Integration

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Transnational Solidarity in Rough Times: Documenting and Engaging for Peace

Zaviršek

2024

J. Hum. Rights Soc. Work

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Social work war studies that incorporate critical theory, including feminist, disability and crip studies, and postcolonial approaches, can be used to respond to the needs of people living through genocide, domicide, ecocide, and scholasticide, and for advocacy of human dignity regardless of state and ethnic affiliation, and thus for peace worldwide. The first case study presents a thematic analysis of the war memories of social work educators and practitioners living in Ukraine and outside the war zone. Oral history, a fundamental method of critical social work research, epistemological reflexivity, and epistemic flexibility to understand the experience of the other(s), began with war stories collected by early Greek historians. The latest memoirs related to the invasion of Ukraine reveal the dichotomy between life-threatening circumstances on the one hand and the necessity of social work educators and practitioners to continue ordinary life on the other; the need for institutional and emotional support; and the recognition that war narrows the perception of human diversity and regiments people into binary identities of gender and singular identity positions regarding ethnicity. The second case study presents a unique example of transnational solidarity and support meetings with social work teachers and practitioners during wartime. From the onset of the war, transnational solidarity was a resistance to the isolation of social work colleagues due to the war and served as a force of connectedness in a time of human suffering and division. The Global Principle of Social Work Ethics (9.3) are used to show complexities and ambivalences of the dangerous peace and the need for situated ethics and standpoints concerning war and peace.

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Engaging with Social Work

Morley

Ablett

Macfarlane

2019

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Social Workers Without Borders: Voices for Justice

Cited by 18 publications

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‘Everyday Bordering’ in England, Sweden and Bulgaria: Social Work Decision-Making Processes When Working with Migrant Family Members

‘Everyday Bordering’ in England, Sweden and Bulgaria: Social Work Decision-Making Processes When Working with Migrant Family Members

Transnational Solidarity in Rough Times: Documenting and Engaging for Peace

Engaging with Social Work

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