Social Work, Immigration and Asylum: Debates, Dilemmas and by Debra Hayes, Beth Humphries, Chris Brown

By Debra Hayes, Beth Humphries, Chris Brown

The sensible and moral demanding situations dealing with human provider execs operating with refugees, asylum seekers and people topic to immigration controls are mentioned during this much-needed publication. The participants discover the tensions that exist among conventional anti-oppressive values and the function pros more and more play as 'gate keepers' to services.

Drawing from the event of practitioners operating in baby defense and relatives aid, incapacity, the legal justice method, asylum groups and immigration tribunals, Social paintings, Immigration and Asylum will arrange execs operating in those and similar fields to house the complicated occasions of individuals topic to immigration keep watch over and to strengthen interventions acceptable to their differing needs.

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So the ways social work has been constructed over time demonstrate this mix of humanitarian motives on the one hand and the willing arm of the state to control the behaviour of certain social groups on the other. Indeed, they are so intimately intertwined, it could be argued that at times ‘care’ is control. At different junctures one or the other presses for dominance, a continuous struggle that is an important dynamic in the on-going construction of social work. 161). The social work business Although concerns about cost and activities related to controlling the poor have always been a feature of state provision, over the past 30 years there has been a seismic paradigm shift, resulting in a lurch to a neo-liberal position.

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