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Social work is considered a human rights-based profession. One of the major domains wherein social workers advance human rights involves carrying out actions directed at ensuring the realization of social rights of underprivileged service users. However, empirical knowledge about the actual everyday practice of social rights take-up in social work...
Among the arenas that reproduce inequality for marginalized groups, housing remains one of the most important. Guided by scholarship on housing insecurity among the poor and parenting amidst poverty, this article investigates the lived experience of parenting within the intricate landscape of housing insecurity. To do so, we draw on in-depth interv...
In recent years, a vast and sprawling body of literature has shown that academic institutions have adopted market principles and practices. Scholars have commonly called these processes "the neoliberalization of higher education' or 'academic capitalism'. Yet, studies have given less attention to the neoliberalisation of higher education from the b...
The COVID-19 pandemic has required frontline health care workers to cope with an unexpected and almost unprecedented emergency situation. Community social workers had played a crucial role during the pandemic, working to alleviate its adverse effects on marginalized communities. The present study investigated community social workers’ experiences a...
While scholars have examined how neoliberal ideas and policies manifest at the front lines of the welfare state, far less is known about how the neoliberal approach prevalent in such states shapes decisions that senior state actors make about social welfare policy. The current study advances the literature by examining the processes and motivations...
From the earliest days of the Covid-19 pandemic, which disproportionately affected marginalised communities around the world, community practice had assumed a critical role on the front lines of the social services' response to the pandemic. While scholars have devoted growing attention to community practice in normal and crisis times, little is kn...
In recent years, partly in response to significant changes in the economic and political environment in which social workers operate, scholars have called for the integration of micro and macro practice in social work settings. Yet, little attention has been given to how social workers construct their practice to integrate these two types of interv...
The social work profession emphasises the importance of social workers’ involvement in community practice, which aims to promote social policy and social change via peoples’ organising and acting. The current qualitative study compares between the perceptions and everyday experiences of governmental and non-governmental community social workers. Dr...
In recent years, a growing literature has rediscovered radical social work and the various forms it takes. In these debates, a key concept that has been developed and deployed is 'resistance'. Studies provide growing evidence for the myriad ways in which social workers engage in resistance activities as part of their everyday practice. However, mos...
The state has been central to social work throughout the profession's history. Despite its theoretical and political significance , the mainstream of the social work field has long disregarded the state as an object of inquiry. The scant attention given to the state within social work is especially puzzling given a resurgence of interest in the sta...
Over the past few decades, economic, political and cultural forces have altered the development of social policies and affected the life circumstances of oppressed communities in many countries. In response, calls for greater understanding and awareness of macro practice skills and interventions have been increasing within many of the social care p...
Social inclusion has historically been one of the key goals of the welfare state. Over the past two decades, an increasing number of policies have aimed to promote inclusion by connecting low-income families to mainstream financial services and enabling them to save and acquire assets. Building on the concept of the “paradox of inclusion,” this art...
Over the past few decades, powerful economic, political and cultural forces have restructured the welfare state and social work practice. In response, there have been calls in recent years for the re-politicisation of the social work profession. One of the main ways in which social work has been re-politicised is through the emphasis on social work...
Poverty and the poor have been central to social work throughout the profession's history. Much of the discussion in social work conceptualises poverty as a category that people are assigned to or a condition that they endure. In recent years, there has been a growing interest across the social sciences in a relational approach to poverty, which fo...
Welfare policy discourse plays an important role in shaping how marginalised groups are identified and how poverty is addressed. Research on welfare policy discourse has mostly adopted a top-down perspective, examining how marginalised groups are constituted through interrelated discourses that are produced and enacted by powerful actors. However,...
Asset-building as an anti-poverty policy emphasizes helping the poor to save and accumulate wealth so as to promote future financial well-being. This article focuses on how asset-building discourse is practiced at the frontlines and its implications for how workers come to address issues of poverty. Drawing on qualitative data from a case study of...
Studies show that social workers in many countries engage in policy practice at various levels and through diverse strategies. Recent scholarship has even offered some important conceptual frameworks for explaining policy practice. What is still missing is an informed analysis of the impact of the broad transformation social work has undergone in r...
The much-heralded anti-poverty strategy of asset-building has been adopted by many countries across the world. Asset-building programmes are designed to help low-income families achieve long-term financial stability through savings and asset accumulation. This article offers a comprehensive and critical review of the current state of theory and res...
This article examines current inconsistent trends in social welfare advocacy literature. Some studies show evidence of widespread engagement in advocacy by nonprofit organisations, while other studies conversely offer evidence of limited advocacy activities. Another controversial aspect stems from the question whether governmental funding undermine...
Advocacy organisations play a significant role in promoting social justice. These organisations aim to generate and redistribute economic, social and political capital on behalf of marginalised populations. Scholarship on advocacy organisations has mostly focused on their efforts to increase these forms of capital through social action, agenda-sett...
Background and Purpose: Research has shown that social workers play a significant role in processes of social change. Yet, there is a paucity of studies published which look at how social workers manipulate signs and symbols to provide legitimacy and importance to their social claims and actions. Ignoring this symbolic approach has produced a disto...
Research has documented a link between political violence and the functioning of individuals and communities. Yet, despite the hardships that political violence creates, evidence suggests remarkable fortitude and resilience within both individuals and communities. Individual characteristics that appear to build resilience against political violence...
Social work introductory textbooks reflect myriad practical interests, pedagogical concerns, and theoretical considerations. However, they also present students with accepted views, dominant perspectives, and main discourses of knowledge. In light of this centrality, the present article examines the representation of the concept of “social class” i...