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This study analyzes literature about international migration using a keyword search with the terms, “immigrat*,” “migrat*,” and “refugee” in the abstracts (N = 1,391) of peer-reviewed journal articles in two databases. While there has been an overall increase in the number of publications in each 5-year interval since 1985, the majority (59%) of ar...
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... such, this ranking system was utilized here. Table 2 shows that only 29% (n = 404) of the 1,391 articles analyzed were published in the perceived top 97 journals for social work scholarship. That is, the majority of the articles were published in journals that were not included in this list. ...
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... According to IOM (International Organisation of Migration), a migrant is a word used to describe a person moving geographically from one place to another, no matter the direction of movement. 28 Therefore, it can be argued that if one is a refugee or an asylum seeker, the person is a special migrant in as much as the person is on the move. This study regards an asylum seeker as a migrant. ...
... The literature in this area is therefore scant for the Caribbean region. The area of migration in social work has been criticized for being under theorized (Shier et al., 2011), thus not getting the attention it ought to. Migration social work can be a useful approach to mitigating the issues highlighted in this article given its natural enmeshment with migrants, families, and networks (Williams & Graham, 2014). ...
This article uses decolonial ethics as the framework to analyze and articulate anti-Islamophobic social work praxis as an ethical imperative to confronting Islamophobia as a colonial legacy. In so doing, the article includes an examination of the following facets of decolonial ethics: global moral responsibility, context specific, situated within the epistemologies of subaltern communities, knowledge as partial and geo-political, pluriversal-ist that rejects an abstract universal approach to ethics in favor of intercultural relations and dialogue.
... The literature in this area is therefore scant for the Caribbean region. The area of migration in social work has been criticized for being under theorized (Shier et al., 2011), thus not getting the attention it ought to. Migration social work can be a useful approach to mitigating the issues highlighted in this article given its natural enmeshment with migrants, families, and networks (Williams & Graham, 2014). ...
... The literature in this area is therefore scant for the Caribbean region. The area of migration in social work has been criticized for being under theorized (Shier et al., 2011), thus not getting the attention it ought to. Migration social work can be a useful approach to mitigating the issues highlighted in this article given its natural enmeshment with migrants, families, and networks (Williams & Graham, 2014). ...
... The literature in this area is therefore scant for the Caribbean region. The area of migration in social work has been criticized for being under theorized (Shier et al., 2011), thus not getting the attention it ought to. Migration social work can be a useful approach to mitigating the issues highlighted in this article given its natural enmeshment with migrants, families, and networks (Williams & Graham, 2014). ...
... In Italy, training and further education are currently focusing on the development of intercultural professional skills to re-direct interventions in the migration field, by investing in competencies and responsibilities (Blunt, 2007;Shier et al, 2011;Di Rosa, 2017a;Cohen-Emerique, 2017). There remains to be developed, in particular, 'the integration of exemplars and approaches to social work practice regarding migration as an issue in advancing social justice and human rights' (Popescu M. & Libal K., 2018: x). ...
... Otherwise, a holistic assessment of immigrants and refugees cannot be made. In addition, the lack of cultural factors affects both the education and practice of social work (Shier et al., 2011). Social workers who carry out the practices must have a good grasp of the cultures of both the settled people and the outsiders. ...
The settled one marginalizes the newcomer and defines the existing problem through them. The first reaction against the other is to set boundaries by building a wall. In the second stage, reached after the walls are formed, there is now the inside and outside of the wall. Then, for the settled, the inside is identified with the good, and the outside with the bad. The starting point of this study is the settled society building walls between newcomers and themselves, and through this, othering them. Therefore, this study aims to show the processes and forms of othering of refugees and immigrants in Turkey. In line with the aforementioned purpose, the phenomenon of othering is examined through the (immigrant) “Natashas” and (refugee) Syrians. In this context, for a two-way practice, it is emphasized that the social worker should not only have a strong social inclusion policy for immigrants, but also raise the awareness of the settled society about othering.
... In Italy, training and further education are currently focusing on the development of intercultural professional skills to re-direct interventions in the migration field, by investing in competencies and responsibilities (Blunt, 2007;Shier et al, 2011;Di Rosa, 2017a;Cohen-Emerique, 2017). There remains to be developed, in particular, 'the integration of exemplars and approaches to social work practice regarding migration as an issue in advancing social justice and human rights' (Popescu M. & Libal K., 2018: x). ...
As the world reels from the combined health, economic, political and moral
crisis we are in, there is more need than ever to reimagine and remake our
futures. With our thinking and our very bodies under threat from all forms of
oppression and disinformation, we need to find ways to sustain and empower
the more vulnerable amongst us.
This volume brings together a unique set of thinkers/teachers/activists from
across Europe, Africa and Latin America. We are committed to inter‐disciplin‐
ary research and the breaking down of boundaries between research and so‐
cial transformation.
It is the first product of an emerging research and practice network, the Migra‐
tion and Social Transformation Network (MSTN), that is committed to pursu‐
ing a new agenda, which seeks to turn migration/refugee research into an ac‐
tive partnership with society, to address the pressing social needs of migrants
who suffer from a range of exclusionary processes, not least those based on
racial, gender and class differences.
... In Italy, training and further education are currently focusing on the development of intercultural professional skills to re-direct interventions in the migration field, by investing in competencies and responsibilities (Blunt, 2007;Shier et al, 2011;Di Rosa, 2017a;Cohen-Emerique, 2017). There remains to be developed, in particular, 'the integration of exemplars and approaches to social work practice regarding migration as an issue in advancing social justice and human rights' (Popescu M. & Libal K., 2018: x). ...
... 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. ...
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.
