Publisher's Synopsis
This handbook provides a comprehensive study of social work and migration internationally. It offers an original, intellectually strong and professionally coherent account of how social work with migration is shaped and practiced internationally, exploring ongoing and new debates and key areas such as conceptual foundations, migration policies, methods and innovations in practice, research and educational methodologies as well as lived experiences, opportunities and challenges for migrants and social workers.Divided into four sections• More Than One Theory for Social Work and Migration: A Critical Overview• Working with Migrants: Social Work Practice and Experiences• Teaching and Learning About Migration: The Role of Social Work Education• Social Work Research and Migration: Ethics and Methodological Challenges,and comprised of 30 newly-written chapters, it brings together established and up-and-coming academics from different regions.It will be required reading from all scholars, students and social work practitioners.
