Social Welfare & Social Services

Gender quotas are a growing worldwide phenomenon, yet their variable implementation remains under-researched. Using the prominent case study of Fra...

What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? The prevailing narrative provides a rather simple answer: saving and transporting the criti...

Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class ca...

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate...

This book analyzes the unfolding of a new institutional phenomenon: the cosmonational parliament of the cross-border nation and the expanded state,...

Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global examines the imposition of the modern Western notion of childhood, which is now deemed a...

The phenomenon of transnational health care has grown rapidly over recent years and this book provides a comprehensive landscape of diverse researc...

This book analyzes the cosmopolitan lives of British Asian Muslim women. Drawing on interview and online data, the book debunks stereotypical assum...

Drawing on the writings of Foucault, this book explores the politics and power-dynamics of family life, examining how everyday obligations such as ...

Throughout the world, governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration are developing new appr...

Drawing on cross-national European data from the European Social Survey as well as Swedish national survey data and registers, this book investigat...

This book explores the human geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships, and resources of profession...

While the Islamic Republic has employed various strategies to mitigate the worst excesses of inter-ethnic tension while still securing a Shi'a domi...

This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure. Empirical research is drawn upon to highlight whiteness across a comprehensi...

This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship ...

Under the themes of Justice, Participation and Social Exclusion contributors explore and discuss the impact on those targeted or excluded by import...

Globalization and the technological revolution have forced organizations to rethink decision-making structures favouring the adoption of highly inn...

With reproductive medical technologies becoming more accessible, assisted donor conception is raising new and important questions about family life...

With reproductive medical technologies becoming more accessible, assisted donor conception is raising new and important questions about family life...

From Finland to Kenya to Stockton, California, more and more governments and private philanthropic organizations are putting the idea of a Universa...

From Finland to Kenya to Stockton, California, more and more governments and private philanthropic organizations are putting the idea of a Universa...

Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home,...

This volume argues for reexamination of the field of community engagement, suggests that the most effective way forward requires rethinking the str...