Social Welfare & Social Services

This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a va...

This volume is the first major exploration of the issues relevant to young people who are affected by sexual exploitation and trafficking from a va...

Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and suggesting novel ways of approaching the phenomenon of European Islam and the continent's Muslim communities, ...

Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human e...

Some states have a long history of reaching out to citizens living in other countries but since 2000 it has become much more common for states to e...

By explaining the role of evaluation in modern societies and its historical development in the USA and Europe this book highlights the scientific r...

Focusing on care workers for the elderly, this book examines the paradoxical position of irregular migrants in European society, who are often labe...

Exploring the growing global trend of solo living, this highly original study addresses core debates about contemporary social change in the contex...

While globalization undermines ideas of the nation-state in the Mediterranean, conversions reveal how religion can unsettle existing political and ...

This book presents the latest evidence from Young Lives, a unique international study of children and poverty. It shows how the persistence of ineq...

Why are some conflicts managed better than others? Social scientists have used various disciplinary lenses to answer this question but until now, p...

This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it ill...

This book uses identity theories to explore the struggles of indigenous peoples against the domination of the settler imaginary in Australia, Canad...

This collection brings together international contributors from multiple disciplines to discuss the current public, social and governmental underst...

Counseling Youth: Systemic Issues and Interventions highlights the nature of counseling youth and implementing interventions from a systemic perspe...

This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality. Instead of trying...

Black Masculinity in the Obama Era provides an in-depth examination of the current state of black males and identifies the impact of living in the ...

This book covers arguments made by various sides of the political-religious divide from the past 30 years, showing what the actual differences are ...

The provision of care has been widely referred to as facing a 'crisis'. International migrants are increasingly relied upon to provide care as dom...

The author develops an original interpretation of foreign aid by analysing it as a particular domain of international government. She demonstrates ...

Women's football is the fastest growing participation sport in the UK. This book critically explores women's elite football from a sociological per...

The Little Rock Crisis frames the story of the Little Rock 1957 desegregation crisis through the lens of memory. Over time, those memories individ...

The Social Practice of Human Rights bridges the conventional scholar-practitioner divide by focusing on the space in between. The volume brings tog...