Social Welfare & Social Services

Singaporeans enjoy one of the longest lifespans in the world today. Singapore is also one of the most rapidly ageing societies in the world. Given ...

Based on the views of teenagers across Europe and in the Far East, this book argues that we need to reconsider how we judge schools and what they a...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organise...

The second edition of this authoritative text helps professionals charged with curbing domestic violence to assess and manage offenders and their r...

This book offers a brief but comprehensive overview of the history of sociology in Sweden from the prewar period to the present day. It focuses in ...

The politics of multiculturalism faces challenges in Western democratic states. Arguing that this setback is based on the notion of culture as sepa...

Using a political economy of health, Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context demonstrates how the development of health syste...

European borders that aim to control migration and mobility increasingly rely on technology to distinguish between citizens and aliens. This book e...

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 ...