European Social Policy and Social Work: Citizenship-Based Social Work

by Ewijk; Hans Van

• ISBN13: 9780415545235
• ISBN10: 0415545234
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-10-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book explores shifts in international social policies, looking at how they affect national trends and the context for social work practice. It investigates the responsibilities for social welfare held by the state, the market and civil society, elaborating a concept of citizenship-based social work.

Author Biography

Hans van Ewijk is Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Chair of the Research Centre for Social Innovation at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. He was recently appointed as Endowed Professor at the University for Humanistics at Utrecht for the Chair of Social Work Theory and is also Visiting Professor at Tartu University, Estonia. He is a former president of the International Council on Social Welfare Europe.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
International social work and international social policy	p. 7
Introduction	p. 7
Different meanings of international social work and social policy	p. 7
Globalization	p. 10
Regionalization	p. 12
Discussion and assignments	p. 20
From welfare to workfare: the great transformation	p. 22
Introduction	p. 22
From welfare to workfare	p. 22
Privatization	p. 23
Civil society	p. 26
Localization	p. 31
Integration	p. 35
From a macro socio-economic strategy to a micro socio-cultural strategy	p. 40
Discussion and assignment	p. 43
Citizenship and civil society discourse	p. 45
Introduction	p. 45
Citizenship and civil society	p. 45
Marshall and the discourse on social citizenship	p. 49
Lister: excluding and including tendency to social citizenship	p. 54
Activating citizenship within the welfare state	p. 57
Discussion and assignments	p. 59
Social work under construction	p. 60
Introduction	p. 60
Clarifying the basics	p. 60
The impact of the transformation	p. 68
The meta-methodology of social work	p. 72
Competences	p. 80
The social professional	p. 87
Discussion and assignment	p. 87
Community policy and community work	p. 90
Introduction	p. 90
Community-based social policy	p. 90
Community work	p. 104
Discussion and assignments	p. 114
Other fields of activity	p. 116
Introduction	p. 116
Youth work and youth care	p. 116
Long term care	p. 121
Social case work, exclusion and poverty	p. 125
Discussion and assignment	p. 128
From assimilation to intercultural competences: a challenge for social work	p. 130
Introduction	p. 130
Migration and migration theories	p. 130
Diversity in Europe	p. 133
Intercultural social work	p. 136
Discussion and assignment	p. 138
Social work as a profession, research and science	p. 140
Professionalization	p. 140
Social work research and social work science	p. 146
Discussion and assignment	p. 151
Conclusion	p. 151
Annex: summary of the book in keywords and definitions	p. 152
Notes	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 174
Index	p. 185
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