Forthcoming Welfare Books

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11. Social Work in a Global Context

    Issues and Challenges

    Edited by George Palattiyil, Dina Sidhva, Mono Chakrabarti

    Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work

    Social Work in a Global Context engages with, and critically explores, key issues that inform social work practice around the world. Social work can take many forms, and is differently understood in different parts of the world. However, at base, it can be seen as a profession which strives to...

    To Be Published January 19th 2014 by Routledge
12. Japanese Social Welfare

    The Development of Diversity

    By HyunSun Lee

    Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

    This book presents a new dimension of the lives of the zainichi Koreans in Japan and the development of social policy for an ageing society. Using Aera, (a non-profit North Korean welfare organisation in Japan) as the case study, Lee investigates how this group utilises and mobilises Japanese state...

    To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
13. Responding to Youth Crime in Hong Kong

    Moral Panics and Regulation

    By Michael Adorjan, Wing Chui

    Series: Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia

    The ways in which a society responds to the delinquent and criminal behavior of young people reveals much about its broader cultural values and political affairs. Specifically, it illuminates the particular form of state governance and governing mentality. This book examines responses to youth...

    To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge
14. Routledge Handbook of Poverty and the United States

    Edited by Stephen Haymes, Maria Vidal de Haymes, Reuben Miller

    In the United States, the causes and even the meanings of poverty are disconnected from the causes and meanings of global poverty. The Routledge Handbook of Poverty and the United States provides an authoritative overview of the relationship of poverty with the rise of neoliberal capitalism in the...

    To Be Published April 14th 2014 by Routledge
15. Social Capital and Economics

    Social Values, Power, and Social Identity

    Edited by Asimina Christoforou, John Davis

    Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

    This volume advances critical new perspectives on social capital theory by examining how social values, power relationships, and social identity interact with social capital to determine the different ways in which it is created and transformed in different societies. Social capital is understood...

    To Be Published April 30th 2014 by Routledge