Critical Social Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Critical Social Policy is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Building power from below: Dispatches and lessons from movement building in a postindustrial city in Northern New Jersey in the United States33
Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: The development of adult social care policy in Wales22
The multiple and competing functions of local reviews of serious child abuse cases in England18
Book Review: The Marketisation of Welfare to Work in Ireland: Governing Activation at the Street Level by Michael McGann18
COVID-19 and (mis)understanding public attitudes to social security: Re-setting debate13
Book Review: Agents of Reform. Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State by Elisabeth Anderson11
Banishment11
Book Review: The Next Welfare State? UK Welfare After COVID-19 by Christopher Pierson11
Book Review: Neoliberal Securitisation and Symbolic Violence: Silencing Political, Academic and Social Resistance by Masoud Kamali11
Hegemony and settler colonial subjectivities: The censure of the Israeli Union of Social Workers (IUSW) by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)10
Book Review: Somo Sisters Tapestry: A Tale of Cultural Change, Shocks and Life in the UK by 12 Women by WODIN, with an introduction by Julie Sylvia Kalun10
Book Review: Substances, Welfare and Social Relations: Breaking Stigma, Pursuing Hope by Amber Gazso9
Book Review: A Political History of Child Protection: Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand by Ian Kelvin Hyslop8
Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality8
Engineering the filial self. Negotiating the moral construction of filial piety at different government levels in China8
Book Review: Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health Services by Rich Moth7
Countering marginalisation through ‘cooperative democracy’: The case of worker co-ops in Japan7
Can a ‘structural competency’ approach improve the safeguarding of diverse marginalised communities from exploitation?6
Government through clanship: Governing Ethiopia’s Somali pastoralists through a community-based social protection programme6
Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration6
Social solidarity and deservingness6
Standing on the frontline: Exploring representational work for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Norway6
The (un)just transition in ecomodernist climate policy: Critical analysis of social inequities in the US Inflation Reduction Act6
Book Review: Care and Capitalism by Kathleen Lynch6
Book Review: Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risk and Harms by Carlene Firmin, Michelle Lefevre, Nathalie 6
Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies5
Net-widening, gap-filling, and shortcut justice: The practice of Community Protection Notices to regulate anti-social behaviour5
Teaching social policy as if students matter: Decolonizing the curriculum and perpetuating epistemic injustice5
De-bordering and re-bordering practices at the intersection of gender and migration. A multi-site exploration of specialized services for migrant women experiencing violence in Italy and Sweden5
Book Review: The Invention of the ‘Underclass’: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge by Loïc Wacquant5
Book Review: Women, Welfare and Productivism in East Asia and Europe by Ruby CM Chau and Sam WK Yu5
Book Review: Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by Andreas Bieler5
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention, Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons by Michelle Peterie5
We need to talk about necessitous economic migrants: Disrupting ‘legitimacy’ in UK migration discourse4
Understanding the interplay of financial change, debt, and lone parenthood in the UK: A secondary mixed methods analysis4
Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand4
Risks and representations: Creating consensus narratives about risk with pregnant women involved with child protection systems in Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland4
What the Dutch benefits scandal and policy's focus on ‘fraud’ can teach us about the endurance of empire4
Book Review: Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain by Maddy Power4
Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy3
Book Review: Dissenting Social Work: Critical Theory, Resistance and Pandemic by Paul Michael Garrett3
Book Review: It’s Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate by John Bissett3
Eviscerating equality: Normative whiteness and Conservative equality policy3
Migrant women becoming ‘stronger together’ through the arts: Creating Ground3
Book Review: The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies by Elizabeth Kiely and Katharina Swirak3
Attacking transnationalism and citizenship: British Bangladeshis, family migration, and the postcolonial state3
Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people: The legacy of common health problems and the future for long COVID2
Depoliticising race: A critical policy analysis of the UK's CRED 2021 report2
Distanciation as a technology of control in the UK hostile environment2
Student antiracist activism and institutionalised equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in UK universities2
Claiming reproductive citizenship through interactive need interpretation: The case of temporary labour migrant women in Japan2
Book Review: Academic Women: Voicing Narratives of Gendered Experiences by Michelle Ronksley-Pavia, Michelle M. Neumann, Jane F. Manakil and Kelly Pickar2
Co-production in syringe service programs: Implementation in a changing organisational field2
Living Activism - Critical Social Policy introduction2
Who deserves exceptions in times of crisis? A comparison of policy responses to mitigate negative consequences for unemployed people and immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Red flags! Parents’ perspectives on data led policy and practice in family intervention2
Is digitalisation of public health and social welfare services reinforcing social exclusion? The case of Russian-speaking older migrants in Finland2
A constant threat? A narrative exploration of the relationship between benefit receipt, mental distress and the threat of homelessness2
Book Review: Social Work with the Black African Diaspora by Washington Marovatsanga and Paul Michael Garrett2
Women on the mic: Breaking women's radio silence1
Preventing and countering extremism in the educational sector: Interrogating policy, challenging practices1
The decline of social protection in Ukraine: A case of dismantlement of a city-forming enterprise as a socioeconomic guarantor1
The exceptions to child exceptionalism: Racialised migrant ‘deservingness’ and the UK's free school meal debates1
Sex workers’ peer support during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from a study of a Portuguese community-led response1
Book Review: Hidden Voices Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space by Joe Whelan1
South African government responses to Trump's Global Gag Rule: Silence, ignorance, and avoidance1
Book Review: Racism and the Tory Party: From Disraeli to Johnson by Mike Cole1
‘It's not really Michael who wears me out, it's the system’: The hidden work of coordinating care for a disabled child1
Editorial introduction: Racialised migrants navigating the UK's hostile environment policies1
Facing the folk devils of modern slavery policy1
A cure-all for energy poverty? Thinking critically about energy advice1
Diminishing returns of growth? Economic performance, needs satisfaction and ecological impacts of OECD welfare states1
Book Review: Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke by Umut Özkirimli1
Book Review: The Politics of Ailment: A New Approach to Care by Minna Zechner, Lena Näre, Olli Karsio, Antero Olakivi, Liina Sointu, Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania1
Mapping discrimination in Spain: Structural inequalities and policy responses. A critical documentary analysis of FRA reports (2014–2022)0
An analysis of minoritisation in domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales0
Corrigendum to “Eco-social policies, capitalism and the horizon of emancipatory politics”0
Mothering in hostile environments: Migrant families negotiating the welfare and immigration regime nexus0
Young people's schooling trajectories and transitions to social adulthood in the context of Brazil's Bolsa Família0
Book Review: Outlanders: Hidden Narratives from Social Workers of Colour from Black and Other Global Majority Communities by Wayne Reid and Siobhan Macle0
Welfare governance0
Clergy sexual abuse of adults: Institutional power and legislative resistance in the United States0
Environmental racism, segregation and discrimination: Gypsy and Traveller sites in Great Britain0
Forum theatre practice as lived activism0
‘I’m not going anywhere near that': Expert stakeholder challenges in working with boys and young men regarding sex and sexual consent0
Affective debates of Finnish welfare state imaginary amidst financialization: Case of equity savings account for newborns0
Book Review: Noncitizen Power: Agency and the Politics of Migration by Tendayi Bloom0
Governing resettlement: Interrogating tensions and contradictions around age, vulnerability, and integrate-ability in the Irish context0
Book Review: Handbook on Migration and Ageing by Sandra Torres and Alistair Hunter0
Sharing ‘hostile’ stories: Exploring the UK's ‘hostile environment’ through participatory arts-based methods0
Citizenship0
Operationalising intersectionality in equality and domestic abuse policy in Scotland: Contradictions, contestations and erasure0
Book Review: Social Work and Common Sense: A Critical Examination by Paul Michael Garrett0
Editorial introduction: Contesting social policies from the margins: Cases from Japan and Korea0
Book Review: Childcare Provision in Neoliberal Times: The marketization of Care by Aisling Gallagher0
Reproducing a municipal reserve army? A qualitative study on doing class through municipal subsidised employment programmes0
Book Review: A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion: Wealth, Suffering, Negation by Werner Bonefeld0
Book Review: Research Handbook on Intersectionality by Mary Romero (ed.)0
Running, eyes open, into segregation: The absence of an integration strategy for Britain's elites0
Book Review: Making a Mindful Nation: Mental Health and Governance in the Twenty-first Century by Joanna Cook0
Surveilled and segregated: A Foucauldian inquiry into colonial welfare and First Nations poverty in Canada0
Book Review: Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum by Jonathan Darling0
Austerity alive and well in Wales and UBI in intensive care0
Book Review: Redress: Ireland's institutions and Transitional Justice by Katherine O'Donnell, Maeve O'Rourke and James M Smith (eds.)0
The business of universities: A case study of halls of residence0
Balancing care and control: Emotional labour and dignity in a solidarity restaurant0
Maintaining gender inequality in wages? The case of employer organisations’ and business advocacy groups’ resistance to pay transparency legislation in Finland0
The banality of state violence: Institutional neglect in austere local authorities0
Queering human rights-based approaches to suicide prevention: A case study of Scotland's time space compassion introductory guide0
Multiple barriers to the Dutch welfare state. Black Feminists’ intersectional claims to social citizenship in the 1980s0
Book Review: Social Work's Histories of Complicity and Resistance: A Tale of Two Professions by Vasilios Ioakimidis and Aaron Wyllie (eds)0
Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England0
Impacts of anti-migrant policy and activism: The dynamics of hostility around small boat crossings to Dover0
Book Review: The Anti-Racist Social Worker: Stories of Activism by Social Care Professionals and Allied Health Professionals by Tanya Moore and Glory Sim0
Book Review: Facts, Values and the Policy World by Phil Ryan0
Book Review: Class and Everyday Life by Kirsteen Paton0
Book Review: Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China by Leta Hong Fincher0
Book Review: The Reformation of Welfare: The New Faith of the Labour Market by Tom Boland and Ray Griffin0
‘Doing’ eligibility through income thresholds: Organisational practices in US financial assistance programmes for women with breast cancer0
Book Review: Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin (eds)0
A critical overview of how English health and social care publications represent autistic adults’ intimate lives0
Assessing sick-listed clients’ work ability: A moral mission?0
Discipline0
Top-down empowerment? The construction of the social economy in the field of social service provision0
The welfare state0
Some contradictions of the welfare state: Revisited0
Book Review: Critical Perspectives on Children’s Social Services Reform by Robin Sen and Christian Kerr (eds)0
The respect for marriage act: The connection between marriage equality, abortion rights, and religious freedom in the USA0
The representation of migrants in policy and parliament: A Bacchian analysis of the UK's immigration health surcharge0
ERRATUM to “Editorial introduction: Racialised migrants navigating the UK’s hostile environment policies”0
Encountering the hostile environment: Recently arrived Afghan migrants in London0
Book Review: Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland: Perspectives from the Periphery by Lynsey Black, Louise Brangan and Deirdre Healy0
Female dependents, individual customers and promiscuous digital personas: The multiple governing of women through the Australian social security couple rule0
Food aid as a source of support and visibility for migrants with no recourse to public funds (NRPF)0
Barriers to safe and secure housing in the US section 8 voucher programme post- Dobbs0
Governing poverty and migration in European nation-states – keywords revisited: Postscript0
Hewers of wood and drawers of water: English subaltern education from the charity schools to the neoliberal meritocracy of widening participation0
Intersectionality and structural gendered racism: Theoretical considerations for Black women, children, and families impacted by child protective services in the United States0
Challenging welfare mythmaking: Caps, (mis)classification and concealment of larger families’ labour in austerity Britain0
Book Review: Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age: State Power, Logics and Resistance by Karen Soldatic and Louise St. Guillaume (eds)0
Corrigendum to “Top-down empowerment? The construction of the social economy in the field of social service provision”0
‘Do they ever think about people like us?': The experiences of people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Suffering and harm in insecurity welfare regimes: Conflict and the nexus of formal and informal welfare in Pakistan0
Social (in)justice on the margins of paid work: Misrecognition, maldistribution and the employment of people with learning difficulties0
Pregnant racialised migrants and the ubiquitous border: The hostile environment as a technology of stratified reproduction0
Book Review: Global Domestic Workers: Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights by Sabrina Marchetti, Daniela Cherubini and Giulia Garofano Ge0
Book Review: Homes in Crisis Capitalism by Marnie Holborow0
Book Review: Psycho-Social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence. Un-Housed Minds and Inhospitable Environments by Christopher Scanlon and John 0
Suspicion and surveillance0
Bordering social reproduction: The welfare/immigration regimes of Quebec and Ontario in Canada0
Book Review: Uncertain Citizenship: Life in the Waiting Room by Anne-Marie Fortier0
Book Review: Uncovering Food Poverty in Ireland: A Hidden Deprivation by Michael Drew0
Book Review: Participatory Ideology: From Exclusion to Involvement by Peter Beresford0
COVID-19 vaccination requirements for Ireland's healthcare students0
Weaponising time in the war on welfare: Slow violence and deaths of disabled people within the UK's social security system0
Book Review: Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy by Ian Greer, Charles Umney0
Book Review: Decolonized Approaches to Human Rights and Social Work by Melinda Madew, Marcin Boryczko and Mark Lusk (eds)0
Intersex equality, diversity and inclusion and social policy: Silences, absences, and erasures in Ireland and the UK0
Housing and temporary legality: The evictability and settlement of refugees in Swedish municipalities0
Can mandatory work in activation programmes be meaningful work?0
Governing poverty and migration in European nation-states – keywords revisited0
An interdisciplinary examination of a gunshot detection system: The public health context of a policing technology0
The importance of investing in policies beyond ‘the basics': Perspectives from black fathers in Philadelphia on how to increase community safety0
Book Review: Women, Precarious Work and Care: The Failure of Family-Friendly, Rights by Emily Grabham0
The national and moral borders of the 2016 French law on sex work: An analysis of the ‘prostitution exit programme’0
Social suffering and (mis)recognition: How welfare officials respond to the critical voices of clients0
Eco-social policies, capitalism and the horizon of emancipatory politics0
Book Review: Negotiating Families and Personal Lives in the 21st Century: Exploring Diversity, Social Change, and Inequalities by Sheila Quaid, Catriona 0
Adequate for whom? Reflections on the right to adequate housing from fieldwork on Roma inclusion in Italy0
Stigmatised and stressed: UK cannabis patients living in the context of prohibition0
Care theft: Family impacts of employer control in Australia's retail industry0
Book Review: Three Roads to the Welfare State by Bryan Fanning0
Book Review: Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness by Shona Hunter and Christi van der Westhuizen (eds)0
Book Review: Care Homes in a Turbulent Era Do They Have a Future? by Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley (eds)0
Book Review: Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation by Nick Riemer0
Seeking refuge in a productivist welfare regime: Well-being of African asylum seekers/refugees in Hong Kong0
Shattered glass piling at the bottom: The ‘problem’ with gender equality policy for higher education0
Refusing the silence: A black disabled woman's activism against bureaucratic violence in UK institutions0
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