Critical Social Policy

Article	Citations
The UK’s hostile environment: Deputising immigration control	83
The Danish ‘ghetto initiatives’ and the changing nature of social citizenship, 2004–2018	28
Violent bureaucracy: A critical analysis of the British public employment service	22
A moral education? British Values, colour-blindness, and preventing terrorism	22
‘Punishing those who do the wrong thing’: Enforcing destitution and debt through the UK’s family migration rules	18
Social protection and inequality in the global South: Politics, actors and institutions	17
‘Ethical’ artificial intelligence in the welfare state: Discourse and discrepancy in Australian social services	15
Safeguarding in Australia’s new disability markets: Frontline workers’ perspectives	14
Is digitalisation of public health and social welfare services reinforcing social exclusion? The case of Russian-speaking older migrants in Finland	12
The administration of harm: From unintended consequences to harm by design	11
COVID-19 and the temporary transformation of the UK social security system	10
A critical systems evaluation of the introduction of a ‘discharge to assess’ service in Kent	10
The banality of state violence: Institutional neglect in austere local authorities	9
Navigating multiple pandemics: A critical analysis of the impact of COVID-19 policy responses on gender-based violence services	9
Dynamics of the policy environment and trauma in relations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the settler-colonial state	9
Regulating domestic and care work in Italy: Assessing the relative influence of the familistic model today	9
Police–school partnerships and the war on black youth	9
News media representations of people receiving income support and the production of stigma power: An empirical analysis of reporting on two Australian welfare payments	9
Personalisation policy in the lives of people with learning disabilities: a call to focus on how people build their lives relationally	9
The status of homelessness: Access to housing for asylum-seeking migrants as an instrument of migration control in Italy and Sweden	8
The politics of implementation: The role of traditional authorities in delivering social policies to poor people in Kenya	8
‘Do they ever think about people like us?': The experiences of people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
State tactics of welfare benefit minimisation: The power of governing documents	7
Empowered or patronized? The role of emotions in policies and professional discourses on birth care	6
The precarious inclusion of homeless EU migrants in Norwegian public social welfare: Moral bordering and social workers’ dilemmas	6

Targeting versus social protection in cash transfers in the Philippines: Reassessing a celebrated case of social protection	6
Mapping mental health and the UK university sector: Networks, markets, data	6
Sex workers’ peer support during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from a study of a Portuguese community-led response	6
Intersectionality and structural gendered racism: Theoretical considerations for Black women, children, and families impacted by child protective services in the United States	5
Guaranteed or conditional child maintenance? Examining the 2016 reform in Sweden	5
Problem-solving for problem-solving: Data analytics to identify families for service intervention	5
Disciplinary and pastoral power, food and poverty in late-modernity	5
‘I’m not going anywhere near that': Expert stakeholder challenges in working with boys and young men regarding sex and sexual consent	5
What fresh hell? UK policies targeting homeless migrants for deportation after Brexit and Covid-19	4
Diversity vs the 2030 agenda. A deconstructive reading of the United Nations agenda for sustainable development	4
Teaching social policy as if students matter: Decolonizing the curriculum and perpetuating epistemic injustice	4
Food poverty and youth work – A community response	4
Contractual controls and pragmatic professionalism: A qualitative study on contracting social services in China	4
Client experience of street-level activation practices: Implementation of discourage policy in the Czech Republic	4
Policy paradoxes and the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme: How welfare policies impact resettlement support	4
Sleepless in Taipei: The application of photovoice method to explore the major challenges perceived by homeless people facing multifaceted social exclusion	3
Weaponising time in the war on welfare: Slow violence and deaths of disabled people within the UK's social security system	3
United Nations Policy on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Problematizations and Performances	3
Assessing sick-listed clients’ work ability: A moral mission?	3
Toward a critical race analysis of the COVID-19 crisis in US carceral institutions	3
Shattered glass piling at the bottom: The ‘problem’ with gender equality policy for higher education	3
The politics of job retention schemes in Britain: The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme	3
A cure-all for energy poverty? Thinking critically about energy advice	3
COVID-19 vaccination requirements for Ireland's healthcare students	2
Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: The development of adult social care policy in Wales	2
COVID-19 and (mis)understanding public attitudes to social security: Re-setting debate	2
Labour-saving technology and advanced marginality – A study of unemployed workers’ experiences of displacement in Finland	2
Framing Community Sponsorship in the context of the UK’s hostile environment	2
Intersex equality, diversity and inclusion and social policy: Silences, absences, and erasures in Ireland and the UK	2
A critical overview of how English health and social care publications represent autistic adults’ intimate lives	2
Credibility contests: The contributions of experiential knowledge to radicalisation expertise	2
Commodification and care: An exploration of workforces’ experiences of care in private and public childcare systems from a feminist political theory of care perspective	2
Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality	2
An analysis of minoritisation in domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales	2
Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand	2
Networks of power and counterpower in social work with children and families in England	2
Inequality in the South African labour market: The political economy of the national minimum wage	2
Which capital do you mobilise? How bureaucratic encounters shape jobseekers’ social and cultural capital in France and Germany	2
‘The Left will find that it has bought a Trojan Horse’: The dialectics of universal basic income	1
Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration	1
‘It's not really Michael who wears me out, it's the system’: The hidden work of coordinating care for a disabled child	1
Diminishing returns of growth? Economic performance, needs satisfaction and ecological impacts of OECD welfare states	1
Book Review: Rory Hearne Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve it	1
Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people: The legacy of common health problems and the future for long COVID	1
The national and moral borders of the 2016 French law on sex work: An analysis of the ‘prostitution exit programme’	1
Facing the folk devils of modern slavery policy	1
Risks and representations: Creating consensus narratives about risk with pregnant women involved with child protection systems in Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland	1
Book Review: The Invention of the ‘Underclass’: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge by Loïc Wacquant	1
It Shouldn't Happen Here: Colonial and racial discourses of deservingness in UK anti-poverty campaign	1
Eviscerating equality: Normative whiteness and Conservative equality policy	1

Encountering the hostile environment: Recently arrived Afghan migrants in London	1
Nobody’s Perfect: Making sense of a parenting skills workshop through ethnographic research in a low-income neighbourhood in Santiago de Chile	1
Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies	1
Book Review: Neoliberal Securitisation and Symbolic Violence: Silencing Political, Academic and Social Resistance by Masoud Kamali	0
Distanciation as a technology of control in the UK hostile environment	0
Book Review: Hard White: The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics by Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram	0
Book Review: Mia Arp Fallow and Cory Blad (eds) Social Welfare Responses in a Neoliberal Era. Policies, Practices, and Social Problems	0
Book Review: Jackie Gulland Gender, Work and Social Control: A Century of Disability Benefits	0
Editorial introduction: Racialised migrants navigating the UK's hostile environment policies	0
Book Review: Homes in Crisis Capitalism by Marnie Holborow	0
Book Review: The Anti-Racist Social Worker: Stories of Activism by Social Care Professionals and Allied Health Professionals by Tanya Moore and Glory Simango	0
Book Review: Ashley J. Bohrer Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism	0
Hewers of wood and drawers of water: English subaltern education from the charity schools to the neoliberal meritocracy of widening participation	0
Book Review: Social Work's Histories of Complicity and Resistance: A Tale of Two Professions by Vasilios Ioakimidis and Aaron Wyllie (eds)	0
Attacking transnationalism and citizenship: British Bangladeshis, family migration, and the postcolonial state	0
Book Review: Families and Food in Hard Times: European Comparative Research by Rebecca O’Connell and Julia Brannen	0
Book Review: Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by Andreas Bieler	0
Building power from below: Dispatches and lessons from movement building in a postindustrial city in Northern New Jersey in the United States	0
Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy	0
Book Review: Care Homes in a Turbulent Era Do They Have a Future? by Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley (eds)	0
Book Review: Childcare Provision in Neoliberal Times: The marketization of Care by Aisling Gallagher	0
Book Review: Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy by Ian Greer, Charles Umney	0
Bordering social reproduction: The welfare/immigration regimes of Quebec and Ontario in Canada	0
Book Review: Care and Capitalism by Kathleen Lynch	0
Book Review: Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain by Maddy Power	0
The respect for marriage act: The connection between marriage equality, abortion rights, and religious freedom in the USA	0
Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England	0
Book Review: Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness by Shona Hunter and Christi van der Westhuizen (eds)	0
Barriers to safe and secure housing in the US section 8 voucher programme post-Dobbs	0
Book Review: Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation by Nick Riemer	0
Book Review: Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland: Perspectives from the Periphery by Lynsey Black, Louise Brangan and Deirdre Healy	0
Book Review: A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion: Wealth, Suffering, Negation by Werner Bonefeld	0
Book Review: Decolonized Approaches to Human Rights and Social Work by Melinda Madew, Marcin Boryczko and Mark Lusk (eds)	0
Book Review: Women, Welfare and Productivism in East Asia and Europe by Ruby CM Chau and Sam WK Yu	0
Social solidarity and deservingness	0
The importance of investing in policies beyond ‘the basics': Perspectives from black fathers in Philadelphia on how to increase community safety	0
Book Review: The Politics of Ailment: A New Approach to Care by Minna Zechner, Lena Näre, Olli Karsio, Antero Olakivi, Liina Sointu, Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania and Tiina Vaittinen	0
The (un)just transition in ecomodernist climate policy: Critical analysis of social inequities in the US Inflation Reduction Act	0
Book Review: Agents of Reform. Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State by Elisabeth Anderson	0
Book Review: Petr Urban and Lizzie Ward (eds.) Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State	0
Governing resettlement: Interrogating tensions and contradictions around age, vulnerability, and integrate-ability in the Irish context	0
The business of universities: A case study of halls of residence	0
Book Review: Hakim Adi (ed.) Black British History: New Perspectives	0
Discipline	0
Living Activism - Critical Social Policy introduction	0
Book Review: Social Policy: A Critical and Intersectional Analysis by Fiona Williams	0
Book Review: Tanja Kleibl, Ronald Lutz, Ndangwa Noyoo, Benjamin Bunk, Annika Dittmann, Boitumelo Seepamore (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work	0
Operationalising intersectionality in equality and domestic abuse policy in Scotland: Contradictions, contestations and erasure	0
Welfare governance	0
Book Review: The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies by Elizabeth Kiely and Katharina Swirak	0
Book Review: Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age: State Power, Logics and Resistance by Karen Soldatic and Louise St. Guillaume (eds)	0
Book Review: Participatory Ideology: From Exclusion to Involvement by Peter Beresford	0
Net-widening, gap-filling, and shortcut justice: The practice of Community Protection Notices to regulate anti-social behaviour	0
Book Review: Gurnham Singh and Shepard Masocha (ed.) Anti-Racist Social Work: International Perspectives	0
Books Review: Ruha Benjamin Race After Technology: Abolition Tools for a New Jim Code	0
Book Review: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton	0
What the Dutch benefits scandal and policy's focus on ‘fraud’ can teach us about the endurance of empire	0
Mothering in hostile environments: Migrant families negotiating the welfare and immigration regime nexus	0
Book Review: People Before Profit: The Future of Social Care in Scotland by Social Work Action Network (SWAN) & the Jimmy Reid Foundation	0
Sharing ‘hostile’ stories: Exploring the UK's ‘hostile environment’ through participatory arts-based methods	0
Book Review: Nancy Whittier Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence	0
Stigmatised and stressed: UK cannabis patients living in the context of prohibition	0
Body-worn cameras, police violence and the politics of evidence: A case of ontological gerrymandering	0
Book Review: Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice by Claire McGettrick, Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O’Rourke, James M. Smith and Mari Steed	0
Book Review: Women, Precarious Work and Care: The Failure of Family-Friendly, Rights by Emily Grabham	0
Book Review: A Political History of Child Protection: Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand by Ian Kelvin Hyslop	0
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 pandemic	0
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 Kalungi	0
Book Review: Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China by Leta Hong Fincher	0
Book Review: Errors and Mistakes in Child Protection: International Discourses, Approaches and Strategies by Kay Biesel, Judith Masson, Nigel Parton and Tarja Poso	0
Book Review: Ray Jones A History of the Personal Social Services in England: Feast, Famine and the Future	0
Book Review: Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum by Jonathan Darling	0
Book Review: Global Domestic Workers: Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights by Sabrina Marchetti, Daniela Cherubini and Giulia Garofano Geymonat	0
Book Review: Hidden Voices Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space by Joe Whelan	0
Book Review: Negotiating Families and Personal Lives in the 21st Century: Exploring Diversity, Social Change, and Inequalities by Sheila Quaid, Catriona Hugman and Angela Wilcock (eds)	0
Book Review: Redress: Ireland's institutions and Transitional Justice by Katherine O'Donnell, Maeve O'Rourke and James M Smith (eds.)	0
Book Review: Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risk and Harms by Carlene Firmin, Michelle Lefevre, Nathalie Huegler and Delphine Peace	0
The exceptions to child exceptionalism: Racialised migrant ‘deservingness’ and the UK's free school meal debates	0
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention, Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons by Michelle Peterie	0
South African government responses to Trump's Global Gag Rule: Silence, ignorance, and avoidance	0

Governing poverty and migration in European nation-states – keywords revisited: Postscript	0
Austerity alive and well in Wales and UBI in intensive care	0
Book Review: The Reformation of Welfare: The New Faith of the Labour Market by Tom Boland and Ray Griffin	0
Book Review: The Marketisation of Welfare to Work in Ireland: Governing Activation at the Street Level by Michael McGann	0
Citizenship	0
Book Review: Racism and the Tory Party: From Disraeli to Johnson by Mike Cole	0
Book Review: Making a Mindful Nation: Mental Health and Governance in the Twenty-first Century by Joanna Cook	0
ERRATUM to “Editorial introduction: Racialised migrants navigating the UK’s hostile environment policies”	0
Protecting difference: A discussion on transphobic and homophobic hate crime in the Irish context	0
Book Review: On Burnley Road: Class, Race and Politics in a Northern English Town by Mike Makin-Waite	0
Pregnant racialised migrants and the ubiquitous border: The hostile environment as a technology of stratified reproduction	0
Book Review: Teresa Sacchet, Silvana Mariano and Cássia Maria Carloto (eds.) Women, Gender and Conditional Cash Transfers: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Studies of Bolsa Família	0
Banishment	0
Co-production in syringe service programs: Implementation in a changing organisational field	0
Book Review: The Case for a Four Day Week by Anna Coote, Aidan Harper and Alfie Stirling	0
CSP Publishes virtual themed issue on Racism and Anti-Racism	0
Housing and temporary legality: The evictability and settlement of refugees in Swedish municipalities	0
Suspicion and surveillance	0
Book Review: Claire Cameron and Peter Moss (eds) Transforming Early Childhood in England: Towards a democratic education	0
Book Review: Working Across Difference: Social Work, Social Policy and Social Justice by Donna Baines, Bindi Bennett, Susan Goodwin and Margot Rawsthorne	0
Book Review: Welfare and Punishment: From Thatcherism to Austerity by Ian Cummins	0
Book Review: Class and Everyday Life by Kirsteen Paton	0
Book Review: Africentric Social Work by Delores V. Mullings, Jennifer Clarke, Wanda Thomas Bernard, David Este and Sulaimon Giwa	0
Book Review: Social Work with the Black African Diaspora by Washington Marovatsanga and Paul Michael Garrett	0
Book Review: Refiguring Childhood: Encounters with Biosocial Power by Kevin Ryan	0
Book Review: Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti (eds) The Rise of Food Charity in Europe	0
Forum theatre practice as lived activism	0
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 Sweden	0
Book Review: Ian Parker Psychology Through Critical Auto-Ethnography: Academic Discipline, Professional Practice and Reflexive History	0
Book Review: James Rees, Marco Pomati and Elke Heins (eds) Social Policy Review 32	0
Female dependents, individual customers and promiscuous digital personas: The multiple governing of women through the Australian social security couple rule	0
Book Review: Facts, Values and the Policy World by Phil Ryan	0
Book Review: Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin (eds)	0
Book Review: Thinking Collectively. Social Policy, Collective Action and the Common Good by Paul Spicker	0
Migrant women becoming ‘stronger together’ through the arts: Creating Ground	0
Book Review: Academic Women: Voicing Narratives of Gendered Experiences by Michelle Ronksley-Pavia, Michelle M. Neumann, Jane F. Manakil and Kelly Pickard-Smith (eds)	0
Suffering and harm in insecurity welfare regimes: Conflict and the nexus of formal and informal welfare in Pakistan	0
Book Review: The Impact of Community Work: How to Gather Evidence by Karen McArdle, Sue Briggs, Kirsty Forrester, Ed Garrett and Catherine McKay	0
Book Review: Outlanders: Hidden Narratives from Social Workers of Colour from Black and Other Global Majority Communities by Wayne Reid and Siobhan Maclean (eds)	0
Visibilising the climate in social policies in Barcelona: Connections in the urban context	0
Book Review: Uncertain Citizenship: Life in the Waiting Room by Anne-Marie Fortier	0
Multiple barriers to the Dutch welfare state. Black Feminists’ intersectional claims to social citizenship in the 1980s	0
Adequate for whom? Reflections on the right to adequate housing from fieldwork on Roma inclusion in Italy	0
The multiple and competing functions of local reviews of serious child abuse cases in England	0
Book Review: End of Social Work – A Defence of the Social Worker in Times of Transformation by Steve Burghardt	0
Environmental racism, segregation and discrimination: Gypsy and Traveller sites in Great Britain	0
Care theft: Family impacts of employer control in Australia's retail industry	0
Book Review: Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health Services by Rich Moth	0
Book Review: Uncovering Food Poverty in Ireland: A Hidden Deprivation by Michael Drew	0
Book Review: Psycho-Social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence. Un-Housed Minds and Inhospitable Environments by Christopher Scanlon and John Adlam	0
Book Review: Three Roads to the Welfare State by Bryan Fanning	0
Book Review: Substances, Welfare and Social Relations: Breaking Stigma, Pursuing Hope by Amber Gazso	0
Book Review: Handbook on Migration and Ageing by Sandra Torres and Alistair Hunter	0
Book Review: Engaging with Social Work: A Critical Introduction by Christine Morley, Phillip Ablett and Selma Macfarlane	0
Book Review: Social Work and Common Sense: A Critical Examination by Paul Michael Garrett	0
Book Review: Imogen Tyler Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality	0
Book Review: Critical Perspectives on Children’s Social Services Reform by Robin Sen and Christian Kerr (eds)	0
Young people's schooling trajectories and transitions to social adulthood in the context of Brazil's Bolsa Família	0
Book Review: Research Handbook on Intersectionality by Mary Romero (ed.)	0
The welfare state	0
Book Review: It’s Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate by John Bissett	0
Can a ‘structural competency’ approach improve the safeguarding of diverse marginalised communities from exploitation?	0
Book Review: The Next Welfare State? UK Welfare After COVID-19 by Christopher Pierson	0
Book Review: Timo Harrikari and Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala Towards Glocal Social Work in the Era of Compressed Modernity	0
A constant threat? A narrative exploration of the relationship between benefit receipt, mental distress and the threat of homelessness	0
An interdisciplinary examination of a gunshot detection system: The public health context of a policing technology	0
Book Review: Lucy Mayblin Impoverishment and Asylum: Social Policy as Slow Violence	0
Book Review: Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke by Umut Özkirimli	0
Can mandatory work in activation programmes be meaningful work?	0
Book Review: Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare by Martin Powell	0
Book Review: Steve Rogowski Social Work: The Rise and Fall of a Profession?	0
Eco-social policies, capitalism and the horizon of emancipatory politics	0
Governing poverty and migration in European nation-states – keywords revisited	0
Book Review: Dissenting Social Work: Critical Theory, Resistance and Pandemic by Paul Michael Garrett	0
Government through clanship: Governing Ethiopia’s Somali pastoralists through a community-based social protection programme	0
Book Review: Noncitizen Power: Agency and the Politics of Migration by Tendayi Bloom	0
Book Review: Richard House Pushing Back to Ofsted: Safeguarding and the Legitimacy of Ofsted’s Inspection Judgments – A Critical Case Study	0
Book Review: Chiara Saraceno, David Benassi and Enrica Morlicchio Poverty in Italy: Features and Drivers in a European Perspective	0
Call for Themed Issue Proposals	0
Book Review: Nadine El-Enany B(ordering) Britain: Law, Race and Empire	0