Critical Social Policy

Article	Citations
The UK’s hostile environment: Deputising immigration control	58
The Danish ‘ghetto initiatives’ and the changing nature of social citizenship, 2004–2018	25
Violent bureaucracy: A critical analysis of the British public employment service	17
A moral education? British Values, colour-blindness, and preventing terrorism	15
Fighting or fuelling forced labour? The Modern Slavery Act 2015, irregular migrants and the vulnerabilising role of the UK’s hostile environment	14
Social protection and inequality in the global South: Politics, actors and institutions	13
‘Punishing those who do the wrong thing’: Enforcing destitution and debt through the UK’s family migration rules	12
The sidelining of gender equality in a corporatist and knowledge-oriented regime: The case of failed family leave reform in Finland	11
‘Ethical’ artificial intelligence in the welfare state: Discourse and discrepancy in Australian social services	10
Safeguarding in Australia’s new disability markets: Frontline workers’ perspectives	10
COVID-19 and the temporary transformation of the UK social security system	9
Competitive clientelism, donors and the politics of social protection uptake in Ghana	9
Police–school partnerships and the war on black youth	9
Unreal, unsheltered, unseen, unrecorded: The multiple invisibilities of LGBTQI+ homeless youth	9
A critical systems evaluation of the introduction of a ‘discharge to assess’ service in Kent	8
The administration of harm: From unintended consequences to harm by design	8
Navigating multiple pandemics: A critical analysis of the impact of COVID-19 policy responses on gender-based violence services	7
The micro-politics of energy efficiency: An investigation of ‘eco-social interventions’ in western Switzerland	7
Dynamics of the policy environment and trauma in relations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the settler-colonial state	6
Regulating domestic and care work in Italy: Assessing the relative influence of the familistic model today	6
‘Do they ever think about people like us?': The experiences of people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Poverty and human capital in Chile: The processes of subjectivation in conditional cash transfer programs	6
Is digitalisation of public health and social welfare services reinforcing social exclusion? The case of Russian-speaking older migrants in Finland	6
How does student activism drive cultural campus change in the UK and US regarding sexual violence on campus?	6
Targeting versus social protection in cash transfers in the Philippines: Reassessing a celebrated case of social protection	5

State tactics of welfare benefit minimisation: The power of governing documents	5
The banality of state violence: Institutional neglect in austere local authorities	5
Sex workers’ peer support during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from a study of a Portuguese community-led response	5
News media representations of people receiving income support and the production of stigma power: An empirical analysis of reporting on two Australian welfare payments	5
NHS charging for maternity care in England: Its impact on migrant women	5
Personalisation policy in the lives of people with learning disabilities: a call to focus on how people build their lives relationally	5
Mapping mental health and the UK university sector: Networks, markets, data	4
The continuing failure of UK climate change mitigation policy	4
The status of homelessness: Access to housing for asylum-seeking migrants as an instrument of migration control in Italy and Sweden	4
Problem-solving for problem-solving: Data analytics to identify families for service intervention	4
The politics of implementation: The role of traditional authorities in delivering social policies to poor people in Kenya	4
Client experience of street-level activation practices: Implementation of discourage policy in the Czech Republic	4
Guaranteed or conditional child maintenance? Examining the 2016 reform in Sweden	3
What fresh hell? UK policies targeting homeless migrants for deportation after Brexit and Covid-19	3
Sleepless in Taipei: The application of photovoice method to explore the major challenges perceived by homeless people facing multifaceted social exclusion	3
Policy paradoxes and the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme: How welfare policies impact resettlement support	3
The precarious inclusion of homeless EU migrants in Norwegian public social welfare: Moral bordering and social workers’ dilemmas	3
Disciplinary and pastoral power, food and poverty in late-modernity	3
Assessing sick-listed clients’ work ability: A moral mission?	3
The politics of job retention schemes in Britain: The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme	3
‘I’m not going anywhere near that': Expert stakeholder challenges in working with boys and young men regarding sex and sexual consent	3
Empowered or patronized? The role of emotions in policies and professional discourses on birth care	3
Operating in the dark: The identification of forced labour in the UK	3
Diversity vs the 2030 agenda. A deconstructive reading of the United Nations agenda for sustainable development	3
Contractual controls and pragmatic professionalism: A qualitative study on contracting social services in China	3
Teaching social policy as if students matter: Decolonizing the curriculum and perpetuating epistemic injustice	3
United Nations Policy on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Problematizations and Performances	2
Shattered glass piling at the bottom: The ‘problem’ with gender equality policy for higher education	2
More than words can say: Why health and social care policy makers should reconsider their position on informal interpreters	2
Which capital do you mobilise? How bureaucratic encounters shape jobseekers’ social and cultural capital in France and Germany	2
Weaponising time in the war on welfare: Slow violence and deaths of disabled people within the UK's social security system	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
Food poverty and youth work – A community response	2
Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality	2
Activist conceptualisations at the migration-welfare nexus: Racial capitalism, austerity and the hostile environment	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
Intersectionality and structural gendered racism: Theoretical considerations for Black women, children, and families impacted by child protective services in the United States	2
The State of the UK funeral industry	2
Toward a critical race analysis of the COVID-19 crisis in US carceral institutions	2
‘The Left will find that it has bought a Trojan Horse’: The dialectics of universal basic income	1
The national and moral borders of the 2016 French law on sex work: An analysis of the ‘prostitution exit programme’	1
A critical overview of how English health and social care publications represent autistic adults’ intimate lives	1
Nobody’s Perfect: Making sense of a parenting skills workshop through ethnographic research in a low-income neighbourhood in Santiago de Chile	1
COVID-19 and (mis)understanding public attitudes to social security: Re-setting debate	1
Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration	1
Turning crisis into opportunity? The Syrian refugee crisis and evolution of welfare policy for refugees in Turkey from a public choice theory perspective	1
Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand	1
Book Review: The Invention of the ‘Underclass’: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge by Loïc Wacquant	1
Credibility contests: The contributions of experiential knowledge to radicalisation expertise	1

Labour-saving technology and advanced marginality – A study of unemployed workers’ experiences of displacement in Finland	1
An analysis of minoritisation in domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales	1
Framing Community Sponsorship in the context of the UK’s hostile environment	1
Book Review: Rory Hearne Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve it	1
Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: The development of adult social care policy in Wales	1
Attacking transnationalism and citizenship: British Bangladeshis, family migration, and the postcolonial state	0
Book Review: Women, Welfare and Productivism in East Asia and Europe by Ruby CM Chau and Sam WK Yu	0
South African government responses to Trump's Global Gag Rule: Silence, ignorance, and avoidance	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
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
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention, Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons by Michelle Peterie	0
Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people: The legacy of common health problems and the future for long COVID	0
Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy	0
Protecting difference: A discussion on transphobic and homophobic hate crime in the Irish context	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: Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare by Martin Powell	0
Barriers to safe and secure housing in the US section 8 voucher programme post-Dobbs	0
Book Review: Families and Food in Hard Times: European Comparative Research by Rebecca O’Connell and Julia Brannen	0
Young people's schooling trajectories and transitions to social adulthood in the context of Brazil's Bolsa Família	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: Dissenting Social Work: Critical Theory, Resistance and Pandemic by Paul Michael Garrett	0
Book Review: Nadine El-Enany B(ordering) Britain: Law, Race and Empire	0
Body-worn cameras, police violence and the politics of evidence: A case of ontological gerrymandering	0
Book Review: James Rees, Marco Pomati and Elke Heins (eds) Social Policy Review 32	0
Book Review: Imogen Tyler Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality	0
Book Review: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton	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: John Grundy Bureaucratic Manoeuvers: The Contested Administration of the Unemployed	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: Racism and the Tory Party: From Disraeli to Johnson by Mike Cole	0
Book Review: People Before Profit: The Future of Social Care in Scotland by Social Work Action Network (SWAN) & the Jimmy Reid Foundation	0
Book Review: Michael Adler Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment? Benefit Sanctions in the UK	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
Co-production in syringe service programs: Implementation in a changing organisational field	0
Book Review: Ian Parker Psychology Through Critical Auto-Ethnography: Academic Discipline, Professional Practice and Reflexive History	0
Book Review: Christine Morley, Philip Ablett and Selma Macfarlane Engaging with Social Work: A Critical Introduction	0
It Shouldn't Happen Here: Colonial and racial discourses of deservingness in UK anti-poverty campaign	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: Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti (eds) The Rise of Food Charity in Europe	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
COVID-19 vaccination requirements for Ireland's healthcare students	0
Book Review: Timo Harrikari and Pirkko-Liisa RauhalaTowards Glocal Social Work in the Era of Compressed Modernity	0
Book Review: Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy by Ian Greer, Charles Umney	0
Book Review: Kelly Bogue The Divisive State of Social Policy	0
Book Review: Hidden Voices Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space by Joe Whelan	0
Book Review: Neoliberal Securitisation and Symbolic Violence: Silencing Political, Academic and Social Resistance by Masoud Kamali	0
Book Review: Richard House Pushing Back to Ofsted: Safeguarding and the Legitimacy of Ofsted’s Inspection Judgments – A Critical Case Study	0
Call for Themed Issue Proposals	0
Book Review: Uncovering Food Poverty in Ireland: A Hidden Deprivation by Michael Drew	0
Book Review: Making a Mindful Nation: Mental Health and Governance in the Twenty-first Century by Joanna Cook	0
Book Review: End of Social Work – A Defence of the Social Worker in Times of Transformation by Steve Burghardt	0
Bordering social reproduction: The welfare/immigration regimes of Quebec and Ontario in Canada	0
Book Review: Hakim Adi (ed.) Black British History: New Perspectives	0
Visibilising the climate in social policies in Barcelona: Connections in the urban context	0
Book Review: Working Across Difference: Social Work, Social Policy and Social Justice by Donna Baines, Bindi Bennett, Susan Goodwin and Margot Rawsthorne	0
Intersex equality, diversity and inclusion and social policy: Silences, absences, and erasures in Ireland and the UK	0
Book Review: The Marketisation of Welfare to Work in Ireland: Governing Activation at the Street Level by Michael McGann	0
Government through clanship: Governing Ethiopia’s Somali pastoralists through a community-based social protection programme	0
Book Review: A Political History of Child Protection: Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand by Ian Kelvin Hyslop	0
Book Review: Agents of Reform. Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State by Elisabeth Anderson	0
Book Review: Ashley J. Bohrer Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism	0
The multiple and competing functions of local reviews of serious child abuse cases in England	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
Book Review: The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies by Elizabeth Kiely and Katharina Swirak	0
Book Review: Lucy Mayblin Impoverishment and Asylum: Social Policy as Slow Violence	0
Living activist struggles to end social injustice	0
Book Review: Social Work's Histories of Complicity and Resistance: A Tale of Two Professions by Vasilios Ioakimidis and Aaron Wyllie (eds)	0
Book Review: Olivier de Sardan, Jean-Pierre and Emmanuelle Piccoli (eds) Cash Transfers in Context: An Anthropological Perspective	0
Book Review: Steve Rogowski Social Work: The Rise and Fall of a Profession?	0
Book Review: Thinking Collectively. Social Policy, Collective Action and the Common Good by Paul Spicker	0
Book Review: Jackie Gulland Gender, Work and Social Control: A Century of Disability Benefits	0
Book Review: Three Roads to the Welfare State by Bryan Fanning	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
Book Review: Michael Lavalette (ed.) What is the Future of Social Work?	0
Book Review:Errors and Mistakes in Child Protection: International Discourses, Approaches and Strategiesby Kay Biesel, Judith Masson, Nigel Parton and Tarja Poso	0
Book Review: Africentric Social Work by Delores V. Mullings, Jennifer Clarke, Wanda Thomas Bernard, David Este and Sulaimon Giwa	0
Diminishing returns of growth? Economic performance, needs satisfaction and ecological impacts of OECD welfare states	0
Book Review: Claire Cameron and Peter Moss (eds) Transforming Early Childhood in England: Towards a democratic education	0
Risks and representations: Creating consensus narratives about risk with pregnant women involved with child protection systems in Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland	0
Governing resettlement: Interrogating tensions and contradictions around age, vulnerability, and integrate-ability in the Irish context	0

Book Review: Global Domestic Workers: Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights by Sabrina Marchetti, Daniela Cherubini and Giulia Garofano Geymonat	0
Adequate for whom? Reflections on the right to adequate housing from fieldwork on Roma inclusion in Italy	0
Book Review: Petr Urban and Lizzie Ward (eds.) Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State	0
Book Review: Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by Andreas Bieler	0
Book Review: Childcare Provision in Neoliberal Times: The marketization of Care by Aisling Gallagher	0
Book Review: Louise Haagh The Case for Universal Basic Income	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
Books Review: Ruha Benjamin Race After Technology: Abolition Tools for a New Jim Code	0
‘It's not really Michael who wears me out, it's the system’: The hidden work of coordinating care for a disabled child	0
Environmental racism, segregation and discrimination: Gypsy and Traveller sites in Great Britain	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: Care and Capitalism by Kathleen Lynch	0
Book Review: Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain by Maddy Power	0
A cure-all for energy poverty? Thinking critically about energy advice	0
Multiple barriers to the Dutch welfare state. Black Feminists’ intersectional claims to social citizenship in the 1980s	0
Care theft: Family impacts of employer control in Australia's retail industry	0
Book Review: Refiguring Childhood: Encounters with Biosocial Power by Kevin Ryan	0
Book Review: Women, Precarious Work and Care: The Failure of Family-Friendly, Rights by Emily Grabham	0
Book Review: Nancy Whittier Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence	0
Book Review: Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum by Jonathan Darling	0
Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies	0
Book Review: Social Work with the Black African Diaspora by Washington Marovatsanga and Paul Michael Garrett	0
Book Review: Uncertain Citizenship: Life in the Waiting Room by Anne-Marie Fortier	0
Book Review: The Next Welfare State? UK Welfare After COVID-19 by Christopher Pierson	0
Book Review: Hard White: The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics by Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram	0
Book Review: Ray Jones A History of the Personal Social Services in England: Feast, Famine and the Future	0
Book Review: Magnus Paulsen Hansen The Moral Economy of Activation: Ideas, Politics and Policies	0
Book Review: Chiara Saraceno, David Benassi and Enrica Morlicchio Poverty in Italy: Features and Drivers in a European Perspective	0
Book Review: Tanja Kleibl, Ronald Lutz, Ndangwa Noyoo, Benjamin Bunk, Annika Dittmann, Boitumelo Seepamore (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Social Work	0
The impact of policy change on prisoner resettlement and community integration: A case of disproportionate response	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
Eviscerating equality: Normative whiteness and Conservative equality policy	0
CSP Publishes virtual themed issue on Racism and Anti-Racism	0
Book Review: Engaging with Social Work: A Critical Introduction by Christine Morley, Phillip Ablett and Selma Macfarlane	0
Book Review: Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness by Shona Hunter and Christi van der Westhuizen (eds)	0
Female dependents, individual customers and promiscuous digital personas: The multiple governing of women through the Australian social security couple rule	0
Can mandatory work in activation programmes be meaningful work?	0
Book Review: Gurnham Singh and Shepard Masocha (ed.) Anti-Racist Social Work: International Perspectives	0
Book Review: Participatory Ideology: From Exclusion to Involvement by Peter Beresford	0
Book Review: The Case for a Four Day Week by Anna Coote, Aidan Harper and Alfie Stirling	0
Book Review: Fiona Bloomer, Claire Pierson and Sylvia Estrada Claudio Reimagining Global Abortion Politics: A Social Justice Perspective	0
Book Review: On Burnley Road: Class, Race and Politics in a Northern English Town by Mike Makin-Waite	0
A constant threat? A narrative exploration of the relationship between benefit receipt, mental distress and the threat of homelessness	0
Facing the folk devils of modern slavery policy	0
Book Review: Welfare and Punishment: From Thatcherism to Austerity by Ian Cummins	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: Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health Services by Rich Moth	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: Peter Dwyer (ed.) Dealing with Welfare Conditionality: Implementation and Effects	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: Social Policy: A Critical and Intersectional Analysis by Fiona Williams	0