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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Transnational Social Policy and Social Work: An Introduction -- PART I Sharing Knowledge: Setting the Policy Agenda -- 2 Surveilling and Surveying Slums: The Transnational Translation of the City as a Social Problem -- 3 'Good' Child Labour, 'Bad' Child Labour: Translating Global Policy in the Post-Soviet Context -- 4 Child Protection: Policy Translations -- PART II Beyond Transfer: Translating Policies and Shaping Welfare -- 5 Translocal Policy as Process: Bricolage and the 'Messy' World of Local Policymaking -- 6 The Traveling Idea of 'Clubhouse' from the West to the East -- 7 From 'Benefits Ladies' to 'Professionals': Polish Social Workers in the Context of Neoliberal Reform of Social Policy -- 8 Humanitarian Assistance, Refugee Management, and Self-Reliance Schemes: Nakivale Refugee Settlement -- PART III Lost in Translation: The Social Repercussions of Transnational Policy, and the Reinforcement of Global Inequality -- 9 Transnationalism and Secondary Schooling Policy in Ontario, Canada: Globalization, Privatization, and Competing Priorities -- 10 Tactical Borderwork: Central American Migrant Women Negotiating the Southern Border of Mexico -- 11 National Old-Age Care Regimes and the Emergence of Transnational Long-Term Care Arrangements for the Elderly -- 12 Transnational Social Responsibility: The Case of the Swedish Retirement Pension, 1913-2013 -- PART IV Conclusion -- 13 Social Exclusion and Social Welfare: Within, Across, and In-Between Nation-State Boundaries -- Index

This paper provides an in-depth description and case application of a conceptual model of social exclusion: aiming to advance existing knowledge on how to conceive of and identify this complex idea, evaluate the methodologies used to measure it, and reconsider what is understood about its social realities toward a meaningful and measurable conception of social inclusion. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's conceptual tools of social fields and systems of capital, our research posits and applies a theoretical framework that permits the measurement of social exclusion as dynamic, social, relational, and material. We begin with a brief review of existing social exclusion research literature, and specifically examine the difficulties and benefits inherent in quantitatively operationalizing a necessarily multifarious theoretical concept. We then introduce our conceptual model of social exclusion and inclusion, which is built on measurable constructs. Using our ongoing program of research as a case study, we briefly present our approach to the quantitative operationalization of social exclusion using secondary data analysis in the Canadian context. Through the development of an Economic Exclusion Index, we demonstrate how our statistical and theoretical analyses evidence intersecting processes of social exclusion which produce consequential gaps and uneven trajectories for migrant individuals and groups compared with Canadian-born, and racial minority groups versus white individuals. To conclude, we consider some methodological implications to advance the empirical measurement of social inclusion.