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Intro -- Foreword -- List of Contributors -- 1: Introduction -- The structure of the book -- Reflective Questions -- References -- 2: 'Race', Racism and Resistance: Theory and Politics -- Introduction -- Theorising 'race': some words of caution -- Origins and evolution of 'race' thinking -- The scriptural phase: sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The scientific phase: eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- End of scientific racism -- Sociological phase: late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Mid to late twentieth century -- The race relations model -- Conflict approaches -- Black perspectives -- Black feminist perspectives -- Conclusion -- Reflective Questions -- References -- 3: (Re)imagining New Spaces for Anti-Racist Social Work: Policy Deliberation as Practice -- Introduction -- Anti-racist advocacy and neoliberal politics -- The refugee crisis: a contextual background -- Political discourse as practical argumentation -- The case study -- Delineating the structure of practical argumentation -- Interpretative repertoires and the (de)legitimation of policy measures -- Using our head and heart -- Implications for anti-racist social work -- Conclusion -- Reflective Questions -- References -- 4: Popular Social Work in the West Bank - Insights for an Internationalist Anti-Racist Social Work -- Introduction -- Popular social work -- Popular social work in Palestine -- The voice of Palestinian 'popular' social workers -- Rediscovery/recovery -- Self-determination and social justice -- Dreaming -- Commitment -- Action -- Conclusion -- Reflective Questions -- References -- 5: Reflections on the Development, Ideology and Practice of Anti-Racist Social Work in Greece -- Introduction -- Greek nationalism, racism and the mainstream ideology of social work.

This article addresses the complex dynamics surrounding unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UK. While states are legally bound to provide refuge under such treaties as the 1951 Refugee Convention, political considerations often lead to the implementation of social control mechanisms that may compromise the rights and dignity of displaced individuals. The most recent restrictive immigration legislation, which raises concerns about potential violations of the Refugee Convention, represents the latest in a long line from successive governments to reduce the number of people seeking asylum in the UK. Against this backdrop, drawing on original empirical research, this article offers insights into the unique challenges faced by social workers operating at the immigration–welfare nexus. Focusing on conflicts between control-orientated and welfare-driven practices, the article uncovers how social work is practised within this context. The binary distinctions between control-orientated or welfare-driven practitioners are unhelpful and unrealistic, with the reality much more complex.

Policy discourse around 'community cohesion' has displaced liberal multiculturalist and anti-racist approaches with a much narrower focus on the promotion of 'British values' and, for minority communities, through a 'faith' agenda. We argue that these developments derive from the predominance of the doctrine of communitarianism within the contemporary policy terrain, influencing both New Labour and the Conservatives. The convergence of this with neoliberal social and economic imperatives has created a discourse of 'conditional citizenship' for Muslim communities particularly. There is a major policy contradiction where faith based approaches are promoted on one hand, but, in the context of transnational Islamist terror, lead to whole Muslim communities being pathologised as 'insufficiently British' on the other. We discuss the 'Trojan Horse schools' affair in Birmingham in 2014 as an example of this. We conclude in calling for an urgent refocussing of the debate toward secular approaches in policy, alongside looking at the specific economic and social conditions that we argue are the root cause of breakdowns in community cohesion.

Marx and Engels (1848) in the Manifesto of the Communist Party explained how the drive towards the commodification of human society could be seen essentially as a manifestation of the territorial expansion of capitalist relations. While this expansion continues apace, this article argues that the contemporary period, often referred to as neoliberalism, can be characterised in terms of the intensification of those very same capitalist social relations. In the context of the rolling back of the gains from the post-war Keynesian period and most significantly the welfare state, this uniquely involves the reconstruction of human subjectivity, which, it is argued, threatens the very foundations of progressive social work. This article offer a critical look at the deployment of terms such as 'empowerment' and 'resilience' in policy discourses and the way these are being used to pathologise service users and to reconstruct the relationship between the state and citizenry in this period.