Transnational Social Support

Herausgeber: Chambon, Adrienne; Schweppe, Cornelia; Schröer, Wolfgang

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the context of ever-increasing globalization, transnational systems of support have emerged in response to the needs of transnational families, labour forces, and the communities within which they are located. This volume will be the first to systematically address transnational support research from a theoretical and empirical perspective, making the concept of transnationality part of the core knowledge structure of social work.

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With ever-increasing globalization, the challenges that social support will face in the future can no longer be addressed solely within national contexts. As a variety of studies implicitly shows, transnationalism is associated with specific and manifold forms of social support. Yet research that systematically locates transnational social support at the center of analysis is just at its beginning. This publication addresses transnational social support from both a theoretical and an empirical research perspective. Its overall aim is to contribute to the introduction of a transnational perspective in the academic discipline and professional field of social work. Transnational approaches can extend and transform the conventional nationally-bounded approaches to both knowledge and practice. The aim is to incorporate a transnational dimension in the very knowledge structure of social work. Gathering together authors from around the world, this text offers perspectives for social work theory and practice that transcend nation states.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9780415888769
• ISBN-10: 041588876X
• Artikelnr.: 31385627

Autorenporträt

Adrienne Chambon is a Professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. Wolfgang Schröer is a Professor in the Institute for Socialpedagogic and Organisation Studies at the University of Hildesheim. Cornelia Schweppe is a Professor in the Department of Social Work at Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Adrienne Chambon, Wolfgang Schröer and Cornelia Schweppe
Part 1: Transnational Social Policy 2. Transnational Social Policy and
Migration Ernie Lightman 3. Social Policy in a Transnational World: The
Capability Approach, Neediness, and Social Work Lothar Böhnisch and
Wolfgang Schröer Part 2: Transnational Social Support and Transnational
Organizations 4. Development Cooperation as a Field of Transnational
Learning Kay E. Ehlers and Stephan Wolff 5. New Religious Movements as
Transnational Providers of Social Support: The Case of Sukyo Mahikari
Wendy Smith Part 3: Transnational Family Care 6. Negotiating Double Binds
of In-Between: A Gendered Perspective of Formal and Informal Social
Supports in Transnationality Luann Good Gingrich 7. Sisters in Struggle?
Wars Between Daughter-in-Law and Migrant Worker Frank T.Y. Wang Part 4:
Transnational Social Support and Biography 8. Migration Biographies and
Transnational Social Support: Transnational Family Care and the Search for
"Homelandmen" Désirée Bender, Tina Hollstein, Lena Huber and Cornelia
Schweppe 9. Transnational Biographies: The Delimitation of Motherhood
Elisabeth Tuider Part 5: Transnational Social Support: Unintended
Consequences and Future Challenges 10. The Missing Presence of Aboriginal
Peoples from the Transnational Debate Adrienne Chambon and Arielle Dylan
11. Paradoxes of Transnational Knowledge Production in Social Work Stefan
Köngeter