This thought-provoking and controversial collection tackles a subject of urgent international concern – migration, immigration and social policy. Presents forthright yet realistic analyses of key issu
The politics and practice of social research nowadays amount more to a form of business activity, than to a scholarly pursuit. This collection of specially commissioned papers offers an unrivalled int
Via a mutual concern with social exclusion, the agendas of criminology and social policy have begun to overlap far more in recent years. The two fields have always shared a common concern with class,
In today's shrinking world of globalised economic activity and planet-level ecological anxiety, social policy can no longer expect or afford to remain solely within the province of the nation state or
Wishing to encourage comparative studies and especially to bring together Chinese and U.K.-based investigators of social policy, the editor presents 20 essays from an October 2001 conference devoted t
