Building Social Work Politics in Europe

Katrin Toens, Prof. Dr. habil., studied political science at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and at Fordham University in New York City, USA. After obtaining her doctorate in 1999 with a thesis on workfare reforms in the USA and in Germany, she assisted at the German Foundation of International Development in Berlin. In 2002 she continued her academic career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Hamburg, Department of Political Science. In 2012 she received a post-doctoral degree ("Habilitation"). Since 2011 she works as a Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Freiburg, Germany, where she is head of the Master’s Degree Program in Social Work. Her teaching and research include social work relevant topics of policy analysis, European integration, and the politics of interest representation. Günter Rieger, Prof. Dr., is a qualified social worker (Dipl. Soz. päd. (BA)) with many years of experience in the fields of probation, case work with criminal offenders and persons with mental health problems. He is also a qualified political scientist (MA and PhD) with a specialization in welfare policy. After completing his PhD in 1998, he took up the post of Professor of Social Work and Politics at Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in Stuttgart, Germany (formerly Berufsakademie Stuttgart) in 1999. From 2008 to 2015, he was Dean of the Faculty of Social Work, and since 2008, he has been Head of the Department of Forensic Social Work. He has published books and many articles in the field of social work policy and politics.

• Part I. Theoretical Framework.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Building Social Work Politics in Europe.- Chapter 2. Building Social Work Politics: Towards a Theoretical Framework.- Chapter 3. Civil society networks of social work in the Council of Europe and the EU - Organizational structures and political interest representation .- Part II. European Social Work Policy.- Chapter 4. Housing First in Europe: A Solution for Combating Women’s Homelessness? .- Chapter 5. Social lobbying and advocacy work of German non-statutory welfare organizations within the frame-work of the European Social Fund: Strengthening the “S” in the ESF.- Chapter 6. Social work in front of a closed emergency room:Europe urgently needs a ratio therapy, but can't get a therapy in place until 2032 at the earliest?.- Chapter 7. Regulating Prostitution in Europe from a Social Work Perspective.- Part III. Actors and Institutional Environments of European Social Work Politics.- Chapter 8. How does the International Federation of Social Workers represent the interests of social workers in the EU?.- Chapter 9. Building European Anti-poverty policy from the bottom up: The European Anti-Poverty Network  .- Chapter 10. Advocacy interest representation of Eurodiaconia.- Chapter 11. Advocacy and lobbying vis-à-vis the EU: the Example of the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe.- Chapter 12. Transnational activism for reproductive rights: Activists ensure safe abortions – the example of Poland.- Chapter 13. The European Court of Human Rights:Human Rights Protection by Way of a Living Instrument.- Chapter 14. The Human Rights Work of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT).- Part IV. Strengthening European Social Work Politics .- Chapter 15. The missing voice of social work in the Czech Republic.- Chapter 16. The voice of social workers in Italy: institutional consolidation, ability to influence policies and articulation of proposals.- Chapter 17. Consultation processes as an opportunity to participate for social work students using the European Pillar of Social Rights as an example.- Chapter 18. Working in EU Politics with a Social Work Background.