Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Migration

Sofia Dedotsi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Work at the University of West Attica, in Athens, Greece.Elena Cabiati is a registered social worker and Full Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (campuses of Milano and Brescia), Italy.Emilio José Gómez-Ciriano is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Work at Castilla-la Mancha University, Spain.

• 1.Introduction. Part I – More Than One Theory for Social Work and Migration: A Critical Overview. 2.(Anti-)oppressive practice with migration – A conceptual analysis for social work. 3.Critical Social Work Ethics and Intersectionality: Considerations for Working with People from Refugee Backgrounds. 4.From deportability to grievability: A theoretical perspective on the intersections of social work and migration. 5.Social work discourses around the concept of ‘culture’. 6.Beyond ‘commonsense’: Theorising social work and migration. 7.The transition towards superdiversity challenges social work. Part II – Working with Migrants: Social Work Practice and Experiences. 8.Bridging borders: The transformation of border and asylum policies and the impact on social work practice. 9.Rites of passage: Emotional and geographic journeys of refugees from their home in Africa to Northern Italy. 10.“We are all together” Social work and internal displacement within complex emergencies: Practitioners’ perspectives on practice in Northwest Syria. 11.Unaccompanied minors on the move: Trauma-informed approaches and the healing power of storytelling in social work practices. 12.Unaccompanied minors in Mexico: Between support and institutional violence. Perspectives from social work practice. 13.Transnational social work on the brink of practice and politics: Supporting family reunification of refugee families. 14.Social work practice with forced migrants: Trauma-informed resilience perspective. 15.The promise and challenges of anti-oppressive social work with young people from refugee backgrounds. 16.Rights-based social work with unaccompanied children and young people: Tensions and opportunities. 17.Women with a migrant background facing intimate partner violence (IPV): Implications for social work from an intersectional perspective. 18.Integration challenges for highly educated women migrants: Impacts on professional identity and social work. 19.Critical and radical voices from the frontline: Advocacy and collective action in social work on migration amidst crises in Greece. Part III - Teaching and Learning About Migration: The Role of Social Work Education. 20.(De-) colonial perspectives on migration in social work education. 21.Educating social workers for anti-racist practice with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC). 22.Homesick for mobility: A pedagogical invitation for critical social work to relationally engage indigenous and migrant justice. 23.On maps, lanterns, food and compasses: Human rights and migration in social work education. 24.The transformative power of an integration journey in social work education: A case study on cooperation with an expert by experience with migration background. Part IV – Social Work Research and Migration: Ethics and Methodological Challenges. 25.Decolonial perspectives for epistemic justice: challenges for social work research. 26.Are procedural ethics enough?: Pursuing ethical social work research with refugee and forced migrant populations. 27.Navigating ethical complexities in research with people of refugee background: Care, time, and reflexivity as key considerations. 28.Art-based research with unaccompanied migrant children. 29.Ethnography of migrations from social work: Approaches from Mexico. 30.Epilogue.Sofia Dedotsi, Elena Cabiati and Emilio José Gómez-Ciriano