Product Description: Although being linked to the nation state project, the social work professions in Europe always strove to internationalize and universalize their discourses. This book explores historically and comparatively the dynamic interchange between state social policies, civil society movements, and academic discourses in Europe that account for the puzzling diversity of this professional field...read more

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Product Description: The studies in this work attempt to show that racism in the UK and throughout Europe is so pervasive that there is a continual need to face the danger of educational and cultural services operating for purposes of exclusion and with a hidden agenda of national of cultural purity...read more

Product Description: The process of European integration confronts social work with issues which have lain dormant since the early days of the profession: What role has social work played in the bringing about of national (and now European) cohesion? Is the agenda dictated by economic and political interests, or can the citizens of Europe control the process without resorting to divisive nationalism? Now, more than ever, social workers have to examine their historic origins, their diverse knowledge base and their place in the welfare community to establish their identity within the future Europe...read more