Social Policy category: 9249 books
Young People and Social Policy in Europe
Dealing with Risk, Inequality and Precarity in Times of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
This edited collection provides the first in-depth analysis of social policies and the risks faced by young people. The book explores the effects of both the economic crisis and austerity policies on the lives of young Europeans, examining both the precarity of youth transitions, and the function of welfare state policies.
Neoliberal Urban Policy and the Transformation of the City
Reshaping Dublin
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This book reviews the character and impacts of 'actually-existing' neoliberalism in Ireland. It examines the property-development boom and its legacy, the impacts of neoliberal urban policy in reshaping the city, public resistance to the new urban policy and highlights salient points to be drawn from the Irish experience of neoliberalism.
by B. Vollmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Migration expert Bastian Vollmer explores the contentious issue of irregular migration in the highly-charged contexts of Germany and the UK. Through policy and discourse analysis the author explains why, despite the differing contexts and migration histories, German and British policy responses to the issue are now on a convergent path.
The Politics of Immigration
Partisanship, Demographic Change, and American National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Immigration has been deeply woven into the fabric of American nation building since the founding of the Republic. Indeed, immigrants have played an integral role in American history, but they are also intricately tied to America's present and will feature prominently in America's future. Immigration...
Families in Asia
Home and Kin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Families in Asia provides a unique sociological analysis of family trends in Asia.
Stella R. Quah uses demographic and survey data, personal interviews and case studies from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam to provide...
Adoption in Japan
Comparing Policies for Children in Need
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006
The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies of adoption agencies in Japan. The book places special adoption in the context of a liberal reformist agenda that has challenged traditional concepts...
Growing Green
The Economic Benefits of Climate Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Pollution from fossil fuels and degraded natural lands are raising the earth’s temperature. The evidence of the causes of global warming is clear, as are its consequences. The economic impacts of climate change are already apparent and they threaten development gains. Extreme weather events have...
The Chinese State's Retreat from Health
Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Over the post-Mao period, the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs of ill health. Using an analytical framework drawn from studies of state retrenchment in industrialized democracies and in post-communist Eastern Europe,...
Wanted and Welcome?
Policies for Highly Skilled Immigrants in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This book considers the origins, performance and diffusion of national immigration policies targeting highly skilled immigrants. Unlike asylum seekers and immigrants admitted under family reunification streams, highly skilled immigrants are typically cast as “wanted and welcome” as a consequence...
The Return of Ordinary Capitalism
Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the early seventies, in a capitalist economy, social welfare policies alternatingly serve political and economic ends as circumstances dictate. In moments of political stability, governments emphasize a capitalistic work ethic (even if it means working...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
This authoritative and comprehensive edited volume presents current research on how demography can contribute to generating scientific knowledge and evidence concerning refugees and forced migration, developing evidence based policy recommendations on protection for forced migrants and reception of...
Racism, Governance, and Public Policy
Beyond Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
This book presents a new framing of policy debates on the question of racism through a discursive critique of contemporary issues and contexts, drawing on a program of new European research carried out between 2010 and 2013, with a central focus on the UK. This includes analysis of the discursive...
The U.S. Drug Policy Landscape
Insights and Opportunities for Improving the View
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Discussions about reducing the harms associated with drug use and antidrug policies are often politicized, infused with questionable data, and unproductive. This paper provides a nonpartisan primer on drug use and drug policy in the United States. It aims to bring those new to drug policy up to speed...
Climate Change
IPCC, Water Crisis, and Policy Riddles with Reference to India and Her Surroundings
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Notwithstanding denials by climate-skeptics, the global scientific community considers the world environment is rapidly worsening. They argue that failure to adopt measures to reduce CO2 gas emission in the atmosphere could lead to disastrous social-economic, politico-security and environmental consequences....