Social work with unaccompanied asylum seeking children /
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| Author / Creator: | Kohli, Ravi K. S. |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. |
| Description: | xxi, 240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6246142 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Unaccompanied asylum seeking children
- Defining 'unaccompanied'
- The historical context
- The demographic context
- The UK policy context
- Resettlement: theoretical and research contexts
- Summary
- 2. The meaning of resettlement for unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people
- Why leave?
- War and vulnerability
- Resilience and overcoming the odds
- Silence that is protective and risky
- Summary
- 3. Social work with unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people
- What should be done? Guidance in relation to unaccompanied minors
- What is (or is not) being done? The evaluation of care for unaccompanied minors
- Health
- Education
- Immigration
- Social work - direct practice with unaccompanied minors
- Summarising the literature
- 4. The social workers, their backgrounds and their work contexts
- The teams
- The social workers: personal characteristics
- The social workers: professional characteristics
- Summary
- 5. The unaccompanied minors and their circumstances
- Basic characteristics
- Histories: ordinary lives and fragmenting events
- Searching for resettlement
- Resettlement on the outside: calling somewhere home
- Resettlement on the inside: health, education and behaviour
- Resettlement as an ordinary life in the future: balancing 'outer' and 'inner' worlds
- Summary
- 6. Social work practice with unaccompanied asylum seekers
- The domains of practice conceptualised
- The relationship between the social worker and the young person
- The issue of trust
- The domain of cohesion: the Humanitarians in action
- The domain of connection: the Witnesses at work
- The domain of coherence: the Confederates as companions
- Summary
- 7. Conclusions
- Locating social work with unaccompanied minors in context
- The unaccompanied minors and their lives
- The social workers and their practice
- References
- Index
