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Social work with unaccompanied asylum seeking children / Ravi K.S. Kohli.
LIBRA HV4013.G7 K65 2007
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Van Pelt Library HV4013.G7 K65 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kohli, Ravi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social work with immigrants--Great Britain.
- Social work with immigrants.
- Refugee children--Services for--Great Britain.
- Refugee children.
- Social work with children--Great Britain.
- Social work with children.
- Refugee children--Services for.
- Great Britain.
- Social work with youth--Great Britain.
- Social work with youth.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Contents:
- 1 Unaccompanied asylum seeking children 1
- Defining 'unaccompanied' 3
- The historical context 6
- The demographic context 9
- The UK policy context 13
- Resettlement: theoretical and research contexts 15
- 2 The meaning of resettlement for unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people 27
- Why leave? 29
- War and vulnerability 34
- Resilience and overcoming the odds 38
- Silence that is protective and risky 43
- 3 Social work with unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people 47
- What should be done? Guidance in relation to unaccompanied minors 48
- What is (or is not) being done? The evaluation of care for unaccompanied minors 52
- Health 55
- Education 56
- Immigration 57
- Social work - direct practice with unaccompanied minors 59
- Summarising the literature 69
- 4 The social workers, their backgrounds and their work contexts 75
- The teams 75
- The social workers: personal characteristics 77
- The social workers: professional characteristics 84
- 5 The unaccompanied minors and their circumstances 100
- Basic characteristics 101
- Histories: ordinary lives and fragmenting events 105
- Searching for resettlement 114
- Resettlement on the outside: calling somewhere home 122
- Resettlement on the inside: health, education and behaviour 132
- Resettlement as an ordinary life in the future: balancing 'outer' and 'inner' worlds 142
- 6 Social work practice with unaccompanied asylum seekers 154
- The domains of practice conceptualised 155
- The relationship between the social worker and the young person 159
- The issue of trust 160
- The domain of cohesion: the Humanitarians in action 163
- The domain of connection: the Witnesses at work 178
- The domain of coherence: the Confederates as companions 189
- Locating social work with unaccompanied minors in context 209
- The unaccompanied minors and their lives 210
- The social workers and their practice 213.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781403989659
- 1403989656
- 9781403989666
- 1403989664
- OCLC:
- 72799978
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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