Social working without borders: challenging privatisation and complicity with the hostile environment
Authors
Wroe, LaurenAffiliation
University of BedfordshireIssue Date
2019-08-19Subjects
immigrationsocial work and asylum
social justice
Capita
privatisation
Social Workers Without Borders
refugees
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Social Workers Without Borders is a UK social work charity established in early 2016 to provide direct support to migrant children and families, and to scaffold this through the development of social work education and activism reflecting the principles of human rights and social justice. Reflecting on Social Workers Without Borders’ model of practice, Lauren Wroe, co-founder and trustee of Social Workers Without Borders, discusses the charity’s recent campaign against Capita and the implications of privatisation for asylum-seeking and migrant families, as well as for the ethical value base of the profession. Positioning Social Workers Without Borders as a voluntary network that ‘fills the gap’ in state services, the author discusses campaign strategies to defend the profession, and the families it supports, from the rolling back of state welfare and the rolling out of state hostility through the deregulated outsourcing of social care services.Citation
Wroe L (2019) 'Social working without borders: challenging privatisation and complicity with the hostile environment', Critical and Radical Social Work, 7 (2), pp.251-255.Publisher
Policy PressJournal
Critical and Radical Social WorkAdditional Links
https://doi.org/10.1332/204986019X15623302985278Type
ArticleLanguage
enISSN
2049-8608EISSN
2049-8675ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1332/204986019X15623302985278