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  • Social Work, Young Migrants and the Act of Listening

    Becoming an Unaccompanied Child

    by Marcus Herz, Philip Lalander ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    This book is about 20 young unaccompanied refugees who have sought refuge in Europe and how they experience and try to navigate their new situations, including their contacts with social workers, friends and family members left behind.The book contains stories of powerlessness and frustration from being held under suspicion, from meeting authorities and abstract people of power from "the system," ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Hooked on Heroin

    Drugs and Drifters in a Globalized World

    by Philip Lalander ...
    Alarmingly, heroin is growing in popularity amongst young people. This is despite the fact that it is - more than any other drug - associated with failure, death, misery and poverty. This book explores why people are tempted by heroin and how globalization has played a key role in increasing the number of abusers. Rather than offer lofty and abstract theories on addiction, the author grounds his ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Hope and Asylum

    Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change

    by Torun Elsrud, Philip Lalander, Jesper Andreasson, Marcus Herz ...
    Series series Studies in Migration and Diaspora
    This book applies perspectives of hope to understand the precariousness, suffering, and agency of people seeking asylum. With attention to the restrictions and austerity politics that have characterised public policy following the significant rise in asylum applications in 2015, it draws on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in the Swedish asylum context, together with data collected in other ... Read more

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  • Regretting Motherhood

    A Study

    by Orna Donath ...
    A provocative and deeply important study of women’s lives, women’s choices—and an ‘unspoken taboo’—that questions the societal pressures forcing women into motherhoodWomen who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • New Social Mobility

    Second Generation Pioneers in Europe

    Edited by Jens Schneider, Maurice Crul, Andreas Pott ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into high-prestige professions. The biographies were collected and analysed by a consortium of researchers ... Read more

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  • Community as Urban Practice

    by Talja Blokland ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme.Blokland argues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, social ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Outsiders

    by Howard S. Becker ...
    One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the mid-20th century, Howard S. Becker’s Outsiders is a thorough exploration of social deviance and how it can be addressed in an understanding and helpful manner.A compulsively readable and thoroughly researched exploration of social deviance and the application of what is known as "labeling theory" to the studies of deviance. With particular ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice

    An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics

    by Ingrid Piller ...
    Understanding and addressing linguistic disadvantage must be a central facet of the social justice agenda of our time. This book explores the ways in which linguistic diversity mediates social justice in liberal democracies undergoing rapid change due to high levels of migration and economic globalization. Focusing on the linguistic dimensions of economic inequality, cultural domination and ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • My Daughter's Addiction-A Thief in the Family (Hardwired for Heroin)

    by Marie Minnich ...
    A gripping and compelling story of one mothers journey raising her heroin addicted daughter.On the night of August 22, 2009, her beloved 32-year old daughter died from heroin overdose.Despite all the sorrow, this story is neither gloomy nor depressing, but rather an unflinching account of one woman's life, and her daughter whom she did not abandon to the bitter end. ... Read more

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  • Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe

    Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging

    Edited by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, Mia Liinason ...
    Interdisciplinary in perspective, this book explores contemporary struggles around ‘identity politics’ in Europe, offering a unique glimpse into contemporary tensions and paradoxes surrounding identities, belonging, exclusions and their deep-seated gendered, colonial and racist legacies. With a particular focus on the Nordic region, it provides insights into the ways in which people who find ... Read more

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  • Renegade Dreams

    Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago

    by Laurence Ralph ...
    An ethnographic study of the residents of a violent West Chicago neighborhood and how they cope from day to day.As with war, much of our focus on inner-city violence is on the death toll, but the reality is that far more victims live to see another day and must copy with their injuries—both physical and psychological—for the rest of their lives. Renegade Dreams is their story. Walking the streets ... Read more

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  • Refugees and Knowledge Production

    Europe's Past and Present

    Edited by Magdalena Kmak, Heta Björklund ...
    Building on research within the fields of exile studies and critical migration studies and drawing links between historical and contemporary ‘refugee scholarship’, this volume challenges the bias of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism in discussing the multifaceted forms of knowledge emerging in the context of migration and mobility. With critical attention to the meaning, production and ... Read more

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