Critical Social Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Critical Social Policy is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Building power from below: Dispatches and lessons from movement building in a postindustrial city in Northern New Jersey in the United States36
Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: The development of adult social care policy in Wales22
Book Review: The Marketisation of Welfare to Work in Ireland: Governing Activation at the Street Level by Michael McGann18
The multiple and competing functions of local reviews of serious child abuse cases in England18
Book Review: Neoliberal Securitisation and Symbolic Violence: Silencing Political, Academic and Social Resistance by Masoud Kamali13
Banishment12
Book Review: Somo Sisters Tapestry: A Tale of Cultural Change, Shocks and Life in the UK by 12 Women by WODIN, with an introduction by Julie Sylvia Kalun11
Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality11
Hegemony and settler colonial subjectivities: The censure of the Israeli Union of Social Workers (IUSW) by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)11
Book Review: The Next Welfare State? UK Welfare After COVID-19 by Christopher Pierson11
Engineering the filial self. Negotiating the moral construction of filial piety at different government levels in China10
Book Review: A Political History of Child Protection: Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand by Ian Kelvin Hyslop10
Book Review: Substances, Welfare and Social Relations: Breaking Stigma, Pursuing Hope by Amber Gazso8
Can a ‘structural competency’ approach improve the safeguarding of diverse marginalised communities from exploitation?8
Countering marginalisation through ‘cooperative democracy’: The case of worker co-ops in Japan8
The (un)just transition in ecomodernist climate policy: Critical analysis of social inequities in the US Inflation Reduction Act8
Government through clanship: Governing Ethiopia’s Somali pastoralists through a community-based social protection programme8
Book Review: Care and Capitalism by Kathleen Lynch7
Book Review: Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health Services by Rich Moth7
Social solidarity and deservingness6
Net-widening, gap-filling, and shortcut justice: The practice of Community Protection Notices to regulate anti-social behaviour6
Book Review: Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risk and Harms by Carlene Firmin, Michelle Lefevre, Nathalie 6
The absence of anger: ‘Lived experience’, emotions, and framing techniques in UK anti-poverty work6
Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration6
Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies5
Teaching social policy as if students matter: Decolonizing the curriculum and perpetuating epistemic injustice5
Standing on the frontline: Exploring representational work for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Norway5
De-bordering and re-bordering practices at the intersection of gender and migration. A multi-site exploration of specialized services for migrant women experiencing violence in Italy and Sweden5
Book Review: Women, Welfare and Productivism in East Asia and Europe by Ruby CM Chau and Sam WK Yu5
Risks and representations: Creating consensus narratives about risk with pregnant women involved with child protection systems in Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland5
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention, Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons by Michelle Peterie5
Book Review: Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by Andreas Bieler5
Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand4
Book Review: The Invention of the ‘Underclass’: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge by Loïc Wacquant4
We need to talk about necessitous economic migrants: Disrupting ‘legitimacy’ in UK migration discourse4
What the Dutch benefits scandal and policy's focus on ‘fraud’ can teach us about the endurance of empire4
Book Review: The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies by Elizabeth Kiely and Katharina Swirak3
Attacking transnationalism and citizenship: British Bangladeshis, family migration, and the postcolonial state3
Understanding the interplay of financial change, debt, and lone parenthood in the UK: A secondary mixed methods analysis3
Book Review: Dissenting Social Work: Critical Theory, Resistance and Pandemic by Paul Michael Garrett3
Book Review: It’s Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate by John Bissett3
Migrant women becoming ‘stronger together’ through the arts: Creating Ground3
Book Review: Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain by Maddy Power3
Is digitalisation of public health and social welfare services reinforcing social exclusion? The case of Russian-speaking older migrants in Finland2
A constant threat? A narrative exploration of the relationship between benefit receipt, mental distress and the threat of homelessness2
Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy2
Claiming reproductive citizenship through interactive need interpretation: The case of temporary labour migrant women in Japan2
Book Review: Social Work with the Black African Diaspora by Washington Marovatsanga and Paul Michael Garrett2
Distanciation as a technology of control in the UK hostile environment2
Student antiracist activism and institutionalised equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in UK universities2
Who deserves exceptions in times of crisis? A comparison of policy responses to mitigate negative consequences for unemployed people and immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Red flags! Parents’ perspectives on data led policy and practice in family intervention2
Book Review: Academic Women: Voicing Narratives of Gendered Experiences by Michelle Ronksley-Pavia, Michelle M. Neumann, Jane F. Manakil and Kelly Pickar2
Co-production in syringe service programs: Implementation in a changing organisational field2
Living Activism - Critical Social Policy introduction2
Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people: The legacy of common health problems and the future for long COVID2
Depoliticising race: A critical policy analysis of the UK's CRED 2021 report2
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