OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Social Policy is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Building power from below: Dispatches and lessons from movement building in a postindustrial city in Northern New Jersey in the United States	33
Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: The development of adult social care policy in Wales	22
The multiple and competing functions of local reviews of serious child abuse cases in England	18
Book Review: The Marketisation of Welfare to Work in Ireland: Governing Activation at the Street Level by Michael McGann	18
COVID-19 and (mis)understanding public attitudes to social security: Re-setting debate	13
Banishment	11
Book Review: The Next Welfare State? UK Welfare After COVID-19 by Christopher Pierson	11
Book Review: Neoliberal Securitisation and Symbolic Violence: Silencing Political, Academic and Social Resistance by Masoud Kamali	11
Book Review: Agents of Reform. Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State by Elisabeth Anderson	11
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 Kalun	10
Hegemony and settler colonial subjectivities: The censure of the Israeli Union of Social Workers (IUSW) by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)	10
Book Review: Substances, Welfare and Social Relations: Breaking Stigma, Pursuing Hope by Amber Gazso	9
Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality	8
Engineering the filial self. Negotiating the moral construction of filial piety at different government levels in China	8
Book Review: A Political History of Child Protection: Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand by Ian Kelvin Hyslop	8
Countering marginalisation through ‘cooperative democracy’: The case of worker co-ops in Japan	7
Book Review: Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health Services by Rich Moth	7
Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration	6
Social solidarity and deservingness	6
Standing on the frontline: Exploring representational work for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Norway	6
The (un)just transition in ecomodernist climate policy: Critical analysis of social inequities in the US Inflation Reduction Act	6
Book Review: Care and Capitalism by Kathleen Lynch	6
Book Review: Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risk and Harms by Carlene Firmin, Michelle Lefevre, Nathalie	6
Can a ‘structural competency’ approach improve the safeguarding of diverse marginalised communities from exploitation?	6
Government through clanship: Governing Ethiopia’s Somali pastoralists through a community-based social protection programme	6

Teaching social policy as if students matter: Decolonizing the curriculum and perpetuating epistemic injustice	5
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 Sweden	5
Book Review: The Invention of the ‘Underclass’: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge by Loïc Wacquant	5
Book Review: Women, Welfare and Productivism in East Asia and Europe by Ruby CM Chau and Sam WK Yu	5
Book Review: Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by Andreas Bieler	5
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention, Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons by Michelle Peterie	5
Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies	5
Net-widening, gap-filling, and shortcut justice: The practice of Community Protection Notices to regulate anti-social behaviour	5
We need to talk about necessitous economic migrants: Disrupting ‘legitimacy’ in UK migration discourse	4
Understanding the interplay of financial change, debt, and lone parenthood in the UK: A secondary mixed methods analysis	4
Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand	4
Risks and representations: Creating consensus narratives about risk with pregnant women involved with child protection systems in Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland	4
What the Dutch benefits scandal and policy's focus on ‘fraud’ can teach us about the endurance of empire	4
Book Review: Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain by Maddy Power	4
Eviscerating equality: Normative whiteness and Conservative equality policy	3
Migrant women becoming ‘stronger together’ through the arts: Creating Ground	3
Book Review: The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies by Elizabeth Kiely and Katharina Swirak	3
Attacking transnationalism and citizenship: British Bangladeshis, family migration, and the postcolonial state	3
Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy	3
Book Review: Dissenting Social Work: Critical Theory, Resistance and Pandemic by Paul Michael Garrett	3
Book Review: It’s Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate by John Bissett	3