SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION
Collaborating, listening and teaching.
social work with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants: theories and skills for practice
Edited by Lauren Wroe, Rachel Larkin and Reima Ana Maglajlic
‘This book is captivating me. It says it is about social work with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, but it is really about social work’s heart and soul, about who we are, where we put ourselves, what we work for, who we identify with, it is about social justice.’
– Gerry Nosowska, Chair of BASW
Description
In 2017 SWWB were contacted by Jessica Kingsley publishers about an up-coming series of publications on migration. Following this conversation, SWWB co-founder Lauren Wroe pitched an idea for an updated book on theories and skills for social work practice with those impacted by borders. The book was published in September 2019 and is available from the publishers here. All royalties from the book will support the work of SWWB, with donations to Bristol Refugee Rights and Growing Together Manchester for their contributions to the publication.
Mass-migration, conflict and poverty are now persistent features of our globalised world. This reference book for social workers and service providers offers constructive ideas for practice within an inter-disciplinary framework.
Each chapter speaks to a skill and knowledge area that is key to this work, bringing together myriad voices from across disciplines, interspersed with the vital perspectives of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants themselves. Staying up to date with the latest developments in policy; and addressing key specific skills needed to work with people affected by borders, this book is a valuable resource for both practitioners and students.
NEW ONLINE CONTENT!
Between August and December 2020 we will be publishing a series of practice guides from experts in the field to support students, academics and practitioners of all levels with their work in supporting and advocating for individuals impacted by borders.
Social Work with Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants: Theories and Skills for Practice – Online Series 2020
August 2020:
The first resource we have for you is a manual on carrying out ‘Art Tables’ as a therapeutic method with people currently navigating the asylum process by Gaie Delap, Marian Liebmann and Christopher Watkins.
Art Tables in Refugee Drop-in Centres
September 2020:
Next up we have an article by Ana Draper where she outlines new ways of understanding and working to improve the health of unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
New Perspectives on UASC Health and Interventions: Beyond Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
October 2020:
For October we have an article by Colin Turbett on ‘radical social work’. This paper offers a short introduction to radical social work, which is gaining traction for multiple reasons: these include dissatisfaction with models of social work that focus on reactive strategies based on little more than risk aversion; and, in the wake of Covid-19, a growing awareness that community based preventative approaches are the best way to challenge inequalities. All this has resonance for social work with asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.
Colin Turbett spent a long career as a front line local authority social worker. He is now a volunteer Panel Practice Adviser in Scotland’s Children’s Hearing system, and also writes about and promotes radical social work. Colin is author of Doing Radical Social Work (2014).
Radical Social Work in the Real World
Please keep an eye on the website and on social media as we add new publications as part of this series!
CONFERENCES
SWWB are travelling the UK talking to social work audiences about our work.
TRAINING
Our training illuminates the stories of children and asylum seekers before and after they enter the UK and stimulates discussion and debate about what best practice in this area of work should, and can look like.
ACADEMIA
SWWB is made up of a network of social work practitioners, academics and students – we have collaborated to produce excellent theoretical and evidence based essays for academic books, journals and media.
