Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Children

Marit Skivenes is a Faculty of Health and Social work, Bergen University College & Department of Administration and Organization Theory, Bergen University, Norway.Ravinder Barn is professor of social policy in the Centre for Criminology and Sociology. She was awarded her doctorate in 'Race and Ethnic Relations' in 1989 by the University of Warwick. Ravinder joined Royal Holloway, University of London in 1990 as Lecturer in Applied Social Studies. In 2004, she was awarded a personal chair.Katrin Kriz is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the College Honors Program at Emmanuel College Boston.Tarja Pösö, professor in Social Work at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, her research interests have recently focused on child protection.

"The authors of these international perspectives on government policies for child-welfare-involved migrant children and families present an outstanding summary of current practices and problems. Organizing the 11 country chapters into three parts according to welfare state typologies, the editors overlay a convincing frame that global migration has political, economic, and social roots. Each country's narrative introduces readers to the history and scope ofthe problem of migrant children and offers an overview of its child protection system, including professional training of its workforce. This [is a] clear and comprehensive cross-national comparison ofa growing issue of global concern to social work. Recommended." --J. C. Altman, CHOICE Magazine

• Contents ; Chapter 1 ; Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Families: An Introduction ; Part I. Family service oriented child welfare systems within social democratic welfare states ; Chapter 2 ; How the Finnish child protection system meets migrant families and children ; Chapter 3 ; How the Norwegian child welfare system approaches migrant children ; Chapter 4 ; Immigrant Children and Families in the Child Welfare System: The Netherlands ; Chapter 5 ; Immigrant Children and Families in the Child Welfare System in Austria ; Part II. Family service oriented child welfare systems within conservative (and Latin) welfare states ; Chapter 6 ; Child Welfare Systems and Immigrant Families: The Case of Spain ; Chapter 7 ; Public services and migrant minors in Italy: A new path for social work ; Part III. Child protection oriented child welfare systems within liberal welfare states ; Chapter 8 ; The United States: Child Protection in the Context of Competing Policy Mandates ; Chapter 9 ; Child Welfare Systems and Immigrant Families: Canada ; Chapter 10 ; Child welfare and migrant families and children: A case study of England ; Chapter 11 ; Child protection of migrants in Australia ; Chapter 12 ; Immigrant Children and Families in Estonian Child Protection System ; Part IV. Concluding remarks ; Chapter13 ; Migrant Children and Child Welfare: A Contested Challenge ; Appendix - Survey method overview ; Index