22 research outputs found
Reduced Effectiveness of Standard Recruitment for Deceased Organ Donor Registration: The Need for Population-Specific Recruitment Materials
âEveryday borderingâ in England, Sweden and Bulgaria: Social work decision-making processes when working with migrant family members
The global movement of people is a growing feature of contemporary life, and it is essential that professionals providing support services know how to best engage with migrant families. However, despite globalisation and the related processes of de-bordering, borders continue to remain significant and, in contemporary life, the ways in which immigration is controlled and surveilledâbureaucratically and symbolicallyâare multiple. The paper draws on data gathered in the immediate period following the so called 2015 European âmigration crisisâ and examines whether and in what ways social workers in three European countriesâBulgaria, Sweden and Englandâenact bordering in their work with migrant family members. We apply the concept of âeveryday borderingâ to the data set: whilst borders are traditionally physical and at the boundary between nation states, bordering practices increasingly permeate everyday life in bureaucratic and symbolic forms. Overall, the data show that everyday bordering affects social work practice in three ways: by social workers being required to engage in bordering as an everyday practice; by producing conditions that require social workers to negotiate borders; and in revealing aspects of symbolic everyday bordering. Our analyses shows that âeveryday borderingâ practices are present in social work decision-making processes in each country, but the forms they take vary across contexts. Analysis also indicates that, in each country, social workers recognise the ways in which immigration control can impact on the families with whom they work but that they can also inadvertently contribute to the âotheringâ of migrant populations