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Sixteen Conclusion

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Abstract

This chapter summarises the recurring themes and lessons from the preceding substantive chapters and reflects upon their implications. It draws together the different issues, laws and culture in social work across the five countries examined, and compares the country-specific challenges raised in the chapters. The editors make recommendations for how the social work profession can take a more active role in the transition of Transnational Social Workers, and highlight good practice in preceding chapters. Finally, they comment on the need for more research in the area, including with service users.

Abstract

This chapter summarises the recurring themes and lessons from the preceding substantive chapters and reflects upon their implications. It draws together the different issues, laws and culture in social work across the five countries examined, and compares the country-specific challenges raised in the chapters. The editors make recommendations for how the social work profession can take a more active role in the transition of Transnational Social Workers, and highlight good practice in preceding chapters. Finally, they comment on the need for more research in the area, including with service users.

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. Acknowledgements v
  4. List of tables and figures vi
  5. List of abbreviations vii
  6. Notes on contributors viii
  7. Transnational social work: opportunities and challenges of a global profession 1
  8. Setting the transnational context
  9. Opportunities and challenges of a global profession: an international perspective 19
  10. New Public Management, migrant professionals and labour mobility: possibilities for social justice social work? 35
  11. Practitioner perspectives
  12. A complicated welcome: social workers navigate policy, organisational contexts and sociocultural dynamics following migration to Canada1 55
  13. The experience of transnational social workers in England: some findings from research 73
  14. Transnational social workers in Australia: naivety in the transnational professional space 89
  15. Transnational social workers in Aotearoa New Zealand 107
  16. Employer/stakeholder views
  17. In search of better opportunities: transnational social workers in the UK navigating the maze of global and social mobility 125
  18. Transnational social workers and the Australian labour market 139
  19. Pōwhiri: a safe space of cultural encounter to assist transnational social workers in the profession in Aotearoa New Zealand 155
  20. Consistency and change: internationally educated social workers compare interpretations and approaches in Canada and their countries of origin 171
  21. Policy challenges, professional responses
  22. Readiness and regulation: perspectives of Canadian stakeholders on the labour mobility of internationally educated social workers 189
  23. Will she be right, mate? Standards and diversity in Australian social work 205
  24. Recognising transnational social workers in Australia 223
  25. Social work mobility in Europe: a case study from Ireland 241
  26. Conclusion 261
  27. Index 269
Transnational Social Work
This chapter is in the book Transnational Social Work
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447333371-020

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. Acknowledgements v
  4. List of tables and figures vi
  5. List of abbreviations vii
  6. Notes on contributors viii
  7. Transnational social work: opportunities and challenges of a global profession 1
  8. Setting the transnational context
  9. Opportunities and challenges of a global profession: an international perspective 19
  10. New Public Management, migrant professionals and labour mobility: possibilities for social justice social work? 35
  11. Practitioner perspectives
  12. A complicated welcome: social workers navigate policy, organisational contexts and sociocultural dynamics following migration to Canada1 55
  13. The experience of transnational social workers in England: some findings from research 73
  14. Transnational social workers in Australia: naivety in the transnational professional space 89
  15. Transnational social workers in Aotearoa New Zealand 107
  16. Employer/stakeholder views
  17. In search of better opportunities: transnational social workers in the UK navigating the maze of global and social mobility 125
  18. Transnational social workers and the Australian labour market 139
  19. Pōwhiri: a safe space of cultural encounter to assist transnational social workers in the profession in Aotearoa New Zealand 155
  20. Consistency and change: internationally educated social workers compare interpretations and approaches in Canada and their countries of origin 171
  21. Policy challenges, professional responses
  22. Readiness and regulation: perspectives of Canadian stakeholders on the labour mobility of internationally educated social workers 189
  23. Will she be right, mate? Standards and diversity in Australian social work 205
  24. Recognising transnational social workers in Australia 223
  25. Social work mobility in Europe: a case study from Ireland 241
  26. Conclusion 261
  27. Index 269
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