Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of figures ix
4. Notes on contributors x
5. Introduction 1
6. The contribution of social work research to promote migration and asylum policies in Europe 5
7. Participatory art in social work: from humanitarianism to humanisation of people on the move 25
8. Grasping at straws: social work in reception and identification centres in Greece 47
9. Migrant girls’ experiences of integration and social care in Sweden 64
10. “Come to my house!”: Homing practices of children in Swiss asylum camps 80
11. Transnational dynamics of family reunification: reassembling social work with refugees in Belgium 95
12. Open or closed doors? Accessibility of Italian social work organisations towards ethnic minorities 112
13. Refugee children and families in the Republic of Ireland: the response of social work 126
14. Sense of place, migrant integration and social work 146
15. “If not now, when?”: Reclaiming activism into social work education – the case of an intercultural student-academic project with refugees in the UK and Greece 161
16. EU border migration policy and unaccompanied refugee minors in Greece: the example of Lesvos and Samos hotspots 177
17. Epilogue: Time to listen, time to learn, time to challenge … because there is hope 198
18. Index 201