Critical Social Policy

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Advance article: Mapping discrimination in Spain: Structural inequalities and policy responses. A critical documentary analysis of FRA reports (2014–2022) by Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau, Zakaria Sajir and Mercedes Fernández García
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Advance article (open access): Standing on the frontline: Exploring representational work for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Norway by Aurora Terjesdatter Sørsveen and Ingvill Stuvøy
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Critical Social Policy Vol. 46, No. 1, February 1, 2026 is now available online
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Advance article (open access): Affective debates of Finnish welfare state imaginary amidst financialization: Case of equity savings account for newborns by Annika Mikkonen and Armi Mustosmäki
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Advance article (open access): Red flags! Parents’ perspectives on data led policy and practice in family intervention by Val Gillies, Rosalind Edwards and Sarah Gorin
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Please note the cut off for submitting articles for consideration at the January editorial collective meeting is this Friday 5th December.

Advance article (open access): Reproducing a municipal reserve army? A qualitative study on doing class through municipal subsidised employment programmes by Ellen Parsland
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Advance article (open access): The representation of migrants in policy and parliament: A Bacchian analysis of the UK's immigration health surcharge by Joanne Alexander, Aisha Macgregor, Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Tim Sedgley and Liz Forbat
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Advance article (open access): We need to talk about necessitous economic migrants: Disrupting ‘legitimacy’ in UK migration discourse by Arianne Shahvisi
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Advance Living Activism Article (free to access for six months): Refusing the silence: A black disabled woman's activism against bureaucratic violence in UK institutions by Abigail (Abbie) Muchecheti
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Advance article: 'Balancing care and control: Emotional labour and dignity in a solidarity restaurant' by Maria Sarmento
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'Top-down empowerment? The construction of the social economy in the field of social service provision' by Sang Hun Lim
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'Countering marginalisation through ‘cooperative democracy’: The case of worker co-ops in Japan' by Chikako Endo
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'Claiming reproductive citizenship through interactive need interpretation: The case of temporary labour migrant women in Japan' by Sachi Takaya
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New themed section: 'Transforming the welfare state from the margins: politics at the sites of structural injustice' guest edited and authored by Chikako Endo, Young Jun Choi, Lim Sang Hun & Sachi Takaya
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Advance article (open access): Preventing and countering extremism in the educational sector: Interrogating policy, challenging practices by Jane Louise Horton, Gabe Mythen and Jacob Astley
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Critical Social Policy Vol. 45, No. 4, November 1, 2025 is now available online
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Diccionario Ilustrado de la Búsqueda / Illustrated Dictionary of the Search YouTube video by Living Activism - Critical Social Policy

New on our YouTube channel: Solidarity Fund recipients Diccionario Ilustrado de la Búsqueda/Illustrated Dictionary of the Search present their participatory, arts-based project with collectives of families searching for disappeared people in Mexico
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CSP invites activists, advocates, practitioners, and users of service groups to submit contributions about how they work to end social injustice for the Living Activism section of the journal
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The latest episode of the CSP podcast is now live. In this episode, George Ygarza shares his experience in organising a People's Assembly, a model of governance & direct democracy, & the tensions between academic & grassroots approaches to research & activism.

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New on the CSP blog: Who has a ‘duty to integrate’? by Gareth Mulvey
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Advance article (open access): Hegemony and settler colonial subjectivities: The censure of the Israeli Union of Social Workers (IUSW) by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) by Paul Michael Garrett
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Advance article (open access): Understanding the interplay of financial change, debt, and lone parenthood in the UK: A secondary mixed methods analysis by Graham Burvill @drgrahamburvill.bsky.social‬
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Advance article: Seeking refuge in a productivist welfare regime: Well-being of African asylum seekers/refugees in Hong Kong - 寻求庇护于生产主.义福利体制：香港非洲寻求庇护者/难民的福祉 - by P.A. Amoah​, E.K. Ameyaw, A.A. Asiama, L.L.S. Ngan & M.K. Bhowmik
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We are pleased to introduce the first guest post on the new CSP blog: Challenging the Two-Child Limit on Family Benefits by Ruth Patrick and Tracey Jensen
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Advance article (open access): Student antiracist activism and institutionalised equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in UK universities by Hannah Jones and Ala Sirriyeh - @uncomfiest @alasirriyeh.bsky.social -
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Advance commentary: Clergy sexual abuse of adults: Institutional power and legislative resistance in the United States by Lucy Huh and Gaynor I. Yancey
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Advance article: Social (in)justice on the margins of paid work: Misrecognition, maldistribution and the employment of people with learning difficulties by Ruth Tarlo, Rachel Fyson, and Simon Roberts
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Critical Social Policy - Volume 45, Number 3 Table of contents for Critical Social Policy, 45, 3

Critical Social Policy Vol. 45, No. 3, August 1, 2025 is now available online
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