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Kohli offers a comprehensive overview of what is known about the resettlement of young asylum-seekers, answering social work practitioners' need for a fuller understanding. After reviewing existing approaches, research evidence and current practice, students and practitioners are presented with a new conceptual framework for social work.

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• Acknowledgements(p. viii)
• Introduction(p. ix)
• 1 Unaccompanied asylum seeking children(p. 1)
• Defining 'unaccompanied'(p. 3)
• The historical context(p. 6)
• The demographic context(p. 9)
• The UK policy context(p. 13)
• Resettlement: theoretical and research contexts(p. 15)
• Summary(p. 23)
• 2 The meaning of resettlement for unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people(p. 27)
• Why leave?(p. 29)
• War and vulnerability(p. 34)
• Resilience and overcoming the odds(p. 38)
• Silence that is protective and risky(p. 43)
• Summary(p. 45)
• 3 Social work with unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people(p. 47)
• What should be done? Guidance in relation to unaccompanied minors(p. 48)
• What is (or is not) being done? The evaluation of care for unaccompanied minors(p. 52)
• Health(p. 55)
• Education(p. 56)
• Immigration(p. 57)
• Social work - direct practice with unaccompanied minors(p. 59)
• Summarising the literature(p. 69)
• 4 The social workers, their backgrounds and their work contexts(p. 75)
• The teams(p. 75)
• The social workers: personal characteristics(p. 77)
• The social workers: professional characteristics(p. 84)
• Summary(p. 98)
• 5 The unaccompanied minors and their circumstances(p. 100)
• Basic characteristics(p. 101)
• Histories: ordinary lives and fragmenting events(p. 105)
• Searching for resettlement(p. 114)
• Resettlement on the outside: calling somewhere home(p. 122)
• Resettlement on the inside: health, education and behaviour(p. 132)
• Resettlement as an ordinary life in the future: balancing 'outer' and 'inner' worlds(p. 142)
• Summary(p. 151)
• 6 Social work practice with unaccompanied asylum seekers(p. 154)
• The domains of practice conceptualised(p. 155)
• The relationship between the social worker and the young person(p. 159)
• The issue of trust(p. 160)
• The domain of cohesion: the Humanitarians in action(p. 163)
• The domain of connection: the Witnesses at work(p. 178)
• The domain of coherence: the Confederates as companions(p. 189)
• Summary(p. 207)
• 7 Conclusions(p. 208)
• Locating social work with unaccompanied minors in context(p. 209)
• The unaccompanied minors and their lives(p. 210)
• The social workers and their practice(p. 213)
• References(p. 221)
• Index(p. 234)