Social work with unaccompanied asylum seeking children / Ravi K. S. Kohli.

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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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 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)