Critical Social Policy provides a forum for advocacy, analysis and debate on social policy issues. We publish critical perspectives which:    ·acknowledge and reflect upon differences in political, economic, social and cultural power and upon the diversity of cultures and movements shaping social policy;     ·re-think conventional approaches to securing rights, meeting needs and challenging inequalities and injustices; ·include perspectives, analyses and concerns of people and groups whose voices are unheard or underrepresented in policy-making;    ·reflect lived experiences of users of existing benefits and services;

Critical Social Policy provides a forum for advocacy, analysis, and debate on social policy issues. We publish critical perspectives that: ·acknowledge and reflect upon differences in political, economic, social, and cultural power, as well as the diversity of cultures and movements shaping social policy; ·rethink conventional approaches to securing rights, meeting needs, and challenging inequalities and injustices; ·include the perspectives, analyses, and concerns of people and groups whose voices are unheard or underrepresented in policy-making; ·reflect the lived experiences of users of existing benefits and services.

《Critical Social Policy》是一个关于社会政策问题的倡导、分析和辩论论坛。我们发表批判性的观点，旨在： ·承认并反思政治、经济、社会和文化权力的差异，以及塑造社会政策的多样文化和运动； ·重新思考传统的保障权利、满足需求和挑战不平等与不公正的方法； ·纳入那些在政策制定中声音被忽视或代表性不足的个人和群体的观点、分析和关切； ·反映现有福利和服务用户的生活经历。

Critical Social Policy

In recent years, there has been an intense public and policy debate about ethnic diversity, community cohesion, and immigration in Britain and other societies worldwide. In addition, there has been a growing preoccupation with the possible dangers to social cohesion represented by growing immigration flows and ethnic diversity. This paper proposes a critical framework for assessing the links between immigration, social cohesion, and social capital. It argues that the concept of social capital is episodic, socially constructed and value-based, depending on the prevailing ideological climate. Considerations of social capital as a public policy tool to achieve social cohesion need to incorporate an appreciation of alternative conceptions of social capital rooted in a textured under-standing of immigrant processes and migration contexts.

Pauline Hope Cheong

Rosalind Edwards

Harry Goulbourne

John Solomos

Immigration, social cohesion and social capital: A critical review

移民、社会凝聚力与社会资本：批判性综述

The first keyword, Welfare State, sets out to problematise the term itself. The welfare state is a national construct, a ‘national social state’ as Etienne Balibar calls it. Thus, transnational or global migration is often construed as a disruptive force, potentially destabilising the welfare state and the nation. This keyword entry critically examines common conceptions of what the welfare state should provide. It delineates some of the ways that migrants (and, more broadly foreign nationals who are not themselves necessarily migrants) are excluded or partially included, with a focus on contemporary EU social policies.

ANNA LUNDBERG

SANDRA MANTU

MARIA PERSDOTTER

JEAN-PIERRE TABIN

ULRIKA WERNESJÖ

The welfare state

福利国家

The notion of social solidarity involves formal and informal practices, with various levels of institutionalisation. It builds on normative assumptions and discourses of reciprocal expectations of mutual help, on (perceived) ideas of sameness or neediness in relation to, among other, class, ethnicity, and/or gender and on notions of deservingness that are entangled in such ideas. In this contribution, we discuss how the intersection between institutionalised social solidarity in European nation-states and notions of deservingness informs who is seen as worthy of being part of welfare arrangements. Where ideas of solidarity and deservingness intertwine with legal categorisations of belonging, the results are exclusionary policies that often restrict migrants’ access to national welfare policies, and hence meaningful societal participation. Furthermore, we discuss migrants’ experiences with expressions of solidarity beyond the national realm, exploring how ideas about migrants’ deservingness become linked to their economic usefulness within the European (integration) project.

NORA RATZMANN

LISA MARIE BORRELLI

Social solidarity and deservingness

社会团结与应得性

With Discipline, we focus on techniques and mechanisms that advance corporeal, attitudinal, and behavioural docility and thereby contribute to contemporary processes of social differentiation and exclusion. Exploring the intersection of migration policy and welfare governance, we discuss disciplinary measures deployed at the intersection of welfare and migration regimes with the aim of understanding how internal border and welfare controls discipline poor non-citizens by criminalising certain kinds of behaviour. Drawing on concepts including micro-violence and micro-aggression, this keyword looks at bureaucratic practices, their justifications and their consequences for non-citizens, before moving on to theorise how such practices have come to permeate the wider society. Disciplinary systems of welfare governance depend on the threat of punishment: individuals are prompted to discipline themselves because they could become the object of disciplinary power at any moment. Such disciplinary techniques are efficient, productive, and subtle, and can result in the increasingly ‘automatic’ internalisation by non-citizens of certain kinds of behaviour.

LUCA PFIRTER

DORIS NIRAGIRE NIRERE

Discipline

学科

This article introduces a collaborative publication exploring the intricate interplay between poverty governance, migration control, and welfare provision. Adopting a ‘keywords’ approach, we investigate the terminology and concepts around which academic discussions revolve when addressing poverty and migration. Central to this examination is the figure of the ‘poor migrant’, whose experiences of inclusion and exclusion intersect along lines of race, gender, and legal status. Using an intersectional lens, the publication dissects key terms and concepts : Welfare State, Welfare Governance, Citizenship, Solidarity and Deservingness, Suspicion and Surveillance, Discipline, and Banishment. We thus aim to conceptualise and critically discuss the constant renegotiation of state power and the nation-state induced in ex/inclusionary aspects of welfare and migration policies and law. The contribution reveals how notions of belonging shape access to rights and services, particularly along racialized and classist lines. Moreover, it explores how migration policies exacerbate scrutiny and exclusion faced by non-citizen populations within contemporary welfare systems.

CHRISTIN ACHERMANN

Governing poverty and migration in European nation-states – keywords revisited

欧洲民族国家中的贫困与移民治理——关键词再探

As a result of increased mobility and restrictive immigration policies in Europe, a growing number of people live in conditional and deportable positions with only limited social rights and access to welfare services. In this keyword, we discuss how the conception of national citizenship that underpins immigration and welfare regimes affects the position of non-citizens, with a particular focus on legal status as an instrument of hierarchisation and social marginalisation in European societies. Immigration systems create hierarchies and divisions by establishing different legal statuses for non-citizens, with wider implications for their position in society. Legal status has become a significant factor in social exclusion and marginality in European societies, intersecting with race, class, gender, and ethnicity to (re)produce social disadvantages. At the same time, migrants’ struggles are situated along the same historical continuum as other previously excluded and marginalised groups, revealing inherent contradictions related to citizenship in modern nation-states and challenging the boundaries of citizenship from the inside.

Abbreviation	Crit. Soc. Policy
Journal Impact	2.49
Quartiles(Global)	SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY(Q1)

ISSN	0261-0183, 1461-703X
h-index	75

Publication Information	Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1981，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:4.30%， Gold OA Rate: 55.29%

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Immigration, social cohesion and social capital: A critical review

The welfare state

Social solidarity and deservingness

Discipline

Governing poverty and migration in European nation-states – keywords revisited

The welfare state

Social solidarity and deservingness

Discipline

Governing poverty and migration in European nation-states – keywords revisited

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