Social Work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children

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.>

List of contents

Introduction
Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
The Meaning of Resettlement for Unaccompanied Refugee Children and Young People
Social Work with Unaccompanied Refugee Children and Young People
The Social Workers, their Backgrounds and their Work Contexts
The Unaccompanied Minors and their Circumstances
Social Work Practice with Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers
Conclusions
Bibliography.

About the author

RAVI KOHLI is Head of Department, Applied Social Studies at the University of Bedfordshire, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Ravi Kohli, Ravi K. S. Kohli, Ravi K.S. Kohli
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.12.2006
• EAN: 9781403989666
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-8966-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Children, Well-Being, Social Sciences, Social Work, Child Well-being, children;research;social work;work