Abstract Knowledge on street‐level bureaucrats as policy entrepreneurs is in its infancy.
This article contributes to this emerging field by examining three cases of successful efforts …

Policy change is a core goal of community social workers. This study aims to identify the
motivational and facilitating factors associated with community social workers' engagement …

Community work is a concept that includes a diversity of directions and working methods
that are conducted at group and community level worldwide. It is conducted in slums …

The Swedish universal welfare state has transformed since the 1990s into a mixed welfare
model with increasing deregulation, recommodification, and reverse distribution from the …

This special issue of International Social Work is focused on 'Promoting Community and
Environmental Sustainability'. It is published to coincide with the 2018 Joint World …

This study focuses on feminist community work in addressing violence against women,
particularly intimate partner violence. With reference to a case study conducted in Finland on …

This paper examines transferable knowledge from the work of citizen volunteers addressing
migrant needs in Europe, relevant to social work with migrants at border hotspots. The …

The paper discusses the ethical and methodological issues related to gatekeepers in social
work research, often represented by social service professionals. This collaboration brings …

The restructuring of public welfare provision across Europe in recent decades has brought
new actors into the governance of welfare and social work practice, including non-profit …

19 och miljöer, i synnerhet för exkluderade grupper i marginaliserade områden.
Målsättningen är en socialt hållbar utveckling. Under 1970-talet diskuterades …