Table of Contents

Contents

Chapter 1
Child Welfare Systems and Migrant Families: An Introduction

Part I. Family service oriented child welfare systems within social democratic welfare states
Chapter 2
How the Finnish child protection system meets migrant families and children

Chapter 3
How the Norwegian child welfare system approaches migrant children

Chapter 4
Immigrant Children and Families in the Child Welfare System: The Netherlands

Chapter 5
Immigrant Children and Families in the Child Welfare System in Austria

Part II. Family service oriented child welfare systems within conservative (and Latin) welfare states
Chapter 6
Child Welfare Systems and Immigrant Families: The Case of Spain

Chapter 7
Public services and migrant minors in Italy: A new path for social work

Part III. Child protection oriented child welfare systems within liberal welfare states
Chapter 8
The United States: Child Protection in the Context of Competing Policy Mandates

Chapter 9
Child Welfare Systems and Immigrant Families: Canada

Chapter 10
Child welfare and migrant families and children: A case study of England

Chapter 11
Child protection of migrants in Australia

Chapter 12
Immigrant Children and Families in Estonian Child Protection System

Part IV. Concluding remarks
Chapter13
Migrant Children and Child Welfare: A Contested Challenge

Appendix - Survey method overview
Index

About the Author

Marit Skivenes, PhD, is Professor of Social Sciences in the Department of Administration and Organization Theory at the University of Bergen in Norway.

Ravinder Barn, PhD, is Professor of Social Policy, Royal Holloway, at the University of
London.

Katrin Kriz, PhD, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emmanuel College.

Tarja Pösö, PhD, is Professor of Social Work at the University of Tampere.

Reviews

"The authors of these international perspectives on government policies for child-welfare-involved migrant children and families present an outstanding summary of current practices and problems. Organizing the 11 country chapters into three parts according to welfare state typologies, the editors overlay a convincing frame that global migration has political, economic, and social roots. Each country's narrative introduces readers to the history and scope of
the problem of migrant children and offers an overview of its child protection system, including professional training of its workforce. This [is a] clear and comprehensive cross-national comparison of
a growing issue of global concern to social work. Recommended." --J. C. Altman, CHOICE Magazine