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Critical Social Policy
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CSP is an academic journal published quarterly by Sage. We champion social justice through critical thought and grassroots action to advocate for a fairer society.
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Advance Living Activism Article (free to access for six months): Refusing the silence: A black disabled woman's activism against bureaucratic violence in UK institutions by Abigail (Abbie) Muchecheti
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November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Advance article: 'Balancing care and control: Emotional labour and dignity in a solidarity restaurant' by Maria Sarmento
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November 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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New themed section: 'Transforming the welfare state from the margins: politics at the sites of structural injustice' guest edited and authored by Chikako Endo, Young Jun Choi, Lim Sang Hun & Sachi Takaya
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November 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Advance article (open access): Preventing and countering extremism in the educational sector: Interrogating policy, challenging practices by Jane Louise Horton, Gabe Mythen and Jacob Astley
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November 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Critical Social Policy Vol. 45, No. 4, November 1, 2025 is now available online
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October 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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New on our YouTube channel: Solidarity Fund recipients Diccionario Ilustrado de la Búsqueda/Illustrated Dictionary of the Search present their participatory, arts-based project with collectives of families searching for disappeared people in Mexico
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Diccionario Ilustrado de la Búsqueda / Illustrated Dictionary of the Search
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October 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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CSP invites activists, advocates, practitioners, and users of service groups to submit contributions about how they work to end social injustice for the Living Activism section of the journal
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CSP: Living Activism
Critical Social Policy invites submissions for its living activism section of the journal
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October 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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The latest episode of the CSP podcast is now live. In this episode, George Ygarza shares his experience in organising a People's Assembly, a model of governance & direct democracy, & the tensions between academic & grassroots approaches to research & activism.

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October 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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New on the CSP blog: Who has a ‘duty to integrate’? by Gareth Mulvey
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September 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Advance article (open access): Hegemony and settler colonial subjectivities: The censure of the Israeli Union of Social Workers (IUSW) by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) by Paul Michael Garrett
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August 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Advance article (open access): Understanding the interplay of financial change, debt, and lone parenthood in the UK: A secondary mixed methods analysis by Graham Burvill @drgrahamburvill.bsky.social‬
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August 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Advance article: Seeking refuge in a productivist welfare regime: Well-being of African asylum seekers/refugees in Hong Kong - 寻求庇护于生产主.义福利体制：香港非洲寻求庇护者/难民的福祉 - by P.A. Amoah​, E.K. Ameyaw, A.A. Asiama, L.L.S. Ngan & M.K. Bhowmik
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August 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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We are pleased to introduce the first guest post on the new CSP blog: Challenging the Two-Child Limit on Family Benefits by Ruth Patrick and Tracey Jensen
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August 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Advance article (open access): Student antiracist activism and institutionalised equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in UK universities by Hannah Jones and Ala Sirriyeh - @uncomfiest @alasirriyeh.bsky.social -
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July 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Advance commentary: Clergy sexual abuse of adults: Institutional power and legislative resistance in the United States by Lucy Huh and Gaynor I. Yancey
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July 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Advance article: Social (in)justice on the margins of paid work: Misrecognition, maldistribution and the employment of people with learning difficulties by Ruth Tarlo, Rachel Fyson, and Simon Roberts
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July 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Critical Social Policy Vol. 45, No. 3, August 1, 2025 is now available online
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Critical Social Policy - Volume 45, Number 3
Table of contents for Critical Social Policy, 45, 3
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July 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Advance article (open access): Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England by Steve Iafrati, Nick Clare and Helen Lawrence
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Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England - STEVE IAFRATI, NICK CLARE, HELEN LAWRENCE, 2024
Based on freedom of information request data supplied by English local authorities, this paper identifies significant under-reporting of out of area housing pla...
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June 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Advance article (open access): Can a ‘structural competency’ approach improve the safeguarding of diverse marginalised communities from exploitation? by Rana Khazbak, Alison Gardner, Charlotte Gray and Oana Burcu
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June 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Advance article (open access): Net-widening, gap-filling, and shortcut justice: The practice of Community Protection Notices to regulate anti-social behaviour by Vicky Heap and Alex Black
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June 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Advance article: Engineering the filial self. Negotiating the moral construction of filial piety at different government levels in China by Marius Meinhof and Yiming Zhang
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June 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Advance article (open access): Some contradictions of the welfare state: Revisited by Chris Ó Rálaigh
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Some contradictions of the welfare state: Revisited - CHRIS Ó RÁLAIGH, 2025
It is now 40 years since the publication of Claus Offe's classical paper, Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State. Much change has occurred to the ...
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June 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Advance article (open access): Running, eyes open, into segregation: The absence of an integration strategy for Britain's elites by Gareth Mulvey
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June 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Advance article (open access): ‘Doing’ eligibility through income thresholds: Organisational practices in US financial assistance programmes for women with breast cancer by Deborah Lefkowitz
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June 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Advance article: Challenging welfare mythmaking: Caps, (mis)classification and concealment of larger families’ labour in austerity Britain by Ruth Patrick and Tracey Jensen
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