Advance article (open access): We need to talk about necessitous economic migrants: Disrupting ‘legitimacy’ in UK migration discourse by Arianne Shahvisi
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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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Advance article: 'Balancing care and control: Emotional labour and dignity in a solidarity restaurant' by Maria Sarmento
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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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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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Critical Social Policy Vol. 45, No. 4, November 1, 2025 is now available online
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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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New on the CSP blog: Who has a ‘duty to integrate’? by Gareth Mulvey
@cabbage62.bsky.social

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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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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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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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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
@ruthpatrick0.bsky.social

www.criticalsocialpolicy.com/post/challen...

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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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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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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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