Social work responses to differential inclusion: a comparison of how policy influences practice with people seeking asylum in Germany and Australia

This thesis explores the influence of policy on the experiences and perceptions of people seeking asylum and social work and human service practitioners working with them. This is achieved through a qualitative, comparative study of Bavaria and Western Australia, underpinned by critical realism. Key...

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Main Author: Field, Rebecca
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2022
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92101
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description This thesis explores the influence of policy on the experiences and perceptions of people seeking asylum and social work and human service practitioners working with them. This is achieved through a qualitative, comparative study of Bavaria and Western Australia, underpinned by critical realism. Key findings provide insight into how policy produces differential inclusion and how people seeking asylum and social work and human service practitioners navigate and resist this through creating counterspaces.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-921012025-06-16T03:26:29Z Social work responses to differential inclusion: a comparison of how policy influences practice with people seeking asylum in Germany and Australia Field, Rebecca This thesis explores the influence of policy on the experiences and perceptions of people seeking asylum and social work and human service practitioners working with them. This is achieved through a qualitative, comparative study of Bavaria and Western Australia, underpinned by critical realism. Key findings provide insight into how policy produces differential inclusion and how people seeking asylum and social work and human service practitioners navigate and resist this through creating counterspaces. 2022 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92101 Curtin University fulltext
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Social work responses to differential inclusion: a comparison of how policy influences practice with people seeking asylum in Germany and Australia
title Social work responses to differential inclusion: a comparison of how policy influences practice with people seeking asylum in Germany and Australia
title_full Social work responses to differential inclusion: a comparison of how policy influences practice with people seeking asylum in Germany and Australia
title_fullStr Social work responses to differential inclusion: a comparison of how policy influences practice with people seeking asylum in Germany and Australia
title_full_unstemmed Social work responses to differential inclusion: a comparison of how policy influences practice with people seeking asylum in Germany and Australia
title_short Social work responses to differential inclusion: a comparison of how policy influences practice with people seeking asylum in Germany and Australia
title_sort social work responses to differential inclusion: a comparison of how policy influences practice with people seeking asylum in germany and australia
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92101