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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Advance article (open access): The art of dying in a democratic society by Allan Kellehear journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Advance article: The legal vanguard paradox: Recognition politics and structural injustice in transgender policy regimes in Canada, Denmark, Norway and Uruguay by Javiera Ormeño-Orellana, Margarita Bernales Silva & Dayann Martínez-Santana journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Advance article (open access): Articulating Aspirational Justice: Social Policy, Capability and the Lived Futures of Migrant Women by Bénédicte Zimmermann, Olivia Vieujean & Evelyne Baillergeau journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Advance article: Migration and housing policy in England: Rethinking narratives of crisis by Jo Fang and Jessie Speer journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Advance article (open access): Between happy futures and precarious presents: The promise and pitfalls of work for single mothers on the margins in Australia by Nyssa Ferguson, Signe Ravn and Lyn Craig journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Advance article: Governing vulnerability through ambivalence: Support measures for migrant domestic workers in and beyond crises by Christina Mittmasser, Milena Chimienti, Emma Gauttier & Myrian Carbajal journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Advance article (open access): The tentacular violence of migration policies: The case of Latin American women living in the UK by Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Advance commentary (open access): The resilience trap: Deepening the ‘risk shift’ in social policy via the crisis and resilience fund by Matthew Donoghue journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Critical Social Policy Vol. 46, No. 3, August 1, 2026 is now available online journals.sagepub.com/toc/cspa/46/3

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Advance article: Governing through ‘Othering’: Problematising ‘culture’ in the NSW child protection system by Esraa Mohamed, Lobna Yassine and Susan Goodwin journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Advance article (open access): Carceral statecraft in crisis: Symbolic resilience and the erosion of accountability by Nasrul Ismail journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Advance article (open access): The bordering of care: How exclusions from family support programs impact undocumented mothers and their young children in Canada by Catherine Schmidt journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

New article (open access): Collective activism for an Illustrated Dictionary of La Búsqueda by Ana Pandal de la Peza, Técnicas Rudas, Colectivo Voz de los Desaparecidos Puebla, Colectivo Regresando a Casa Morelos & Colectivo Las Rastreadoras del Fuerte Sinaloa journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The latest episode of the CSP podcast is now live. In this episode, writer, researcher, and disability justice advocate Abbie Muchecheti discusses how systems of care and inclusion often reproduce harm, and what accountability and refusal can look like in practice open.spotify.com/episode/7gdB...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Advance article (open access): The absence of anger: ‘Lived experience’, emotions, and framing techniques in UK anti-poverty work by Stephen Crossley and Sophie Piggott journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Advance article: Depoliticising Race: A Critical Policy Analysis of the UK’s CRED 2021 Report by Zimao Yang, Jiawei Ren and Weiyue Wang journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Advance article (open access): Impacts of anti-migrant policy and activism: The dynamics of hostility around small boat crossings to Dover by Matthijs Gardenier and Hilary Pilkington journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Advance article (open access): Social suffering and (mis)recognition: How welfare officials respond to the critical voices of clients by Melissa Sebrechts and Thomas Kampen journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Critical Social Policy- Volume: 46, Number: 2 (May 2026) now available online journals.sagepub.com/toc/cspa/46/2

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Advance article (open access): The decline of social protection in Ukraine: A case of dismantlement of a city-forming enterprise as a socioeconomic guarantor by Alexa Hilmarsson journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

New on the CSP blog: Red Flags! Data led technology is leading families to mistrust, fear and avoid services by Val Gillies, Rosalind Edwards and Sarah Gorin www.criticalsocialpolicy.com/post/red-fla... (Image credit: "Close up of Computer Hardware" by panumas nikhomkhai licensed: Free to use)

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Advance article (open access): Surveilled and segregated: A Foucauldian inquiry into colonial welfare and First Nations poverty in Canada by Deborah G. Young journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Advance article (open access): Food aid as a source of support and visibility for migrants with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) by Claire Thompson, Laura Hamilton and Wendy Wills journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Advance article: Queering human rights-based approaches to suicide prevention: A case study of Scotland's time space compassion introductory guide by Ruth Chartoff journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Website launch invitation - Building Knowledges of Solidarity for Critical Social Policy www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-k...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Advance article: Mapping discrimination in Spain: Structural inequalities and policy responses. A critical documentary analysis of FRA reports (2014–2022) by Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau, Zakaria Sajir and Mercedes Fernández García journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Advance article (open access): Standing on the frontline: Exploring representational work for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Norway by Aurora Terjesdatter Sørsveen and Ingvill Stuvøy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Critical Social Policy Vol. 46, No. 1, February 1, 2026 is now available online journals.sagepub.com/toc/cspa/46/1

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Advance article (open access): Affective debates of Finnish welfare state imaginary amidst financialization: Case of equity savings account for newborns by Annika Mikkonen and Armi Mustosmäki journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Advance article (open access): Red flags! Parents’ perspectives on data led policy and practice in family intervention by Val Gillies, Rosalind Edwards and Sarah Gorin journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Please note the cut off for submitting articles for consideration at the January editorial collective meeting is this Friday 5th December.

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Advance article (open access): Reproducing a municipal reserve army? A qualitative study on doing class through municipal subsidised employment programmes by Ellen Parsland journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Advance article (open access): The representation of migrants in policy and parliament: A Bacchian analysis of the UK's immigration health surcharge by Joanne Alexander, Aisha Macgregor, Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Tim Sedgley and Liz Forbat journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Advance article (open access): We need to talk about necessitous economic migrants: Disrupting ‘legitimacy’ in UK migration discourse by Arianne Shahvisi journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Advance article: 'Balancing care and control: Emotional labour and dignity in a solidarity restaurant' by Maria Sarmento journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... (articles in comments)

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Critical Social Policy Vol. 45, No. 4, November 1, 2025 is now available online journals.sagepub.com/toc/cspa/45/4

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rVK...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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 www.criticalsocialpolicy.com/livingactivism #socialpolicy #activism #livingactivism

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Critical Social Policy invites submissions for its living activism section of the journal

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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. open.spotify.com/episode/4Ht9...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

New on the CSP blog: Who has a ‘duty to integrate’? by Gareth Mulvey @cabbage62.bsky.social www.criticalsocialpolicy.com/post/who-has... (Image credit: "multicultural" by zoetnet under CC BY 2.0.)

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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... (Image Credit: Dominic Alves (cropped) CC2.0)

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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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 - journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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