Social protection is an assemblage of informal and formal elements. These opposites–
'informal'and 'formal'–have been a feature of social policy discourse for a long time. Here …

Considering the socio‐economic and cultural diversity of the world, it is a bold undertaking
by international organisations to propose welfare policies designed to apply to all or many …

Towards the close of the 20th century, the idea of social investment gained purchase as a
way to legitimise social policy as a productive contribution. For those in the North, social …

In this article I argue for the development of a macro perspective within psychology, akin to
that found in macroeconomics. Macropsychology is the application of psychology to factors …

Vivimos en una época marcada por un profundo desencaje entre una vida social que es
cada vez más transnacional, y unos recursos de acceso a la protección social que siguen …

Toubacouta echoes the whole-of-society approach: the phenomenon that more and more
conventional and non-conventional actors are entering an already crowded field of …

Global Social Policy (GSP) has established itself as a distinct field of research over the past
25 years. Without doubt one of the leading figure to this advancement was Bob Deacon. He …

This article examines global social policy formation in the area of skilled migration, with a
focus on the Gulf Arab region. Across the globe, migration governance presents challenges …

In this text, we argue for critical reflexivity regarding 'global social policy studies', focusing on
the pitfalls of forms of historical presentism and Eurocentrism, not least in terms of a …

This article compares how the global policy of deinstitutionalisation (DI) of child welfare
travelled, was translated and institutionalised in two post-Soviet countries–Russia and …