Firewalls

A necessary tool to enable social rights for undocumented migrants in social work

Bibliographic Data

ID9974977
AuthorsLinus Hermansson (Church of Sweden, Sweden), Anna Lundberg (0000-0001-9509-7340, Linköping University, corresponding author), Sabine Gruber (0000-0003-1334-6601, Linköping University), Andy Jolly (0000-0001-5903-115X, University of Wolverhampton), Jacob Lind (0000-0002-3811-0892, Malmö University), Erica Righard (0000-0002-2296-7672, Malmö University), Hanna Scott (Linköping University)
Year2020
Volume65
Issue4
Pages678-692
Publication date2020-05-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Social Work (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0020872820924454
OpenAlexW3031693446
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited19

Firewalls are clear divisions between border policing and the provision of basic social rights. They have a dual character: to ensure that no information collected with the purpose of safeguarding basic social rights should be shared for immigration control purposes; and that migrants should not be subject to immigration control when being present at, or in the vicinity, of religious, private and public institutions upholding and providing social rights. This article suggests a normative argument for ‘firewalls’ in the context of social work and develops the concept theoretically as a principle practised and negotiated at different scales

Argument (complex analysis · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Immigration · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Public relations · Safeguarding · Social control · Social rights · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Work

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