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Governing Climate Mobility in Africa

Explorations of Adaptation in Ethiopia and Ghana

Climate change is often understood as a main driver of human mobility in Africa, but this book demonstrates the factors — from governance to household finance — that come into play in household mobility practices in Ethiopia and Ghana.

Bristol Uni Press

Understanding Parent Blame

Institutional Failure and Complex Trauma

This edited collection brings together academics, practitioners, activists, parents and young people to explore the nature and causes of parent–carer blame. It interrogates its prevalence, impact and potential pathways for reform.

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Lawless Borders

The Rule of Law Deficit in European Immigration Control

This book explores the evolving preventive immigration control system, analysing its impact on the rule of law. Examining state practices, EU agency operations and digital innovations like AI, it offers a critical look at how these layers erode legal norms and sheds light on modern border management challenges.

Bristol Uni Press

Perspectives on Whistleblowing

Cases and Theories

Examining high profile cases including Kiriakou, Snowden, Foxley and Assange, this book offers crucial insights into the subject of whistleblowing.

Bristol Uni Press

Youth Unemployment and Devolution

Civil Society and Street-Level Responses

Against a backdrop of increasingly mixed economies of welfare, this book explores civil society responses to youth unemployment in a quasi-federal or devolved state post-Brexit and following COVID-19.

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Transformational Change in Public Policy

How can Public Policy scholarship contribute to transformational societal change? In this collection of essays, previously published in Policy & Politics, the authors explore different avenues towards more transformational Public Policy research. The chapters address issues such as crises, democracy, participation, disasters, and paradigm change.

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Diverse Transnational Care

Ageing and Migration in Bolivia

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on original interviews with the parents of migrants in Bolivia who stayed in their country of origin, this book analyses diverse practices of transnational care within a single country and examines the impact on these parents.

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Global China

A Critique of Chinese and Western Narratives

This insightful book explores evolving perceptions of China, contrasting dominant Western narratives with Chinese perspectives. Highlighting the complexities of these discourses, the book critiques three prevailing views of China’s rise: the return of geopolitics, challenges to liberal order and prospects for collaborative governance.

Bristol Uni Press

Human Trafficking of Children and Young People

A Framework for Creating Stable and Positive Futures

This book argues that human trafficking and/or exploitation should be seen as child abuse rather than viewed through immigration or criminal justice lenses. It draws on new research from outcomes of two participatory studies with young people affected by human trafficking.

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Critical Research and Creative Practice with Migrant and Refugee Communities

Drawing on the voices and experiences of refugees, activists and professional practitioners, this collection illustrates the complexities of migration with real world case studies, and the possibilities of innovative therapeutic interventions.

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Lost Boys

How Education is Failing Young Working-Class Men

Challenging us to reconsider ideas about the role of masculinity in the lives of working-class boys and men, this book asks what would change if, instead of focusing on perceived individual failures, we considered the troubled relationship between working-class boys and the social and educational systems in which they reside.

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