Firewalls: A necessary tool to enable social rights for undocumented migrants in social work
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Hermansson, LinusLundberg, Anna
Gruber, Sabine
Jolly, Andrew
Lind, Jacob
Righard, Erica
Scott, Hanna
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2020-05-29
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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.Citation
Hermansson, L., Lundberg, A., Gruber, S., Jolly, A., Lind, J., Righard, E. and Scott, H. (2020) Firewalls: A necessary tool to enable social rights for undocumented migrants in social work, International Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872820924454Publisher
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International Social WorkAdditional Links
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0020872820924454Type
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© 2020 The Authors. Published by SAGE. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872820924454ISSN
0020-8728EISSN
1461-7234ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1177/0020872820924454
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