The International Journal of Social Welfare publishes original articles in English on social welfare and social work. Its interdisciplinary approach and comparative perspective promote examination of the most pressing social welfare issues of the day by researchers from the various branches of the applied social sciences. The journal seeks to disseminate knowledge and to encourage debate about these issues and their regional and global implications. The International Journal of Social Welfare will cover and initiate crucial theoretical and methodological debates of importance for the future of social welfare practice and research.

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Read the top accessed articles from the International Journal of Social Welfare in 2009
- How does economic globalisation affect the welfare state? Focusing on the mediating effect of welfare regimes by Tae Kuen Kim & Karen Zurlo
- Foster children: a longitudinal study of placements and family relationships by Gunvor Andersson
- Poverty, welfare problems and social exclusions by Bjorn Hallerod & Daniel Larsson
- The professionalisation of social work: a cross- national exploration by Idit Weiss-Gal & Penelope Welbourne
- The over-representation of indigenous children in the Australian child welfare system by Clare Tilbury
- The evolution of social work practice: implications for the generalist approach by Ron Hall
- Retrenching or renovating the Australian welfare state: the paradox of the Howard government's neo-liberalism by Philip Mendes
- The welfare state and globalisation: down and out or too tough to die? by Ferry Koster
- The rise of a "social development" agenda in New Zealand by Neil Lunt
- Legal or illegal? Preferences on immigration by Angel Solano-Garcia

Now available FREE online - Social Report 2006: The National Report on Social Conditions in Sweden
Edited by Danuta Biterman - Volume 16, Supplement 1, July 2007.
Every four years the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare publishes a report on social conditions in Sweden. This one - Social Report 2006 - is the second in the series to be translated into English and published in the International Journal of Welfare, as a supplement to the July 2007 issue. To read the report online, please click here.