Advance article: Migration and housing policy in England: Rethinking narratives of crisis by Jo Fang and Jessie Speer journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Advance article (open access): Between happy futures and precarious presents: The promise and pitfalls of work for single mothers on the margins in Australia by Nyssa Ferguson, Signe Ravn and Lyn Craig journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article: Governing vulnerability through ambivalence: Support measures for migrant domestic workers in and beyond crises by Christina Mittmasser, Milena Chimienti, Emma Gauttier & Myrian Carbajal journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Advance article (open access): The tentacular violence of migration policies: The case of Latin American women living in the UK by Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance commentary (open access): The resilience trap: Deepening the ‘risk shift’ in social policy via the crisis and resilience fund by Matthew Donoghue journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Critical Social Policy Vol. 46, No. 3, August 1, 2026 is now available online journals.sagepub.com/toc/cspa/46/3

Advance article: Governing through ‘Othering’: Problematising ‘culture’ in the NSW child protection system by Esraa Mohamed, Lobna Yassine and Susan Goodwin journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Advance article (open access): Carceral statecraft in crisis: Symbolic resilience and the erosion of accountability by Nasrul Ismail journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article (open access): The bordering of care: How exclusions from family support programs impact undocumented mothers and their young children in Canada by Catherine Schmidt journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New article (open access): Collective activism for an Illustrated Dictionary of La Búsqueda by Ana Pandal de la Peza, Técnicas Rudas, Colectivo Voz de los Desaparecidos Puebla, Colectivo Regresando a Casa Morelos & Colectivo Las Rastreadoras del Fuerte Sinaloa journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The latest episode of the CSP podcast is now live. In this episode, writer, researcher, and disability justice advocate Abbie Muchecheti discusses how systems of care and inclusion often reproduce harm, and what accountability and refusal can look like in practice open.spotify.com/episode/7gdB...

Advance article (open access): The absence of anger: ‘Lived experience’, emotions, and framing techniques in UK anti-poverty work by Stephen Crossley and Sophie Piggott journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article: Depoliticising Race: A Critical Policy Analysis of the UK’s CRED 2021 Report by Zimao Yang, Jiawei Ren and Weiyue Wang journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Advance article (open access): Impacts of anti-migrant policy and activism: The dynamics of hostility around small boat crossings to Dover by Matthijs Gardenier and Hilary Pilkington journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article (open access): Social suffering and (mis)recognition: How welfare officials respond to the critical voices of clients by Melissa Sebrechts and Thomas Kampen journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Critical Social Policy- Volume: 46, Number: 2 (May 2026) now available online journals.sagepub.com/toc/cspa/46/2

CSP invites proposals for Themed Issues (deadline 28th June) www.criticalsocialpolicy.com/post/call-fo...

Advance article (open access): The decline of social protection in Ukraine: A case of dismantlement of a city-forming enterprise as a socioeconomic guarantor by Alexa Hilmarsson journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New on the CSP blog: Red Flags! Data led technology is leading families to mistrust, fear and avoid services by Val Gillies, Rosalind Edwards and Sarah Gorin www.criticalsocialpolicy.com/post/red-fla... (Image credit: "Close up of Computer Hardware" by panumas nikhomkhai licensed: Free to use)

Advance article (open access): Surveilled and segregated: A Foucauldian inquiry into colonial welfare and First Nations poverty in Canada by Deborah G. Young journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Advance article (open access): Food aid as a source of support and visibility for migrants with no recourse to public funds (NRPF) by Claire Thompson, Laura Hamilton and Wendy Wills journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advance article: Queering human rights-based approaches to suicide prevention: A case study of Scotland's time space compassion introductory guide by Ruth Chartoff journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Website launch invitation - Building Knowledges of Solidarity for Critical Social Policy www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-k...

Advance article: Mapping discrimination in Spain: Structural inequalities and policy responses. A critical documentary analysis of FRA reports (2014–2022) by Yoan Molinero-Gerbeau, Zakaria Sajir and Mercedes Fernández García journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Advance article (open access): Standing on the frontline: Exploring representational work for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Norway by Aurora Terjesdatter Sørsveen and Ingvill Stuvøy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Critical Social Policy Vol. 46, No. 1, February 1, 2026 is now available online journals.sagepub.com/toc/cspa/46/1

Advance article (open access): Affective debates of Finnish welfare state imaginary amidst financialization: Case of equity savings account for newborns by Annika Mikkonen and Armi Mustosmäki journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Advance article (open access): Red flags! Parents’ perspectives on data led policy and practice in family intervention by Val Gillies, Rosalind Edwards and Sarah Gorin journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Please note the cut off for submitting articles for consideration at the January editorial collective meeting is this Friday 5th December.

Advance article (open access): Reproducing a municipal reserve army? A qualitative study on doing class through municipal subsidised employment programmes by Ellen Parsland journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....