Abstract
The edited volume brings together eleven case examples reflecting different aspects of the processes of transnational social policy-making and social policy translation, and the consequences of those processes. It aims at high-lighting changes in social policy and social work which have taken place in light of transnationalization. The editors, Luann Good Gingrich and Stefan Köngeter, share a common interest and expertise in transnationalism, mi-gration and border studies, against a background of social work and social pedagogy. The book is the result of an ongoing collaboration on Transna-tional Social Support and an outcome of the international workshop ‘Re-imagining Social Policy Toward Transnational Social Support’. The editors and contributors scrutinize the interconnectedness of social policies, mobile populations and knowledge about welfare production through the lens of transnationalism, with the aim of re-imagining the role of the nation-state within processes of policy production and diminishing old and new forms of social exclusion. The volume was published as a title within Routledge’s long-standing series “Routledge Advances in Sociology”. The editors intend this contribution to continue an ongoing transnational scholarly dialogue on social policies and social support systems.