Abstract
We will be running a series of six articles on the topic of Geography of Care: Welfare States’ Responses to Refugees Seeking Asylum. The impetus for running this series came from witnessing an unprecedented number of refugees displaced and seeking asylum in countries around the globe and the necessity to analyze responses of welfare states’ particularly in the global north to their presence. Established scholars of social work of international repute will reflect on (1) the continuities between a common or “harmonized” antiimmigration stance adopted by neoliberal welfare states to understand the context for its present practices in relation to the current wave of refugees, (2) how the geography of where these refugees come from (e.g., Muslim-majority countries that have been at the receiving end of the “war on terror”) and that of the receiving countries impact on refugees’ claims of care for their well-being, and (3) implications of current welfare state practices on notions of social care and social work.