This is a collection of essays that address the international changes in welfare policy. The book discusses the new patterns of governing associated with the notions of welfare, care, and education that emerge during the late Twentieth and early Twenty-first-centuries. The issues examined are, among others, the role of international donors and their emphasis on efficiency and lower social subsidies, international migration and its impact on welfare policy inclusions (and exclusions), and national policy change. While representing many different locations and traditions, contributors work within a variety of critical theoretical perspectives that critique our cultural ways of reasoning about the care and education of the child, the role and practice of the state, and the social and cultural construction of citizenship and nationhood.

CHELSEA BAILEY Assistant Professor in the School of Education, New York University BERNADETTE BAKER Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison BETH BLUE SWADENER Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Arizona State University GAILE S. CANNELLA Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University LOIC CHALMEL Professor at Rouen University, France GUNILLA DAHLBERG Professor at the Institute of Education, University of Stockholm MIRIAM DAVID Professor of Policy Studies in the Department of Education, University of Keele, England INES DUSSEL Senior Researcher at FLACSO/Universidad de San Andres, Argentina GUNILLA HALLDEN Professor in the Department of Child Studies, Linkoping University, Sweden CAMILLA HALLGREN Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Teacher Education, University of Umea, Sweden KERSTIN HOLMLUND Senior Lecturer and Chair in the Department of Teacher Education, University of Umea, Sweden INGEBORG MOQVIST Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education, University of Vaxjo, Sweden VALERIE POLAKOW Professor of Education at Eastern Michigan University ELENA SMIRNOVA Professr of Psychology at the Psychological Institute, Russian Academy of Education, Moscow VLADIMIR SOBKIN Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology of Education, Russian Academy of Education, Moscow PATRICK WACHIRA Kent State University GABY WEINER Professor in the Department of Teacher Education, University of Umea, Sweden