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The book focuses on the development of social work as a profession in different refugee related countries of origin, transit and destination as well as country specific responses to ever increasing migration flows. The book aims to facilitate an international debate on the issue of international social work by analyzing the current state, presenting a comparative country study on social work in contexts of flight and refuge as well as relating academic discourses and perspectives to field practice.

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Katharina Heilmann is an academic assistant at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany

Prof. Dr. Ralf Roßkopf is a professor at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany

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