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The objective of this article is to examine the impact of international female labor migration on left-behind parents by taking into consideration the daughters' marital status. Data were taken from in-depth interviews with 37 left-behind parents of migrant women in East Java Province. The study showed that left-behind parents had limited access to the remittances sent by married daughters, except when they carried out childcare responsibilities. Parents of unmarried daughters had some access to remittances, but this varied according to the economic conditions of the family. Left-behind parents were concerned about the safety of their daughters overseas, the marriage prospects of unmarried daughters, the stability of their daughters' marriages and the welfare of left-behind grandchildren. Because the migration of married and unmarried daughters has diverse impacts on left-behind parents, this should be considered in programs that aim to mitigate potential negative impacts of women's migration.

Atelier 1 : les innovateurs et leur héritage; The European tradition of social pedagogy has, over the last 10 years, been gaining prominence in discourses around welfare in the UK. Initially this was the result of research into the efficacy of social pedagogy in residential services in Europe as compared with the relatively poor outcomes achieved for young people in similar services in the UK. More recently attention has focused on the way youth services could be reoriented if they were to adopt a social pedagogic approach. This paper considers these later developments and looks at how youth work in the UK could be re-energised by the insertion of a social pedagogic framework into the activities of youth workers. It argues for a perspective which moves beyond an individual focus on the young person to one which utilises an approach which recognises structural as well as individual perspectives. The paper suggests that to achieve this we need to draw on notions of the 'Common Third' and underlying commitments to inclusion and creativity

Increasingly the activities of social professionals are being framed within the exigencies of a mixed economy of welfare which promotes regulation and control rather than user empowerment. What has happened to the radical tradition within international social work? This article looks at current concerns and points to the lessons that can be learned from ‘radical social work’. It shows how the experience of service users is impacted upon by poverty and social exclusion and suggests ways in which a new radical agenda can be developed to promote social transformation