ABSTRACT
The 'Green social work' is a new theoretical concern for the social work profession and specifically for social work with people crossing borders. Climate-related events can be a precursor to forced migration and can alert social workers to safeguarding issues. This requires social workers to scrutinise and understand discourses of climate migration and their assumptions. Social workers, as advocates, know that ordinary Syrians are not to blame for the violence inflicted on the natural environment or in the countries that they are fleeing from or to. Social Workers Without Borders (SWWB) promote transnationalism in social work practice and advocates for the just treatment of those who cross borders, through choice or force. Social workers have intervened in the microenvironments of people to improve their health status, residential living environment, workplace conditions, and social and psychological functioning. Volunteering in Calais was not only an exercise of reflective social work but also of applying social work theory to practice.
