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Multi-local and cross-border care loops: comparison of childcare and eldercare policies in Slovenia
- Author:
- HRZENJAK Majda
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 29(5), 2019, pp.640-652.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article provides a comparative analysis of two different care systems, childcare and eldercare, in Slovenia, an Eastern-European post-transition country, with a dual-breadwinner full-time employment regime, a relatively low level of migration and a fast growing share of the 65+ population. The analysis shows that both care systems follow two different kinds of logic of egalitarianism, which means that the national care regime is internally diversified. While care for children is public, universally accessible and defamilialistic, care for the elderly follows the principles of marketization, economy-based inequality in access and familialization. Such policies also have different implications for care mobilities: while childcare demands daily transfers between multi-local sites of care, which remained confined within the state borders, eldercare increasingly demands cross-border care loops. The comparison of both care systems along with the empirical evidence on the presence/absence of migrant care workers in care support the thesis that cross-border care mobilities emerge at points where the state with its policies is failing to adequately meet care needs of the citizens. (Edited publisher abstract)
Housing for care: a response to the post-transitional old-age gap?
- Author:
- MANDIC Srna
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 26(2), 2016, pp.155-167.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article examines the trade-off between owned housing and old-age care in Slovenia where the population has been found outstandingly willing to enter residential care and also consume housing wealth for this purpose. To explain this peculiarity, a case study as a holistic in-depth analysis was conducted, combining multiple sources of quantitative survey data and qualitative interview-based insights and accounting for the institutional context and individual decisions. What was found was a modernised version of the traditional ‘inheritance for care’ exchange, whereby the inheritor partly finances the parent’s residential care. This family-mediated trade-off between old-age care and housing wealth was found to serve as an informal equity-release scheme which in Slovenia helps bridge the post-transitional old-age gap, the syndrome of low pensions, underdeveloped care services and owner-occupied housing un-adapted to seniors. Moreover, it is hypothesised that this structural gap is common to other post-transitional countries. (Publisher abstract)
Ethnic sensitivity: a challenge for social work
- Author:
- URH Špela
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 54(4), July 2011, pp.471-484.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The Roma ethnic minority is historically one of the most marginalised and underprivileged ethnic-minority groups in Slovenia. Although Slovenia has adopted some measures in order to improve the Roma’s position in this country, these have not been fully implemented in practice due to a lack of political will. Despite the rise of anti-racist and ethnically sensitive social work education in other countries such as the UK, Canada and the USA, this had not been accepted, until recently, as an important concept in the social work curricula in Slovenia. Consequently, little has been done to counteract racist practice. This article argues that in order to break the historical silence and the neutral or passive attitude to ethnic differences it is necessary to fight for institutional changes in social work and the transcendence of institutional, cultural and personal racism. It presents 2 main areas relevant to social work: the legal and sociological perspective considers how minorities are treated in Slovenia; and the social work perspective considers how social work has responded to minority needs and how social work education has adapted. It concludes that there is a need to develop an ethnically sensitive learning model which represents a more reflexive theory and practice in social work with ethnic groups.
Values of young people in Slovenia: the search for personal security
- Author:
- CEPLAK Metka Mencin
- Journal article citation:
- Young Nordic Journal of Youth Research, 14(4), November 2006, pp.291-308.
- Publisher:
- Sage
In this article the values and life orientation of young people in Slovenia over a recent 10-year period are analysed. As is the case in the majority of other European countries, empirical research on large samples of various Slovenian youth populations in 1993, 1995, 1999 and 2000 has disclosed young people's marked preferential interest in the private and the personal spheres of life, whereas their interest in politics is slight, as is the degree of trust in existing political institutions and actors. In Slovenia this trend is usually characterized as a ‘shift towards privacy’, and being apolitical is one of the most frequently invoked defining features of the younger generation. In the author's opinion, these research findings reveal huge changes in Slovenia's political space–paradoxically, this space has contracted in comparison to the situation in the 1980s, largely due to a narrower understanding of politics and political activity.
Social work as a profession: as perceived by Slovenian and Croatian social work students
- Authors:
- KNEZEVIC Mladen, OVSENIK Rok, JERMAN Janja
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 49(4), July 2006, pp.519-529.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The authors were interested in finding out whether student social workers perceive social work differently in the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia. The study questioned 100 students at the Social Work College in Ljubljana, Slovenia and 240 students at the Study Centre for Social Work at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, Croatia. According to the results of this research, there are significant differences between student social workers; however, they can be found in a relatively small number of factors that describe social work as a profession.
Making a case in social work: the construction of an unsuitable mother
- Author:
- UREK Mojca
- Journal article citation:
- Qualitative Social Work, 4(4), December 2005, pp.451-467.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The central focus of the article is a case study in which the author highlights the ways in which social workers and other helping professionals constructed a mother, her daughter and their own realities through the use of authorial devices such as moral characterization, point of view, and other techniques. This analysis is made on the basis of oral and written accounts available in this case and focuses primarily on some of the narrative strategies underpinning interventions in the case. These, it is maintained, served social workers in making their representations persuasive for various publics. Moreover, this analysis shows that social work accounts are also deeply moral narrative strategies. The narrative materials examined here about a mother illustrate how the character of a morally unsuitable woman and parent are constructed in social work accounts. The analysis also demonstrates that such moral constructions then serve as the basis for interventions requiring justification when presented to important professional audiences.
Work values and success in studying: similarities and differences between social work students in Croatia and Slovenia
- Authors:
- KNEZEVIC Mladen, OVSENIK Rok, JERMAN Janja
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 48(1), January 2005, pp.21-33.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article deals with the work values of social work students in Croatia and Slovenia, where the correlation of these values with success in advancement in the academic environment is revealed to be significantly different.
Women, work and equal opportunities in post-Communist transition
- Author:
- POLLERT Anna
- Journal article citation:
- Work Employment and Society, 17(2), June 2003, pp.331-357.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article examines gender, work and equal opportunities (EO) in five central eastern European (CEE) candidates to an enlarged European Union (EU): the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia. It demonstrates how capitalist transition has eroded women's Communist economic and social legacy, and considers implications for EO of the EU enlargement process. Analysis of decline begins with an outline of women's position under Communism, showing both similarities in gender inequality to those of capitalism, but also significant differences and advances. Post-transition is then examined in terms of the UN Gender Development Index, women's loss of social support, their decline in labour force participation and changes in employment and political representation. A limitation in available data is lack of information on unregulated employment and informal work - both major developments in CEE. The objective picture is then set against subjective responses to change - a key factor in gender EO prospects. Finally, developments in EO monitoring and enforcement agencies are reviewed, with the conclusion drawing these levels of enquiry together to assess the possibilities of EU enlargement as a spur to greater commitment to gender equality in CEE.
Reform of social policy in Slovenia: a soft approach
- Author:
- SVETLIK Ivan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 3(3), 1993, pp.195-208.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Slovenia faces similar problems to other central European countries which have introduced radical reforms of their economic and political systems - in addition, it has become an independent state. However, its export-oriented and relatively well-developed economy has prevented the need for drastic cuts in welfare programmes or a reduction of public services to be replaced by services provided by the voluntary sector. This article describes major changes that have been introduced in the areas of employment, housing, health care, child care, education and poverty relief in the course of the last four years. In the final part of the article, main trends in social policy are discussed, which, it is argued, are rooted in the 1980s and remain under social and political control.