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The broker role in societal activation of long-term welfare recipients: a jack of all trades?
- Authors:
- PREVO Lotte, JANSEN Maria, KREMERS Stef
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 22(2), 2022, pp.460-478.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Summary: Socioeconomic status and health are strongly related to the ability of a person to participate in society. Acting upon activation and employment possibilities is difficult for several groups. One group described as especially hard to activate is long-term welfare recipients. In the current study, the role of an activation broker was studied as a supplementary practice to regular support practices. A qualitative research design using an analysis of the administrative logbook of the activation broker and interviews with professionals (n = 8) and long-term welfare recipients (n = 10) was carried out. To structure the retrieved data, the Activation Broker Wheel was developed. Findings: Seven core behaviours were identified and categorized in three determinants; capabilities, opportunities and motivation. Contextual factors supporting the activation broker approach were selected. The activation broker approach was found to be successful in activating long-term welfare recipients. Applications: The behaviours, determinants and context made visible within the Activation Broker Wheel provided insight into workable elements that may help future activation brokers to optimize their support. (Edited publisher abstract)
Activist conceptualisations at the migration-welfare nexus: racial capitalism, austerity and the hostile environment
- Author:
- VICKERS Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 41(3), 2021, pp.426-446.
- Publisher:
- Sage
In recent years British welfare policy and immigration policy have intertwined in new ways, with widespread cuts alongside increasing conditionality, rationing, and differentiation of rights. This article explores perspectives among activists attempting to resist these developments, with a focus on those that go beyond narrow reactions and engage in systemic critiques. It draws on in-depth qualitative interviews with activists from a variety of campaigns in England. The article presents a conceptual framework, synthesising these activists’ ideas and comprising three elements: racialised profit-seeking as a driver of policy; ‘situated universalism’ as a counter-hegemonic basis for unity; and a theory of change through grassroots campaigns. (Edited publisher abstract)
Women who frequent soup kitchens: a cultural, gender-mainstreaming perspective
- Author:
- POSSICK Chaya
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 19(3), 2019, pp.397-414.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Summary: The aim of this qualitative study is to explore the meanings Israeli women who frequent soup assign to this experience. The study is based on participant observation and 16 recorded interviews with women in eight soup kitchens in Israel. The study adopts a gender-mainstreaming approach to food security that privileges the life knowledge of women living in poverty. The grounded theory method was employed in the collection and analysis of the data-field notes and interviews. Findings: Four main categories regarding women’s constructions of motivations for frequenting soup kitchens emerged: (1) nutritional needs, (2) feeding others, (3) overall economic strategy, and (4) social needs. The issue of dealing with shame is also explored from a humanist and cultural perspective. Applications: The findings indicate the need for social workers to consider food security, and eating arrangements when making assessments, evaluating interventions and developing programs and policies in all practice settings. Social workers need to provide information about community food services that are accessible and user-friendly for their women clients who deal with food insecurity and social isolation. Soup kitchens should be structured to allow for active participation of the service users in the administration and operation of food security programs. Finally, social workers should adopt a critical, feminist position regarding women’s use of soup kitchens as an oppressive survival strategy that stems from inequality in gender and class power relations. (Edited publisher abstract)
Immigrants and poverty, and conditionality of immigrants’ social rights
- Author:
- EUGSTER Beatrice
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 28(5), 2018, pp.452-470.
- Publisher:
- Sage
It is not only immigration and the incorporation of immigrants into society that serve as challenges for post-industrialised countries, but also rising inequality and poverty. This article focuses on both issues and proposes a new theoretical perspective on the determinants of immigrant poverty. Building on comparative welfare state research and international migration literature, The author argues that immigrants’ social rights – here understood as their access to paid employment and welfare benefits – condition the impact which both the labour market and welfare system have on immigrants’ poverty. The empirical analysis is based on a newly collected dataset on immigrants’ social rights in 19 advanced industrialised countries. The findings confirm the hypotheses: more regulated minimum wage setting institutions and generous traditional family programmes reduce immigrants’ poverty more strongly in countries where they are granted easier access to paid employment and social benefits. (Edited publisher abstract)
Deserving social benefits? Political framing and media framing of ‘deservingness’ in two welfare reforms in Denmark
- Authors:
- ESMARK Anders, SCHOOP Sarah R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 27(5), 2017, pp.417-432.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The article contributes to the growing literature on framing of deservingness as an alternative to ‘blame avoidance’ strategies in the politics of welfare retrenchment. In particular, the article focuses on the interplay between political framing and media framing. Based on an analysis of two major welfare reforms involving reductions of social benefits in Denmark in 2005 and 2013, the article analyses the frames used by politicians supporting and opposing reform, as well as the frames used by the media. The article shows, first, that political reforms reducing social benefits are followed by increased framing of recipients as undeserving. The article finds a strong correlation between the political objective of reducing benefits and the reliance on frames that position recipients as undeserving. Second, the article shows that media framing remains significantly different from political framing in both years. However, the results also show that the media become less critical and more prone to frame recipients as undeserving along with the changes in political framing. Third, the article shows that media coverage of retrenchment reforms will be more critical under conditions of political conflict than in the case of political consensus. However, this result is also qualified by the observation that the media increasingly seek outside sources in order to find alternative voices under conditions approximating political consensus. (Publisher abstract)
Redefining welfare in Scotland – with or without women?
- Author:
- O’ HAGAN Angela
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 36(4), 2016, pp.649-671.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The combination of the impact of welfare reform by the UK government and the opportunity for change presented by the debate on Scottish independence produced a profusion of alternative proposals for social security from scholars, formal political parties, the Scottish Government, and a range of think tanks and civil society organisations. The extent to which these proposals demonstrated considered gender analysis or specific objectives to address economic and social constraints principally experienced by women and arising from the constraints of gender relations varied considerably. This article considers the extent to which concerns for alternative approaches to social security policy reflect a political commitment to women’s economic and social well-being in a future Scotland through an analysis of proposals from key policy documents prior to the referendum and the proposals emerging in the post-referendum period. (Publisher abstract)
"Why are you talking to me like I'm stupid?" The micro-aggressions committed within the social welfare system against lone mothers
- Authors:
- LIEGGHIO Maria, CARAGATA Lea
- Journal article citation:
- Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 31(1), 2016, pp.7-23.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Based on the analysis of qualitative, semi-structured interviews conducted with 92 welfare-reliant lone mothers living across Canada, this article explores the 'micro-aggressions' experienced by these women in their interactions with the social welfare system. Micro-aggressions refer to the verbal and nonverbal, relational exchanges that send denigrating messages to persons of marginalized and discriminated against social groups. From the analysis, the article concludes that class and gender become sites, intersecting and interlocking, where micro-aggressions as a form of interpersonal violence and discrimination occur against women/lone mothers living in poverty that act to diminish the agency and sense of public worthiness of these women, in turn limiting their access to contesting these constructions. (Edited publisher abstract)
Personalisation in disability services and healthcare: a critical comparative analysis
- Authors:
- MLADENOV Teodor, OWENS John, CRIBB Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 35(3), 2015, pp.307-326.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Personalisation is a key term in contemporary British social policy. This article conceptualises personalisation as embodying two aspects – marketisation and social justice – and explores their interaction in discourses and practices of personalisation in disability services and healthcare. Comparing the application and reception of personalisation in these two social policy domains, the article identifies a tendency of marketisation to override social justice and highlights the negative implications of this tendency. The analysis is further contextualised by looking at the uses of personalisation to legitimise retrenchment of public provision in the context of post-2008 austerity. In conclusion, the article calls for a critical engagement with the dominant interpretations of personalisation in order to prevent its reduction to a vehicle for unchecked marketisation of social policy. (Publisher abstract)
The search for an ‘asset-effect’: what do we want from asset-based welfare?
- Author:
- GREGORY James
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 34(4), 2014, pp.475-494.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article calls for a critical revaluation of the case for asset-based welfare as a progressive strategy for greater social inclusion. Whilst there is a strong case for helping low-income households to build a financial cushion, the idea that there is a stronger ‘asset-effect’ – with positive benefits beyond financial stability and access to goods and services – is unsupported by current evidence. Recent interpretations of that evidence have tended to claim a unique asset-effect that could in fact be achieved by other means. The idea of an asset-effect is also normatively opaque in the current debate, with little clarity on the deeper issue of the individual behaviours that the ‘effect’ is intended to create. This leaves an ambiguity in the relationship between asset-based welfare and the rights and duties of citizenship; a lacuna that is easily exploited by ideologies of self-sufficiency at the expense of more egalitarian accounts of social inclusion. (Publisher abstract)
The institutional logic of images of the poor and welfare recipients: a comparative study of British, Swedish and Danish newspapers
- Authors:
- LARSEN Christian Albrekt, DEJGAARD Thomas Engel
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 23(3), 2013, pp.287-299.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The article investigates how the poor and welfare recipients are depicted in British, Danish and Swedish newspapers. The study was inspired by American media studies that have documented a negative stereotypic way of portraying the poor and welfare recipients, especially when they are African Americans. The article argues that there is an institutional welfare regime logic behind the way the poor and welfare recipients are depicted in the mass media. It is not only a matter of race. This argument is substantiated by showing that the poor and welfare recipients are (1) also depicted negatively in a liberal welfare regime, the UK, where most of the poor and welfare recipients are perceived to be white, and (2) depicted positively in two social-democratic welfare regimes, Sweden and Denmark, where the poor and welfare recipients have increasingly come to be perceived as non-white, especially in Denmark. The empirical analyses are based on a sample of 1750 British, 1750 Danish and 1750 Swedish newspapers covering the period from 2004 to 2009. (Publisher abstract)