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Regional welfare system developments in Russia: community social services
- Author:
- THOMSON Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 36(2), April 2002, pp.105-122.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Micro-level studies of welfare service developments are largely absent from the literature on Russian social policy issues, which tends to concentrates on macro-level social security arrangements. This paper highlights the emergence of community-based social services in the post-1991 era, examining their development in two provincial Russian cities, based on an empirical study carried out in 1998. The paper adds to a growing literature which seeks to understand "welfare systems" from the perspective of welfare services by looking at their use by, and relevance for, disabled children regarded as having learning difficulties, and their families. The empirical data indicate the shape of "new" services in the field sites, the means by which such institutions were maintained and their integration into the welfare sphere as a whole. Their development and maintenance at the local level is explained in part by socio-economic, political and administrative factors in these regions. By highlighting the various factors that help to maintain welfare provision and drive change at the local level, the case studies indicate the possible shape of future welfare developments in Russia as a whole.
New citizenship by new ways of economic integration
- Authors:
- HERRMANN Peter, STEPHENSON Svetlana, GEOGHEGAN Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 9(2), 2002, pp.23-36.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
Discusses the reasons behind the crisis of the state, the new forms of citizenship that are being constructed through new ways of economic integration and how this relates to the crisis. Examines the findings of research on projects working with people who are on the margins of accepted citizenship. The first project focuses on the activities of Russian non-government organisations working with vulnerable groups and the second looks at work with Travellers in Ireland. The author argues that NGOs may now be reaching their limits in expanding the experience of citizenship.