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Lessons from social work’s history for a tumultuous era
- Author:
- REISCH Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Social Service Review, 93(4), 2019, pp.581-607.
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
For more than a century, political-economic, demographic, and ideological forces have shaped US social work. Torn between social justice and status enhancement, the profession vacillated between advocating for social reform and seeking elite support. Ongoing contradictions between empowerment and expertise, social change and social control, and collaboration with and coercion of constituents reflect this tension. During the past 4 decades, neoliberalism, antiwelfare perspectives, and hyperpartisan politics transformed social work practice and its research and knowledge base. The 2016 election rocked the profession and produced significant changes for the people with whom we work and the nature of social work. New social movements, such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, and global action over climate change and gun violence have also posed new challenges. Social workers must now reexamine long-standing assumptions about practice and evidence; their relationship to power, place, and context; and their role in shaping the future of US society. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social policies and refugee resettlement: Iraqis in Australia
- Authors:
- JOHNSTON Vanessa, VASEY Katie, MARKOVIC Milica
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 29(2), May 2009, pp.191-215.
- Publisher:
- Sage
In this paper, the authors analyse national social policies that mediate the experiences of Iraqi refugees in Australia. Drawing on qualitative in-depth interviews conducted with this population in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria in Australia, and a small town in country Victoria, they delineate how social policies can lead to visible (formal) and invisible (informal) exclusion of refugees. Two Australian policies; temporary protection and regional resettlement of refugees, are used to demonstrate how official Australian government policies may negatively affect the integration experience of these new arrivals. Additionally, such policies have unintended consequences for support networks between refugees on different visa categories, and for social relationships between refugees and the broader Australian community.
Poverty, welfare problems and social exclusion
- Authors:
- HALLEROD B., LARSSON D.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 17(1), January 2008, pp.15-25.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article investigates whether, and to what degree, poverty is linked to other types of welfare problems and, in larger perspective, whether the situation can be understood in terms of social exclusion. Two different measures of poverty – income poverty and deprivation poverty – and 17 indicators of welfare problems were used in the analysis. It was shown that income poverty was rather weakly related to other types of welfare problems, i.e. the most commonly used measure of poverty seems to discriminate a section of the population that does not suffer from the kinds of problems we usually assume that poverty causes. Deprivation poverty, identifying those who most often had to forgo consumption of goods and services, did correlate strongly with other types of welfare problems. Hence, people living under poor conditions do suffer from welfare problems even though this section of the population is not always captured by income poverty measures. The final analysis showed that the types of welfare problems that were most likely to cluster were deprivation poverty, economic precariousness, unemployment, psychological strain and health problems. Whether these types of accumulated welfare problems, from a theoretical perspective, can be seen as indicators of social exclusion is more doubtful.
New horizons research programme: the social exclusion of older people: future trends and policies: think piece
- Authors:
- WALKER Alan, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Communities and Local Government
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 37p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report intends to examine how the landscape of social exclusion is likely to change over the next five to 15 years and the policy implications of these changes. It also aims to highlight the most promising policy options in seeking to combat present and future social exclusion among older people.
Social exclusion
- Author:
- BYRNE David
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 202p.,, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
- Edition:
- 2nd
The book explores developments in social theory, social experience and social policy in relation to Social Exclusion. The first part examines the origins of the term and implications of the difference between the ideas of 'exclusion', 'underclass', 'residuum' and related concepts. The discussion is informed by the application of Complexity Theory. In the updated second part, the theoretical account is developed through a detailed review of the dynamics of individual lives in a changing social order. Income equality, spatial division, and exclusion in relation to health, education and cultural provision and processes are examined in a range of societies in Europe and North America. The last part contains a new chapter outlining the content and impact of national and international policies which have been specifically developed to address issues of exclusion.
Community development in the 21st century: a case of conditional development
- Author:
- POPPLE Keith
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 36(2), February 2006, pp.333-340.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
During the last 5 years, the UK government has increased support for and resources to community development projects and strategies. These interventions have been deployed to assist the state address key issues of social exclusion notably at neighbourhood level. The thrust for tackling social exclusion and therefore the growth in community development can be linked to New Labour’s adherence to a neo-liberal agenda. The two articles and the working paper considered here reflect this expansion of activity and articulate some of the central issues and challenges facing community development. The central problem for community development appears to be that whilst it has secured a more prominent place within contemporary social policies, it is in danger of losing its ability effectively to address the expressed needs of local communities. Hence the development we are witnessing can be considered to be a case of conditional development.
Accession and social policy: the case of Hungary
- Authors:
- FERGE Zsuzsa, JUHASZ Gabor
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 14(3), August 2004, pp.233-251.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The EU started relatively late to inject social considerations into the enlargement process. A vision connected to the European Social Model could have been instrumental in handling the social problems emerging after the transition but did not play a basic role in shaping Hungarian social policy. Many factors and actors impacted on the changes that took place in social policy procedures and institutions. For instance, the ILO and the EU influenced labour market issues, while family policy was mostly shaped by home-bred ideologies, and to some extent the World Bank. Pension reform was fully steered by the World Bank. The EU had an important role in shaping social and civil dialogue. As the monitoring reports following the progress of the candidate countries show, the concerns of the EU remained economic and political. The reports approved the moves towards the neo-liberal model inspired by the monetarist agencies. This paper argues that the European impact in the social sphere has strengthened over recent years, and its main payoff is the growing interest and commitment of politics towards poverty and inclusion, and the widening practice of civil and social dialogue.
Croatia's answers to the European Commission Questionnaire social policy
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Revija Za Socijalnu Politiku Journal of Social Policy, 11(2), 2004, pp.193-220.
- Publisher:
- University of Zagreb
In the process of European accession, one of the first steps is the assessment of the potential candidate country, assessment of its capabilities and possibility to undertake all the rights and obligations that result from membership. One of the spheres that has been analysed is the sphere of employment and social policy. Summarises some of the answers of Croatia to the EU in the areas of social dialogue, health status, social protection and inclusion and suppression of discrimination. [Article in Croatian]
Social exclusion in the European Union: an organised focus for social policy-making
- Author:
- McDEVITT Suzanne
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy Journal, 2(4), 2003, pp.3-18.
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, New York
Reviews the development of social policy in the European Union since the mid-1980s. It describes the origins and evolution of the concept of social exclusion, the dominant paradigm for social welfare policy-making in the European Union and its member states. Case examples from Great Britain and Wales provide indications of the impacts for direct services.
Carers and indicators of vulnerability to social exclusion
- Author:
- BECKER Saul
- Journal article citation:
- Benefits, 28, April 2000, pp.1-4.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Discusses the concept of social exclusion in relation to carers and asks why it has taken so long to link carers with the social exclusion agenda.