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Hewers of wood and drawers of water: English subaltern education from the charity schools to the neoliberal meritocracy of widening participation Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 CHRISTOPHER CUNNINGHAM, COLIN SAMSON
British educational ideas and policies towards working-class and minority youth show continuous preoccupations with social status and preparation for labour. In examining this, we link educational discourses and practices in England from the Charity Schools to the contemporary higher education policy Widening Participation (WP). We argue that WP is heir to successive educational programmes that explicitly
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The respect for marriage act: The connection between marriage equality, abortion rights, and religious freedom in the USA Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 HEATHER E. DEAL, GAYNOR I. YANCEY
This article examines the Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA) and its connection to abortion rights and religious freedom in the United States. The RFMA was passed in response to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion to the Dobbs v. Jackson case which revoked federal abortion rights and suggested the Supreme Court reevaluate similar decisions based on due process, like Obergefell which
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Mothering in hostile environments: Migrant families negotiating the welfare and immigration regime nexus Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 RACHEL BENCHEKROUN, RACHEL HUMPHRIS, NANDO SIGONA
This article examines the production, working and impact of the UK's hostile environment on migrant families with precarious legal status. Our approach is informed by two bodies of scholarly work: critical border studies and research on migrant families. We bridge these literatures to show how the hostile environment is neither a singular, neatly bounded space, nor limited to a set of interactions
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Forum theatre practice as lived activism Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 ERENE KAPTANI, SURAIYA ISMAIL, FRANCES RIFKIN, MAGGIE O’NEILL
This article seeks to show that activism for racialised, black and migrant women stems from their embodied lived experiences and the need for creating practices and spaces for these to manifest, be validated and expand on. Forum Theatre practice that includes the racialised body, collective reflection and reparative action can address the neo-colonial and patriarchal encounters, and places of oppression
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Book Review: Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin (eds) Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Oliver Brockmann
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Distanciation as a technology of control in the UK hostile environment Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 JESSICA L. POTTER, ISABEL MEIER
This article considers how distanciation, understood as the active production of different forms of distance as a method of control, is used to manage people racialised and criminalised as migrants within the UK's hostile environment. Analysing different policies introduced under the hostile environment agenda, as well as the more recent New Plan for Immigration, we argue distanciation is a key tactic
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Pregnant racialised migrants and the ubiquitous border: The hostile environment as a technology of stratified reproduction Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 GWYNETH LONERGAN
This article explores the impact of the ‘hostile environment’ on racialised migrant women's experiences of pregnancy and childbirth in England, arguing that the ‘hostile environment’ functions as a technology of ‘stratified reproduction.’ First coined by Shellee Colen, the concept of stratified reproduction describes the dynamic by which some individuals and groups may be supported in their reproductive
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Migrant women becoming ‘stronger together’ through the arts: Creating Ground Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 LAURA MARZIALE
In this article we introduce Creating Ground, a not-for-profit organisation that works with women from migrant backgrounds to promote intersectional anti-racist cross-cultural awareness, learning and sharing across different communities in South East London through collaborative arts and educational projects. We reflect on our use of participatory arts, social action and training to bring migrant women
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Sharing ‘hostile’ stories: Exploring the UK's ‘hostile environment’ through participatory arts-based methods Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 NELLI STAVROPOULOU
This article presents personal stories from a participatory biographical arts-based study with a specific category of racialised migrants: individuals seeking asylum in the North East of England. Responding to the important questions posed by this special issue, the article explores individual experiences of navigating the UK's hostile environment with a focus on the threefold punitive ‘threat’ of
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Book Review: Critical Perspectives on Children’s Social Services Reform by Robin Sen and Christian Kerr (eds) Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Roger Smith
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Book Review: Handbook on Migration and Ageing by Sandra Torres and Alistair Hunter Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Smarika KC
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Book Review: The Reformation of Welfare: The New Faith of the Labour Market by Tom Boland and Ray Griffin Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Kevin Ryan
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Editorial introduction: Racialised migrants navigating the UK's hostile environment policies Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 TRACEY REYNOLDS, UMUT EREL, MAGGIE O’NEILL
This article presents personal stories from a participatory biographical arts-based study with a specific category of racialised migrants: individuals seeking asylum, in the North East of England. Responding to the important questions posed by this special issue, the article explores individual experiences of navigating the UK's hostile environment with a focus on the threefold punitive ‘threat’ of
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Book Review: Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation by Nick Riemer Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Paola Rivetti
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The exceptions to child exceptionalism: Racialised migrant ‘deservingness’ and the UK's free school meal debates Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 RACHEL ROSEN, EVE DICKSON
Free School Meals (FSM) have been the site of renewed contestation and extensive campaigning in the last half-decade. Until recently, children in families with ‘no recourse to public funds’ because of their immigration status were excluded from accessing FSMs, despite being some of the most destitute in Britain. Through an analysis of campaign materials and interviews with advocates, we consider this
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Book Review: Decolonized Approaches to Human Rights and Social Work by Melinda Madew, Marcin Boryczko and Mark Lusk (eds) Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Sophie Samyn
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Encountering the hostile environment: Recently arrived Afghan migrants in London Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 LOUISE RYAN, MARÍA LÓPEZ, ALESSIA DALCEGGIO
Following the dramatic evacuation from Kabul airport in August 2021, the UK government proclaimed its commitment to a ‘warm welcome’ for Afghans. In this paper we draw on original qualitative research to explore the emerging experiences of evacuees, and other recent arrivals, during their first year in London. Using the narratives of our Afghans participants, as well as insights from key stakeholders
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Environmental racism, segregation and discrimination: Gypsy and Traveller sites in Great Britain Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Alice Bloch, Katharine Quarmby
This article focusses on Gypsy and Traveller communities who live on local authority managed sites around Great Britain. The subject of sites has come to the fore in the last couple of years, as the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 criminalised roadside living and therefore nomadic ways of life. Using the concept of environmental racism, the article explores the proximity of sites to environmental
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Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people: The legacy of common health problems and the future for long COVID Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Joanne Hunt
The UK government's recent announcement that the highly controversial Work Capability Assessment (WCA) will likely be abolished leaves questions of what precisely will emerge in its place. This commentary revisits a construct central to the attempted justification of the WCA, that of ‘common health problems’, which may well continue to leave a legacy in delineating purported ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’
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Bordering social reproduction: The welfare/immigration regimes of Quebec and Ontario in Canada Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 KARINE CÔTÉ-BOUCHER, SUSAN BRAEDLEY
This article makes three crucial, related arguments. First, most European analyses of immigration and social welfare fail to consider how these policies intersect to shape the social reproduction of populations, instead sticking to notions of welfare chauvinism, social citizenship, and deservingness. Second, welfare/immigration analyses are usually set at the national level, but subnational comparisons
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Diminishing returns of growth? Economic performance, needs satisfaction and ecological impacts of OECD welfare states Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Alexander Paulsson, Max Koch, Martin Fritz
The environmental crisis, increased inequality and an aging population are likely to increase the demand for welfare services in the OECD countries. Economic growth has long been seen as a solution to these problems. However, this is no longer the case. Very few countries have managed to decouple economic performance from ecological footprints and greenhouse gas emissions. Even where this has been
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Amended Safety Assessment of Dialkyl Dimer Dilinoleates as Used in Cosmetics Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Priya A. Cherian, Wilma F. Bergfeld, Donald V. Belsito, Ronald A. Hill, Curtis D. Klaassen, Daniel C. Liebler, James G. Marks, Ronald C. Shank, Thomas J. Slaga, Paul W. Snyder, Bart Heldreth
The Expert Panel for Cosmetic Ingredient Safety (Panel) reassessed the safety of 8 dialkyl dimer dilinoleates as used in cosmetics. These ingredients are diesters formed from the reaction of straig...
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Efficacy of Subchondroplasty in the Treatment of Pain Associated With Bone Marrow Lesions in the Osteoarthritic Knee Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Pietro Randelli, Riccardo Compagnoni, Paolo Ferrua, Martina Ricci, Luca La Verde, Ahmed Farid Mekky, Annalisa De Silvestri, Alessandra Menon
Background:Bone marrow lesions (BMLs) are common subchondral defects revealed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with osteoarthritis, often associated with pain and functional limitati...
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Dynamical analysis of a vertical excited pendulum using He’s perturbation method Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Abdallah A Galal, TS Amer, Wael S Amer, Heba Ali Elkafly
The current paper investigates the nonlinear dynamics of an excited pendulum by a crank-shaft-slider mechanism (CSSM), in which it is restricted to move vertically. He’s method of homotopy is emplo...
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Influence of Medial Patellofemoral Ligament Reconstruction on Patellofemoral Contact in Patients With Low-Flexion Patellar Instability: An MRI Study Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Markus Siegel, Elham Taghizadeh, Thomas Lange, Andreas Fuchs, Tayfun Yilmaz, Philipp Maier, Hans Meine, Hagen Schmal, Kaywan Izadpanah
Background:Medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) reconstruction is a well-established procedure for the treatment of patients with patellofemoral instability (PFI) at low flexion angles (0°-30°). L...
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Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
The emotions and the affective qualities of space (i.e. affective spatialities) have featured prominently in social geography research. This report discusses how recent studies have taken seriously...
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Analysis of an Australian death database of people with intellectual disability living out of the family home: Place of death and associated variables Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Michele Y. Wiese, Roger J. Stancliffe, Seeta Durvasula, Daniel W. Piepers, Nathan J. Wilson
This study reports on a five-year data set about the deaths of 599 individuals in New South Wales Australia, who at the time of their death were living in out-of-home care. Analysis aimed to: i) ga...
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Black Americans, Hospitalization, and Advance Care Planning Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Sharon E. Bigger, Jean Croce Hemphill, Trizah Njoroge, Katherine Doyon, Lee Glenn
Skilled home health (HH) is the largest long-term care setting and the fastest-growing site of healthcare in the United States (U.S.). Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) is a structure of M...
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Crowd science and science skepticism Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Oguz A Acar
Science skepticism is widespread and on the rise. It is a strong threat to public well-being and global sustainability. In this paper, I argue that crowd science is a promising and underutilized to...
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Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 CLIONA LOUGHNANE, CAROL KELLEHER, CLAIRE EDWARDS
Ireland has become an international exemplar in the use of citizens’ assemblies to determine policy. Globally, deliberative fora seek to mitigate concerns of a democratic crisis, but they also may ...
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Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: The development of adult social care policy in Wales Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Alison Tarrant
This article examines adult social care policy in Wales. It argues that successive Welsh Governments have sought to develop policy which rejects the principles of marketisation and individualisatio...
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Facing the folk devils of modern slavery policy Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 David Gadd, Rose Broad
Much British crime and immigration policy over the last decade has been justified as a response to the problem of modern slavery perpetrated by ‘evil’ foreign national organised criminals profiting...
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A critical overview of how English health and social care publications represent autistic adults’ intimate lives Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Monique Huysamen, Marianthi Kourti, Christopher Hatton
Autistic people face more social barriers to, and experience greater anxiety around, intimate relationships than the general population in our majority neurotypical society, leading to increased lo...
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Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Alexander Oaten, Ana Jordan, Amy Chandler, Hazel Marzetti
Suicide prevention policies set out government strategies and priorities for action and in doing so construct meanings, legitimise knowledge and frame possibilities. Despite their importance, preve...
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Young people's schooling trajectories and transitions to social adulthood in the context of Brazil's Bolsa Família Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 HAYLEY JONES
As cash transfers have become key tenets of social protection systems in the global South, much effort has gone into evaluating their outcomes. Less attention has been paid, however, to young benef...
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An analysis of minoritisation in domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Khatidja Chantler, Kelly Bracewell, Victoria Baker, Kim Heyes, Peter Traynor, Megan Ward
This article considers how minoritisation features in Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) in England and Wales and identifies critical learning in relation to addressing minoritisation. Five themes we...
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The importance of investing in policies beyond ‘the basics': Perspectives from black fathers in Philadelphia on how to increase community safety Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Abigail Henson, Jessica Rosenthal
The police killings of unarmed Black men and women, particularly in the year 2020, fueled a moral outcry for defunding the police. The defund movement asserts that divested police funds should be i...
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Intersectionality and structural gendered racism: Theoretical considerations for Black women, children, and families impacted by child protective services in the United States Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Abigail Williams-Butler
This critical review uses the frameworks of intersectionality and structural gendered racism to understand the racialized, gendered, and class-based oppression regarding the overrepresentation of p...
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Sex workers’ peer support during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from a study of a Portuguese community-led response Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 JOANA DE JESUS MOURA, MARTA PINTO, ALEXANDRA OLIVEIRA, MARIA ANDRADE, SÉRGIO VITORINO, SANDRA OLIVEIRA, ROBERTA MATOS, MARGARIDA MARIA
To respond to the consequences felt by the COVID-19 pandemic, a community-led intervention was developed by the Portuguese national Movement of Sex Workers. With this exploratory study, we aimed to...
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Shattered glass piling at the bottom: The ‘problem’ with gender equality policy for higher education Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-09-04 LENNITA OLIVEIRA RUGGI, NATA DUVVURY
Since 2014, gender equality has gained momentum in Irish higher education. Feminist organising and media attention resulted in an ‘almost-perfect storm of pressure’ to which the state responded by ...
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Government through clanship: Governing Ethiopia’s Somali pastoralists through a community-based social protection programme Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-08-31 GETU DEMEKE ALENE, JESSICA DUNCAN, HAN VAN DIJK
Drawing on an analysis of the implementation of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in the Somali periphery, we consider how the programme is promoted as an ‘innovative’ social protec...
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Assessing sick-listed clients’ work ability: A moral mission? Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 KARIANNE NYHEIM STRAY, OLE JACOB THOMASSEN, HALVARD VIKE
Judging the extent to which sick-listed clients’ disabilities qualify them for sickness benefits is increasingly part of frontline work. However, we lack knowledge about the discretional process of...
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Is digitalisation of public health and social welfare services reinforcing social exclusion? The case of Russian-speaking older migrants in Finland Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-07-03 Ulla Buchert, Laura Kemppainen, Antero Olakivi, Sirpa Wrede, Anne Kouvonen
Governments are rapidly digitalising public services to increase cost-effectiveness of the public sector. This study examines older migrants’ use of digital public health and social welfare service...
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Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 CLARE GRIFFITHS, JULIE TREBILCOCK
Drawing on Bacchi’s (2009) ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ framework, this article provides a critical analysis of HM Government’s (2021a) New Plan for Immigration. We explore how immigrati...
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‘Do they ever think about people like us?': The experiences of people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Nathaniel Scherer, Phillippa Wiseman, Nicholas Watson, Richard Brunner, Jane Cullingworth, Shaffa Hameed, CHARLOTTE PEARSON, Tom Shakespeare
People with learning disabilities in England and Scotland have experienced an increased risk of illness and death during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on data of a longitudinal qualitative study w...
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The banality of state violence: Institutional neglect in austere local authorities Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Ed Kiely, Rosalie Warnock
Theorisations of state violence under austerity have been criticised for their imprecision. In response, this article introduces the concept of institutional neglect: a specific modality of structu...
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Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Louise Humpage, Shelley Bielefeld, Greg Marston, Zoe Staines, Michelle Peterie, Philip Mendes
New Zealand recipients of the Youth Payment and Young Parent Payment, who are disproportionally Indigenous Māori and sole mothers, must participate in ‘Money Management’. This form of income manage...
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Teaching social policy as if students matter: Decolonizing the curriculum and perpetuating epistemic injustice Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Hakan Seckinelgin
Calls for the decolonization of education at all levels of education in the UK have gained new momentum since the murder of George Floyd on 25 May 2020 in Minneapolis and the subsequent Black Lives Matter demonstrations throughout the US and the UK. In this article I focus on the reactions to demands for the decolonization of the curriculum in my own department, Social Policy, at the London School
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‘I’m not going anywhere near that': Expert stakeholder challenges in working with boys and young men regarding sex and sexual consent Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Andrea Waling, Alexandra James, JACKSON FAIRCHILD
This article explores findings from 23 expert stakeholder interviews on working with cisgender heterosexual men and boys in the fields of gendered violence prevention, relationships and sexuality education (RSE), sexual health, sport, and emotional and mental well-being. It focuses on how organisations and individual consultants navigate political and social tensions when working with boys and young
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Adequate for whom? Reflections on the right to adequate housing from fieldwork on Roma inclusion in Italy Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Silvia Cittadini
The definition of 'adequate housing', a term widely used in the protection of the related right and the development of housing policies, has never been fully questioned, despite the acknowledged importance of shelter for the well-being of the individual beyond its physical function. This article analyses the weaknesses of the current definition of this term through the findings of reflexive fieldwork
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Female dependents, individual customers and promiscuous digital personas: The multiple governing of women through the Australian social security couple rule Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 LYNDAL SLEEP
This article argues that women social security recipients are governed by multiple political rationalities through the couple rule in Australia. It focuses on different periods of development of the couple rule – its inception within women's only payments of the 1970s, it's ‘de-gendering’ with the Social Security Act 1991 (Cth), and its current intersections with the digitisation of social security
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COVID-19 and (mis)understanding public attitudes to social security: Re-setting debate Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Michael Orton, Sudipa Sarkar
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen emerging debate about a possible shift in ‘anti-welfare commonsense’ i.e. the orthodoxy previously described in this journal as solidifying negative public attitudes towards ‘welfare’. While a shift in attitudes might be ascribed to the circumstances of the crisis it would still be remarkable for such a strongly established orthodoxy to have changed quite so rapidly.
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Eviscerating equality: Normative whiteness and Conservative equality policy Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Irene Gedalof
This article draws on the insights of narrative analysis to critically review recent changes to UK government equality policy through three examples: the announcement of a new equality strategy, changes to the governance of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and the establishment and report of the Sewell Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. I argue that these policy initiatives
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Navigating multiple pandemics: A critical analysis of the impact of COVID-19 policy responses on gender-based violence services Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Tara Mantler, C. Nadine Wathen, Caitlin Burd, Jennifer C. D. MacGregor, Isobel McLean, Jill Veenendaal
COVID-19 illustrated what governments can do to mobilise against a global threat. Despite the strong governmental response to COVID-19 in Canada, another ‘pandemic’, gender-based violence (GBV), has been causing grave harm with generally insufficient policy responses. Using interpretive description methodology, 26 interviews were conducted with shelter staff and 5 focus groups with 24 executive directors
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Policy paradoxes and the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme: How welfare policies impact resettlement support Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Hannah Haycox
The Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) comprised the UK government's primary response to persons forcibly displaced by the Syrian civil war. Recipients were granted immediate recourse to public funds and a locally-based 12-month integration support plan, designed at the discretion of practitioners. Drawing on forty in-depth interviews with refugees and practitioners in two areas with contrasting
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The politics of job retention schemes in Britain: The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Jay Wiggan, Chris Grover
The UK Government's introduction of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) in March 2020 was pitched as unprecedented. Yet, during the 1970s and 1980s, UK governments also operated wage subsidy job retention schemes. Indeed, despite their professed liberal market orientation, Thatcher's radical right Conservative governments presided over the expansive Temporary Short Time Working Compensation
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The administration of harm: From unintended consequences to harm by design Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Alex Broom, Michelle Peterie, Katherine Kenny, Gaby Ramia, Nadine Ehlers
Harm is a recurring theme in the social sciences. Scholars in a range of empirical areas have documented the deleterious outcomes that at times emerge from social structures, institutions and systems of governance. Yet these harms have often been presented under the rubric of ‘unintended consequences’. The outcomes of systems are designed to appear devoid of intentionality, in motion without any clear
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Visibilising the climate in social policies in Barcelona: Connections in the urban context Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Joana Díaz-Pont
The paper aims to identify whether the interdependencies between climate action and social policies in the urban context are visible and, if so, in what areas and through what framings. Using a content analysis approach, it compares framings of the news on social policies in Barcelona over the course of a year. The results show that climate action is constructed discursively as an isolated issue, with
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The status of homelessness: Access to housing for asylum-seeking migrants as an instrument of migration control in Italy and Sweden Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Enrico Giansanti, Annika Lindberg, Martin Joormann
Homelessness and other forms of destitution among asylum-seeking migrants are currently on the rise across Europe, as migrants’ access to social rights, including housing, has been restricted through repressive migration policies, fuelled by the welfare nationalism and chauvinism that surge among European states. This article explores the largely overlooked homelessness experienced by migrants seeking
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Which capital do you mobilise? How bureaucratic encounters shape jobseekers’ social and cultural capital in France and Germany Critical Social Policy (IF 1.802) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Hadrien Clouet, Carolin Freier, Monika Senghaas
Based on participant observations in the French and German public employment services (PES), this article proposes a new way of analysing bureaucratic encounters following Bourdieu’s capital theory. We show that caseworkers who are supposed to support jobseekers into employment, force the allegedly needy jobseekers to accumulate capital, but only in its cultural or social form, and never both at the