Diversity and welfare provision : tension and discrimination in 21st century Britain / edited by Lee Gregory and Steve Iafrati.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gregory, Lee, 1984- editor.

Iafrati, Steve, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Great Britain.

Public welfare.

Discrimination--Great Britain.

Discrimination.

Cultural pluralism--Great Britain.

Cultural pluralism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2024.

Summary:

This book explores how diverse citizens experience welfare provision. It seeks to promote broader debate and address the silences in research and debate, particularly in relation under-researched groups, with the aim of developing a renewed call for analysis.

Contents:

1. Introduction - Lee Gregory and Steve Iafrati

2. Citizenship and diversity: challenging the conceptual framework - Lee Gregory and Steve Iafrati

3. Widening the gaze: institutional racism, social policy and conceptual diversification - Steve Iafrati and Lee Gregory

4. Disabled self-employed people and the UK welfare state - Gerardo Arriaga Garcia and Eva Kašperová

5. Neoliberalism, division and austerity: precarity and hunger in the UK - Dave Beck and Hefin Gwilym

6. Racialised institutions in the UK welfare state - Temidayo Eseonu

7. Statutory exclusion from social security: experiences of migrants in the UK - Ilona Pinter

8. Disadvantaged, discriminated against and ignored: the experiences of Romani and Gypsy Travellers - Teresa Crew

9. 'You mean, my theoretical rights?' Exploring service shortfalls and administrative (in)justice among homeless trans people - Edith England

10. Diverse graduate trajectories in austere times: the case of young working- class women in the UK - Laura Bentley

11. Scroungers, shirkers and the sick: disability and welfare in the 21st century - Aimee Grant

12. Male domestic violence victims' experience of healthcare services - Natalie Quinn-Walker

13. Conclusion - Steve Iafrati and Lee Gregory.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2024).

ISBN:

1-4473-6516-X

1-4473-6517-8

OCLC:

1415860791