Women, vulnerabilities and welfare service systems / edited by Marjo Kuronen, Elina Virokannas and Ulla Salovaara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kuronen, Marjo, editor.

Virokannas, Elina, editor.

Salovaara, Ulla, editor.

Series:

Routledge advances in social work.

Routledge advances in social work

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--European Union countries.

Public welfare.

European Union countries--Social policy--21st century.

European Union countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 174 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

"Welfare service systems all over Europe and beyond are under major transformations with new models of service delivery and management, austerity measures, requirements for cost-effectiveness, marketization, and the prioritization of services. This book studies these from the standpoint of women in vulnerable positions in society. The women whose experiences and encounters with the service system are heard include women in poverty, homeless women, women with substance use problems, women sentenced of crime, and refugees and asylum-seeking women. They encounter severe obstacles, face stigma, social inequalities and oppression in their everyday life. They would need special attention and support from the professionals and the service system. Instead, they easily fall in between complex systems, do not have their individual needs met or their specific life situations recognised. Drawing upon research and critical discussions from different countries, Finland, Canada, Israel, Slovenia, Spain and the UK, the book provides new empirical findings, critical insights, and a valuable resource for the academics and students in social work, social policy, sociology and gender studies, but also for policy makers and professionals in social and health care"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Women, Vulnerabilities and Welfare Service Systems

Part I: Welfare Service Systems (not) Responding to Vulnerable Situations of Women

2 Vulnerability as Lived Experience: Marginalised Women and Girls in the UK

3 Finnish Welfare Service System from the Standpoint of Women in Vulnerable Life Situations

4 Interpreting Vulnerabilities Facing Women in Urban Life: A Case Study in Madrid, Spain

5 Risky Mothers: State-Family Relations, Risk and the Gendered Reproduction of Vulnerability in Canadian Child Welfare

Part II: Women's Encounters with the Welfare Service System

6 The Right to Have a Child: An Institutional Response to the Motherhood of Drug Users in Slovenia

7 Incarcerated Women, Welfare Services and the Process of Re-entering Society in Finland

8 The Reform of the Finnish Income Benefit System from the Standpoint of Lone Mothers

9 Social Framework for Understanding Women's Substance Abuse, Treatment and Vulnerability

Part III: Contradictions of Informal Support

10 Low-income Breadwinning Israeli Mothers Negotiating Economic Survival: The Exchange of Sex for Material Resources

11 Vulnerability and Agency: Women after Prison in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain

12 Peer Support among Female Substance Users in Finland

13 Concluding Remarks: A Need for Women-specific Welfare Services

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-27691-5

1-000-20394-8

9780429276910

OCLC:

1154074710