Changing Relations Of Welfare
by Janet Fink /
2010 / English / PDF
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"Changing Relations of Welfare" is concerned with the complexities
of family relations and practices in the recent past and how these
have been imagined, addressed or elided in present policy making.
It uses rich and varied sources to offer an innovative approach to
the analysis of meanings afforded to the family in different
policy, legal and welfare contexts in Sweden, Denmark and Britain.
This book considers how debates about responsibility, obligation
and rights have been gendered in social policy and welfare
practice, whilst also focusing upon the intersections of family,
gender, race and ethnicity and the different ways in which
legislation and policy in northern Europe have been used to
regulate not only immigration but also the lives of migrant
families. Presenting a historically informed, comparative analysis
of the shifting dynamics in the relationship between family and the
state, this volume offers new pathways for exploring questions of
change and continuity.
"Changing Relations of Welfare" is concerned with the complexities
of family relations and practices in the recent past and how these
have been imagined, addressed or elided in present policy making.
It uses rich and varied sources to offer an innovative approach to
the analysis of meanings afforded to the family in different
policy, legal and welfare contexts in Sweden, Denmark and Britain.
This book considers how debates about responsibility, obligation
and rights have been gendered in social policy and welfare
practice, whilst also focusing upon the intersections of family,
gender, race and ethnicity and the different ways in which
legislation and policy in northern Europe have been used to
regulate not only immigration but also the lives of migrant
families. Presenting a historically informed, comparative analysis
of the shifting dynamics in the relationship between family and the
state, this volume offers new pathways for exploring questions of
change and continuity.