UID:
almafu_9960943606802883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 238 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4473-6587-9
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1-4473-6581-X
Series Statement:
Social Policy Review
Content:
Experts review the leading social policy scholarship from the past year in this comprehensive volume. Published in association with the Social Policy Association, this volume addresses current issues and critical debates throughout the international social policy field.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2022).
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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Social policy in the shadow of the pandemic -- Part I: Policy groups -- 1. Climate justice, social policy and the transition to net zero in the UK -- Introduction -- Climate change and climate (in)justice -- Climate policy in the UK -- Conclusion -- 2. Localising employment policy: opportunities and challenges -- Introduction -- Background: localising employment policies -- Key innovations and thematic discussion of cases -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 3. Getting in, being heard and influencing change: the labours of policy engagement in employment and social security research -- Introduction -- Evidence, knowledge and policy change -- REF impact case studies -- Evidence use and ALMPs -- A pragmatic realist approach to policy engagement -- Engaging through qualitative longitudinal research: military veterans and welfare reform -- Engaging through participatory research: benefit sanctions at the local level -- Engaging through parliamentary committees -- Reflections as two early career researchers -- Conclusion -- 4. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on UK housing policy: how do we rebuild the foundations of the 'wobbly pillar'? -- Introduction: COVID-19 putting 'the home' and neighbourhoods into the spotlight -- Financialisation, affordability and market failure within the housing sector -- Impact of UK welfare reforms -- Homelessness -- Health and social care impacts -- Intersecting inequalities -- Conclusion -- Part II: Wider developments in social policy -- 5. The faceless researcher: the implications of carrying out research using digital methods during a global pandemic -- Introduction -- Reflections from two digital research projects -- Pandemic reflections -- Digital methods -- Suspicion and mistrust -- Showing your face.
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Building a rapport online -- Conclusion -- 6. Caught between the local and the (trans)national: a street-level analysis of EU migrants' access to social benefits in German job centres -- Introduction -- Setting the scene: migration and the welfare state -- Conceptual backdrop: street-level bureaucrats as the hidden policymakers -- Zooming in to the street level: administrative styles of processing EU migrants' claims -- Conclusion -- 7. Critical perspectives on social work and social policy practice with vulnerable migrants in an era of emergencies -- Introduction -- How critical is critical social work? Contributions of social work knowledges from the 'other side of the line' -- Seeking a postcolonial human rights framework for social workers and policy practitioners -- Environmental and climate migration: theories and interventions in welfare studies -- Migration, public health emergencies and welfare provision -- Conclusion: global emergencies, migration and the future of social work and social policy -- 8. The Autonomy Voucher for the elderly and people with disabilities in the context of local welfare transformation: potentials and limits of Lombardy Region's policy -- Introduction: the potential of the Autonomy Voucher from asocial innovation perspective -- Social innovation in the field of non-self-sufficiency: key issues -- Research design and data -- Autonomy Voucher: the three rounds compared -- Projects: outcomes, facilitating factors, hindering factors -- Issues and obstacles -- Conclusions -- 9. The impact of the pandemic crisis on territorial inequalities: the right(s) to healthcare in Italy -- Introduction -- The Italian National Health System and its regional differences -- COVID-19 impact in Italy: Regional Health Systems during the pandemic -- How COVID-19 highlighted and enhanced territorial inequalities -- Conclusions.
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10. When activation policies deactivate jobseekers: inconsistencies in French integration policy -- Introduction -- An unusual public for the Missions Locales -- The 'deactivation' process -- Conclusion -- Index -- Back Cover.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4473-6580-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4473-6579-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.56687/9781447365815
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781447365815/type/BOOK
