Call: Post-Humanismus und Soziale Arbeit? Empirische und theoretische Erkundungen. / Call: Post-humanisme et travail social ? Explorations empiriques et théoriques. / Call: Post-humanism and Social Work? Empirical and theoretical explorations.
Call: Post-Humanismus und Soziale Arbeit? Empirische und theoretische Erkundungen. / Call: Post-humanisme et travail social ? Explorations empiriques et théoriques. / Call: Post-humanism and Social Work? Empirical and theoretical explorations.
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Service relations are not systematically fluid, and resistance is sometimes encountered in cases of non-take-up. The service relation model fails to take this into account. Therefore, as service agents’ work consists in dealing with users’ relations not only with themselves, but also with the offer, the analysis of non-take-up of rights and services requires a specific analytical model. This model would need to take users into account along with their relations to the offer and the normative content of that offer, over and above its delivery. In this respect, the social relation to the service model is more appropriate.
Author(s): Philippe Warin
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Background: A secondary labour market has developed in Switzerland during the last decades thanks to the joint initiative of public administrations and non-profit organisations. The main goal of the secondary market is the work integration and the social inclusion of “hard-to-place” unemployed people.
Aim: To evaluate the impact of secondary labour market on the individual quality of life.
Design: The study draws on three waves of observational data coming from a panel of 110 social assistance recipients in Canton Ticino.
Measures: Seven indicators of psychological, physical, social and material well-being.
Method: The statistical analyses are carried out by means of hybrid random effects linear regression models.
Results: We recorded a positive effect on the psychological and the financial dimensions of well-being. Surprisingly, the average impacts on physical well-being and social support are negative.
Author(s): Gregorio Alivés
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The following contribution relies on the testimony of women themselves to expose and unpick a uni-dimensional focus on choice – to work or stay at home – to illustrate the multi-layered and complex set of factors that influence women’s decisions relating to work and caring. While based on a small sample that cannot be generalized from, the discussion of the outcomes gives strong evidence to the importance of looking beyond what first appear to be straightforward choices to critiquing the complex inter-play of factors that shape these “choices.” Such are e. g. structural or ideological reasons as decision-making factors for becoming a Stay-at-Home Mother.
Author(s): Simone Tappert, Evelyn Mahon
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The concept of early intervention emerged into everyday Finnish language of media and politics at the turn of the Millennium. The invasion of early intervention occurred through extensive political and organizational support, accompanied by vigorous media discussion. The rationale, shared by the key agents of early intervention, was formed according to this distinguished project and public discourse. At the turn of the Millennium, the idea of early intervention seemed compatible with many reformations of the public government relying on the New Public Management. Early intervention, and applying it, quickly spread to daycare, schools and child protection, among other things. This article aims at analyzing what early intervention was in this particular empirical case. It analyzes the Finnish practices of preventive child protection in social work with children and young people from the point of view of governing, and as practices that target children, young people and their parents suspected to belong to a risk group.
Author(s): Mirja Satka
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This paper examines the phenomena of circular migration of Eastern European women to Italy both theoretically and empirically. Using interview material from migrant women working in Italy, in temporary positions, it exposes the changing nature of gender roles and the precarious nature of women’s employment whereby, in order to maintain gendered care commitments, this type of employment is sometimes in fact chosen. The respondents in this study give vivid expression to the complex way in which this selection of migrant women made decisions around balancing their work life and their caring life.
Author(s): Sabrina Marchetti
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