Changing Relations of Welfare
Family, Gender and Migration in Britain and Scandinavia
1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2010
Book
Hardback
212 pages
978-0-7546-7893-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'This book brings a new dimension to the feminist analysis of family policies by introducing the issues of race and ethnicity. Viewing family policies in the UK and Scandinavia across time and from a transnational perspective, it exposes not only the gendered but also the racialized assumptions embodied in supposedly neutral and universal measures. Changing Relations of Welfare is essential reading for all those seeking to understand the politics of social policy in an era of globalization.' Sonya Michel, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA 'Despite being written by different authors with different disciplinary backgrounds, the book succeeds to compare the welfare regimes of Britain, Denmark, and Sweden in a relatively short number of pages... This is an important contribution at a time when efforts toward European Union integration have led to a growing interest in comparative studies that assess different welfare models within the Union.... this book provides an innovative way of understanding welfare states more generally, and their corresponding gender and migration regimes. This, in my view, is a true achievement, and I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in gender, family, or migration studies, as well as those with a more general interest in welfare states.' Nordic Journal of Migration ResearchMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-7893-9 (9780754678939)
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Additional editions
Asa Lundqvist | Janet Fink
Changing Relations of Welfare
Family, Gender and Migration in Britain and Scandinavia
E-Book
04/2016
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Asa Lundqvist | Janet Fink
Changing Relations of Welfare
Family, Gender and Migration in Britain and Scandinavia
E-Book
04/2016
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Janet Fink is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at The Open University, UK and A...sa Lundqvist is Associate Professor at the Centre for Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction, Janet Fink, Asa Lundqvist; Part I Family, Gender Relations and the Welfare State; Chapter 2 Overshadowed by the Male Breadwinner: Care in 20th Century Britain, Hilary Land; Chapter 3 Competing Meanings of Gender Equality: Family, Marriage and Tax Law in 20th Century Denmark, Anna-Birte Ravn, Bente Rosenbeck; Chapter 4 The Institutionalization of Family and Gender Equality Policies in the Swedish Welfare State, Asa Lundqvist, Christine Roman; Chapter 5 Paradoxes of Gender and Marital Status in mid-20th Century British Welfare, Janet Fink, Katherine Holden; Part II Gender, Migration and Social Inequalities; Chapter 6 Migration, Family and British Social Policy in the Late 20th Century: British Pakistani Perspectives, Kaveri Harriss, Alison Shaw; Chapter 7 The Multicultural Challenge to the Danish Welfare State: Tensions between Gender Equality and Diversity, Birte Siim, Anette Borchorst; Chapter 8 Postcolonial Encounters: Migrant Women and Swedish Midwives, Diana Mulinari; Chapter 9 Afterword, Janet Fink, Asa Lundqvist;