{"title":"Social Assistance as a Livelihood Strategy Among the Working Poor: A Case Study from Türkiye","authors":"Ülkü İstiklal Ortakaya","doi":"10.1007/s40609-023-00312-8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The present qualitative study attempted to elicit the working poor’s views on the social assistance system in Türkiye. We held in-depth interviews with 30 conveniently selected participants between March and June 2022 in Ankara and analyzed the findings descriptively. Accordingly, the results highlighted the working poor’s experiences with the social assistance system, the role of this system in their employment, and their expectations of the system. In a nutshell, our findings implied that the working poor should be granted minimum income support to improve the efficiency of the Turkish social assistance system further in combating in-work poverty.","PeriodicalId":51927,"journal":{"name":"Global Social Welfare","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Global Social Welfare","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40609-023-00312-8","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"SOCIAL WORK","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract The present qualitative study attempted to elicit the working poor’s views on the social assistance system in Türkiye. We held in-depth interviews with 30 conveniently selected participants between March and June 2022 in Ankara and analyzed the findings descriptively. Accordingly, the results highlighted the working poor’s experiences with the social assistance system, the role of this system in their employment, and their expectations of the system. In a nutshell, our findings implied that the working poor should be granted minimum income support to improve the efficiency of the Turkish social assistance system further in combating in-work poverty.
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This journal brings together research that informs the fields of global social work, social development, and social welfare policy and practice. It serves as an outlet for manuscripts and brief reports of interdisciplinary applied research which advance knowledge about global threats to the well-being of individuals, groups, families and communities. This research spans the full range of problems including global poverty, food and housing insecurity, economic development, environmental safety, social determinants of health, maternal and child health, mental health, addiction, disease and illness, gender and income inequality, human rights and social justice, access to health care and social resources, strengthening care and service delivery, trauma, crises, and responses to natural disasters, war, violence, population movements and trafficking, war and refugees, immigration/migration, human trafficking, orphans and vulnerable children. Research that recognizes the significant link between individuals, families and communities and their external environments, as well as the interrelatedness of race, cultural, context and poverty, will be particularly welcome.