Pub Date : 2023-07-24DOI: 10.1177/02610183231190796
Mairead Enright
Bissett J (2015) Defiance and hope: Austerity and the community sector in the Republic of Ireland. In: Coulter C and Nagle A (eds) Ireland Under Austerity: Neoliberal Crisis, Neoliberal Solutions. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 171–191. Meade RR (2018) The re-signification of state-funded community development in Ireland: A problem of austerity and neoliberal government. Critical Social Policy 38(2): 222–243.
{"title":"Book Review: Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland: Perspectives from the Periphery by Lynsey Black, Louise Brangan and Deirdre Healy","authors":"Mairead Enright","doi":"10.1177/02610183231190796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231190796","url":null,"abstract":"Bissett J (2015) Defiance and hope: Austerity and the community sector in the Republic of Ireland. In: Coulter C and Nagle A (eds) Ireland Under Austerity: Neoliberal Crisis, Neoliberal Solutions. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 171–191. Meade RR (2018) The re-signification of state-funded community development in Ireland: A problem of austerity and neoliberal government. Critical Social Policy 38(2): 222–243.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"741 - 743"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43567966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-12DOI: 10.1177/02610183231185756
E. Dickson, V. Redclift, F. Rajina
In July 2012, major changes to the family migration rules were made in the UK, severely restricting British and settled residents’ rights to sponsor non-EEA family members. However, little is known about how they have been experienced in practice, particularly by the South Asian families they target. Our article draws on policy and media analysis alongside original qualitative research to shed light on how the 2012 family migration rules have impacted British Bangladeshis, and with what consequences for their experiences of citizenship and the possibilities of them leading transnational lives. We argue that the rules amount to a raced, gendered, and classed ‘attack’ on both transnationalism and citizenship and suggest that, while transnationalism and citizenship are often analysed separately, they are in fact deeply intertwined.
{"title":"Attacking transnationalism and citizenship: British Bangladeshis, family migration, and the postcolonial state","authors":"E. Dickson, V. Redclift, F. Rajina","doi":"10.1177/02610183231185756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231185756","url":null,"abstract":"In July 2012, major changes to the family migration rules were made in the UK, severely restricting British and settled residents’ rights to sponsor non-EEA family members. However, little is known about how they have been experienced in practice, particularly by the South Asian families they target. Our article draws on policy and media analysis alongside original qualitative research to shed light on how the 2012 family migration rules have impacted British Bangladeshis, and with what consequences for their experiences of citizenship and the possibilities of them leading transnational lives. We argue that the rules amount to a raced, gendered, and classed ‘attack’ on both transnationalism and citizenship and suggest that, while transnationalism and citizenship are often analysed separately, they are in fact deeply intertwined.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49057935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-09DOI: 10.1177/02610183231185760
Katharina V. Hajek
Social investment has gained increasing prominence in family policy reform. It has also been widely criticised from a feminist and social justice perspective. This article examines how the meaning of the family changes when it is seen as a site of investment. Using a discourse-analytical approach and focusing on agenda setting policy documents of Germany's ‘sustainable family policy’ this is explored in four dimensions: the extension and simultaneous narrowing of the meaning of family; the articulation of new gendered subjectivities; a redefinition of the boundaries between the family and the state; and new modes of differentiation between families according to their ability to ‘produce’ human capital. I argue that the traditional family loses its role as a normative reference point and is increasingly framed as a production site of human capital. Hence, more critical engagement with social and racialized inequalities, which are implied in these discourses, is necessary.
{"title":"Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy","authors":"Katharina V. Hajek","doi":"10.1177/02610183231185760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231185760","url":null,"abstract":"Social investment has gained increasing prominence in family policy reform. It has also been widely criticised from a feminist and social justice perspective. This article examines how the meaning of the family changes when it is seen as a site of investment. Using a discourse-analytical approach and focusing on agenda setting policy documents of Germany's ‘sustainable family policy’ this is explored in four dimensions: the extension and simultaneous narrowing of the meaning of family; the articulation of new gendered subjectivities; a redefinition of the boundaries between the family and the state; and new modes of differentiation between families according to their ability to ‘produce’ human capital. I argue that the traditional family loses its role as a normative reference point and is increasingly framed as a production site of human capital. Hence, more critical engagement with social and racialized inequalities, which are implied in these discourses, is necessary.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42864193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1177/02610183231179921
Natalia Farmer
{"title":"Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention, Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons by Michelle Peterie","authors":"Natalia Farmer","doi":"10.1177/02610183231179921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231179921","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"572 - 574"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44221029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1177/02610183231178531
Megan Nightingale
{"title":"Book Review: Negotiating Families and Personal Lives in the 21st Century: Exploring Diversity, Social Change, and Inequalities by Sheila Quaid, Catriona Hugman and Angela Wilcock (eds)","authors":"Megan Nightingale","doi":"10.1177/02610183231178531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231178531","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"574 - 576"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43600028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1177/02610183231178535
E. Lloyd
{"title":"Book Review: Childcare Provision in Neoliberal Times: The marketization of Care by Aisling Gallagher","authors":"E. Lloyd","doi":"10.1177/02610183231178535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231178535","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"570 - 572"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43432888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1177/02610183231175055
S. Monro, Sean Saifa Wall, K. Wood
Intersex people suffer human rights abuses and harms because of non-consensual early medical interventions. They have historically been rendered outside of welfare regimes and equality, diversity and inclusion policies, or forcibly subsumed within sex-binaried institutions. This article draws on critical intersex studies to interrogate the policy silences and collusions that have taken place regarding intersex people's suffering. Using Ireland and England as case studies, we show that current formations of equality and diversity policies are inadequate in relation to intersex issues. Analysis of policy documents from Ireland and the UK using Bacchi's method reveals the erasure and/or marginalisation of intersex people, despite some stated commitments to gender and sexual equality. We conclude that there is a pressing need for social policy work around intersex issues and for reform to support intersex people's equality, diversity and inclusion.
{"title":"Intersex equality, diversity and inclusion and social policy: Silences, absences, and erasures in Ireland and the UK","authors":"S. Monro, Sean Saifa Wall, K. Wood","doi":"10.1177/02610183231175055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231175055","url":null,"abstract":"Intersex people suffer human rights abuses and harms because of non-consensual early medical interventions. They have historically been rendered outside of welfare regimes and equality, diversity and inclusion policies, or forcibly subsumed within sex-binaried institutions. This article draws on critical intersex studies to interrogate the policy silences and collusions that have taken place regarding intersex people's suffering. Using Ireland and England as case studies, we show that current formations of equality and diversity policies are inadequate in relation to intersex issues. Analysis of policy documents from Ireland and the UK using Bacchi's method reveals the erasure and/or marginalisation of intersex people, despite some stated commitments to gender and sexual equality. We conclude that there is a pressing need for social policy work around intersex issues and for reform to support intersex people's equality, diversity and inclusion.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41601901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1177/02610183231169195
C. Loughnane, C. Kelleher, Claire Edwards
Ireland has become an international exemplar in the use of citizens’ assemblies to determine policy. Globally, deliberative fora seek to mitigate concerns of a democratic crisis, but they also may address the ‘care crisis’, where politics-as-normal seems unable, or unwilling, to address citizens’ care needs. Drawing on Tronto's (2013) call for a caring democracy in which citizens take their responsibilities to care with one another, this paper examines the potential for deliberative processes to deliberate ‘with’ as well as ‘about’ care and to expand current care work debates. Using Barnes’ (2012) ‘care full’ deliberation as an analytic framework, we document and interrogate the process and outcomes of Ireland's Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality (CAGE) (2020–21), particularly how it understood care work and responded to care workers’ needs. We then reflect on the potential for citizen deliberation to realise better caring outcomes for all citizens.
{"title":"Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality","authors":"C. Loughnane, C. Kelleher, Claire Edwards","doi":"10.1177/02610183231169195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231169195","url":null,"abstract":"Ireland has become an international exemplar in the use of citizens’ assemblies to determine policy. Globally, deliberative fora seek to mitigate concerns of a democratic crisis, but they also may address the ‘care crisis’, where politics-as-normal seems unable, or unwilling, to address citizens’ care needs. Drawing on Tronto's (2013) call for a caring democracy in which citizens take their responsibilities to care with one another, this paper examines the potential for deliberative processes to deliberate ‘with’ as well as ‘about’ care and to expand current care work debates. Using Barnes’ (2012) ‘care full’ deliberation as an analytic framework, we document and interrogate the process and outcomes of Ireland's Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality (CAGE) (2020–21), particularly how it understood care work and responded to care workers’ needs. We then reflect on the potential for citizen deliberation to realise better caring outcomes for all citizens.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"697 - 717"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42311023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-12DOI: 10.1177/02610183231157754
Louise Brangan
{"title":"Book Review: Redress: Ireland's institutions and Transitional Justice by Katherine O'Donnell, Maeve O'Rourke and James M Smith (eds.)","authors":"Louise Brangan","doi":"10.1177/02610183231157754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231157754","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"366 - 369"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45376585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}