{"title":"Social work in space: Expanding policy and practice into the cosmos","authors":"Marissa E. Yingling","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.12606","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijsw.12606","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As private interests expand in space, what is the significance, if any, to social work? To answer this question, I present several implications of contemporary human activities in space and assess their relevance to environmental and ecological justice. Specifically, I evaluate the connection between the profession and the commercialization and exploitation of space resources, human-generated cosmic “trash,” and terrestrial challenges. I conclude that social work must “look to the stars” and help humanity navigate competing interests in a delicate space future. Nearly a quarter century ago, ecological consequences of human activity prompted social work to incorporate the natural environment into practice. In preparation for the realization of modern extraterrestrial objectives, I propose that social work expand its conceptualization of the natural environment from ecosphere to cosmos. In this uncharted context, I propose future directions and offer questions to which leaders, scholars, and practitioners might begin seeking answers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"33 1","pages":"320-335"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47410342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karen Smith, Muireann Ní Raghallaigh, Derina Johnson
{"title":"Careless hospitality: Family reunification in Ireland involving children and young people of international protection background","authors":"Karen Smith, Muireann Ní Raghallaigh, Derina Johnson","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.12604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42896601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Helena Johansson, Yvonne Sjöblom, Ingrid Höjer, Robbie Gilligan, Laura Arnau-Sabatés, Hana Pazlarová, Veerle Soyez, Jill Stoddart
{"title":"Exploring care leavers' agency in achieving entry into the world of work: A cross-national study in six countries","authors":"Helena Johansson, Yvonne Sjöblom, Ingrid Höjer, Robbie Gilligan, Laura Arnau-Sabatés, Hana Pazlarová, Veerle Soyez, Jill Stoddart","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.12603","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijsw.12603","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article draws attention to the relevance of young care leavers' exercise of agency as one possible key ingredient in overcoming barriers to engagement in work. Several previous studies show difficulties in entering adult life, both in relation to higher and further education as well as entrance into work life. The article analyses interviews with young adults from six countries, who have spent at least part of their childhood and youth in out-of-home care and the results indicate that the care leavers have the ability to make plans and set up goals for the future that they in many cases are able to achieve or at least are striving for over time. In many instances, they show a strong motivation, for example, to educate themselves pursuing their goals. To support this transition of young care leavers, it is important to listen to ‘successful’ cases such as the ones presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"33 1","pages":"309-319"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijsw.12603","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48347390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poor labour market prospects due to intensive caregiving? Childcare and eldercare among welfare recipients in Germany","authors":"Silke Hamann, Gabriele Wydra-Somaggio","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.12601","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijsw.12601","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the favourable economic situation in Germany over the last decade, the number of welfare recipients (~5 million) remained at a persistently high level. One factor limiting individuals' abilities to exit welfare dependency into employment is informal care. This article analyses two aspects of informal care: childcare, considering the number of caregivers in a given family constellation, and the amount of time spent on eldercare. A panel of survey data with comprehensive information on welfare recipients is used. The waves from 2006 to 2017 are included. The results suggest that the chances of exiting welfare dependency for those in jobs covering needs are strongly impacted by the intensity of caregiving. Single parents, as well as welfare recipients who spend >10 h/wk on eldercare, especially persons providing both of these types of caregiving, have the lowest probabilities of leaving welfare dependency among all recipient groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"33 1","pages":"290-308"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijsw.12601","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43087089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainability and inequality of Taiwan's National Pension Insurance","authors":"Chih-Kai Chang, Hung-Lin Tao, Hsun-Fang Chang","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.12599","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijsw.12599","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Taiwan's National Pension Insurance (NPI) is a compulsory defined benefit pension insurance scheme. However, paying the NPI premium is not mandatory. We use the NPI administrative data of more than 489 million observations to investigate the NPI's sustainability and inequalities for various groups. We find that NPI participants pay their premiums either consistently or not at all. Although the overall willingness to pay the premiums has been declining, one group of the insured persons consistently pays, thereby maintaining the sustainability of the NPI. Intergenerational and intragenerational inequalities are both found in the NPI; however, the government's premium subsidy reduces intragenerational inequality, except for young adult males who need the NPI and regularly pay premiums. Our empirical results suggest that subsidising these young male citizens strengthens the NPI's sustainability and mitigates the intergenerational and intragenerational inequalities of the NPI.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"33 1","pages":"263-289"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44039545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feelings of being socially excluded: A matter of education, labour market situation, income, deprivation, or other things?","authors":"Hans-Tore Hansen","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.12594","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijsw.12594","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article aims (1) to investigate whether immigrants in the Norwegian population and their descendants differ in their feelings of being socially excluded from society compared with others born in Norway (‘natives’), and (2) to test empirically whether these differences reflect differences in human and economic capital (i.e., education, work, income, and material deprivation) and factors related to minority/majority issues, such as citizenship. The data were drawn from the Norwegian part of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey. The results show that immigrants—especially from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Oceania, non-EU European countries, and descendants of immigrants—feel more socially excluded than natives. For immigrants from Africa, Asia, et al., and Europe other countries, human and economic capital are linked to these differences. Immigrants from Europe other countries did not differ from natives when adjusting for education and work. Differences between natives and immigrants from Africa, Asia, et al. and descendants of immigrants remained even after controlling for various factors. The study indicates that immigrants from outside the Nordic countries with secondary education feel socially excluded to a higher degree than other immigrants. One reason could be that they may have skills not recognised in the Norwegian labour market. The study also finds that immigrants with Norwegian citizenship feel less excluded from society than other immigrants. Length of stay and social recognition are possible explanations for these results.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"33 1","pages":"202-219"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijsw.12594","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49516785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hidehiro Sugisawa, Yoko Sugihara, Erika Kobayashi, Taro Fukaya, Jersey Liang
{"title":"Trends in informal and formal home help use among older adults with disabilities in Japan: From 1999 to 2017","authors":"Hidehiro Sugisawa, Yoko Sugihara, Erika Kobayashi, Taro Fukaya, Jersey Liang","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.12596","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijsw.12596","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examined trends and differences in home help (HH) use between 1999 and 2017 regarding living arrangements, gender, income and disability levels relating to the changes in Japan's long-term care policy. HH is the help provided for activities of daily living to older adults with disabilities. We classified it into four types: only informal, informal and formal, only formal and neither and measured perceived adequacy of HH received by participants. We used five waves of repeated cross-sectional data from 1999 to 2017 to examine trends using generalised estimation equations. The use of both informal and formal HH increased until 2006 and then gradually decreased but remained higher than in 1999. High perceived adequacy of HH received remained stable between 1999 and 2017. For participants living alone, the rate of using both informal and formal HH increased after 2002; high perceived adequacy of HH received increased until 2006, subsequently remaining steady.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"33 1","pages":"220-236"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44298816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Odessa Gonzalez Benson, Leila Asadi, Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, Mieko Yoshihama
{"title":"Cultural–legal brokering and gender: A study of refugee-serving institutions upon resettlement","authors":"Odessa Gonzalez Benson, Leila Asadi, Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, Mieko Yoshihama","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.12602","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijsw.12602","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Increased academic attention to the intersections of refugee studies and gender studies has focused on the lives and trajectories of refugee women. In this study, we examine resettlement institutions involved with refugee women, drawing upon critical scholarship on “brokerage.” Brokers reproduce and impose the powers of the state, but also negotiate with and resist the state. We draw from interviews with resettlement workers and refugee leaders in refugee-serving institutions, focusing on one mid-sized metropolitan area in the United States. We argue that resettlement institutions enact brokering not only in the cultural domain but also the legal domain. We further posit that cultural–legal brokering is enacted via contested negotiation of idealized patriarchal values–traditions in both the countries of origin and resettlement.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"33 1","pages":"250-262"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijsw.12602","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42208724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experience of guilt in court hearings—Comparing rape, assault and fraud cases","authors":"Maritha Jacobsson","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.12598","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijsw.12598","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Feelings of guilt often occur when people are subjected to crime. In this study, guilt is defined as a moral and emotional category, as opposed to the legal guilt. The aim of this study was to investigate how crime victims related to feelings of guilt in the court process. Interviews with plaintiffs in rape cases (10) have been compared to interviews with plaintiffs in assault (10) and fraud cases (10) in order find out if there are differences in the perceptions of guilt for each type of crime. The interviews are analysed by discursive psychology and three interpretative repertoires have been identified: self-blaming, guilt imposed and guilt resistance. The results show that plaintiffs in rape cases expressed more feelings of being guilt-imposed compared to plaintiffs in fraud and assault cases. Some plaintiffs in the rape cases describe how they actively opposed what they perceived was guilty-imposed practices in court.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"33 1","pages":"237-249"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijsw.12598","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41341408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Isabel C. Farrell, Dareen Basma, Amanda C. DeDiego, Rakesh K. Maurya, Kara M. Hurt-Avila
{"title":"Predictors of burnout for immigrant mental health professionals in the United States","authors":"Isabel C. Farrell, Dareen Basma, Amanda C. DeDiego, Rakesh K. Maurya, Kara M. Hurt-Avila","doi":"10.1111/ijsw.12595","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijsw.12595","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mental health professionals who identify as immigrants encounter personal and professional barriers that can impact overall wellbeing. The current study conducted a survey of 108 licensed mental health professionals who identify as immigrants practicing in the United States. The survey included demographics as well as assessments of burnout, social support, and migratory grief and loss. The results of this study highlighted that a combination of higher migratory grief and lower perceived social support significantly predicted higher levels of burnout in mental health professionals. Implications for mental health programs, supervisors, and mentors and suggestions for future research are provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":47567,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Social Welfare","volume":"33 1","pages":"178-187"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijsw.12595","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44866837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}