{"title":"Young people's schooling trajectories and transitions to social adulthood in the context of Brazil's Bolsa Família","authors":"Hayley Jones","doi":"10.1177/02610183221137818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221137818","url":null,"abstract":"As cash transfers have become key tenets of social protection systems in the global South, much effort has gone into evaluating their outcomes. Less attention has been paid, however, to young beneficiaries’ experiences of cash transfers and the contextualised and differentiated impacts on their lives at the micro-level. Based on a qualitative study of young recipients of Brazil's Bolsa Família programme, this article explores the factors that shape young people's schooling trajectories. The article demonstrates the complexity of young people's lives vis-à-vis the CCT policy model; particularly, how their trajectories do not conform to its linear logic, but rather reflect a more complex interaction of gender norms and social and economic inequalities. The tension between the linearity of the policy model and these differentiated and gendered trajectories in turn complicates how young people navigate the transition to social adulthood, by marking out ‘problematic’ vs ‘successful’ transitions and trajectories.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"9 3","pages":"718 - 738"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41262054","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}
K. Chantler, K. Bracewell, V. Baker, Kim Heyes, P. Traynor, Megan Ward
{"title":"An analysis of minoritisation in domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales","authors":"K. Chantler, K. Bracewell, V. Baker, Kim Heyes, P. Traynor, Megan Ward","doi":"10.1177/02610183221133052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221133052","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers how minoritisation features in Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) in England and Wales and identifies critical learning in relation to addressing minoritisation. Five themes were identified: i) the invisibility of race, culture and ethnicity; ii) perceptions and experiences of services; iii) use of stereotypes and the culturalisation of domestic violence and abuse (DVA); iv) lack of interpreters; and v) DHR recommendations. Our analysis illustrates that statutory sector services should strengthen their responses to Black and minoritised victims by ensuring proper recording of cultural background is used to inform practice; engage professionally trained interpreters with an awareness of DVA; resist framing DVA as endemic to minoritised cultures; and enhance trust and confidence in public services within minoritised communities. The best examples of DHRs challenged service narratives and usually sought expertise from a specialist Black/minoritised DVA service or community organisation (frequently minoritised women's rights organisations).","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"602 - 625"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43690179","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}
{"title":"The status of homelessness: Access to housing for asylum-seeking migrants as an instrument of migration control in Italy and Sweden","authors":"Enrico Giansanti, A. Lindberg, Martin Joormann","doi":"10.1177/02610183221078437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221078437","url":null,"abstract":"Homelessness and other forms of destitution among asylum-seeking migrants are currently on the rise across Europe, as migrants’ access to social rights, including housing, has been restricted through repressive migration policies, fuelled by the welfare nationalism and chauvinism that surge among European states. This article explores the largely overlooked homelessness experienced by migrants seeking asylum in two different geographic and political contexts: Italy and Sweden. Building on research conducted over six years, including interviews with state officials, social and NGO workers, and testimonies of asylum-seeking migrants, we trace the logics and effects of policies that not only fail to deliver minimum welfare provisions to asylum-seeking migrants, but which produce and use homelessness as a way of controlling this group. The implications for asylum-seeking migrants include racialised discrimination, class-based and poverty-related health issues, and other harms, which are the direct result of policies that render access to fundamental social rights, including housing, into instruments of migration control.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"586 - 606"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45425646","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}
{"title":"Book Review: Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health Services by Rich Moth","authors":"I. Cummins","doi":"10.1177/02610183221120547d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221120547d","url":null,"abstract":"political, economic and ideological background of the countries under consideration. For example, we are told that India is ‘still far from ratifying C189’ (p.33), or that the requests of Ecuadorian ‘domestic workers to make formal rights a reality were not taken up by the state’ (p.41), but the authors provide no information as to why. For a book which is about domestic workers, their voices seem strangely absent; they are heard only via their representatives, but not directly. The book focuses on the responses to Convention 189 of institutions and organisations (governments, trade unions, NGOs). Of the 200 ‘key informants, such as activists, organisers, policy makers, legal professionals and experts’ who were interviewed during the research project on which the book is based, only a minority (22 out of 200) had had experience of working as domestic workers (p.16). This may be due to the remit of the research but is jarring, especially considering the stress placed in the book on self-organization and empowerment. Giving preferential voice to organisers, academics and other ‘experts’ seems to be reinforcing the top down channels of knowledge formation that underpin constituted power relations. Nevertheless, the book is valuable in providing a bird’s eye view of the organised struggles of domestic workers globally. In doing so, it helps highlight the problems faced by multiply marginalised groups. Domestic workers’ experiences of different fronts of oppression as women, carers, marginalised workers, migrants, racialized minorities, and their demands for economic, legal, social and cultural recognition may help, the authors suggest, create a ‘space of convergence’ for movements that have traditionally been seen as separate. By challenging the boundaries between feminist struggles, labour movements and identity based activism, this book reminds us of the importance of building and deepening alliances that can better push for societal changes and equitable social policies.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"749 - 751"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48624306","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}
{"title":"Book Review: A Political History of Child Protection: Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand by Ian Kelvin Hyslop","authors":"R. Sen","doi":"10.1177/02610183221120547b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221120547b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"744 - 747"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44815842","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}
{"title":"Book Review: Global Domestic Workers: Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights by Sabrina Marchetti, Daniela Cherubini and Giulia Garofano Geymonat","authors":"A. Silvestri","doi":"10.1177/02610183221120547c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221120547c","url":null,"abstract":"almost two hundred years of history. The earlier historical coverage usefully sets the scene, but the coverage is skewed, no doubt intentionally, towards producing a history of the system’s operation since the late 1970s onwards. The book is set out chronologically, which suits its overall goal, but I found that there were occasionally thematic links within, and between, chapters that might have been tied together. Perhaps these links could have been better addressed in the concluding chapter or better signposted at the start or end of a given chapter. Despite this very small criticism, this text is an engrossing read, passionately written with a good dose of hope, yet incisive about the frustrated attempts to enact radical reform in Aotearoa. A Political History of Child Protection will be of value to students, academics and policy makers seeking to gain an in-depth understanding of child protection system and attempts at its reform in Aotearoa, as well as to those seeking lessons about the challenges of systemic child protection reform internationally.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"747 - 749"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42416710","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}
{"title":"Book Review: Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain by Maddy Power","authors":"Katy Gordon","doi":"10.1177/02610183221120547e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221120547e","url":null,"abstract":"and economic policies that increased inequality, reduced welfare payments and entitlement, and cut services. These are all factors that contribute to higher levels of mental distress across society Moth’s research demonstrates how professionals focus on service users becoming ‘responsible consumers’ who manage their own risk. In these twin processes, a broader social approach to mental distress that explores the social determinants of health (Karban, 2016) is lost. These trends have been exacerbated by austerity which saw further welfare retrenchment and measures that were specifically targeted at people living with disabilities. One of the striking features of this volume is that there are significant overlaps between the views of service users and CHMT staff. Both groups recognize mental health services are replicating some of the failings of institutionalized psychiatry. Modern mental health work has become defensive casework and risk management with a focus on compliance with medication. Moth concludes that the challenge to this approach will not come from service reforms that are rooted in neoliberal policy agendas. This can only come from progressive alliances that focus on promoting relationship-based work and a focus on broader social justice.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"751 - 753"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47408788","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}
{"title":"Book Review: Uncertain Citizenship: Life in the Waiting Room by Anne-Marie Fortier","authors":"Hannah Haycox","doi":"10.1177/02610183221120547a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221120547a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"42 1","pages":"742 - 744"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47692384","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}
{"title":"The importance of investing in policies beyond ‘the basics': Perspectives from black fathers in Philadelphia on how to increase community safety","authors":"A. Henson, Jessica Rosenthal","doi":"10.1177/02610183221125390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221125390","url":null,"abstract":"The police killings of unarmed Black men and women, particularly in the year 2020, fueled a moral outcry for defunding the police. The defund movement asserts that divested police funds should be invested in communities most devastated by hyper-policing. However, decisions on which community services to finance are often void of community input. To fill this gap, the current study highlights responses from 50 Black fathers living in southwest Philadelphia on community resources necessary for themselves and their children to live safe and prosperous lives. The men explained that, to enhance public safety and recover from the devastation of social stigmatization and marginalization, funds need to be invested in resources beyond the ‘basics' (i.e., housing, employment, health care). Specifically, the fathers wanted local educational and entrepreneurial opportunities that would allow community members to demonstrate their full potential. The current study informs policymakers on the importance of building community capacity rather than focusing solely on service delivery.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"536 - 556"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43707617","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}
{"title":"Intersectionality and structural gendered racism: Theoretical considerations for Black women, children, and families impacted by child protective services in the United States","authors":"Abigail Williams-Butler","doi":"10.1177/02610183221125322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221125322","url":null,"abstract":"This critical review uses the frameworks of intersectionality and structural gendered racism to understand the racialized, gendered, and class-based oppression regarding the overrepresentation of poor Black women, children, and families within child protective services (CPS) in the United States. The review begins with a discussion of intersectionality and examines the origins of CPS, along with the potential causes for overrepresentation within the system. Finally, the article presents a detailed overview of how structural gendered racism is manifested within CPS practices and policies. It is imperative that practitioners, administrators, and policymakers acknowledge the utility of applying the frameworks of intersectionality and structural gendered racism in understanding the disproportionate contact of poor Black women, children, and families within the system. It is important to work toward practice and policy interventions to improve the overall well-being of this population. Implications for social work practice and policy are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47685,"journal":{"name":"Critical Social Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"514 - 535"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42335996","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}