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- Angelin, Anna, et al.
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Etnifiering av social utsatthet
- 2022. - 1
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Ingår i: Socialt arbete i förändring : utmaningar och villkor inom utbildning, forskning och praktik - utmaningar och villkor inom utbildning, forskning och praktik. - Lund : Socialhögskolan, Lunds universitet. - 9789178955459 - 9789178955466 ; , s. 429-442
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- Cohen, Sue, et al.
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From poverty to life chances : framing co-produced research in the Productive Margins programme
- 2017
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Ingår i: Impact of co-production. - : Policy Press. - 9781447330301 - 9781447330332 - 9781447330288 ; , s. 61-84
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter talks about how to engage with co-produced research and participatory practices from a community perspective. It discusses how co-produced interdisciplinary research experiences and knowledge exchanges facilitate interaction with members of the community, with academics and with artists as a part of the Productive Margins project. The programme is seeking to remap the terrain of regulation, by involving the knowledge, passions, and creativity of citizens often considered on the margins of politics and policymaking. However, rather than examining the progress and outcomes of the research project itself, the chapter analyses the settings and process leading up to the establishment of the research project: the formation of the working group where they explored the theme of poverty; and the Research Forum where academics and community partners came together to share knowledge and interdisciplinary ways forward.
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- Cohen, Sue, et al.
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Through the lens of single parenthood : a comparative snapshot of the impact of neoliberal welfare, housing and employment policies on single mothers in the UK and Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Feminismo/s. - Alicante : Alicante universitet. - 1696-8166 .- 1989-9998. ; 35, s. 127-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper considers why feminists working on gender mainstreaming in the UK looked to Sweden for models to effect structural change and why in recent years the models in Sweden are deficient, embodying an ever-increasing blind spot to the socio/economic constraints experienced by single parents, migrant mothers the most marginalised. Referencing academic feminist research in Sweden and the UK, as well as participatory research over many years involving single mothers, the paper examines why poverty is more entrenched in the UK: how in both countries neo-liberal trajectories of welfare, employment and housing policies are increasingly similar with exclusionary outcomes; how the position of single mothers acts is a touchstone for persistent intersectional inequalities in both countries. We conclude that by examining welfare, housing and employment policies through the lens of single parenthood, feminists can better re-frame strategies informed by the reproductive economy furthering the socio/economic independence of female headed households.
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- Giulari, Susy, et al.
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From the Political to the Personal in An Age of Uncertainty : Assault on self, identity, family, community, and nationhood
- 2021. - 1
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Ingår i: Feminist Activists on Brexit. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 9781800434219
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Across an ever-changing political landscape, and in the midst of Brexit developments, this edited collection draws our attention to women's participation in transformative democratic processes, and captures how UK women were made 'other' in the political environment created by Brexit. Chronicling the work of diverse feminist activists connected to women’s equality organisations, grassroots networks and migrant communities who between them strove to further intersectional equality, and ensure women’s voices were heard across the UK during the Brexit campaign, the first section of this book highlights the impact of populist discourses on subjective identities and their place in public and political life. Through reflective conversation, autobiographical writing and poetic pieces, the authors transform their experiences of being 'othered', showcasing instead a new found community and collective agency across intersections of identity. In the second section, researchers and activists analyse how the socio-economic, political and legal changes unleashed by Brexit are undermining women's equality in the UK. Considering how to defend feminist concerns when facing populist political leadership, the authors make the case for constitutional reform which will enable direct female participation in the democratic process. Looking ahead to the post Brexit landscape, and the unknowable future let loose by Covid-19, the contributors offer us a glimpse of the world they are striving to create.
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- Herz, Marcus, 1978-, et al.
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Avslutning
- 2022. - 2
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Ingår i: Kritiskt socialt arbete. - Stockholm : Liber. - 9789147144235 ; , s. 214-228
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Herz, Marcus, 1978, et al.
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Mot ett kritiskt socialt arbete
- 2022. - 2
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Ingår i: Kritiskt socialt arbete. - Malmö : Liber. - 9789147144235 ; , s. 214-228
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-
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A vicious circle of silent exclusion : family homelessness and poverty in Sweden from a single mother perspective
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Within the confines of the receding Swedish welfare state, family homelessness and poverty are on the rise among one-parent families, in particular those headed by a single migrant mother. This development follows a trend that is noticeable across advanced welfare states, where female-headed households are facing an increased risk of being locked into vicious circles of low-paid work, inadequate income protection schemes and poor housing options. Contextualized against a wider global political-economic backdrop of rising inequalities and structural changes that take localized forms, this thesis investigates family homelessness and poverty in Sweden through what is referred to as a ‘singlemother perspective’. This is an approach where welfare policy and politicalinstitutional arrangements are analysed through the lens of everyday experiences and struggles conveyed by marginalized single mothers. By placing the ideas and experiences of single mothers at the centre of the analysis, the intention is to invoke a different epistemology concerning what type of knowledge is represented and recognised in public. Drawing on insights from critical social theory and feminist ethnographic research, the study uses an approach to the development of new poverty knowledge, found at the junction between lived experience, activism, empirical research and social theory. The thesis departs from the experiences of homelessness and poverty as articulated by the research participants rather than from official definitions and categories. The findings suggest that unwarranted pain and suffering are caused by insufficient incomes, inadequate housing options, and a failure of public authorities to recognise the degree to which policies in the areas of housing, social security, employment, migration and child welfare intersect in complex ways in the lives of disadvantaged single mothers. The narratives shared by the informants further put into question the image of Sweden as an inclusive ‘women- and child-friendly’ welfare state that protects vulnerable citizens from destitution. Instead, the study concludes that the misrecognition and misrepresentation of the living conditions and hardships facing vulnerable mothers and children, combined with a maldistribution of resources, contribute to a vicious circle of silent exclusion. Finally, the study suggests that although it is the women and children who bear the brunt of this crisis and who feel it the most, its causes and consequences infest the whole fabric of society. It also warrants a return to fundamental ethical questions with regard to how people in poverty are viewed and treated and with regard to the role of solidarity within the welfare state. In particular, it argues that there is an urgent need to re-consider the role of social work practice within the receding welfare state and to scrutinize the impact of conditional welfare on vulnerable clients. The thesis ends by proposing a framework for a ‘politics of the heart’ that encompasses the pursuit of social justice and an ethics of care that recognises that the empowerment of mothering and motherhood needs to be at the centre of policy and practice that engage with single mothers suffering from poverty and homelessness, as this also tends to be ‘in the best interest of the child’.
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-
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Att alla barn i Sverige ska ha rätt till en plats att kalla hemma
- 2021. - 1
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Ingår i: Bostadsmanifest. - Årsta : Dokument Press. - 9789188369512 ; , s. 18-24
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Boken Bostadsmanifest – 22 krav för framtidens hem samlar 25 forskare och aktivister som vill bidra med att skapa en bostadsmarknad för alla. Deras 22 krav utgår från kunskap och erfarenhet från både forskning och aktivism, där författarna efterlyser en aktiv kommunal och statlig socialt inkluderande bostadspolitik.Boken ska inspirera medborgare, politiker och aktivister med nya erfarenheter, forskningsresultat och visioner i bostadsfrågan. Kraven placerar hemmet i fokus som en viktig plats i alla människors liv. Bostaden är mer än en marknadsvara, den är en rättighet.Bostadsmanifest är en uppföljning och utveckling av boken 13 Myter om bostadsfrågan (2016), författad av forskarkollektivet CRUSH – Critical Urban Sustainability Hub.Nu har fler vänner bjudits in till att medverka till detta mångsidiga manifest där steget tas från kritiska reflektioner till visioner om en framtida välkomnande stads- och bostadsplanering.Bostadsmanifest – 22 krav för framtidens hem är illustrerad av seriekonstnären Daria Bogdanska, författare till den hyllade serieromanen Wage Slaves. Boken är formgiven av Magnus Frederiksen.
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-
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De första åren i Sverige : Ukrainska mammor berättar
- 2024
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Med studien De första åren i Sverige – ukrainska mammor berättar vill Rädda Barnen belysa hur några ukrainska mammor upplever sin egen och sina barns situation i Sverige. I den här studien låter vi sex mammor från Ukraina, bosatta i olika delar av Sverige sedan 2022, få komma till tals. De berättar om sina upplevelser under de första åren i Sverige. Deras berättelser ger en ögonblicksbild av hur livet har tett sig för några av de tusentals familjer som sökt trygghet i Sverige. Sammantaget beskriver kvinnorna hur mottagandet har sett ut för olika familjer, de ekonomiska utmaningar och förutsättningar för egen försörjning de stött på. Vi tar del av familjernas boendeförhållanden, barnens situation och de problem som uppstår när man lever med tillfälliga uppehållstillstånd och utan personnummer under en längre tid. Mammorna beskriver den hjälp de har fått av enskilda svenskar med tacksamhet men även de svårigheter de mött på vägen för att kunna leva ett drägligt liv här och nu. Några drömmer om att återvända hem till Ukraina medan andra vill stanna i Sverige och bygga sin framtid här. ”Det är svårt med massflyktsdirektivet eftersom det gör att stödet har varit begränsat. Till exempel så fick vi inte läsa SFI i början […] Vi vill stanna i Sverige. Jag är trött på att flytta. Det viktigaste för mig är att mina barn är glada och att de trivs.” -Olena, mamma från Ukraina Studien är framtagen som en del av det arvsfonds-finansierade projektet Starka mammor – trygga barn som under 2023 har hållit i ett anpassat föräldrastöd för familjer från Ukraina.
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-
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En plats att kalla hemma : barnfamiljer i bostadskrisens skugga
- 2017
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Alla barn som bor i Sverige har, enligt barnkonventionen, rätt till en skälig levnadsstandard som kan tillgodose deras ”fysiska, psykiska, andliga, moraliska och sociala utveckling” (artikel 27). Staten ska hjälpa familjer och vårdnadshavare som inte har råd att säkerställa dessa behov, framförallt i relation till mat, kläder och bostad. Målet för Sveriges barnrättspolitik är att barn och unga ska respekteras och ges möjlighet till utveckling och trygghet samt delaktighet och inflytande. Trots dessa ambitioner ökar antalet barn i vårt land som saknar en trygg och adekvat bostad. I rapporten En plats att kalla hemma – Barnfamiljer i bostadskrisens skugga får vi ta del av bostadslösa barns och föräldrars erfarenheter och tankar om hur de har blivit påverkade av att inte ha ett hem. Rapporten lyfter fram både de underliggande orsakerna som lett till hemlöshet samt konsekvenserna för familjer som är drabbade. Den vittnar om hur barnen känner sig bortglömda och maktlösa av situationer som varken de själva eller deras föräldrar har kontroll över. Rapporten understryker att tilliten och tilltron till vuxenvärlden och samhällsinstitutioner riskerar att utarmas, vilket i sin tur förutspås kunna få långtgående negativa konsekvenser för barns livschanser.
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-
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Ensamstående mammor och rätten till bostad
- 2018. - Första
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Ingår i: Manifest. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144125688 ; , s. 113-126
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hemlösheten bland barnfamiljer i Sverige växer och allt fler ensamstående mammor och barn söker sig till socialtjänsten för hjälp. Men avsaknaden av tydliga riktlinjer och regler för hur man ska arbeta med denna grupp gör att stödet som erbjuds riskerar att formas mer av politiska beslut än av familjers behov. I kapitlet vill jag lyfta fram vikten av att låta mammor och barn få komma till tals i diskussionen om hemlöshetens problem. För att skapa en grund för ett socialt arbete som gör skillnad på riktigt måste vi nämligen i mycket större utsträckning utgå ifrån, och ha en verklig förståelse för, den situation som den hemlösa familjen befinner sig i. Innan dess är det stöd som erbjuds mer eller mindre verkningslöst.
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-
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Family homelessness and conditional welfare in Sweden : The experience of female lone parents in greater Stockholm
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Lone parent mothers with a foreign background and their children are disproportionally affected by homelessness in Sweden and are more likely than any other group to seek help from social services. However, support from social services for emergency accommodation is granted through the means-tested social assistance system and is therefore conditional on the parents’ ability to demonstrate their ‘worthiness of support’. Very little Swedish research exploring mothers’ views on their homelessness experiences and interactions with welfare agencies exists. There is also an urgent need to better understand how gender, migration, housing, and, welfare regulations inter-relates within specific urban contexts at a deeper experiential level in Sweden. In this paper, I will discuss the gendered and racialized nature of family homelessness in Sweden, as well as, the lack of recognition of the needs and vulnerability of an at-risk population. The paper draws upon qualitative research undertaken with lone parent mothers with experience of homelessness, housing exclusion and poverty in the region of Stockholm. The findings raise questions around the impact of Swedish homelessness policies in relation to vulnerable families, and, the limitations of a gender-neutral approach to social policy which fails to recognise how social divisions and power relations shape access to housing and other resources. Furthermore, it asks whether current social service practice which put emphasis on individual responsibility and parental shortcomings are adequate in addressing the needs of homeless female headed lone parent families.
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-
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‘It’s like they are doing injustice’: A Single-Mother Perspective on Family Homelessness in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 1799-4691 .- 2464-4161. ; 8:2, s. 115-126
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Single mothers with a foreign background and their children are a growing group within the homelessness population in Sweden. However, they are also more likely to live in “hidden homelessness” than other groups and are therefore less visible in official counts, a factor that contributes to misrepresentation and misrecognition of their living circumstances. In recent years, this invisibility has been exacerbated through new guidelines that delimit target groups, including families with children, and put stronger emphasis on the individual’s responsibility to solve their own housing situation regardless of structural constraints. This article outlines the experience and impact of those changes as articulated by single mothers affected by homelessness and housing exclusion in the greater region of Stockholm. The findings presented show aspects of experiences of homelessness and encounters with social services that tend to be invisible in official accounts in Sweden. They further illustrate the difficulties and harmful impact on vulnerable women and children of a system that primarily focuses on exit and individual deficiencies.
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-
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Kontext och deltagande kunskapsprojekt : en kritisk reflektion
- 2022
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 1104-1420 .- 2003-5624. ; 29:3-4, s. 269-284
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on 2o years of experience of involving marginalized single mothers in participatory knowledge projects, this article offers a personal and critical reflection on the importance of the contexts within which such projects are developed. Through concrete examples of projects, developed in different historical periods and welfare regimes, the author illustrates how the political and economic context can create both opportunities and barriers for participation of disadvantaged groups and the grassroots organisations that represents them. Some of the tension as well as benefits that might arise when more radical self-organised groups partner up with academic institutions are also highlighted. Finally, ethical questions regarding the ideals of involvement of marginalized groups within a welfare context where the time to participate is regulated and constrained are raised. Consequently, it is argued, there is a need for wider critical reflection and continous dialouge regarding how the fundamental principles of more radical traditions, both within research and social work, can be adapted and incorporated in new ways, whilst also learning from past experiences.
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-
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Lidandet som etisk drivkraft
- 2023. - 1
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Ingår i: Brandtal. - Malmö : Bokförlaget Atlas. - 9789174450941 ; , s. 183-187
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-
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Nurturing autonomy through radical care and situated knowledge : What social work practice can learn from activist mothering
- 2024
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Across time and geographical space, marginalised mothers have mobilised to support their families and communities through joint action and support networks. These groups ahve often developed initiatives, based on what Patricia Hill Collins has called 'A politics of survival', rooted in radical care and situated knowledge through a theorizing of experience. This involves the recognition of vital but underappreciated strategies for enduring precarious worlds. Drawing on examples from anti-racist single mother organising, liberatory educational practice and welfare rights activism in the UK, this paper will maintain that social work practice can learn from relational approaches that nurture autonomy through care rather than punishment. Through the lens of feminist relational approaches, it presents an alternative framework, or an 'otherwise', for the development of services and interventions that aim to promote self-sufficiency and autonomy.
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-
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Precarity and vulnerability among homeless single-parent families in Sweden : A critical perspective on policy and practice
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Within the confines of the receding Swedish welfare state, family homelessness and poverty are on the rise among one-parent families, in particular those headed by a single migrant mother. This development follows a trend that is noticeable across advanced welfare states, where female-headed households are facing an increased risk of being locked into vicious circles of low-paid work, inadequate income protection schemes, and porr housing options. Drawing on the findings from a PHD research project that traced the experiences of precariously housed single migrant mothers in greater Stockholm over time, this paper offers a critical perspective on current restrictive policies and practices that seek to impose "discipline" on mothers in poverty. It suggests that the intersection of weak safety net programmes for homeless families and discipining measures imposed through the social assistance scheme, risk exacerbating precarity and vulnerability rather than offer support or solutions. As a result, it is argued that there is an urgent need to reassess and re-imagine social work practice with vulnerable and precariously housed families in Sweden from both an ethical and political perspective.
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-, et al.
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Single Parent Mothers - Abandoned And Controlled : A Comparative Intersectional Study Of The Impact of State Welfare and Employment Policies In The UK And Sweden
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Whereas single parents in the UK in the late 20th century endured high rates of unemployment and poverty, effectively abandoned by the State, those in Sweden experienced the reverse. Many working on gender mainstreaming looked to Sweden for models of parent/care employment and welfare policies to effect structural change. Now however, both countries have experienced significant shifts. Under austerity in the UK single parents are more likely to be employed, yet trapped within a pernicious intersection of welfare and employment policies leaving families vulnerable to deprivation, so regulated and controlled they have little time to care for children. Those not in employment, are more likely to be sanctioned and made homeless, especially those with children under five.Now new patterns are emerging in Sweden in an increasingly unequal society. Since the late 1990’s fiscal crisis, and in spite of a history of gender equality policies, inequalities between single and dual-parent families have increased. Policies assume a ‘dual earner/dual carer family model’, with an ever-increasing blind spot to social and economic constraints experienced by single parents, especially new migrants. Swedish research studies now identify single mothers as disadvantaged, insufficiently safeguarded by the welfare system. Migrant single mothers are the most marginalized, abandoned on benefits for long periods of time, particularly vulnerable to absolute poverty.The impact of persistent intersectional inequalities by reason of class, gender and ethnicity places single parents on the margins in both Sweden and the UK. This paper considers how gender mainstreaming can, and must address intersectional discriminations.
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-, et al.
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Talking about needs and rights in inter-agency meetings : interpretive contests in Swedish welfare provision
- 2024
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Ingår i: Critical and radical social work An international journal. - : Bristol University Press. - 2049-8608 .- 2049-8675. ; , s. 1-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Inter-agency collaboration plays a central role in contemporary Swedish welfare provision and access to social security for citizens that are long-term unemployed and suffer from ill-health. Drawing on Nancy Fraser's theorization on 'the politics of needs interpretation', this article examines how needs and rights are interpreted and contested in inter-agency meetings involving local representatives from national. regional and municipal welfare agencies. Contextualized against social security reforms that put emphasis on the limitation of access and a 'work-first' approach, the article suggests that localised inter-agency meetings of this nature are arenas where perceived injustices are symbolically elaborated and challenged 'from within' welfare organisations. Although discourses emphasising self-sufficiency and the importance of work tend to act as depoliticising and normalising, the way they are implemented in practice is not passively accepted by front-line professionals, who questions interpretive justifications, as well as harmful consequences for individuals.
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- Samzelius, Tove, et al.
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Talking about needs and rights in inter-agency meetings : interpretive contests in Swedish welfare provision
- 2024
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Ingår i: Critical and radical social work An international journal. - : Policy Press. - 2049-8608 .- 2049-8675.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Inter-agency collaboration plays a central role in contemporary Swedish welfare provision and access to social security for citizens that are long-term unemployed and suffer from ill health. Drawing on Nancy Fraser's theorisation on the 'politics of needs interpretation', this article examines how needs and rights are interpreted and contested in inter-agency meetings involving local representatives from national, regional and municipal Swedish welfare agencies. Contextualised against social security reforms that put emphasis on the limitation of access and a 'work-first' approach, the article suggests that localised inter-agency meetings of this nature are arenas where perceived injustices are symbolically elaborated and challenged 'from within' welfare organisations. Although discourses emphasising self-sufficiency and the importance of work tend to act as depoliticising and normalising, the way they are implemented in practice is not passively accepted by frontline professionals, who question interpretive justifications, as well as harmful consequences for individuals.
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-
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Who’s responsible for homeless families? : conditionality, social assistance and access to housing for single mothers in Sweden
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Family homelessness is an increasing problem in Sweden. An acute lack of affordable and accessible housing force more families to turn to social services as a last resort. However, it is only by applying for means tested social assistance that families can get help with temporary emergency housing.This paper will present initial findings from an explorative qualitative study involving homeless single mothers with refugee or migrant backgrounds who have had contact with social services in the greater Stockholm area. In the City of Stockholm and surrounding local authorities, welfare conditionality is increasingly applied to support payments for emergency housing. Parents are required to demonstrate that they are “actively looking for housing” without much consideration for the structural circumstances which impacts their chances of finding a solution by themselves.Rules governing payments of social assistance are regulated in the Swedish Social Welfare Act and interpreted through guidelines written by the National Board of Health and Social Welfare. According to these rules and standards, “the best interest of the child” should always be considered when social services make decisions involving families with children. However, while there are written guidelines regarding payments of social assistance in the event of financial hardship, there are no official guiding principles for how social services should deal with family homelessness. As a result, we are observing the growth of short-term and emergency solutions with changing degrees of conditionality attached. In the most extreme cases, mothers with children are sanctioned through evictions from emergency housing with no further support offered.Participants in my research are describing how the varying approaches by different social service localities are having an impact on their lives and that of their children. The findings also raises further questions around effectiveness of Swedish homelessness policies in relation to vulnerable families, and, current social service practices emphasising the parent’s responsibility and shortcomings.
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- Samzelius, Tove, 1974-, et al.
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Without a home, but not homeless : between the Convention on the Rights of the Child and emergency assistance
- 2020
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The number of homeless people has increased in Sweden. More and more families with children are turning to thesocial services for help but are referred to temporary and short-term emergency assistance. The reason for this isthat they are defned as structurally homeless and are consequently not considered to be part of the target group forsocial services. Based on on-going and up-to-date research, we highlight examples of how diferent municipalitieshandle this problem. Furthermore, we highlight the consequences for children’s health, well-being and life chances.We also discuss the shortcomings which we see in the Swedish system and what needs to be changed in order forchildren to be insured the right to a safe home in the future.
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