PARTICIPATION, MARGINALIZATION AND WELFARE SERVICES
Participation, Marginalization and Welfare Services
Concepts, Politics and Practices
Across European Countries
Edited by
AILA-LEENA MATTHIES
University of Jyvskyl, Finland
and
LARS UGGERHJ
Aalborg University, Denmark
First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing
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Matthies, Aila-Leena, 1959
Participation, marginalization and welfare services: concepts, politics and practices across European countries / by Aila-Lena Matthies and Lars Uggerhj.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-6352-8 (hardback: alk. paper)ISBN 978-1-3155-9945-8 (ebook)ISBN 978-1-3170-8397-9 (epub)
1. Social serviceEuropean Union countries. 2. Public welfareEuropean Union countries. 3. European Union countriesSocial policy.
I. Uggerhj, Lars. II. Title.
HV238.M386 2014
361.94dc23
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Contents
Aila-Leena Matthies
Aila-Leena Matthies
Martti Siisiinen
Silvia Fargion
Petra Videmek
Lena Dominelli
Kati Nrhi and Tuomo Kokkonen
Sara Hultqvist and Tapio Salonen
Patricia Almaguer-Kalixto, Emma Juaneda and Carmen Marcuello
Mia Arp Fallov
Sissel Seim
Tiina Silvasti
Lars Uggerhj
Juha Mikkonen
Monica Larsson
Shula Ramon, Shira Hantman, Roxana Anghel, Carolyn Gutman, Wendy Criden and Miriam Ben-Oz
Lars Uggerhj
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Patricia Almaguer-Kalixto is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico and a visiting researcher at the Universidad de Zaragoza. She is interested in interdisciplinary and systemic research on social development and environmental issues. She is currently engaged in participatory action research projects in rural areas of North Mexico.
Roxana Anghel is Associate Research Fellow at the Department of Family and Community Studies at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. She has researched care leavers of childrens homes, as well as user involvement, and has pioneered the application of concept mapping for evaluating service users involvement in social work education.
Mia Arp Fallov is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aarlborg University, Denmark.
Miriam Ben-Oz, MSW, is Senior Lecturer and academic advisor of the school for supervision at the Social Work Department in in Tel-Hai Collage. She is responsible of the masters degree practicum at the School of Social Work and is the head of Continuing Education Department at the Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences at Haifa University. She teaches, supervises research and develops teaching methodology for the social work profession. She is a counselor and supervisor in social work field intervention programs.
Wendy Criden works as a social worker with older people and as a psychotherapist worked closely with the older Israeli people as co-researchers in this study.
Lena Dominelli holds a Chair in Applied Social Sciences at the School of Applied Social Sciences and is associate director at the Institute of Hazards, Risk and Resilience Research at Durham University where she heads the Vulnerability and Resilience Programme. Alongside her wealth of experience as a university educator and researcher, she has worked in social services, probation and community development. She has published widely in social work, social policy and sociology. Several of these are classics and have been translated into many languages. Her most recent publication is Green Social Work (Polity Press 2012). She is recognized globally as a leading figure in social work.
Silvia Fargion is Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. She holds a PhD in Social Work from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Edinburgh (2001). Her research interests include social workers professional cultures and social welfare organizations. She has also developed substantial experience as a professional social worker in the area of young people and families, and as a consultant to public and private social service units. She publishes regularly in international journals of social work.
Carolyn Gutman is Senior Lecturer at Tel Hai College, and specializes in disability studies and works closely with an Israeli disabled activist as a co-lecturer.
Shira Hantman is Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at Tel Hai College in Israel, and until recently led its Department of Social Work. She specializes in teaching and research working with older people, whom she has involved in her teaching.
Sara Hultqvist is a PhD student at Linnaeus University in Vxj, Sweden. In her doctoral thesis she examines Swedish public health insurance. Her empirical example is the Swedish activity compensation, a programme that has replaced the disability pension for young people. Social policy is seen as action and the focus is placed on young persons who have experienced receiving activity compensation.
Emma Juaneda works in the Business and Economics Department at the University of La Rioja, Iberus consortium. She has a doctoral degree in Business Economics and Management and is a member of the research group GESES-Zaragoza University. Her main research interests are social economy and its role in society as an instrument for promoting citizens active participation. She focuses on the welfare state field with special attention on social services.
Tuomo Kokkonen is a researcher in a project examining the role of welfare services for the participative citizenship of marginalized young men at the University of Jyvskyl. He has a professional background as a teacher in adult master-level social work education. His other research interests include social policy, citizenship and social rights.