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Leading from Behind
This book takes stock of German gender equality in several policy fields after 16 years of governments led by Angela Merkel and her conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU). While maintaining its status as an economic engine in Europe, Germany has historically been a laggard in adopting gender equality measures. The European Gender Equality Index, however, now ranks Germany relatively high and shows substantial progress since 2005. While this has gone mostly unnoticed, Germany has passed far-reaching legislation in major policy fields relevant for gender equality. Investigating the effects of Merkel's tenure on gender equality, the chapters in this volume assess policy output and outcom...
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Mothers, Families or Children?
Mothers, Families, or Children? is the first comparative-historical study of family policies in Poland, Hungary, and Romania from 1945 until the eve of the global pandemic in 2020. The book highlights the emergence, consolidation, and perseverance of three types of family policies based on “mother-orientation” in Poland, “family orientation” in Hungary, and “child-orientation” in Romania. It uses a new theoretical framework to identify core and contingent clusters of benefits and services in each country and trace their development across time and under different political regimes, before and after 1989. It also examines and compares policy continuity and change with special attention to institutions, ideas, and actors involved in decision making and reform. As family policies continue to evolve in the era of European Union membership and new governmental and societal actors emerge, this study reveals mechanisms that help preserve core family policy clusters while allowing reform in contingent ones in each country.
Reproductive Racism
Population is a dangerous political category. It is not separable from the racist and class-based valorisation and devaluation of different lives. From global contraceptive implant programmes to right wing anti-immigration discourses, demographic interpretations of multiple current crises legitimise the states' grip on childbearing and mobility. The results are complex dimensions of reproductive racism and restrictive border regimes. Meanwhile, global social inequalities and racial capitalist extractivism stay out of the game. The book analyses how demographic knowledge production and states’ grip to the variable of population intertwine. It introduces the concept of the Malthusian matrix ...
Social Work and the Making of Social Policy
Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and social policy. Moving beyond existing studies on policy practice, the book employs the policy cycle as a core analytical frame and focuses on the influence of social work(ers) in the problem definition, agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation of social policy. Twenty-three contributors offer examples of policy making from seven different countries and demonstrate how social work practitioners can become political actors, while also encouraging policy makers to become aware of the potential of social work for the social policy-making process.
Integration for Third Country Nationals in the European Union
This highly original book provides an innovative analysis of EU migration and asylum law and its interplay with equality issues in order to assess the current integration framework for third-country nationals and to explore future scenarios in the European Context. Integration for Third-Country Nationals in the European Union focuses on the nexus between non-discrimination based on nationality and race, and the equality clauses covering different categories of regularly residing third-country nationals within EU law. It highlights the extent to which social rights that have been formally promised to non-EU citizens are enjoyed in practice. The contributing authors Ð who are both academics a...
The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe
This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe. More than sixty prominent European scholars’ original texts present the field’s main theoretical and methodological approaches in addition to issues such as families as relationships, parental arrangements, parenting practices and child well-being, family policies in welfare state regimes, family lives in migration, and family trajectories. Presenting cutting-edge research on findings, theoretical interpretations, and solutions to methodological challenges, it is a timely tool for researchers, teachers, students, and family practitioners who wish to familiarise themselves with the state of family sociology in Europe.
Diana and Her Crocodiles
Diana has a problem! Pet day is coming to her school, and she needs a super awesome, amazing pet to win. So she asks her mum if she can get a pony. Certainly not! says Mum. We havent enough grass on the lawn! Then she asks her dad if she can get a goat. Certainly not! says Dad. A goat may eat all the washing on the line! Things are looking very glum until Diana and her brother find some very large, extremely odd-looking eggs at the edge of the lake. Has Diana solved her pet crisis or just made things a whole lot worse?
Care und die Wissenschaft vom Haushalt
Der Band gibt einen umfassenden Einblick in aktuelle Debatten zur Organisation alltäglicher Fürsorge- und Versorgungsarbeiten rund um den privaten Haushalt. Aus vier haushaltswissenschaftlichen Perspektiven wird deutlich, dass die Unterbewertung der Arbeit des Alltags zu gesellschaftlichen Folgekosten und Benachteiligung insbesondere von Frauen führt und für die Übergänge zwischen öffentlicher und privater Verantwortung für „Care“ strukturell verankerte Lösungen von Nöten sind.
Jahrbuch StadtRegion 2007/2008
Das Jahrbuch StadtRegion erscheint alle zwei Jahre und richtet sich an alle, die im Bereich von Stadt sowie Stadt- und Raumplanung tätig sind. Der Themenschwerpunkt „arme reiche Stadt“ untersucht die sich mehr und mehr öffnende Schere zwischen arm und reich in den Städten, fragt nach Ursachen und sucht nach Lösungsmöglichkeiten. Das Jahrbuch ist ein interdisziplinäres Forum für Arbeiten über stadt- und regionalspezifische Themen. Es regt wissenschaftliche, politische und planerische Diskussionen an und befördert den Wissenstransfer und Austausch zwischen Wissenschaft und politischplanerischer Praxis. Publiziert werden deshalb sowohl theoretische Aufsätze und Befunde der angewandten Forschung als auch aktuelle politische Stellungnahmen. Schwerpunkt des Jahrbuchs 2006/07 ist das Thema „arme reiche Stadt“.
