Mitchell Making a Life on Mean Welfare

Voices from Multicultural Sydney
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4473-5372-0
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 142 Seiten

We are often told that mean welfare is what the public wants. Whether or not that's true, this book encourages us to at least be honest about what that entails.

It explores how diverse welfare users navigate the personal and practical hurdles of Australia’s so-called social security system, where benefits are deliberately meagre and come with strings attached. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a region of Sydney known for ethnic diversity and socio-economic disadvantage, Emma Mitchell brings her own experience of belonging to a poor family long reliant on welfare to her research.

This book shows the different cultural resources that people bring to welfare encounters with a sensitivity and subtlety that are often missing in both sympathetic and cynical accounts of life on welfare.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mitchell, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. A hand up, not a handout

3. Seatbelts and safety nets

4. Problems of access in community welfare

5. Negotiating vulnerability

6. The shame of protection

7. The art of getting by

8. Conclusion: From problems to possibilities

Über Autor(innen)

Mitchell, Emma
Emma Mitchell is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Urban Geographies of Care in the Institute for Culture and Society at the Western Sydney University.

Emma Mitchell is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Urban Geographies of Care in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University.