Activation, Non-Take-Up, and the Sense of Entitlement: A Swiss Case Study of Disability Policy Reforms

Rosenstein, Emilie

doi:10.2478/sjs-2021-0017

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Social Policies, Vulnerability and the Life Course: A Complex Nexus

Bonvin

Tabin

Perriard

et al. 2023

Withstanding Vulnerability Throughout Adult Life

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Social policies are designed to tackle vulnerability processes, providing additional resources to vulnerable target groups and helping them overcome stressing situations. However, empirical observations have shown that social policies may also reinforce vulnerability in certain cases. This can be better explained if one considers vulnerability as a multi-level process. Vulnerability is experienced by individuals at micro-level: it is then characterised by multidimensionality where diverse spheres of life can be affected; vulnerability is then framed as a social issue at macro level, requiring the setting up of adequate policy; this macro notion of vulnerability is then implemented at meso-level by agents that are called to translate the macro level notion of vulnerability into actual public action. There may be a gap or a discrepancy between the different notions of vulnerability as experienced at micro level, framed as social problem at macro level and implemented as public action at meso level. This gap may result in paradoxical situations where social policies do not provide adequate resources or submit their access to stringent conditions acting as stressors, thus reinforcing cumulative disadvantage rather than counteracting it. Examples from studies conducted within the NCCR-LIVES illustrate some of these paradoxical situations.

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Social Policies, Vulnerability and the Life Course: A Complex Nexus

Bonvin

Tabin

Perriard

et al. 2023

Withstanding Vulnerability Throughout Adult Life

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„Too ill for work, too healthy for disability pension.“: The experience of being refused a pension from the perspective of people with health issues

Rotzetter

2024

sozialpolitik.ch

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At the beginning of the new millennium, the transformation of the welfare state in Switzerland according to the principles of activation also affected disability insurance. Far-reaching changes were implemented according to the motto „integration instead of pension“ and the access to disability grands was made more difficult. Due to this, the new disability pension rates have shrunk by half within 10 years. This article presents the results of a dissertation in which an interview study was used to investigate the effects of disability pension refusals on people with health issues. The analysis of 8 narrative-biographical interviews showed that pension refusals can be described as an experience of disregard that shakes trust in the welfare state and damages the identity of those affected.

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Disability Rights and Swiss Citizenship: The Dimensions of Inclusive and Exclusive Integration Criteria

Ader

2024

sozialpolitik.ch

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International treaties guarantee ‘fundamental rights’ for disabled people that ensure them a dignified life. However, access to citizenship is subject to specific criteria, which can be difficult to fulfill for people with disabilities. Consequently, there exists an intersecting policy tension between the exemptions of disabled people from citizenship criteria and migration control; both of which are “neighbouring legal fields” to disability law. This study of the Swiss case compiles and examines Swiss law that pertains to foreign migrants with disabilities and focuses on the following questions: (i) How has the legal framework that regulates access to Swiss citizenship for immigrants with a disability evolved over time? (ii) Has said legal framework become inclusive over time? The main findings are the following: (i) immigration and citizenship policies continue to value an individual’s capacity to contribute to society and (ii) the examined case law has developed to being indirectly ableist.

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Activation, Non-Take-Up, and the Sense of Entitlement: A Swiss Case Study of Disability Policy Reforms

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Social Policies, Vulnerability and the Life Course: A Complex Nexus

Social Policies, Vulnerability and the Life Course: A Complex Nexus

„Too ill for work, too healthy for disability pension.“: The experience of being refused a pension from the perspective of people with health issues

Disability Rights and Swiss Citizenship: The Dimensions of Inclusive and Exclusive Integration Criteria

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