Towards a Relational Approach to Poverty in Social Work: Research and Practice Considerations

Poverty in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Two-Spirit, and Other Sexual and Gender Minority (LGBTQ2S+) Communities in Canada: Implications for Social Work Practice

“…Although scholarship incorporating relational poverty analysis often foregrounds material disparities between the poor and nonpoor (Lawson & Elwood, 2014;Piven, 2006), the role of discursive factors in generating and normalizing poverty is also taken up as an area of inquiry and action (Feldman, 2019;Garrett, 2017). For example, Garrett's (2017) work has drawn attention to dominant discourses that construct racialized single mothers receiving publicly administered financial assistance as morally and normatively transgressive actors whose "dependence" on the welfare state requires surveillance and discipline.…”

“…We draw on intersectionality ( Bowleg, 2008 ; Cho et al, 2013 ; McCall, 2005 ; Yuval-Davis, 2006 ) and relational poverty ( Feldman, 2019 ; Lawson & Elwood, 2014 ; Piven, 2006 ) as key theoretical frameworks to inform the analysis we present in this article. While we utilize the former to conceptualize the distinctive manifestations of poverty among diverse sexual and gender minorities represented in this review, we use the analytical lens of relational poverty to develop social work interventions that seek to address material disparities at various levels of practice.…”

“…We begin our article by first describing our intersectional narrative review of the Canadian literature on LGBTQ2Sþ poverty (Kia et al, 2020) and by presenting some of the key insights reflected in this work. Following this overview, we introduce and employ the theoretical frameworks of intersectionality (Cho et al, 2013;McCall, 2005;Yuval-Davis, 2006) and relational poverty analysis (Feldman, 2019;Piven, 2006) to conceptualize social work interventions intended to address adverse material conditions in sexual and gender minority populations. Given the social justice underpinnings of the social work profession (Watts & Hodgson, 2019), and the utility of both intersectional and relational poverty lenses for theorizing social justice work (Feldman, 2019;Watts & Hodgson, 2019), we draw on these traditions of scholarship to inform our analysis.…”

“…Following this overview, we introduce and employ the theoretical frameworks of intersectionality (Cho et al, 2013;McCall, 2005;Yuval-Davis, 2006) and relational poverty analysis (Feldman, 2019;Piven, 2006) to conceptualize social work interventions intended to address adverse material conditions in sexual and gender minority populations. Given the social justice underpinnings of the social work profession (Watts & Hodgson, 2019), and the utility of both intersectional and relational poverty lenses for theorizing social justice work (Feldman, 2019;Watts & Hodgson, 2019), we draw on these traditions of scholarship to inform our analysis. Specifically, we use intersectionality to foreground distinct expressions of poverty affecting diverse LGBTQ2Sþ groups that were represented in our review, and use relational poverty analysis to theorize responses to these manifestations of poverty in sexual and gender minority communities at various levels of social work intervention.…”

Yoksullarla Çalışan Sosyal Hizmet Uzmanlarının Duygusal Emeği

“…Yoksulluk ve yoksullar tarihsel süreçte sürekli olarak sosyal hizmet mesleği ile ilişkilendirilmiş ve yoksulluk sosyal hizmetin merkezi olmuştur. Yoksulluk ve sosyal hizmet ayrılmaz bir şekilde birbirine bağlıdır ve sosyal hizmet mesleğinin başlangıcından bu yana sosyal hizmet uzmanları yoksulluk içindeki kişiler, aileler ve topluluklarla doğrudan çalışmışlardır (Feldman, 2019). Birçok ülkede sosyal hizmet uzmanları yoksullara maddi ve manevi destek sağlayan doğrudan uygulamaların içinde yer almaktadırlar (Nevo, 2015).…”