Welfare and social exclusion

Jordan, Bill

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“…In order to receive services, citizens need to comply with the constructions of them, for example, display a certain need. This helps to reproduce the labels, images and ascribed attributes of groups of citizens (Jordan 2003). However, categories, labels and images crafted by actors working in public authorities are often seen as objective, efficient and necessary in order to meet specific problems and therefor carry on without reflection neither from the actors involved nor from the target group or the public.…”

Section: Understanding Citizenship and Imaging Of Policy Targetsmentioning

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Constructing citizens: a matter of labeling, imaging and underlying rationales in the case of people with dementia

Nedlund

Nordh

2017

Critical Policy Studies

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A highly significant element in politics and policies is the process of constructing, categorizing and imagingsuch as categorizing citizens as target groups. In governing documents, distinctions are drawn to distinguish deserving and undeserving categories of citizens. This paper explores the construction of citizenship for people with dementia and the connection to underlying categories of rationales, by analyzing how this group has been categorized and imaged in policy documents. The study is based on a qualitative textual analysis of national policy documents in Sweden, covering nearly 40 years. It shows that the way people with dementia have been imaged has differed over time, where people living with dementia have been situated in various target groups and discourses. However, to a large extent, the underlying understanding has nevertheless remained persistent where the position of people with dementia has remained weak. It offers a taxonomy of categories of rationales and shows the interplay of rationales and target groups for certain social constructions. The study offers insights into the policy process related to policy change, and on citizenship as something transformative and interrelated that risks upholding democratic values that delimit disempowered groups, in this case people with dementia, to influence their citizenship.

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Section: Understanding Citizenship and Imaging Of Policy Targetsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Constructing citizens: a matter of labeling, imaging and underlying rationales in the case of people with dementia

Nedlund

Nordh

2017

Critical Policy Studies

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“…Within the Swedish welfare system, the possibility for applying for, being assessed and receiving social services is needs-based which means that the citizens are assessed according to their attributes, capabilities and situation (Rothstein, 2010a). However, the needs that are emphasised within social services often come with a negative construction, that of the citizens inability to secure an income, the citizens inability to take care of themselves and, the citizen's inability to function properly within the society (Jordan, 2003). The citizens who need and want help from the welfare system thus have to comply with the construction of their specific policy target group in order to be granted the help they need.…”

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“…This entails the discerning of who is entitled to social rights. Constructions of citizens are based on who is the ideal citizen and who is a problematic citizen which is decided by shared values (Anderson 2013;Jordan, 2003;Schneider & Ingram, 1997;Dahl 1989) and citizens enjoying social rights must thus display a genuine incapacity in order not to unnecessarily burden society (Jordan, 2003). However, who is an ideal citizen or a problematic one is a constantly ongoing discussion within the welfare system.…”

Section: Social Citizenship and Social Rightsmentioning

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“…Since social services are funded by taxes, and therefore partially funded by the citizens, the providers of social rights must live up to a certain standard and also maintain legal security, as well as ensuring that services do not become arbitrary. In the welfare system where social services are provided by the municipalities and further delivered by, to an extent, private companies, the reciprocity lies within a decent provision of social services in order to maintain legitimacy, otherwise running the risk of protest or the risk of citizens leaving the municipality for another one (Jordan, 2003). However, in order to receive social rights reciprocity is also required from the citizens in order to be able to enjoy those rights (Jordan, 2003) such as, mentioned earlier, work, paying taxes, parenthood etc.…”

Section: Social Citizenship and Social Rightsmentioning

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Social citizenship and people with dementia : Designing social care policies in Sweden

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iii ABSTRACTPeople with dementia are commonly in need of some form of social care from the social services in order to manage their everyday situations. However, social services are shaped by the construction of policy targets, i.e. the construction of people with dementia as citizens. The aim of this dissertation is to explore the social citizenship of people with dementia. Social citizenship for people with dementia is explored by studying how people with dementia have, in policy documents, been constructed as a target group, and also by studying how policies are enacted in practice by care managers, in their work and in their meetings with people with dementia. This is illustrated by studying policy documents from national level which range over nearly 40 years. It is shown that, if and when people with dementia are visible in policy documents, they commonly have a negative construction based on their cognitive and communicative abilities, and they are constructed as a burden, disturbing and incapable, wherein focus lies in their negative attributes. We further investigate in this dissertation, how street-level bureaucrats, in this case care managers, experience meeting with people with dementia when they apply for social services. This part of the dissertation is built upon 19 interviews with care managers from four different organisations, which show that care managers experience difficulties in their meetings with people with dementia. These difficulties comprise the exchange of information between care managers and people with dementia, refusal of social services by the person with dementia, the influence of relatives and other professions as well as moral dilemmas, such as the relations between the person with dementia and their relatives. The study also shows that care managers have little support from policies, e.g. legislation and guidelines, in how to handle these dilemmas, and must thus create their own local ways of handling these situations. This requires that care managers are influential policy actors concerning the policy target group of people with dementia.The policy processes which this dissertation illustrates, affect the social citizenship of people with dementia. It is shown that they, to an extent, have difficulties in influencing their own everyday situation concerning social services. Finally, the policy processes, such as the construction of people with dementia as well as the policy practice in which they encounter care managers, will affect their possibility to influence their social citizenship.Keywords: Social citizenship, people with dementia, policy, policy practice, policy actors, street-level bureaucrats, social work, care managers, rights Abstract iv Personer med demenssjukdom behöver vanligtvis någon form av socialt stöd från socialtjänsten för att kunna hantera sin egen vardag. Emellertid så är socialt stöd format av konstruktionen av policymålgrupper, dvs konstruktionen av personer med demenssjukdom som medborgare. Syftet med denna avhandling är att undersöka det ...

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Welfare and social exclusion

Cited by 2 publications

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Constructing citizens: a matter of labeling, imaging and underlying rationales in the case of people with dementia

Constructing citizens: a matter of labeling, imaging and underlying rationales in the case of people with dementia

Social citizenship and people with dementia : Designing social care policies in Sweden

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