Welfare cuts in Spain and the effects on the most vulnerable populations

Ciriano, Emilio José Gómez

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“…In the UK, for example, 95% of domiciliary care was provided directly by local governments in 1993, but by 2012 the proportion of publicly provided care had plunged to 11% (Hudson, 2016). The financial crisis struck Spain a double blow as unemployment climbed to 21% (with youth unemployment reaching 44%) and the government made massive cuts to welfare, education, social and cultural programmes in order to comply with the structural adjustment programme it promised to international financial institutions (Ciriano, 2012). Hundreds of thousands of people were evicted from their homes (Smyth, 2013).…”

Section: The Centrality Of Social Reproductionmentioning

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Social reproduction and politics: Overcoming the separation

Jeffries

2017

The Sociological Review

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From Tahrir Square and Puerta del Sol to Zuccotti Park and Taksim Square, the protest camps of 2011–2013 were a physical manifestation of a wide range of political objectives, including the extinguishment of autocratic regimes, the end of capitalism, and the abolishment of student loan debts. Yet their public re-creation, day after day, revealed a world of activity that is indispensable to the daily re-making of life itself but that is typically consigned to the backstage of political life. While the encampments are today remembered mostly for their evident failures, they remain significant for showing, in the most public way, that no politics is possible without that vital labour. In this material sense, they represented an important step toward the development and scaling up of modes of organizing that refuse to separate social reproduction from politics.

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Section: The Centrality Of Social Reproductionmentioning

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Social reproduction and politics: Overcoming the separation

Jeffries

2017

The Sociological Review

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Social Work and Social Work Education in Spain

Ciriano

2020

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Work Education

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Poverty as a Political Choice: a Comparative Analysis of Reports of the UN Rapporteur’s Visits to the UK and Spain

Cummins

Ciriano

2021

J. Hum. Rights Soc. Work

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This paper presents a comparative analysis of two reports by the UN Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, one for Spain and one for the UK. In both countries, austerity policies were introduced following the banking crisis of 2008. The UN Rapporteur reports highlight the damage that was done by welfare retrenchment. In particular, the reports document the impact of austerity on the most vulnerable individuals and communities. The paper uses Somers' (2008) conceptual model of citizenship as the basis for a comparative analysis of two reports. Somers' (2008) model of citizenship is a triadic one which sees the state, market and civil society as competing elements. Each one can serve to regulate and limit the influence or excesses of the other two. Somers argues that neoliberalism has seen the dominance of the market at the expense of the role of the state and the institutions of civil society. Austerity policies saw the market dominating. Having examined the context of the two reports and their conclusions, the paper discussed the implications for individual social workers’ practice and the role of social work as a profession in tackling poverty and marginalisation.

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Welfare cuts in Spain and the effects on the most vulnerable populations

Cited by 3 publications

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Social reproduction and politics: Overcoming the separation

Social reproduction and politics: Overcoming the separation

Social Work and Social Work Education in Spain

Poverty as a Political Choice: a Comparative Analysis of Reports of the UN Rapporteur’s Visits to the UK and Spain

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