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Financialization of Eldercare in a Nordic Welfare State
2022
Abstract The increasing presence of for-profit service providers in publicly-funded eldercare has transformed care in Nordic welfare states which have a strong tradition of public care provision. Macro-level research on care policies has mainly focused on public institutions, national policies, and marketization. The financialization of eldercare has not received much scholarly attention, and existing studies mostly focus on the UK. The financialization of eldercare refers to the ways in which care is both a site of profit extraction and financial engineering. The Nordic system is relatively universal, and, with rapidly ageing demographics, there is a secured demand for eldercare services. …
The Human Right to Social Security and Its Impact on Socio-Political Action in Germany and Finland
2017
Social human rights have rarely been given attention in social work research or comparative studies on welfare states. The paper aims at filling the gap by analysing the conception of human beings inherent in human rights and in unemployment policy documents in Germany and Finland. Its focus lies on the right to social security, a central norm of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The main question is what impact does the right to social security have on socio-political action in Germany and Finland. The results of the analysis, which was based on the objective hermeneutics, revealed a structural similarity between the conceptions of human beings in both cou…
The Janus face of social innovation in local welfare initiatives
2017
Care for older people in early twenty-first-century Europe : dimensions and directions of change
2017
Not just daycare: nordic mothers in research, development and innovation navigating work and childcare
2022
Nordic welfare policies mitigate work–childcare reconciliation; however, they are not enough for mothers working in intensive work cultures. In addition, there are differences among the three Nordic states in both work–family policies and cultural norms as to how they should be used. In this article, we study the resources mothers who work in research, development and innovation (R&D&I) in Finland, Norway and Sweden rely on in their work–childcare reconciliation. Thematic analysis of interviews with 74 professionals resulted in identifying four main resources: father involvement, parental leave system and daycare, flexible working, and grandparent help and networks. Our analysis brings to v…
Beware of the “poverty migrant”: media discourses on EU labour migration and the welfare state in Germany and the UK
2021
Abstract This article examines the role of the media in the EU freedom of movement debate through the lens of high-circulation German and UK newspapers during the first half of 2014. It explores how the media problematised migration from Eastern European member states and its influence on national host country labour markets and welfare systems. It also analyses how different media outlets positioned themselves in relation to relevant policies or policy proposals. The findings show that most articles in our sample present low-skill, low-wage working European Union (EU) migrant class referred to as “poverty migrants” as a problem to be addressed at the policy level in contrast with the econo…
Comparisons, Categories, and Labels: Investigating the North–South Dichotomy in Europe
2021
The paper presents genealogy-oriented analysis of how the Nordic model gained its dominant characterization as modern, advanced and superior to other European welfare models while Southern European countries came to be labelled laggards in the welfare domain. To illuminate the relational nature of these, and all, comparisons, the analysis accentuates how researchers, politicians, and civil servants alike designate Nordic and Southern European states, their societies, and their welfare models. The empirical analysis focuses on scholarly writings about welfare-state comparisons (1986–2017) and on European Union documents addressing cohesion policies (1986–2021). Analysis of the vocabulary and…
L’età dei diritti al tempo del Covid-19: alcune riflessioni sull’incidenza della pandemia nella tutela interna e internazionale dei diritti fondament…
2020
L’età dei diritti rappresenta uno dei punti più alti dell’evoluzione della civiltà giuridica occidentale: dopo l’affermazione dello Stato liberale di diritto con le libertà negative e la successiva affermazione dello Stato sociale con i diritti in positivo (diritti sociali), soprattutto l'istituzione dell’Onu ha determinato la cd. internazionalizzazione dei diritti fondamentali dell’uomo, con una progressiva erosione dela sovranità statale in questa materia, ad opera di molte convenzioni internazionali a carattere universale e regionale, tra cui la CEDU. Ad oggi, la convivenza tra le libertà in negativo (tra cui la libertà personale, la libertà di riunione, la libertà di movimento) e i cd d…
AMMORTIZZATORI SOCIALI E NUOVE PROSPETTIVE DI WELFARE
In linea con la costruzione di un Modello sociale europeo e con i principi di flexicurity e lotta all’esclusione sociale elaborati nel quadro della Strategia Europa 2020, lo studio ripercorre le tappe dell’auspicato processo di razionalizzazione/universalizzazione del sistema degli ammortizzatori sociali in Italia, al fine di conciliare le istanze di flessibilità del mercato del lavoro con un incremento della sicurezza sociale e dell’occupabilità. In particolare, si analizzano le rilevanti modifiche introdotte dalla legge n. 92 del 2012 (cd. Riforma Fornero), nonché quelle proposte, a distanza di neanche due anni, nell’ennesimo percorso di riforma prefigurato all’interno del cd. Jobs Act , …
Trust in Finnish Education: A Historical Perspective
2021
This article analyzes the origins of generalized trust in Finnish society and how this relates to trust in education. The study was based on a historical analysis of the role of education in building a Finnish society and nation state. The author discusses the development of a Nordic welfare state and analyzes the relationships between generalized trust and education from the perspectives of democracy, corruption, egalitarian attitudes, wealth, and culture. A reflection was performed of the relationships between generalized trust, school autonomy, and the professional autonomy of teachers. peerReviewed