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Critical Social Policy: A Journal of Theory and Practice in Social Welfare

Subject Areas: Political Science and International Relations
Publisher: SAGE Publications - SAGE
ISSN: 0261-0183
SJR: 68

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Diminishing returns of growth? Economic performance, needs satisfaction and ecological impacts of OECD welfare states

Paulsson, Alexander; Koch, Max; Fritz, Martin

2024 Critical Social Policy: A Journal of Theory and Practice in Social Welfare

doi:10.1177/02610183231218971

The environmental crisis, increased inequality and an aging population are likely to increase the demand for welfare services in the OECD countries. Economic growth has long been seen as a solution to these problems. However, this is no longer the case. Very few countries have managed to decouple...
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Hewers of wood and drawers of water: English subaltern education from the charity schools to the neoliberal meritocracy of widening participation

CUNNINGHAM, CHRISTOPHER; SAMSON, COLIN

2024 Critical Social Policy: A Journal of Theory and Practice in Social Welfare

doi:10.1177/02610183241240381

British educational ideas and policies towards working-class and minority youth show continuous preoccupations with social status and preparation for labour. In examining this, we link educational discourses and practices in England from the Charity Schools to the contemporary higher education...
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Bordering social reproduction: The welfare/immigration regimes of Quebec and Ontario in Canada

CÔTÉ-BOUCHER, KARINE; BRAEDLEY, SUSAN

2024 Critical Social Policy: A Journal of Theory and Practice in Social Welfare

doi:10.1177/02610183231219187

This article makes three crucial, related arguments. First, most European analyses of immigration and social welfare fail to consider how these policies intersect to shape the social reproduction of populations, instead sticking to notions of welfare chauvinism, social citizenship, and...
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The respect for marriage act: The connection between marriage equality, abortion rights, and religious freedom in the USA

DEAL, HEATHER E.; YANCEY, GAYNOR I.

2024 Critical Social Policy: A Journal of Theory and Practice in Social Welfare

doi:10.1177/02610183241240388

This article examines the Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA) and its connection to abortion rights and religious freedom in the United States. The RFMA was passed in response to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion to the Dobbs v. Jackson case which revoked federal abortion...
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Governing resettlement: Interrogating tensions and contradictions around age, vulnerability, and integrate-ability in the Irish context

Smith, Karen

2024 Critical Social Policy: A Journal of Theory and Practice in Social Welfare

doi:10.1177/02610183231218968

Deploying a lens informed by humanitarian reason and governmentality this article interrogates the normative assumptions underlying resettlement for international protection in the Irish context. Drawing on findings from a qualitative study on the needs of children and parents admitted under the...
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Environmental racism, segregation and discrimination: Gypsy and Traveller sites in Great Britain

Bloch, Alice; Quarmby, Katharine

2024 Critical Social Policy: A Journal of Theory and Practice in Social Welfare

doi:10.1177/02610183241229053

This article focusses on Gypsy and Traveller communities who live on local authority managed sites around Great Britain. The subject of sites has come to the fore in the last couple of years, as the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 criminalised roadside living and therefore nomadic...
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South African government responses to Trump's Global Gag Rule: Silence, ignorance, and avoidance

Ndabula, Yanela; Macleod, Catriona Ida; du Plessis, Ulandi; Moore, Sarah

2024 Critical Social Policy: A Journal of Theory and Practice in Social Welfare

doi:10.1177/02610183241229046

In 2017, Donald Trump signed the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA), thereby reinstating the Global Gag Rule. The policy restricted all United States foreign funding from abortion-related activities. Little research reports the responses of recipients of this bilateral...
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Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people: The legacy of common health problems and the future for long COVID

Hunt, Joanne

2024 Critical Social Policy: A Journal of Theory and Practice in Social Welfare

doi:10.1177/02610183241229050

The UK government's recent announcement that the highly controversial Work Capability Assessment (WCA) will likely be abolished leaves questions of what precisely will emerge in its place. This commentary revisits a construct central to the attempted justification of the WCA, that of ‘common...

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