scholarly journals Social policy frameworks of exclusion: the challenge of protecting the social rights of ‘undocumented migrants’ in Quebec and Shanghai

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Hanley ◽  
Ya Wen
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Undocumented Migrants ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Frameworks

Digital single market - a new impetus on EU social policy?

2020 ◽  
Vol 338 ◽  
pp. 265-275
Author(s):  
Daniel Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Single Market ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Current Reform ◽  
Training Programmes

In July 2019 the new president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, presented her guidelines for the period of presidency 2019-2024. While most proposals perpetuate the current reform agenda, the focus on the social dimension of the single market is remarkable. Von der Leyen has not only announced the full implementation of the European Pillar on Social Rights, but also highlighted new investment in digital competences seen as a key to competitiveness and innovation of the European economy. This paper will discuss whether the dynamics of the digital single market could lead to a new impetus on EU social policy and on European funding of training programmes. Therefore, an overview of significant funding programmes promoting digital skills is given.

Transmigration: the rise of flexible migration strategies as part of superdiversity

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-121
Author(s):  
Dirk Geldof ◽  
Mieke Schrooten ◽  
Sophie Withaeckx
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Migration Strategies ◽  
The Eu

This chapter assesses transmigration. Within the fields of migration studies and superdiversity, transmigration and its impact on social policy are still underexplored. Yet, the rising number of transmigrants within Europe — from outside the EU as well as intra-EU-mobility — does not only challenge ideas of belonging and integration, but also existing concepts of governance and social policy. By foregrounding the cases of Brazilian, Ghanaian, and Moroccan transmigrants residing in Belgium in 2014–15, the chapter contributes to a scientific debate regarding these topics. It presents the results of a research project in the two main superdiverse Belgian cities (Brussels and Antwerp), focusing on the social problems and vulnerabilities that relate to transmigration and its inherent temporality and the way that these are experienced and addressed by social workers in superdiverse urban areas within policy frameworks that often do not (yet) recognise the changing context.

Marshall revisited: EU social policy from a social-rights perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-435
Author(s):  
Stefanie Börner
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Level ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social

The common legal and economic framework of the European Union (EU) has turned the vast socio-economic differences within Europe into virulent problems of social inequality – issues that it attempts to tackle within its limited resources. The article takes the EU’s self-expressed social commitment as a starting point and analyses its approaches to social policy from a social-rights perspective. It first discusses why Marshall’s social-citizenship concept provides a useful analytical tool to assess the social policies enacted so far at the European level and then presents an institutional analysis of the EU’s four major social-policy activities: harmonising, funding, coordination and cooperation. This analysis focuses on the horizontal and vertical relationships and the addressees of these policies to determine how these policies measure up against social-rights standards. The findings point to the poor development of transnational social citizenship given the special nature of EU social policies. The only social rights that exist at the European level are in the field of social-security coordination. And even those are marked by a double selectivity that excludes citizens who are not transnationally active and those who are but lack the necessary means to provide for themselves.

Discourses of Children's Participation: Professionals, Policies and Practices

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Pinkney
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into

This article explores the dynamic field of children's participation and provides fresh insight into its construction within professional frameworks as well as within the social policy process. Protectionism, developmentalism, rights and managerialism are identified as significant discourses and this article explores their articulation and negotiation through policies. The argument is that the settlement reached represents a new configuration within policy frameworks relating to children where a version of children's rights is appropriated and mainstreamed. The interaction between children's rights, managerialism and professional discourses are illustrated with reference to policy and legislation.

Neo-liberalism as an ideology, an elite project and its impact on austerity

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Nigel Malin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Audit Culture ◽  
Competition State ◽  
Social Agenda ◽  
The Social

This chapter discusses the relevance of neo-liberalism as both an ideology and as a pragmatic approach, defined as a re-making of the state, where the state is not rolled back as such but is re-shaped, re-configured to better serve the demands of capital. Neo-liberalism represents an attempt to replace political judgement with economic evaluation, including, but not exclusively, the evaluations offered by markets. Writers on this subject such as Davies, Gough, Garrett, Peck, Mirowski and Shaxson are referred to where they address globalisation and audit culture, the logic of markets and economic evaluation. It was believed that the economic pressures generated by neo-liberal globalisation would inexorably lead to welfare state entrenchment or its dissolution and replacement by a lean ‘competition’ state. Yet the global rediscovery of poverty and the challenges to territorially-based conceptions of social rights posed by the increasing flow of migrants have put social policy issues on the social agenda.

‘The People’ and Their Social Rights: What Is Distinctive About the Populism-Religion-Social Policy Nexus?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rana Jawad ◽  
Daniel Béland ◽  
Emmanuele Pavolini
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
North Africa ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Preceding Paper ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The aims of this review article are two-fold: (1) to set out the key theoretical trends in the study of religion, populism and social policy as antithetical concepts that also share common concerns; (2) to re-assert the relevance of social policy to the social and political sciences by making the case for studying outlier or indeed rival topics together – in this case populism and religion. Social policy scholars do not necessarily associate these two topics with modern social policy, yet they have a long history of influence on societies all over the world; populism is also especially timely in our current era. The article contributes to the literature by: (a) helping social policy better understand its diverse and at times contradictory constituencies; (b) contributing to a more complex and inclusive understanding of social policy and, therefore, social welfare. In setting out the state-of-the-art, the article also draws upon research on social policy which spans various continents (North America, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa and Latin America) and a preceding paper collaboration by the authors on religion and social policy (Pavolini et al., 2017).

scholarly journals PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL PROTECTION OF CIVIL SERVANTS

Social Law ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Bezusiy
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Starting Position ◽  
Social Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
Main Thing ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Social Management

In the article the principles of social protection of civil servants are defined as the basic provisions stipulated in the rules of social law, which underlie the formation of activities to ensure the social rights of civil servants and which should be guided in determining the ways, methods of exercising their social protection. It is stated that these principles form a system (general and special principles) that helps to form a proper basis for the social protection of civil servants. The author notes that similar in meaning and, as a rule, often used as a synonym for the word "principle" is the concept of "foundation", which has the meaning "basis of something; the main thing that is based on is something; starting position, principle, principle, basis of outlook, rule of behavior; way, method of doing something. " It is noted that the system of social protection of the population should be built both on the general principles of social management, acting on the system itself, and on the individual, which have a specific orientation. The article covers different views of scientists on the principles of social policy, one of these positions is the view regarding the following characteristics of the basic principles - it is rationality (achieving the optimum balance between the purpose of social policy and its means of implementation), social justice (recognition of equal opportunities for all members of society) and social security (the possibility of predictability of certain life risks). The author defines the concept of "principle of social protection of civil servants", and the proper implementation of the theoretical provisions and practical ways of realizing the goal and principles of social protection of civil servants will provide for the formation of functioning of a really effective mechanism for securing and protecting social rights of this special category of working citizens of Ukraine.

The European Pillar of Social Rights: Effectively Addressing Displacement?

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 210-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sacha Garben
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Internal Market ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Eu

An assessment of the ‘European Pillar of Social Rights’ by reference to its constitutional significance – Potential to significantly improve the social output of the EU by addressing the displacement of the Social Policy Title of previous years – Incapacity to redress the constitutional imbalance between ‘the market’ and ‘the social’ in the EU legal order – Continuing displacement of the (national and European) legislator in the internal market and economic governance

scholarly journals The social dimension of the modern legal realities

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
Nataliia Onishchenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regular Mode ◽  
Practical Sense

We would like to note that the experience gained shows that the functioning of the legal system in the “regular mode” and inextreme conditions have, of course, significant differences: including, and perhaps primarily in the protection of rights, freedoms andlegitimate interests man.It is axiomatic, and this has been confirmed in practice, that it is social human rights that are the defining “concern”. A fewremarks are not so much a textbook textbook on the development of these rights, but on the segments that indicate the need for today’sactualization of their provision and protection.Finally: the purpose of social policy is to ensure the material well-being of citizens, to achieve stability and security of life insociety, the integrity and dynamism of its development. It is known that society remains calm and stable, when the number of dissatisfied or disagree with public policy is not more thantwenty percent of the population.In addition, the implementation of “sound” social policy is impossible today without the following statements: it is important toemphasize that to ensure the practice of social human rights it is necessary to doctrinally develop and implement the category (socialresponsibilities) including social responsibility: state, business, each member civil society. Without proper, corresponding rights to raisethe question of proper social rights, it is neither possible in the theoretical sense nor in the practical sense.

La progresiva construcción de un nuevo paradigma de política social en Venezuela

Oikos ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (30) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Mateo Tomé
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Social Expenditure ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
Policy Paradigm ◽  
Economic Program ◽  
The Social

RESUMENEn este artículo se analiza el desarrollo de la política social por parte del gobierno de Venezuela en la última década, desde la perspectiva del nuevo paradigma que se intenta configurar para lograr la efectiva universalidad de los derechos sociales. Para ello se expondrán los rasgos esenciales de la política social implementada por los gobiernos anteriores, el contexto sociopolítico y el programa económico gubernamental, junto con una cuantificación del gasto social, lo cual permitirá identificar las rupturas y continuidades existentes. Asimismo, el estudio aborda tres ámbitos de la política social: la educación, la sanidad y la alimentación.Palabras clave: gasto social, educación, sanidad, alimentación, misiones sociales. The progressive construction of a new social policy paradigm in Venezuela.ABSTRACTThis article analyzes the development of the social policy by the Venezuelan government in the last decade, from the perspective of the new paradigm, which is tentatively assembled to achieve the effective universalization of the social rights. For this purpose, we will expose the essential features of the social policy developed by prior governments, the social-politic context and the governmental economic program, alongside a quantification of the social expenditure, which will allow to identify the existing ruptures and continuances. Furthermore, it addresses three areas of the social policy: education, health and nutrition.Keywords: social expenditure, education, health, nutrition, social mission.

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