Immigrant Child Poverty – The Achilles Heel of the Scandinavian Welfare State

2015 ◽  
pp. 185-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taryn Ann Galloway ◽  
Björn Gustafsson ◽  
Peder J. Pedersen ◽  
Torun Österberg
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Immigrant Child

scholarly journals Redesigning the Welfare State

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Boston
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Consistent System ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Consumer Prices ◽  
Distributional Fairness ◽  
Fiscal Implications ◽  
The Welfare State

Since the beginnings of the welfare state, Aotearoa New Zealand has lacked a principled, comprehensive and consistent system for indexing social assistance to movements in consumer prices and/or wages. This deficiency applies not only to cash transfers but also to in-kind benefits. The absence of a robust and durable indexation regime is no accident. It reflects, among other things, an unwillingness of governments to determine an acceptable minimum standard of living for citizens and then protect, if not enhance, this standard over time. No doubt, the fiscal implications of a more consistent approach to indexation have loomed large in the political calculus. Yet if the current and future governments are to meet ambitious child poverty reduction targets and ensure greater distributional fairness, a new framework for indexation is essential. This article discusses the nature and purpose of indexation, the principles and other considerations that should inform the design of an indexation regime, the policy options available, and how a durable and defensible policy framework might be secured.

Immigrant Child Poverty in Europe

2009 ◽  
pp. 24-48
Author(s):  
A. S. Bhalla ◽  
Peter McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Child Poverty ◽  
Immigrant Child

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Powell
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Modernist Project ◽  
Political Divide ◽  
Universal Health

This chapter summarizes key themes and presents some final thoughts. The book has evaluated the political meaning and social reality of the Irish welfare state at the centenary point of the Irish revolution (1913–23). It argued that unlike many other modern democratic societies, the term ‘welfare state’ has had a weak political resonance in the lexicon of Irish social policy discourse. This reflects the weakness of the modernist project in Ireland and the absence of a classical European left-right political divide that gave shape to modern democratic politics. A more socially just republic will involve a universal welfare state charged with tackling the challenges of insecure job markets, scarce housing, and overstretched public services as a democratic imperative. A universal welfare state will also involve ten core social policy initiatives, including a universal health and social care system funded from taxation, ending child poverty, and addressing social inequality.

Child poverty in rich contexts: The example of Sweden

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
Kjerstin Andersson Bruck
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Social Imagination ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Material Standard ◽  
The Welfare State

In international comparisons, Sweden is one of the countries with the lowest number of children growing up in poverty; its material standard is high, and welfare services are extensive and heavily subsidised. How child poverty can be understood in that context is interrogated in the article. The point of departure for the discussion is Swedish Save the Children’s 2013 anti-poverty campaign Fattigskolan [Poverty School]. The campaign presents child poverty from the vantage point of a welfare state and is informative for understanding normative discourses on childhood. Childhood is investigated as a social imagination that both structures children’s and parents’ everyday lives and organises society. It is argued that the dominant social imagination is based on a middle-class fantasy permeating the organisation of the welfare state. The elements of this fantasy are critical to understanding child poverty.

Family Benefits and Services

2021 ◽  
pp. 640-660
Author(s):  
Naomi Finch ◽  
Jonathan Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Benefits ◽  
Families With Children

This chapter examines welfare-state support for families with children in the context of low fertility, increasing rates of childlessness, and a general move away from the breadwinner model of the family. Welfare-state spending on families is explored, and, although most countries, with few exceptions, spend more on older people, spending on children varies between countries, as does spending to encourage mothers into employment. Adopting the model family method to compare the package of policies to support families with children at different earning levels, the chapter shows varying results of generosity, depending on whether we compare low or average earners. The chapter also provides evidence that family policies matter for outcomes—with stronger spending on services increasing both fertility and maternal employment, spending on both services and benefits increasing child well-being, and generosity of transfers lowering child poverty rates.

Immigrant Child Poverty in France

2009 ◽  
pp. 100-124
Author(s):  
A. S. Bhalla ◽  
Peter McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Child Poverty ◽  
Immigrant Child

Do the old exploit the young? Is enfranchising children a good idea?

2002 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
KARL HINRICHS
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Family Politics ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Minor Children ◽  
Almost All

Child poverty rates exceed those of elderly people in almost all Western nations. Moreover, it can be expected that the presently young generation (and yet unborn) will (far) less benefit from the welfare state than the elderly generation does and will continue to do. These inequalities between age groups and intergenerational inequities are, to a large extent, the result of the increasing numerical weight of elderly voters among the electorate to which political parties and governments respond. Giving voting rights to minor children, albeit vicariously exercised by parents, is one, repeatedly proposed approach to strengthening pro-family politics against the threat of gerontocratic politics (recently: Ringen 1997; van Parijs 1999). In the paper the pros and cons of this proposal are analyzed from two very different perspectives: (1) consequentialist arguments, i.e. those related to the desired/feared effects of enfranchising children on welfare state policy, intergenerational relations etc.; (2) deontological arguments, i.e. reasons whether or not an extension of voting rights ought to materialize.

Child Poverty in a Rich Welfare State

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Sandbæk
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Child Poverty
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