The “Right” Kind of Welfare in South India's Urban Slums

Asian Survey ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soundarya Chidambaram
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
South India ◽  
Urban Slums ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
The Right ◽  
Communal Organizations

Abstract This article examines the appeal of Hindu right-wing social service organizations, which try to use welfare provisions to entrench themselves in urban slums across India. However, in South India, their welfare provision is not as successful in Tamil Nadu as in Karnataka. I explain this spatial variation by arguing that these communal organizations fail to entrench themselves in those slums where preexisting civic associations closely linked to party officials and local administrators function as efficient patronage networks, providing welfare needs to the urban poor and reducing the need for non-state actors such as right-wing groups.

The Racial Politics of Place in Faith-Based Social Service Provision

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bolger
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
Faith Based

Abstract Prior research indicates that faith-based social service providers are overrepresented in disadvantaged neighborhoods, which has led some to advocate for their increased involvement in the U.S. social safety net. Yet, we have little understanding of how they and other social service organizations understand the significance of place in their work. Here I explore how conceptions of place matter for social service provision by drawing on 12 months of ethnographic observation and interviews with 24 key informants in two faith-based social service organizations in Houston, Texas. I find that faith-based organizations attach significance to their geographic location based not only on their proximity (or lack thereof) to their target service recipients, but also through relationships with key stakeholders. Agencies label places as safe or unsafe to recruit donors and volunteers, but in doing so they channel resources unequally between communities in ways that perpetuate racial disparities in social service access. The results have implications for understanding the importance of place within social service organizations, particularly faith-based agencies, which are increasingly relied upon to serve the urban poor.

scholarly journals Efficiency in Social Service Organizations

1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary D. Sandefur
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Social Service Organizations

scholarly journals Topical issues of medical and social assistance to elderly and senile citizens in the conditions of inpatient social service organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
S. S. Memetov ◽  
S. N. Pusin ◽  
N. V. Budnik ◽  
Yu. V. Kobzev ◽  
V. N. Petrova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Social Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article analyzes the current regulatory and legal framework for the organization of social services for the elderly and disabled in social service institutions on the territory of the Russian Federation. The article reflects the shortcomings of legal documents regarding the organization of work of such institutions to improve the quality and accessibility of social care for patients receiving social services in social service organizations. The assessment of staffing standards is given.

Financial recession as a predictor of stress in human service professionals: The case of Cyprus

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
Gregory Neocleous ◽  
Menelaos Apostolou
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Human Service Professionals ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
Current Financial Crisis ◽  
Service Agencies ◽  
Financial Recession

This article presents the first survey ever conducted in Cyprus in relation to stress in social service organizations as a result of budgetary cuts due to the financial recession the country entered in 2010. Social service professionals were asked whether and how they experienced the current economic crisis in their work. The aim of the study was to examine whether the recent economic crisis in Cyprus was a predictor for stress. This article has no intention of examining stress per se, but rather the general consequences for professionals working in governmental and non-governmental social service organizations. The purpose of the study is to examine whether the current financial crisis in Cyprus has affected the work of social service professionals. The participants in our study included social workers, psychologists and sociologists, as well as administrative staff from governmental and non-governmental social service agencies and volunteer organizations. In total, 205 professionals working in 200 social service agencies in Cyprus took part in this survey by completing a questionnaire. A focus group consisting of eight individuals was also formed. The results indicate that social service professionals have been significantly affected by the recent financial recession in Cyprus.

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