scholarly journals Deprivation and Deservingness: Exploring Basic Income in Response to Immigrant Poverty

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany Koughan
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Moral Framing ◽  
Material Capital

Research on the economic trends for immigrants to Canada shows a progressive trend towards impoverishment, particularly for racialized groups. This review presents the case that current responses to poverty in Canada are inadequate, and tend to perpetuate the cycles they seek to address by reifying group divides. Building on theories of social exclusion, this MRP explores the potential of basic income to create greater access to social and material capital for otherwise marginalized groups. Finally, by looking at current policy approaches to welfare, public attitudes towards redistribution, and historic BIG trials, the argument is made that with non-moral framing a basic income trial in Canada could be both politically feasible and destigmatizing.

scholarly journals Deprivation and Deservingness: Exploring Basic Income in Response to Immigrant Poverty

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany Koughan
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Moral Framing ◽  
Material Capital

Research on the economic trends for immigrants to Canada shows a progressive trend towards impoverishment, particularly for racialized groups. This review presents the case that current responses to poverty in Canada are inadequate, and tend to perpetuate the cycles they seek to address by reifying group divides. Building on theories of social exclusion, this MRP explores the potential of basic income to create greater access to social and material capital for otherwise marginalized groups. Finally, by looking at current policy approaches to welfare, public attitudes towards redistribution, and historic BIG trials, the argument is made that with non-moral framing a basic income trial in Canada could be both politically feasible and destigmatizing.

scholarly journals The role of Romanian social enterprises in the alleviation of poverty and social exclusion

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1257-1275
Author(s):  
Ruxandra Argatu
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Sustainable Society ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Equitable Treatment

Abstract Poverty and social exclusion are nowadays widely debated phenomena as they present highly threatening consequences for the wellbeing of humanity, making it unable to reach adequate living standards and to fully exercise social rights. To alleviate imbalances, adequate programs need to be put into place and for this process to be efficient, coherence and commitment must constitute elementary values to advance social welfare. Social enterprises can also contribute with their value creating potential to the fostering of a sustainable society that places a high emphasis on the defense of vulnerable groups and offers them an equitable treatment. The present paper firstly aims to illustrate conceptual elements referring to poverty, social exclusion and the social protection of marginalized groups. Secondly, the study is complemented by a research on Romanian social enterprises’ perspective (associations, foundations and sheltered units) concerning social threats and the defense of less favored individuals, undertaken through a questionnaire-based survey. The research unveils the social enterprises’ belief that the Romanian social field needs substantial attention from policymakers and that social protection services can aid them in gaining social privileges more adequately.

scholarly journals Narratives of freedom reduce conservative opposition to a universal basic income policy and welfare-related stereotypes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Thomas ◽  
Gregory M Walton ◽  
Ellen Reinhart ◽  
Hazel Markus
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Intergroup Attitudes ◽  
Income Policy ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Online Experiments ◽  
Total N ◽  
The Us

Inequality and deep poverty have risen sharply in the US since the 1990s. Simultaneously, support for cash-based welfare has fallen among conservatives, who hold more stigmatizing beliefs about welfare recipients. Universal Basic Income (UBI)—a policy that proposes to give cash to all citizens to meet basic needs—aims to combat both economic and social exclusion through its features of unconditionality and universality. Yet, across three online experiments with convenience samples of US adults (total N=1,895), we found that these unique policy details alone were not sufficient to garner bipartisan support. Extending the culture match and moral reframing literatures, we test the impacts of values-based narratives of UBI on policy support and intergroup attitudes. Only when UBI was communicated with a narrative emphasizing the bipartisan value of individual freedom did UBI mitigate opposition from conservatives and welfare-related stereotypes. Exploratory analyses suggest values alignment and values salience as drivers of these impacts.

The housing market: challenges and policy responses

2018 ◽  
Vol 245 ◽  
pp. R5-R8
Author(s):  
Stephen Aldridge
Keyword(s):  
Housing Market ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Housing Supply ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Long Run

This article summarises the long-run decline in housing affordability in England and suggests this is substantially attributable to shortfalls in housing supply. Public attitudes to housing have become increasingly pro-development in recent years and the current policy framework – summarised in the article – seeks to provide a comprehensive and rounded response to the challenges facing the housing market.

Supporting people? Universal Credit, conditionality and the recalibration of vulnerability

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Stinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Public Expectations ◽  
The Social

This chapter considers how Universal Credit (UC) has been shaped by the rise in political and public expectations that benefit claimants should be held personally responsible for, and expected to overcome, their vulnerable circumstances. Part One explores how successive British governments have co-opted longstanding political and public attitudes towards the protection of ‘the vulnerable’ to justify the extension of behavioural conditionality to increasing numbers of UC claimants. Part Two then draws upon data generated in semi structured interviews with 18 UC claimants to explore how UC policies aimed at protecting those in vulnerable positions act to ease, circumvent or exacerbate lived experiences of vulnerability. The chapter concludes by arguing that UC can act to further exacerbate the social exclusion of vulnerable UC recipients who are unable, or unwilling, to accept the conditions attached to their benefit claim.

scholarly journals DE RENTAS MÍNIMAS A RENTA BÁSICA

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-80
Author(s):  
Juan A. Gimeno
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Minimum Income ◽  
The People

The objective of ensuring a decent quality of life for all citizens is sought through various programs of income guarantees or minimum income. The system currently in force in Spain is unanimously qualified as deficient by complex, heterogeneous, inefficient and bureaucratic; it produces delays in perceptions, induces the trap of poverty, stigmatizes the perceivers and does not reach most of its potencial recipients. The basic income clearly exceeds all these problems. It is not ignored that it can have others that, except the financial one, are also analyzed in the article. It is concluded that an automatic and unconditional rent that favored fundamentally the people with fewer resources and at risk of social exclusion, and, in a decreasing way, to the rest of the population, is an more effective and efficient policy to fight against poverty than the tangle of existing policies.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Factors Influencing Public Attitudes toward Implementing Basic Income (BI) from an Individual Perspective: A Case Study of Hokuriku Region, Japan

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Jiaqi Yang ◽  
Geetha Mohan ◽  
Kensuke Fukushi
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Precise Understanding ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Individual Value ◽  
Future Vision ◽  
Gains And Losses

With increasing interest in basic income (BI) in recent years around the world, a precise understanding of public attitudes toward this policy can provide valuable evidence for discussions on its feasibility among scholars and policymakers. This study quantitatively investigates what factors influence public attitudes toward implementing BI, taking the Hokuriku region of Japan as an example. The hypothesis and variables were designed based on the theories of retrenchment and social innovation, and a detailed consideration of the theoretical impacts of BI on human society, and of the social, economic and cultural characteristics of Japan. A questionnaire containing a BI proposal for Japan was developed, then a survey was conducted of 1028 local residents in the Hokuriku region. The logistic regression model was employed for the empirical analysis. The results showed that age, individual income level, family structure and interest in participating in non-market activities tend to influence respondents’ attitudes toward BI, due to concerns about the gains and losses from a trade-off selection between BI and the existing policies that it would replace. From the perspective of individual value, it was also found that the perception of the future vision of a society reshaped by BI also significantly influences public attitudes toward the policy. This research emphasized that the retrenchment of the existing policies accompanied by the implementation of BI lead potential beneficiaries of the current welfare system to weigh the change to their benefits, which consequently forms their attitudes toward BI.

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