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Class, capital and social policy
In: Critical texts in social work and the welfare state
Book Review: Facts, Values and the Policy World by Phil Ryan
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare
ISSN: 1461-703X
Book Review: Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum by Jonathan Darling
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 154-156
ISSN: 1461-703X
Book Review: The Next Welfare State? UK Welfare After COVID-19 by Christopher Pierson
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 559-560
ISSN: 1461-703X
Book Review: Teresa Sacchet, Silvana Mariano and Cássia Maria Carloto (eds.) Women, Gender and Conditional Cash Transfers: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Studies of Bolsa Família
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 41, Heft 3, S. 510-511
ISSN: 1461-703X
Book Review: Nadine El-Enany B(ordering) Britain: Law, Race and Empire
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 150-151
ISSN: 1461-703X
Book Review : Teresa Sacchet, Silvana Mariano and Cássia Maria Carloto (editors) Women, gender and conditional cash transfers: interdisciplinary perspectives from studies of Bolsa Família
Over recent decades Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have become a cornerstone of social policies addressing income poverty across many parts of the Global South, particularly Latin America and sub Saharan Africa. In the 1990s with the fall of the military dictatorship, and the socio-economic stress caused by Structural Adjustment measures, Brazil was one of the pioneers. In 2003 the Workers Party government led by Lula consolidated and expanded earlier programmes into the Bolsa Família (BF - Family Grant). In 2018, 13.7 per cent of families received BF cash, a decline from a peak of 15.9 per cent in 2012 (page 18). Since the removal of the Workers Party from power in 2016, right wing governments have been cutting the programme. The amount of cash is small, less than 20 per cent of the minimum wage (page 88) and the total cost of the programme is less than 0.5% of GDP (page 88). BF is targeted at mothers, over 90 per cent of recipients are women. BF receipt is conditional on attendance at maternity and child health clinics, on keeping children in school, and on children's participation in 'socialisation and bond strengthening services' (page 19). This book addresses the impact of BF on women, arguing that it reinforces and prioritises their conventional role as the unpaid carer within households. BF is clearly framed by a 'familism' and 'maternalism' which assumes that government support for mothers and their children also advances women's interests and gender justice. This is essentially paradoxical - clearly women in poverty derive significant material benefits from the programme, but it also strengthens conventional patriarchal roles and oppression in a 'gender trap' (page 57). This book keeps this paradox to the forefront throughout. Thus the fascinating question of how BF both enhances and undermines 'women's autonomy' is kept in focus.
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Book review : Nadine El-Enany B(ordering) Britain: law, race and empire
Book review of: Bordering Britain: law, race and empire / by Nadine El-Enany. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020. 312 pages, £20,00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781526145420
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Book Review: After Austerity: Welfare State Transformation in Europe After the Great Recession
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 670-672
ISSN: 1461-703X
Book Review: Heaven Crawley, Franck Düvell, Katharine Jones, Simon McMahon and Nando SigonaUnravelling Europe's 'Migration Crisis': Journeys Over Land and Sea
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 498-499
ISSN: 1461-703X
Book Review: Handbook of European Social Policy and The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 615-617
ISSN: 1461-703X
Book Review: Fiona Dukelow and Mairéad Considine Irish Social Policy: A Critical Introduction
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 439-441
ISSN: 1461-703X
Book Review: Daniel Béland, Christopher Howard and Kimberley J. Morgan (eds), The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 727-729
ISSN: 1461-703X
Book Review: John Hills Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 36, Heft 1, S. 155-156
ISSN: 1461-703X