Diversity and Welfare Provision
Tension and Discrimination in 21st Century Britain
Edited by Lee Gregory and Steve Iafrati
Published
Jan 11, 2024Page count
242 pagesISBN
978-1447365150Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Jan 11, 2024Page count
242 pagesISBN
978-1447365167Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Jan 11, 2024Page count
242 pagesISBN
978-1447365167Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy Press
Diversity and Welfare Provision
Recognising diverse groups within society is a vital part of policy research and analysis, yet few texts have drawn together the breadth of experiences of welfare provision from a diverse group of citizens.
This book fills this gap, by exploring how diverse citizens experience welfare provision. It aims to promote debate about the importance of social divisions in society and to address the gaps in research, in relation to race, ethnicity, disability, gender and LGBTQ+.
It comes at a crucial time as we emerge out of a decade of austerity, a global pandemic and Brexit, where issues of diversity have been at the forefront of debates, and renews the call for analysis within social policy, particularly on issues of diversity in the 21st century context.
"This book makes a significant contribution to understanding how diverse groups of people experience welfare services, while simultaneously situating such services within contemporary policy and theoretical contexts." Anya Ahmed, Manchester Metropolitan University
Lee Gregory is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham.
Steve Iafrati is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham.
1. Introduction - Lee Gregory and Steve Iafrati
2. Citizenship and diversity: challenging the conceptual framework - Lee Gregory and Steve Iafrati
3. Widening the gaze: institutional racism, social policy and conceptual diversification - Steve Iafrati and Lee Gregory
4. Disabled self-employed people and the UK welfare state - Gerardo Arriaga Garcia and Eva Kašperová
5. Neoliberalism, division and austerity: precarity and hunger in the UK - Dave Beck and Hefin Gwilym
6. Racialised institutions in the UK welfare state - Temidayo Eseonu
7. Statutory exclusion from social security: experiences of migrants in the UK - Ilona Pinter
8. Disadvantaged, discriminated against and ignored: the experiences of Romani and Gypsy Travellers - Teresa Crew
9. ‘You mean, my theoretical rights?’ Exploring service shortfalls and administrative (in)justice among homeless trans people - Edith England
10. Diverse graduate trajectories in austere times: the case of young working- class women in the UK - Laura Bentley
11. Scroungers, shirkers and the sick: disability and welfare in the 21st century - Aimee Grant
12. Male domestic violence victims’ experience of healthcare services - Natalie Quinn-Walker
13. Conclusion - Steve Iafrati and Lee Gregory