The case for a universal basic income helps to reflect on what could be done to bring social
protection into the 21st century, but, it is argued, does not itself provide the most convincing …

In contrast to the nexus between welfare and migration control, the link between migration
and poverty (or rather the perception of poverty), has not received the same amount of …

This article reports findings from a qualitative study of the impacts of, and practitioner
responses to, neoliberal social work reforms in Switzerland and England. The article …

Social policies in Switzerland are characterized by their high complexity in at least three
respects: the intervention of a plurality of actors in a multilevel federalist system marked by …

The idea of hunger evokes in our collective imagination the places, situations and people
that are far from the wealthy societies of the Northern World. This form of deprivation is …

Abstract The Welfare states in Europe are changing. Traditional strategies of welfare which
are based on income-replacing compensation for market failures, existential threats and …

The present research deals with the policies directed at young adults on social assistance
(YAS) without vocational training and the way implementers themselves as well as the YAS …

To allocate benefits and/or design interventions, social policies resort to some form of
categorisation, thus defining target groups, their rights and duties as well as the eligibility …

The notion of “welfare capitalism” refers to a political-economic regime that integrates the
functions of a capitalist market economy with the functions of a democratic welfare state. The …

Welfare to work (WTW) policies aim at bringing recipients of social policies back to the
labour market as quickly as possible. Moving from a statutory view of rights, they follow a …