While the employment of migrant women as care workers in European welfare states is
increasing, the rate, extent and nature of this increase vary. The article draws on empirical …

The politics of childcare has become a vibrant area of research. This review analyzes the
evolution of this research over several decades and identifies two phases of scholarship …

SoPhi on julkaissut akateemisesti korkeatasoista filosofista ja yhteiskuntatieteellistä
kirjallisuutta vuodesta 1995. Kirjoittajamme ovat kansainvälisesti ansioituneita tutkijoita …

In examining the ageing-migration nexus from a Global South perspective, this paper
explores the obligations, opportunities and constraints of caregiving performed by …

Recent family policy developments may blur conventional family policy typologies. While
policies in some European welfare states are shifting away from strong male breadwinner …

This article introduces the theme of the special issue on Outsourcing Domestic (Care) Work.
We conceptualize “outsourcing of domestic work” as a process by which both the state and …

One year after the European work–life balance directive, which recognises the need for work–
family policy support, measures to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic began …

In Finland, early childhood education and care (ECEC) is traditionally publicly provided.
However, private ECEC provision has increased during the past decade, largely as a result …

Over the past two decades three phenomena have grown in social, political and economic
significance for welfare states in Europe and beyond: the development of care provision for …

Extensively updated, this second edition of the Advanced Introduction to Social Policy
provides a concise overview of the field that takes newer realities into account as well as …