Through the lens of stereotyping and stigma, this article examines discrimination and
prejudice toward homeless families from the perspective of social service providers. Semi …

Homelessness is a significant social problem across advanced capitalist societies, with
enduring effects on those who experience it. Consequently, detailed enquiry into people's …

Introduction Responsibility is one of the concepts that has been intensively used and
analysed in social sciences during the last three decades. In this chapter, our interest is …

In recent years, a number of welfare reforms have been introduced in the UK by
Conservative-led governments. The most high profile of these is Universal Credit (UC) …

This article seeks to develop our understanding of the agency of vulnerable groups who at
first sight may not seem to have much agency in their lives. It explores the co‐constructed …

Discussion around sanctions within the welfare state has been largely framed within a
Wacquantian understanding of punitive modes of governance, neglecting the discursive life …

Evictions are a common contributing factor to homelessness and are experienced
overwhelmingly by vulnerable populations, including low-income households, single …

The views of social workers in Chile are rarely heard and considered in the policy debates.
This article addresses this lacuna by examining discourses of social exclusion and …

Cold housing is not widely recognized as a problem that occurs in mild-climate countries like
Australia. But emerging evidence suggests that it is an important, albeit under …

Increasingly, the construct of resilience has been used by social scientists and (social) policy
makers in relation to individual resilience to economic hardship. There are a number of …