Marco Pomati & Andy Jolly 
Social Policy Review 33 [PDF ebook] 
Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2021

Part 1: COVID-19: Responses and Implications for Social Policy

Introduction: Responses and implications for Social Policy – Marco Pomati and James Rees

1. Locked Down or Locked In? Institutionalized Public Preferences and Government Pandemic Response in 32 Countries – Hung H.V. Nguyen, Nate Breznau and Lisa Heukamp

2. New directions for European Union social policy in challenging times – Carla Valadas

3. Lesson-drawing for the UK Government during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a comparison of official, media and academic lenses – Sophie King-Hill, Ian Greener and Martin Powell

4. On the periphery of the global spotlight: Sweden’s social policy responses during the COVID-19 pan-demic – Jayeon Lindellee

5. Social Policies Put to Test by the Pandemic: Food Banks as an Indicator of the Insufficiencies and Paradoxes of Contemporary Social Policies – Jean-Michel Bonvin, Max Lovey, Emilie Rosenstein and Pierre Kempeneers

6. ‘We have been left to go it alone” The wellbeing of family carers of older people under Covid-19 – Cheshire-Allen M. and Gideon Calder

7. Gender crisis, or not? A comparative analysis of the impact on gender equality in Sweden and Germany due to the Covid-19 pandemic – Marlene Haupt and Viola Lind

8. Older adults’ access to information and referral service using technology in British Columbia, Canada: Past learnings and learnings since COVID-19 – Karen Lok Yi Wong, Andrew Sixsmith andd Leslie Remund

9. The pandemic as a litmus test for social security systems in transition economies – a case of Georgia – Ana Diakonidze

Part 2: Migration

Introduction – Andy Jolly

10. All of the same type? The use of ‘welfare tourism’ to limit the access of EU migrants to social benefits in the UK and Germany – Angie Gago

11. Where is the vulnerability assessment tool? Disabled asylum seekers in Direct Provision in Ireland and the EU (recast) Reception Conditions Directive (2013/33/EU) – Keelin Barry

12. Re-thinking exclusionary policies: the case of irregular migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe – Marie Mallet and Nicola Delvino

James Rees is Reader at the Institute for Community Research and Development (ICRD) at the University of Wolverhampton.