The global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has made the annual Social Policy Review even more critical than before.
This comprehensive volume addresses critical debates throughout the international social policy field over the past year with a key focus on responses to COVID-19 and implications for social policy. Expert contributors address important issues including foodbanks, caring for older family members, lockdowns around the globe, gender, technology and migration during a pandemic.
Published in association with the Social Policy Association, this annual review is fundamental reading for students and academics in social policy, social welfare and related disciplines.
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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
关于作者
James Rees is Reader at the Institute for Community Research and Development (ICRD) at the University of Wolverhampton.
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