This article by Sophie Andreetta explores how courts play a role in implementing migrants' welfare rights, showing through ethnographic fieldwork how litigation has become a key part of social protection governance. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

In this paper, Manon Bolland et al. measure individual & household (dis)incentives for taking up social assistance benefits & evaluate to what extent they are associated with non-take-up of social assistance for people at active age in 🇧🇪. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

Interrogating the tension between care & control in the work of social services staff in 🇧🇪Belgian immigration detention centres, this article by Andrew Crosby sheds light on the uses of discretion from the perspective of Bourdieu's concept of illusio. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

Hong Kong is pioneering a shift towards a collaborative model in long-term care, leveraging the nonprofit sector to support for-profit providers. This study by Jialiang Cui explores the coordinated work process in this project via stakeholder interviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

This paper by Kim Bond & Kate Davis explores the complex impacts of childhood abuse on survivors, emphasising how these experiences shape both individual and societal outcomes. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

This article by Marco Betti & Franca Maino examines the restructuring of Italian Regional Health Services (SSR) from 2011 to 2021. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

This article by Annika Lindberg & Lisa Marie Borrelli details how knowledge is produced, circulated, and acted upon by migration control officials working in different sites of the European border regime. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

Using novel data from the InCARE survey, Cassandra Simmons et al. investigate age-related attitudes towards the family's and state's role in financing and organising LTC, and whether caregiving experience or care regime type mediates these differences. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

This article by Annie Irvine et al. presents a qualitative analysis of the impacts of short-term programme funding on a third sector employability project in the North of England, as it navigated the post-Brexit transition. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

In this article, Rasmus Lind Ravn examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the transition of Danish 9th-grade pupils to further education. Findings show a reduced transition rate, with the largest drop in pupils starting upper secondary education. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

Ethnographic research by Mianguan Li et al. in a village in southwest China reports township officials, under-resourced and pressed by higher tiers of government to meet the poverty-eradication target, commissioning an entrepreneur as a policy-broker. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

This review by Anne Daguerre et al. critically assesses whether public procurement and Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs) form a coherent, sequential and complementary framework. They conclude that this connection is not well-established. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

This actor-centred study by Daniel Lombard explores understandings of person-centred care from the perspective of care workers and managers working with older people in residential and community care in 🇬🇧. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

This study by Antti Halmetoja et al. focuses on Finland's general housing allowance, examining its use following the 2015 reform that introduced the earnings disregard. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

During April-May 2020, U.S. banks approved $650B+ in PPP loans. Wood & Friedline, based on interviews with frontline bankers, reveal how crisis conditions, capped funds, and profit-driven incentives fueled discriminatory lending practices. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

Which factors influence the performance of informal social protection initiatives in Uganda? In this study, Stellah Lubinga et al. identify beneficiary empowerment, welfare enhancement & coverage and equality as the three crucial categories of factors. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

This study by Jill Duerr Berrick et al. examines a representative sample of adults in California (USA) and Norway, and their attitudes toward adoption versus foster care in a child protection case. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

Martin Gurín’s study examines changes in childcare policy, often focused on positive policy feedback. Using South Korea as a case, it highlights how childcare policy can generate both positive and negative feedback effects. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

Considering the uncertainty that accompanies political reforms, this study by Franziska Leopold &  Jörg Lindenmeier examines the determinants of universal basic income (UBI) acceptance among a representative sample of 593 German citizens. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

In this article, Andrew Zola et al. investigate support for unemployment protection and the unemployed during the COVID-19 pandemic among people active in the labor force in Germany, France, Italy, and Great Britain. 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…