SOCIAL POLICY IN FAMILY LIFE: THE CASE OF CHILD CARE IN SINGAPORE

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 124-148
Author(s):  
Stella R. Quah
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Family Life

Gender Inequalities and Risk During the ‘Rush Hour’ of Life

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Bowman ◽  
Eve Bodsworth ◽  
Jens O. Zinn
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Rational Action ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Normative Expectations

Increasingly, social policies combine to intensify old risks and create new social risks with unequal consequences for men and women. These risks include those created by changing normative expectations and the resulting tensions between social policy, paid employment and family life. Policy reliance on highly aggregated standardised outcome data and generalised models of autonomous rational action result in policies that lack an understanding of the rationales that structure everyday life. Drawing on two Australian studies, we illustrate the importance of attending to the intersections and collisions of social change and normative policy frameworks from the perspective of individual ‘lived lives’.

A production of education migrants: A case study of South Korean transnational families in Canada

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunjung Lee ◽  
Marjorie Johnstone
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Source Country ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Source Countries

This article critically examines the close tie between host and source countries in producing education migration. Using South Korea and Canada as a case study, our analysis illustrates how the gradual granting/limiting of citizenship to education migrants is ingrained in social policy which contributes to the nation-building of the host country while relying on ‘foreign’ income from the source country, impinging on family life (i.e. splitting family structure trans-nationally), and risking social integration. Although the actors are changed from labor migrants to education migrants the same dynamic of excluding migrants from citizenship and distinguishing worthy migrants from non-worthy migrants remains unchanged.

scholarly journals Domesticating the ‘troubled family’: Racialised sexuality and the postcolonial governance of family life in the UK

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 933-950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Turner
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
National Health ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
History Of ◽  
Benefit Sanctions ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Postcolonial Governance

This article examines how the UK’s Troubled Families Programme works as a strategy of domestication which produces and delimits certain forms of ‘family life’. Drawing upon critical geographies of home and empire, the article explores how the Troubled Families Programme works to manage the troubled family as part of a longer history of regulating unruly households in the name of national health and civilisation. Viewing the Troubled Families Programme as part of the production of heteronormative order highlights how the policy remobilises and reconfigures older forms of colonial rule which work to demarcate between civility/savagery, the developable/undevelopable. In examining the postcolonial dimension of neoliberal social policy, the article stresses how the Troubled Families Programme relies on racialising and sexualised logics of socio-biological control borrowed from imperial eugenics. Reading the Troubled Families Programme in this way contributes to our understanding of neoliberal rule. That the troubled family can be either domesticated or destroyed (through benefit sanctions and eviction) equally reveals the extent to which domesticity works as a key site for the production of both ‘worthy’ and ‘surplus’ life.

The social policy context of child care: Effects on quality

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah A. Phillips ◽  
Carollee Howes ◽  
Marcy Whitebook
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
The Social

Social policy and forms of family life in Europe

1994 ◽  
Vol 47 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 11-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Kuijsten ◽  
Klaus Peter Strohmeier ◽  
Hans-Joachim Schulze
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Family Life
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