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Rethinking European Welfare
Transformations of European Social Policy

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May 2001 | 312 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
`This is an important and timely book not least in considering the EU's inchoate social regime alongside established national systems, that draws attentionto the subtle, yet often neglected, ways in which welfare systems unwittingly distort the lives of their beneficiaries' - Political Studies

Rethinking European Welfare provides a wide-ranging and innovative rethinking of the study of Europe and social policy and offers new ways of analysing European welfare and its future.

Whilst acknowledging the importance of research and analysis of policy making in Europe, this Reader addresses a range of other challenging and provoking issues which have been marginalized or ignored in the study of European social policy.

It will be essential reading for students of European social policy, social and public administration, social work, sociology, politics, cultural studies and European studies.


Jant Fink, Gail Lewis and John Clarke
Introduction
 
PART ONE: UNSETTLING BOUNDARIES AND BORDERS
Ray Hudson and Allan M Williams
Re-Shaping Europe
The Challenge of New Divisions within Homogenized Political-economic Space

 
Yasmin N Soysal
Changing Citizenship in Europe
Remarks on Postnational Members and the National State

 
Phil Marfleet
Europe's Civilizing Mission
Eleonore Kofman and Rosemary Sales
Migrant Women and Exclusion in Europe
 
PART TWO: UNSETTLING CATEGORIES AND METHODS
Diane Sainsbury
Gendering Dimensions of Welfare States
Fiona Williams
Race/Ethnicity, Gender and Class in Welfare States
A Framework for Comparative Analysis

 
Janet Fink
Silences, Absences and Elisions in Analyses of `The Family' in European Social Policy
Prue Chamberlayne
Cultural Analyses of the Informal Sphere
 
PART THREE: UNSETTLING SPACE, PLACE AND LOCALITY
Avtar Brah
Re-Framing Europe
Gendered Racisms, Ethnicities and Nationalisms in Contemporary Western Europe

 
Lila Leontidou and Alex Afouxenidis
Boundaries of Social Exclusion in Europe
Ant[ac]onio N[ac]ovoa
The Restructuring of the European Educational Space
Changing Relationships Among States, Citizens and Educational Communites

 
Karim Murji and Eugene McLaughlin
Drugs, Drug Culture and European Governance

`This is an important and timely book not least in considering the EU's inchoate social regime alongside established national systems, that draws attentionto the subtle, yet often neglected, ways in which welfare systems unwittingly distort the lives of their beneficiaries' - Political Studies