Working Group 8

Working Group 8

Gender, Care & Social Welfare: work, migrants, women and children

Meeting in Utrecht 8.-10.4.2011 ATGENDER Spring Conference lead by Mirja Satka and Vesna Leskošek.

1. Introduction

– Summary of the role of the social work history group in Athena3, outcomes and deliverables

– Introduction of each participant – expectations and inputs

2. Presentations:

– On the themes, issues, research interests that are expected to become taken into consideration in the group

– Presentation of the recent research results, thesis, dissertation etc. of each participant to introduce what is common in our interests

– the following conceptual framework was discussed: Normativity, every day life (bottom-up), social control, integration, practice of policy, the new mechanisms to produce social citizenship, otherness, subjectivity, performativity, intersectionality, discourse-practice relations

– We decided the concept of everyday life as the basic one that joins together our particular interests.

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3.Plan for Future work:

– We will participate at the 8th feminist research conference at Budapest 2012. Our suggestion is to have a panel under the Stream. 7: Triple Helix of Social Inclusion: Connecting Activism, policy-making and Gender Research. The title of the panel is: The Impact of Policies and Practises in Everyday life. The Panel will have two sub-themes with the following papers:

A. Work and migration

1. Sabrina Marchetti, Municipality of Verona – policies on welfare and the impact on the everyday life of the migrant women from Romania (care for the elderly)

2. Simone Tappart, Mariane Dobner: Access to the field of paid domestic work

3. Karina Pouentes: Analysis of the methodologies in the integration policy of Netherlands in particular under the section of knowledge on Ducth society

4. Gisela Hauss: Activation policies: case study concerning unemployment, insurance and social welfare

5. Vesna Leskošek: Introduction of forced labouring for the welfare recipients: active-inactive paradigm in Slovenia.

B. Motherhood and childhood

1. Arla Gruda: Welfare policies for single mothers in Albania.

2. Natalie Grandjean: Mode of subjection in breast feeding practices in Belgium.

3. Monika Götzö: Shaping social relations in the foster family care policis of Switzerland

4. Shuyi Huang: Comparison in the fertility promotion policies between native Dutch and foreignes (alians – Others) in the Netherlands

5. Mirja Satka: Concept of Risk in the Finnish preventive child protection practices.

We will try to meet begore the 8th feminist research conference but funds are the problem. Most of the group are young researchers and in need for travel costs.

We will invite old members of the Athena3 group to join, but probably they will have to become member of AtGender. We will also invite all people who were involed in unsuccessful Athena 4.

The decision is that Vesna is replaced by another person that will coordinate the group together with Mirja. The ideal person would be Dr Caroline Skehill, but we also left this decision open until her opininon has been heard.

If you would like to join this group please send a request to info@atgender.eu
Please, Include the Working Group number in the subject area + “REQUEST”