Finnish welfare service system from the standpoint of women in vulnerable life situations
Publiceringsår
2021
Upphovspersoner
Virokannas, Elina; Salovaara, Ulla; Krok, Suvi; Kuronen, Marjo
Abstrakt
In this chapter, the authors analyse how the Finnish welfare service system, as it consists of different institutions and professionals, meets or fails to meet the needs of women in varying vulnerable life situations. The participants are women with severe substance abuse problems, women sentenced for committing a crime and poor lone mothers living on basic social benefits. The findings show that women’s experiences of encounters with welfare professionals as well as their access to and use of the services share a number of characteristics. They described several barriers and problems related to the complexity of the service system. These included receiving only limited support for basic needs combined with the experiences of stigmatisation and the lack of trust in professionals and problems with face-to-face interaction with them. There is a moral stigma on these women, who have failed both as ‘active citizens’ and as ‘decent women’. The welfare system does not recognise their specific needs as women. The guiding principle of the Finnish welfare service system is gender equality rather than a feminist or gender-sensitive approach, and women-specific welfare services are rare.
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Artikel
Moderpublikationens typ
Samlingsverk
Artikelstyp
Annan artikel
Målgrupp
VetenskapligKollegialt utvärderad
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Journal
Routledge Advances in Social Work
Moderpublikationens namn
Moderpublikationens redaktörer
Kuronen, Marjo; Virokannas, Elina; Salovaara, Ulla
Förläggare
Routledge
Sidor
26-38
ISBN
Öppen tillgång
Öppen tillgänglighet i förläggarens tjänst
Nej
Parallellsparad
Ja
Övriga uppgifter
Vetenskapsområden
Social- och samhällspolitik
Nyckelord
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Publiceringsland
Förenade kungariket
Förlagets internationalitet
Internationell
Språk
engelska
Internationell sampublikation
Nej
Sampublikation med ett företag
Nej
DOI
10.4324/9780429276910-4
Publikationen ingår i undervisnings- och kulturministeriets datainsamling
Ja