Lone motherhood, welfare reform and active citizen subjectivity
Lone motherhood, welfare reform and active citizen subjectivity
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单亲母亲、福利改革和积极的公民主体性
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2010
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Paul Kershaw
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J. Pulkingham;Sylvia Fuller;Paul Kershaw
工作福利政策已成为加拿大、美国、英国、澳大利亚和斯堪的纳维亚半岛政府的核心优先事项。通过纵向定性研究的多次深入访谈，我们探讨了福利如何与单亲母亲的主观性和公民身份交织在一起。我们在审视加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省福利改革的三个方面时，考虑了妇女的日常主张活动：（i）积极的公民主体性背后的就业必要性及其在性别、种族和基于阶级的职业流方面的表现方式； (ii) 此类流媒体中体现的性别规范的强制力； (iii) 由此产生的分层再生产实践。遵循批判性贫困研究的传统，我们的研究重点是提出主张的活动，以挑战现行的公共政策实践，这种实践有可能将贫困的单亲母亲置于“被抹去”的境地，作为母亲或道德公民看不见，只有低薪工人公民才能看到。
Welfare-to-work policies have become a central priority of governments in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia and Scandinavia. Drawing on multiple in-depth interviews generated as part of a longitudinal qualitative study, we explore how welfare is imbricated in lone mothers’ subjectivity and citizenship. We consider women’s everyday claims-making activities as we interrogate three dimensions of welfare reform in British Columbia, Canada: (i) the employment imperative underlying active citizen subjectivity and the way this plays out in terms of gender, race and class-based occupational streaming; (ii) the coerciveness of gendered norms instantiated in such streaming; and (iii) the resulting practices of stratified reproduction. Following in the tradition of critical poverty studies, our research focuses on claims-making activities to challenge prevailing public policy practice that risks positioning impoverished lone mothers ‘under erasure’, invisible as mothers or moral citizens, and visible only as low waged worker citizens.