The veteran in the welfare state: ambiguous, invisible, marginal? A case study of housing homeless veterans.

福利国家的老兵：暧昧、隐形、边缘化？

• 批准号: 2617363
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Kent
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2617363
• 关键词: veteran; welfare; state; ambiguous; invisible

This project investigates the contested relationship between veterans and welfare in the UK. It argues that the unstable, transient and ambivalent status of veterans, who are simultaneously hero and threat, saviour and liability, vulnerable and competent, has permeated welfare provision from its Elizabethan origins and continues to cause complexities today. Using the lens of the veteran allows for the interrogation of masculinity in welfare and disturbs apparently stable notions of welfare claimant. As well as historical analysis, the research will focus on a case study of contemporary veteran housing and homelessness. It will explore whether the current housing crisis reveals a welfare fault-line, and analyse what broader insights into contemporary approaches to welfare, housing and politics are exposed through analysis of the figure of the homeless veteran in this context. Overall, this case study will frame the history of the development between the welfare state and the veteran while examining many of the contemporary difficulties which the veteran faces in interacting with welfare in contemporary society. There is limited research into welfare and veterans, although academic interest in veteran housing and homelessness has grown since the mid-1990s when the disproportionate number of veterans among London's homeless was reported. There is, however, a gap in the empirical research regarding how local authorities discharge their housing duties to veterans, and the role played by conceptions of vulnerability (a key criterion in establishing housing duties). In addition, little research - empirical or otherwise - has been undertaken examining how difficulties with the transition to veteran status have been intensified by the housing crisis, how rationing of provision has intensified contestation over the definition of veteran, or how these themes fit into the broader context of welfare and housing provision. This project will fill these gaps through a historical, theoretical and empirical project, including a case study investigating the provision of housing to veterans within London.

该项目调查了英国退伍军人和福利之间有争议的关系。它认为，退伍军人的不稳定，短暂和矛盾的地位，谁是英雄和威胁，救世主和责任，脆弱和有能力，已经渗透到福利提供从它的拿破仑起源，并继续造成今天的复杂性。使用退伍军人的透镜允许在福利和扰乱显然是稳定的概念福利索赔人的男性气质的审讯。除了历史分析之外，该研究还将重点关注当代退伍军人住房和无家可归问题的案例研究。它将探讨当前的住房危机是否揭示了福利断层线，并分析通过分析无家可归的退伍军人的数字，在这种情况下，当代的福利，住房和政治的方法暴露出更广泛的见解。总的来说，这个案例研究将框架之间的福利国家和退伍军人的发展历史，同时检查许多当代的困难，退伍军人面临的福利在当代社会的互动。对福利和退伍军人的研究有限，尽管自20世纪90年代中期以来，学术界对退伍军人住房和无家可归问题的兴趣有所增加，当时有报道称，伦敦无家可归者中退伍军人的人数不成比例。然而，在关于地方当局如何履行其对退伍军人的住房义务以及脆弱性概念（确定住房义务的一个关键标准）所发挥的作用的实证研究中存在差距。此外，很少有研究-经验或其他-已经进行了审查如何过渡到退伍军人身份的困难已经加剧了住房危机，如何配给的规定已经加剧了退伍军人的定义，或如何这些主题适合更广泛的背景下，福利和住房供应。该项目将通过一个历史、理论和经验项目填补这些空白，包括一项调查伦敦内退伍军人住房供应情况的案例研究。