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

这个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，他们同时是英雄和威胁、救世主和责任、脆弱和能干，从伊丽莎白时代的起源就渗透到福利提供中，并在今天继续造成复杂性。使用退伍军人的镜头可以对福利中的男子气概进行审问，并扰乱了福利申请人显然稳定的观念。除了历史分析，研究还将集中在当代退伍军人住房和无家可归的案例研究上。它将探讨当前的住房危机是否揭示了福利断层，并分析在这种背景下，通过分析无家可归的退伍军人的形象，揭示了对当代福利、住房和政治方法的更广泛的见解。总体而言，本案例研究将构建福利国家与退伍军人之间的发展历史，同时考察退伍军人在当代社会与福利互动时面临的许多当代困难。虽然自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长，但对福利和退伍军人的研究有限，当时有报道称，伦敦无家可归者中有不成比例的退伍军人。然而，关于地方当局如何履行对退伍军人的住房义务以及脆弱性概念（建立住房义务的一个关键标准）所起的作用的实证研究存在差距。此外，很少进行实证或其他方面的研究，以审查住房危机如何加剧了向退伍军人身份过渡的困难，配给供应如何加剧了对退伍军人定义的争论，或这些主题如何适应福利和住房供应的更广泛背景。该项目将通过一个历史、理论和实证项目来填补这些空白，其中包括一个调查伦敦退伍军人住房供应的案例研究。

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.