Shadow care infrastructures: sustaining life in the post-welfare city

越来越多的证据表明，依赖政府收入支持的澳大利亚人在满足基本需求的市场成本方面面临困难。该项目调查“影子护理基础设施”--一系列正式和非正式的物质和社会支助--是否以及如何使收入支助接受者得以生存、福祉和繁荣。这项研究以残疾人、失业者和寻求庇护者为重点，评估了这些基础设施对接受和提供护理的人以及更广泛的社区所产生的好处和损害。它审查了扩大新兴护理基础设施的风险和机会，这些基础设施被认为对当代城市收入补助接受者的收支平衡至关重要。

Mounting evidence points to difficulties faced by Australians reliant on government income support in meeting market costs of essential needs. This project investigates whether and how ‘shadow care infrastructures’ – a wide range of formal and informal material and social supports – enable the survival, well-being and flourishing of income support recipients. Focusing on people with disabilities, unemployed and asylum seekers, the study evaluates the benefits and harms such infrastructures produce for those receiving and providing care, and the wider community. It examines risks and opportunities to scale up emerging care infrastructures identified as critical to making ends meet for income support recipients in contemporary cities.