A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services

Finn, Philip; Murphy, Mary

doi:10.1017/s1474746422000094

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“…Yet, resistance that challenges welfare ideologies does exist, even amongst those who still feel personal stigma and shame (Pemberton et al, 2016; see also Evans, 2022). Patrick (2016) found that some single mothers may challenge the view that they are getting money for no work by showing that single parenthood is, in fact, hard work (see also Finn and Murphy, 2022). Claimants also point out that fraud occurs right across different sectors of society and, in the cases for welfare fraud, is small (Patrick, 2016).…”

Section: Resisting Welfare Stigmamentioning

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What Can Welfare Stigma Do?

Bolton

Whelan²,

Dukelow³

2022

Social Policy and Society

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In this ‘state of the art’ review, we draw on the Irish and UK context to ask ‘what can welfare stigma do?’ Our question provokes thinking about welfare stigma not as an inevitable ‘cost’ of the structure of welfare provision, but as something that does socio-political work and which may be deliberately mobilised to do so. This, we argue, is a particularly pertinent question to ask in the Irish and UK contexts, bound together by some shared liberal welfare regime characteristics that are particularly associated with welfare stigma and by the effects of a period of austerity capitalism that continues to re-shape the meaning and experience of welfare. Yet, going beyond welfare stigma as inherently negative, we highlight a limited literature on resistance that suggests the potentialities of welfare stigma in the service of positive social change toward a new welfare imaginary.

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Section: Resisting Welfare Stigmamentioning

confidence: 99%

What Can Welfare Stigma Do?

Bolton

Whelan²,

Dukelow³

2022

Social Policy and Society

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“…The research literature on poverty highlights the impact on individuals, families, and communities of poverty, costs that are both current to the experience and reflecting its scarring effects. Beyond its direct effect on living standards, poverty has been found to force people to lead a 'marginal existence' (Whelan, 2022), stigmatise people and implicitly impacting on their selfesteem, inducing a sense of shame and powerlessness given individual's circumstances (Walker, 2014;Sutton et al, 2014;Greve, 2019a;Boland et al, 2022;Finn & Murphy, 2022). It also imposes financial stress driven by 'the relentlessness of the work involved in getting by' (Gray et al, 2019: 294).…”

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A Hidden Cost: Estimating the Public Service Cost of Poverty in Ireland

Collins

2023

Social Policy and Society

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Living life on a poverty income remains commonplace in most modern welfare states. A growing literature highlights the impact on individuals, families, and communities of poverty, costs that are both current to the experience and reflecting its scarring effects. A further cost, one that is frequently hidden, is the cumulative and recurring public expenditure associated with policy responses to poverty. These costs derive from the identification of poverty as a determining factor in the need for, and demand for, a wide range of public services. Estimating the nominal value of these costs, based on an assessment of public expenditure in one EU-15 state, Ireland, is the focus of this article. The findings establish annual costs of between €3bn-€7bn and highlight for all members of society, whether above or below the poverty line, the recurring public expenditure costs incurred by society as a result of poverty.

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The ‘pathologically state dependent’ versus ‘middle-aged ministers on mammoth salaries’: The legitimation contest over a 2013 austerity measure in the Republic of Ireland

Gaffney

2024

Discourse & Society

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This paper provides a discourse analysis of the political and media debate surrounding a 2013 austerity measure that targeted unemployed young people in the Republic of Ireland. Applying Van Leeuwen’s ‘justificatory schema’ it reveals the legitimation of this measure relied on an ‘anti-welfare populist’ framing of the young unemployed as ‘welfare dependent’ and thus ‘undeserving’. Furthermore, this analysis finds that those opposed to this austerity measure sought to de-legitimate it and to re-legitimate the young unemployed. At times by singling out alternative ‘undeserving’ figures to be targeted with austerity in their place. This process thus remained open to contestation and resignification, albeit in a manner that failed to challenge the underlying political-economic logic at play. The antagonistic framings revealed by these findings complicate the emphasis on ‘de-politicisation’ in the pre-existing literature using discourse analysis methods to investigate the legitimation of austerity.

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A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

What Can Welfare Stigma Do?

What Can Welfare Stigma Do?

A Hidden Cost: Estimating the Public Service Cost of Poverty in Ireland

The ‘pathologically state dependent’ versus ‘middle-aged ministers on mammoth salaries’: The legitimation contest over a 2013 austerity measure in the Republic of Ireland

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