Transforming welfare service system from the standpoint of women in vulnerable life situations
Main funder
Funder's project number: 294407
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 480 000,00
Funding program
Project timetable
Project start date: 01/09/2016
Project end date: 31/08/2020
Summary
The research project focuses on women in vulnerable life situations in the Finnish welfare service system in an era in which the system is undergoing major transformations. The aim is to study what is common and shared between women in different vulnerable life situations, regarding substance abuse, poverty, single motherhood and being released from prison, and in their relations to the service system. By using the concept of vulnerable life situations instead of vulnerable individuals or groups, we will turn the attention towards social conditions and institutions generating vulnerability, including the welfare service system.
Our research strategy is institutional ethnography (IE) developed by the Canadian feminist sociologist Dorothy E. Smith. It means a commitment to the standpoint of women, and analysing how experiences and actualities of their everyday world are organised by social relations, structures and institutions. The project is searching for new ways to connect two rather separate fields of research concerning experiences of women/service users and structural analysis of the welfare service systems and policies.
Our research strategy is institutional ethnography (IE) developed by the Canadian feminist sociologist Dorothy E. Smith. It means a commitment to the standpoint of women, and analysing how experiences and actualities of their everyday world are organised by social relations, structures and institutions. The project is searching for new ways to connect two rather separate fields of research concerning experiences of women/service users and structural analysis of the welfare service systems and policies.
Principal Investigator
Other persons related to this project (JYU)
Primary responsible unit
Web page
https://www.jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/yfi/en/research/projects/welfare/vulnerability_project/
Keywords (YSO)
Related publications and other outputs
- Concluding remarks : a need for women-specific services (2021) Kuronen, Marjo; et al.; B2; OA; 978-0-429-27691-0
- Finnish welfare service system from the standpoint of women in vulnerable life situations (2021) Virokannas, Elina; et al.; B2; OA; 978-0-429-27691-0
- Incarcerated women, welfare services and the process of re-entering society in Finland (2021) Salovaara, Ulla; B2; OA; 978-0-429-27691-0
- Introduction: Women, vulnerabilities and welfare service systems (2021) Kuronen, Marjo; et al.; B2; 978-0-429-27691-0
- Women, Vulnerabilities and Welfare Service Systems (2021) Kuronen, Marjo; et al.; D6; 978-0-429-27691-0
- Institutional ethnography as a feminist approach for social work research (2020) Kuronen, Marjo; A3; OA; 978-0-429-01999-9
- The contested concept of vulnerability : a literature review (2020) Vironkannas, Elina; et al.; A2; OA
- Päihteet ja naiserityisyys (2019) Salovaara, Ulla; D1; OA
