Making sense of social citizenship: some user views on welfare rights and responsibilities

TY - JOUR

T1 - Making sense of social citizenship

T2 - some user views on welfare rights and responsibilities

AU - Dwyer, Peter James

PY - 2002/5

Y1 - 2002/5

N2 - Against the backdrop of New Labour's claim to be constructing a new welfare state for the 21st century, this article explores how a diversity of welfare service users make sense of the principles and values central to the ongoing reform of public welfare. Drawing on a series of focus groups with welfare service users, the article adds an important empirical dimension to current debates about the contentious issue of welfare `resettlement' and notions of social citizenship.

AB - Against the backdrop of New Labour's claim to be constructing a new welfare state for the 21st century, this article explores how a diversity of welfare service users make sense of the principles and values central to the ongoing reform of public welfare. Drawing on a series of focus groups with welfare service users, the article adds an important empirical dimension to current debates about the contentious issue of welfare `resettlement' and notions of social citizenship.

KW - CITIZENSHIP

KW - welfare rights

KW - RESPONSIBILITY

U2 - 10.1177/02610183020220020601

DO - 10.1177/02610183020220020601

M3 - Article

SN - 0261-0183

VL - 22

SP - 273

EP - 299

JO - Critical Social Policy

JF - Critical Social Policy

IS - 2

ER -