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Alexandru Panican. Photo: Patrik Hekkala

Alexandru Panican

Associate professor | Senior lecturer | PhD in Social Work

Alexandru Panican. Photo: Patrik Hekkala

The local arena for combating poverty. Malmö, Sweden.

Author

  • Alexandru Panican
  • Håkan Johansson
  • Max Koch
  • Anna Angelin

Summary, in English

Reducing poverty and social exclusion is one of the main challenges for ensuring social cohesion in Europe. The research project COPE – Combating Poverty in Europe: Re-organising Active Inclusion through Participatory and Integrated Modes of Multilevel Governance’ – analyses trends of poverty and social exclusion in Europe, and examines the dynamics of minimum income protection policies that potentially help alleviate the risk of poverty in Europe. A particular focus is on the situation of single mothers, long-term unemployed and the working poor, who face particular risks of poverty and social exclusion. To what extent have minimum income policies functioned as last resort social security for these three groups, and in what sense can ‘active inclusion’ policies credited with protecting them from poverty and social exclusion?

The present report is part of COPE’s effort to uncover the dynamics of local level policy reforms in the area ‘active inclusion’, namely reforms affecting local policies that specify the adequacy of minimum income benefits, the provision of employment services, as well as the organisation of access to social services in Malmö. It focuses particularly on the three groups’ single mothers, long-term unemployed persons, as well as the working poor.

Department/s

  • School of Social Work

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Document type

Report

Publisher

Oldenburg: University of Oldenburg, Jean Monnet Centre for Europeanisation and Transnational Regulations, Institute for Social Sciences

Topic

  • Social Work

Keywords

  • poverty
  • combating poverty
  • social exclusion
  • active inclusion
  • single mothers
  • long-term unemployed
  • working poor
  • social security
  • minimum income protection
  • risk of poverty
  • minimum income benefits
  • employment services
  • social services
  • active labour market policies
  • third sector
  • public actors
  • non-public actors
  • cooperation

Status

Published