Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of figures and tables v
4. Notes on contributors vii
5. Race, racism and social policy
6. Race and social policy: challenges and obstacles 5
7. ‘Race’: the missing dimension in social policy higher education? 25
8. Young people as cultural critics of the monocultural landscapes that fail them 51
9. Returnees: unwanted citizens or cherished countrymen 71
10. Social policy and young people
11. The family welfare source and inequality in liberal welfare states: evidence from cohort studies 97
12. Economic hardship in young adulthood: a cause for concern or a matter of course while settling into the Swedish labour market? 135
13. Cultural education and the good citizen: a systematic analysis of a neoliberal communitarian policy trend 163
14. How geographical and ideological proximity impact community youth justice (in)accessibility in England and Wales 183
15. Austerity
16. After a decade of austerity, does the UK have an income safety net worth its name? 211
17. A new page? The public library in austerity 227
18. No way home: the challenges of exiting homelessness in austere times 249
19. ‘Everywhere and nowhere’: interventions and services under austerity 271
20. Index 291