A 'Road to Work'? The reworking of deservedness, social citizenship and public work programmes in rural Hungary

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4524979
AutoresAlexandra Szőke (0000-0002-2097-2726, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen19
Número6-7
Páginas734-750
Fecha de publicación2015-08-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2015.1053790
OpenAlexW1481774051
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas22

The paper discusses the effects of the ‘public work programme’ on social citizenship in remote rural localities in Hungary, where it has developed into an extreme form of workfare in lack of other employment options. Drawing on extensive empirical material from two rural localities, the paper shows that, due to decentralisation, large variations exist in the ways the programme is implemented locally. The practices and approach of local officials, who as key welfare workers in a highly decentralised state primarily determine its local implementation, are strongly linked to local social relations, as well as dominant notions of deservingness/undeservingness on which local claims and negotiations of belonging are based. The study concludes that, whilst the programme fails to address, and even upholds, structural inequalities, the ways in which the programme is organised can, nevertheless, fundamentally affect both the material welfare and the locally constituted social citizenship of its participants

Citizenship · Decentralization · Inequality · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social Welfare · Sociology · State (computer science) · Welfare · Work (physics) · Workfare · Engineering · Law · Public Administration · Rural development and sustainability · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics