‘Got a degree…all of a sudden I'm in a Jobcentre’
The role of ‘stigma’ in ‘precarious’ graduate transitions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17810046 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Formby (0000-0002-8248-5368, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 249-262 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Poverty and Social Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1759-8273 • E-ISSN: 1759-8281 |
| Publisher | Policy Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/175982717x14877669275128 |
| OpenAlex | W2592266402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 20 |
There is widespread evidence that those claiming out-of-work benefits experience different types of ‘benefit stigma’ in the UK, with the focus largely falling on conventionally disadvantaged welfare users. In contrast, graduates’ experiences of ‘benefits stigma’ go unnoticed because of their relative advantage within the labour market. Yet, an increase in precarity across the labour market has unsettled graduate transitions and is re-shaping their relationships with out-of-work benefits. Against this backdrop, this article explores how graduates respond to different aspects of ‘benefit stigma’. It posits that challenging stigmatising narratives associated with out-of-benefits – is integral to support graduates furthest away from knowledge-based economy jobs
Demographic economics · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Employability · Labour economics · Market economy · Narrative · Political science · Precarity · Sociology · Welfare · Workfare · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology
Inequality Restructured
Using a situated knowledge lens to reveal knowledge gains for community partners engaged with a university – community partnership
Discursive framings of market-based education policy and their negotiation by students
Online Interviewing and Inauthentic Participants in the ‘Bot’ era
What Can Welfare Stigma Do
Internalised Individualism
Flexible ongoing’
Between luck and stigma
Revolting Subjects
The Knowledge Worker, the Manager‐academic and the Contemporary UK University
Producing New Workers
Graduate employability and student attitudes and orientations to the labour market
Stigma
Graduate Employability
Living with and responding to the 'scrounger' narrative in the UK
Precarious lives, precarious labour
Beyond ‘Neet’ and ‘tidy’ pathways
Top girls navigating austere times
Unpaid work in the UK television and film industries
Navigating the stigmatised identities of poverty in austere times
The degree is not enough’
Post‐graduation reflections on the value of a degree
Higher education, social class and the mobilisation of capitals
Moving beyond skills as a social and economic panacea
Young Adult Graduates Living in the Parental Home
The Co-construction of Shame in the Context of Poverty
Becoming incapacitated? Long-term sickness benefit recipients and the construction of stigma and identity narratives
The stigma of claiming benefits
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |