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dc.contributor.authorHansen, Helle Cathrine
dc.contributor.authorGubrium, Erika
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-18T10:55:46Z
dc.date.available2021-10-18T10:55:46Z
dc.date.created2021-10-11T14:09:59Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Comparative Social Work. 2021, 16 (1), 61-84.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0809-9936
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2823658
dc.description.abstractFor several decades, the turn towards labour activation has dominated European social work and social work institutions. While social work research and practice focused on labour activation have long considered “the person in the situation”, exploring the service users’ experiences at specific moments and contexts in time, we argue that labour activation is an ongoing process involving a complex interplay of factors (structural, social, personal), and that these are shaped by changes and ruptures throughout a person’s life course. Furthermore, the changing situation is not an objective fact, though its meaning is actively constructed by the service user. Asking how participants in a labour activation programme subjectively make meaning of their activation experiences, with reference to changing personal histories and institutional encounters over time, we shift the focus from social work’s emphasis on “the person in the situation”, and we open the concept to include “the person in the changing situation” to help enable a more dynamic analysis of the activation process. The concept accounts for the interaction between subjective meaning making and institutional structures and offers, as these change over time. The study is based on fieldwork in the Norwegian labour and welfare services (NAV). We present three participants in the Norwegian Qualification Programme as illustrative cases, each with distinct profiles, to illustrate how service users actively refer to changing situations – as these are shaped by time, biography and institutional movement – when making meaning of their labour activation experiences. The findings have implications for social work research and practice, as matters of biography, timing and life course trajectories must be accounted for to gain a more accurate picture of the labour activation experience. A consideration of institutional and life course change also offers a better professional understanding of the complexity of lived experiences when working with service users, potentially enabling a more effective practice.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Social Sciencesen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse-DelPåSammeVilkår 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectLabour activationen_US
dc.subjectSocial worken_US
dc.subjectPerson-in-the-situationen_US
dc.subjectExperiencesen_US
dc.titleActivating the person in the changing situation: A dynamic analytical approach to labour activationen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v16i1.373
dc.identifier.cristin1944938
dc.source.journalJournal of Comparative Social Worken_US
dc.source.volume16en_US
dc.source.issue1en_US
dc.source.pagenumber61-84en_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Klinisk medisinske fag: 750::Gynekologi og obstetrikk: 756en_US


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