Anneli Anttonen

• PhD
• Professor at Tampere University

Introduction Globalisation, European integration and migration pose new challenges for understanding citizenship from a transnational perspective. Since the 1990s the increase in migrants and refugees has sparked new political debates about multiculturalism and multicultural policies across Europe, debates which have, increasingly after 9/11, been...

Introduction Since the 1990s, Western Europe has experienced a remarkable shift in political thinking about childcare. A profound politicisation of the relationship between the state and the family has generated renegotiations of the boundaries between public and private responsibilities in the care of young children. Parenting norms, parental resp...

Introduction The previous chapters have examined changes in the perception and application of citizenship rights in relation to childcare provision and to migration and asylum. This chapter looks at what Chapter Four called the ‘transnational redistribution of care work’ – the ways migration and childcare intersect in the case of the private employ...

We have had two main objectives in writing this volume. The first, which originated in our longstanding collaboration in the research field of gendered citizenship, has been to explore the key challenges facing those who study citizenship in a cross-national context. The second has been to illustrate some of these challenges through an analysis of...

This cross-national study explores a key concept in contemporary European political, policy and academic debates and demonstrates the value of a multi-level conceptualisation of citizenship.

Introduction In this chapter, we describe and analyse the range of actors involved in contemporary citizenship debates. These actors include left-wing and right-wing politicians, feminist movements, trade unions and social movements more generally. They may adhere to more dominant and powerful discourses on citizenship or struggle with alternative...

Introduction As context matters, a cross-national European study of the meanings of the concept of citizenship must, first of all, take the distinctive historical backgrounds into account. Understandings of citizenship have not only changed over the course of time, but its multifaceted, different meanings also reflect both varied political and soci...

Deinstitutionalization is an important trend in the redesign of long-term eldercare in Finland. It refers to a process where traditional institutional care is partly replaced by home care services and the creation of homelike housing units. The first part of this article provides an overview of eldercare service redesign by using national statistic...

Since the early 1990s, marketisation has increasingly framed and shaped social service delivery in Finland. Market turn has been evident and quite rapid especially in eldercare services. This report provides an overview of the increased presence of markets in the field of public policy on eldercare in Finland. It is based on a comparative research...

This article is about the transnational movement of policy discourses on childcare. It considers whether the spread of neoliberal ideas with their emphasis on marketisation, on the one hand, and a social investment discourse on the other, are leading to convergence in childcare arrangements in Nordic countries (Finland and Sweden) and liberal Anglo...

Universalism in social policy is politically challenged and normatively contested. This book examines how the principle of universalism can be understood and how it has been put into practice in various national contexts. Universalism is contrasted with the idea of diversity which has gained strength as a result of growing affluent middle classes a...

The article evaluates marketization and its effects on elderly-care policies in Finland, where the welfare state has been the most important mechanism in mitigating failures caused by the functioning of market. In addition, since the 1960s the public sector has been regarded as the guarantee for citizens' social rights and the common good. Therefor...

The article evaluates marketization and its effects on elderly-care policies in Finland, where the welfare state has been the most important mechanism in mitigating failures caused by the functioning of market. In addition, since the 1960s the public sector has been regarded as the guarantee for citizens' social rights and the common good. Therefor...

Responsibility, participation and choice are key policy framings of active citizenship, summoning the citizen to take on new roles in welfare state reform. This volume traces the emergence of new discourses and the ways in which they take up and rework struggles of social movements for greater independence, power and control. It explores the changi...

Faced with budget problems and an aging population, European governments in recent years have begun reconsidering the structure and extent of the welfare state. Guarantees and directives have given way to responsibilities and choice. This volume analyzes the effect of this change on the citizens of Germany, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, France,...

Purpose Local welfare governance is approached from the vantage point of informal carers caring for older people. A bottom‐up perspective is used to construct a critical view on welfare provision and governance practices at the local level. The paper aims to discuss the issues. Design/methodology/approach The data consist of 23 in‐depth interviews...

The world of caring is universal because, in all societies at any time, some of the members need help and assistance in their daily lives, and mostly it is the women who are responsible for providing the help and care needed. Care has become an important object of study in feminist as well as in social and political research. Academic scholars have...

Transition from industrial to post-industrial societies has fundamentally challenged social policy arrangements of Western welfare states. The concept of welfare state offers broader social protection, growing consumption, family wages, strong labor unions, better public services, and a state apparatus that was able to control the national economy....

This chapter concentrates on those contextual issues concerning citizenship that have emerged within the European welfare states since the 1970s. It then discusses the various contemporary vocabularies and feminist critiques of citizenship. Some striking citizenship issues and debates in contemporary welfare states are also reported. The chapter fu...

This chapter takes a historical perspective so as to contextualise citizenship through elaboration of its legal and theoretical roots. After introducing the terminology of the legal tradition and the models of the modern concept of citizenship, it then describes the delays and the impediments to women's citizenship in the different dimensions of po...

This chapter first examines the interconnection between two dimensions of migration: the external dimension regulating territorial conditions of access; and the internal dimension regulating the rights and obligations of persons living legally in the country. It provides a short overview of migration and asylum legislation, with examples from the s...

This chapter reviews the central theoretical perspectives on childcare, gender, and social citizenship, and childcare as a social right of parents. It then discusses the main components of the childcare policy packages of the nine European welfare states, and parents' take-up and use of the childcare-related rights available. The chapter returns to...

This chapter gathers a number of threads and raises some general issues for future research and policy making. It first reflects on the challenges and then expands on the fresh perspectives that are believed to contribute to the understandings of gendered citizenship in Europe. The chapter specifically provides a fresh perspective on the study of g...

This chapter brings together the issues of care and migration through a study of the transnational dynamics of care, sometimes referred to as ‘global care chains’. It reviews the many different and complexly connected dimensions of citizenship it invokes. The case studies first contextualise their empirical data in terms of the different care and m...

This is a collectively written, inter-disciplinary, thematic cross-national study that combines conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and policy material so as to explore a key concept in contemporary European political, policy, and academic debates. The first part of the book clarifies the various ways in which the concept of citizenship has develop...

This is a collectively written, inter-disciplinary, thematic cross-national study which combinesconceptual, theoretical, empirical and policy material in an ambitious and innovative way toexplore a key concept in contemporary European political, policy and academic debates.The first part of the book clarifies the various ways that the concept of ci...

Our aim in this chapter is to study the family-related stress and satisfaction that women and men experience in their home lives, using data collected in Finland and Norway for the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP, 2002). The study will focus on families with children under 18, because our aim is to evaluate the usefulness of the concept...

This is a collectively written, inter-disciplinary, thematic cross-national study which combines conceptual, theoretical, empirical and policy material in an ambitious and innovative way to explore a key concept in contemporary European political, policy and academic debates. The first part of the book clarifies the various ways that the concept of...

This chapter provides a classification of care production modes in a welfare mix framework. The processes of care going public are elaborated by focusing on national social care patterns in Finland, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US. It then looks at why cultural explanations have developed into distinct systems and why these countries are now adop...

Social care: divergent emphases Social care is a growing concern in welfare states and an ever more frequent object of comparative social research. A greater focus on social care is necessary to construct a better understanding of the principles and functions of modern welfare states and family life. We start out from the view that social care arra...

With ongoing concerns about a 'care deficit' in Europe, as well as changing demographics, employment and social trends, there is a need for greater understanding and sharing of the policies that shape care today. This book provides invaluable descriptions and comparative analyses of the now complex and highly varied arrangements for the care of chi...

Care is a growing concern in welfare states and an ever-more frequent object of social policy reforms. Every post-industrial society is having to confront anew how to support families and individuals and organize the care of those who need regular help, particularly small children and those adults whose disabilities are linked to age or illness. Lo...

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Universalism is a category that is widely used both in mainstream theorizing on welfare states and in feminist scholarship. Yet, scientific analyses of the concept and politics of universalism are rare. The article looks at the idea, principle and politics of universalism in the contexts of income security and welfare services. Universalism turns o...

Citizenship has not been among the most popular objects of social and political theory in Finland during the last decades. However, historically it has been a central concept. It was only during the post-war welfare state development that debates on citizenship started to lose their earlier importance. One might assume that the Nordic welfare state...

Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Thesis (doctoral)--Tampereen yliopisto, 1997. Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-232) and index.

The purpose of this article is to bring social care services into the domain of comparative social policy research. The reason why it is important for social care services to be incor porated into the debate is that they represent an expanding component of the welfare state; that they are important for women; and that there are major differences be...