Laurine Blonk

University of Humanistic Studies · Humanistic Studies

Door de coronacrisis is het debat in Nederland en Vlaanderen over de beroepsidentiteit van sociaal werkers weer opgelaaid. Een belangrijk geluid in het debat is dat de coronacrisis vraagt om een sterkere beroepsidentiteit, gegrondvest in de waarden die kenmerkend zijn voor de beroepsgroep. Een sterke beroepsidentiteit zou sociaal werkers helpen om...

In the context of increasing appeals to informal care in Western welfare state policies, questions concerning urban sociality acquire new significance. This paper aims to contribute to the emergent thinking on ‘urban care’ by situating it in policy debates concerning care responsibilities between citizens. We used small-scale focus groups among urb...

Background: Often, people with and without intellectual disabilities do not mingle. Research has mostly focused on how to foster "convivial encounters" for social inclusion, but further thinking is needed on situations in which potential encounters do not take place. Method: Discussion of philosophical and urban sociological literature on social...

This paper discusses a case study of a Dutch work-integration social enterprise (WISE) to add to the debate on the contribution of employment to the citizenship of intellectually disabled people and those experiencing mental health conditions. In current welfare state policies, the value of labour market participation is narrowed down to regular em...