Civil society work on support in contacts with authorities - legal mobilization for people in marginalized life situations
Short description
The study is a dissertation project that examines how civil society supports people who have been denied support from various authorities in their interactions with these agencies.
Previous research has shown that the support provided by civil society to individuals can yield different outcomes for people in marginalized situations where legal assistance can contribute to better individual outcomes but may decrease access to rights at a societal level.
The project employs an ethnographic approach to study the everyday practices of practitioners in civil society organizations' social work. It aims to provide an understanding of how their negotiations and legal support in individual cases interact with the changes occurring in the role distribution between the public sector and civil societies in the welfare system in Sweden.
The research conducted within the doctoral programme at the Department of Social Work includes a number of dissertation projects addressing social problems and phenomena, social processes and the conditions of social work.
Within the framework of these themes, both doctoral students and collaborative doctoral students work with different theoretical and methodological approaches.