Accessibility and capabilities: (non‐)take‐up of benefits in the welfare production of poor households
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Autor:in (Körperschaft)
Publikationsdatum
06.08.2025
Typ der Arbeit
Studiengang
Typ
01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
Herausgeber:innen
Herausgeber:in (Körperschaft)
Betreuer:in
Übergeordnetes Werk
Social Inclusion
Themenheft
Accessibility, integration, and human rights in current welfare services, practices, and communities
DOI der Originalpublikation
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Reihe / Serie
Reihennummer
Jahrgang / Band
13
Ausgabe / Nummer
Seiten / Dauer
10358
Patentnummer
Verlag / Herausgebende Institution
Cogitatio Press
Verlagsort / Veranstaltungsort
Lisbon
Auflage
Version
Programmiersprache
Abtretungsempfänger:in
Praxispartner:in/Auftraggeber:in
Zusammenfassung
Studies of accessibility mainly focus on state welfare benefits and services. Yet, civil society actors may also provide material benefits for various needs. Drawing on the capability approach, this article examines accessibility for both state and non‐state benefits from the perspective of people living in poverty. The (non‐)take‐up of particular benefits must be understood within the overall context of people’s welfare production, i.e., their practices of accessing, combining, and transforming resources from state, market, civil society, family, and social networks to achieve the kind of life they value. The article draws on a qualitative study examining the welfare production of 40 households living below or near the poverty line in Switzerland. It is based on three waves of semi‐structured interviews, complemented by financial diaries documenting household income and expenditures. Our analysis shows how configurations of individual factors such as self‐image, the endowment with social and cultural capital, and subjective cost–benefit calculations interact with institutional entitlements, conceptions of deservingness, and administrative procedures. The article identifies three ideal‐typical configurations: deliberate non‐take‐up, extensive use of different benefits, or sporadic use of mostly small non‐state benefits. Households without access to benefits are more likely to face material and social deprivation, whereas those who use both state and non‐state resources enhance their capabilities.
Schlagwörter
Capabilities, Non-take-up, minimum income benefits
Fachgebiet (DDC)
Veranstaltung
Startdatum der Ausstellung
Enddatum der Ausstellung
Startdatum der Konferenz
Enddatum der Konferenz
Datum der letzten Prüfung
ISBN
ISSN
2183-2803
Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Ja
Zukunftsfelder FHNW
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Begutachtung
Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
Open Access-Status
Gold
Lizenz
Zitation
Nadai, E., Gonon, A., & Böhme, M. (2025). Accessibility and capabilities: (non‐)take‐up of benefits in the welfare production of poor households. Social Inclusion, 13, 10358. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.10358