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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11407
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dc.contributor.advisorCarranza, Mirnaen_US
dc.contributor.advisorLee, Billen_US
dc.contributor.authorLara, Martha S.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-18T16:54:30Z-
dc.date.available2014-06-18T16:54:30Z-
dc.date.created2011-09-27en_US
dc.date.issued2011-10en_US
dc.identifier.otheropendissertations/6375en_US
dc.identifier.other7352en_US
dc.identifier.other2261874en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11375/11407-
dc.description.abstract<p>Under neoliberal capitalist globalization, women's poverty and the deepening of women’s oppression and exploitation have been notorious. Indeed, women are facing poverty all over the world, including in industrialized capitalist countries. Women living in poverty and particularly poor single mothers have been targets of the counter neoliberal reform of the capitalist welfare state. This counter reform is a gendered, classist, and complex alteration that has assaulted the social responsibilities and budgets of the welfare state. The impact of neoliberal policies against single mothers is evident in Ontario. However, policymakers continue taking away the assistance and social welfare programs that used to support single mothers. Neoliberal governments have created provincial policies to reinforce women’s unpaid caring responsibilities and to intensify the surveillance and control exerted over poor Ontarian single mothers. This qualitative case study has explores critically the role of neoliberal social policy in Ontario child welfare. Through a feminist approach and using official documentary data, this research analyzes Ontario Kinship Care Policy. The study looks at the historical and social context in which the policy was formulated, depicts the main goals of the policy, and analyzes the policy’s outcomes both, for the system and for women. Possible areas of future research on this policy are listed in the conclusions.</p>en_US
dc.subjectChild welfareen_US
dc.subjectSocial reproductionen_US
dc.subjectSocial Policyen_US
dc.subjectWomen's resistanceen_US
dc.subjectNeoliberalismen_US
dc.subjectFeminsmen_US
dc.subjectSocial Worken_US
dc.subjectSocial Worken_US
dc.titleKINSHIP CARE POLICY: EXACERBATING WOMEN'S OPPRESSION THROUGH NEOLIBERAL FAMILIALIZATIONen_US
dc.typethesisen_US
dc.description.degreeMaster of Social Work (MSW)en_US
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