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| Citizenship, exclusion and older people | | Author(s) | Gary Craig |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Policy, vol 33, no 1, January 2004 |
| Pages | pp 95-114 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org |
| Keywords | Citizenship ; Isolation ; Poor elderly ; Income [older people] ; Claims [services] ; Usage [services]. |
| Annotation | Since the election of the first New Labour government in 1997, the issue of citizenship has become a central but contested concept in policy discourse. In defining the status of citizen, debate has tended to focus on the government's assertion of the central role of work, a stance which has increasingly been criticised for devaluing unpaid work such as caring and volunteering. However, the position of those beyond labour market age - older people - has rarely been examined in relation to how citizenship might be defined. At the same time, social exclusion - which has been heavily used by New Labour to characterise those at the margins of society - has at best an ambiguous relevance to older people. This article is based on an exploration of the social, financial and other impacts of additional benefit income for older people. It examines how the concepts of citizenship and exclusion might be understood in relation to the position of older people, and sketches out what some of the defining characteristics of citizenship might be for them. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040330203 A |
| Classmark | IKC: TP: F:W6: JF: QLT: QLD |
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