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Interpreting vulnerabilities facing women in urban life : a case study in Madrid, Spain

Year of publication

2021

Authors

Gómez, M. Victoria; Kuronen, Marjo

Abstract

The chapter analyses interpretations of vulnerable life situations that women face in a large city in different settings, in local policymaking, welfare service system and in women’s daily lives, by presenting a case study from Madrid, the capital city of Spain. Three datasets are used in this analysis: local policy documents, interviews with women in one of Madrid’s central neighbourhoods and interviews with professionals from the local welfare services. The findings indicate that even if the interpretations of local policymaking, welfare professionals and women themselves differ, vulnerabilities are connected with social structures and economic conditions instead of being interpreted as characteristics of individual women or specific groups of women. The findings further emphasise the importance of (female) family relations and social support but also other social ties in protecting women from and in vulnerable life situations. The question remains as to what extent these vulnerabilities are specifically urban, which requires further intersection of research on vulnerabilities and social welfare with the sociological research on urban life and urban environments.
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Organizations and authors

Publication type

Publication format

Article

Parent publication type

Compendium

Article type

Other article

Audience

Scientific

Peer-reviewed

Non Peer-Reviewed

MINEDU's publication type classification code

B2 Book section

Publication channel information

Journal

Routledge Advances in Social Work

Parent publication editors

Kuronen, Marjo; Virokannas, Elina; Salovaara, Ulla

Publisher

Routledge

Pages

39-52

Open access

Open access in the publisher’s service

No

Self-archived

No

Other information

Fields of science

Social policy

Keywords

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Publication country

United Kingdom

Internationality of the publisher

International

Language

English

International co-publication

Yes

Co-publication with a company

No

DOI

10.4324/9780429276910-5

The publication is included in the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Publication data collection

Yes