Titre :
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Poverty as a situation of disability: Social workers’ reticence to back active solidarity income beneficiaries requests for disabled adults allowance (2014)
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Titre original:
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La pauvreté comme situation de handicap : les réticences des professionnels face aux demandes d'AAH dans le cadre de l'accompagnement social des bénéficiaires du RSA
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Auteurs :
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Samuel Neuberg
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Alter, European journal of disability research, Revue européenne de recherche sur le handicap (vol. 8, n° 4, octobre-décembre 2014)
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Pagination :
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pp.256-268
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Langues originales:
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Français
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Mots-clés :
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Allocation aux adultes handicapés
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Salaire
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Solidarité
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Pauvreté
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Personne handicapée
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Inclusion sociale
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Intégration sociale
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Politique publique
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Accompagnement
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Résumé :
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tSocial service support for beneficiaries of the French RSA (minimumincome scheme) is based on reducing their problems to a series ofsituations blocking their “plans to return to employment”. Thesesituations are defined in practice by the specific “programs” towardwhich professional may orient beneficiaries. This notion is quiteclose to that of “situation of disability”, as it is used in social con-ceptions of disability. It is the support for a specific handicapology,rooted in a representation of social service work in rupture with thetraditional notion of support for disabled persons, those unfit forwork. It is characterized particularly by a refusal to sort beneficiar-ies into overarching categories, and a change in the meaning givento people’s material and cultural destitution, which is not treated asa consequence of unemployment or as a disability, but as a disablingsituation responsible for their withdrawal from the employmentmarket. These professional norms are manifest in a strong resis-tance when beneficiaries express the desire to seek AAH (disabledadult allowance). This reticence is explained by the simultaneous transformations of both the administrative division of social sup-port work and the social trajectories of the social workers chargedwith this work. AAH requests place professionals in a paradoxicalsituation: their general role to support people in their adminis-trative procedures comes into contradiction with their mission to“support toward employment”, which they find radically incom-patible with the posture of assistance implied by the recognition ofeven a partial unfitness for work. (RA)
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En ligne :
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https://login.ehesp.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.alter.2014.09.007
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