The un/deserving child : a qualitative study of the discursive welfare rationales of a philanthropic foundation for children living in extreme poverty situations
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- Nicolas Jacquet, Caroline Vandekinderen (UGent) , Coline Generet, Daniel Zamora Vargas, Didier Vrancken and Griet Roets (UGent)
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- Child poverty remains a complex social problem in Western societies. In the context of the complex historical transformation of the institutional welfare state framework in Belgium, we discuss a qualitative study on the welfare rationales of a philanthropic foundation for children in extreme poverty situations. Our exploration of the perspectives of the foundation's social partners and administrators shows how a discursive distinction between un/deserving children can be at stake in anti-poverty strategies. Based on our findings, we tease out whether the foundation might metaphorically function as grit in the machine of public actors in the welfare state system.
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- child poverty, neo-philanthropy, social work, welfare rationale, NEW-LABOR, JUSTICE
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01JEZE5VE6QQZAPCS5QX697AJS
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- Jacquet, Nicolas, et al. “The Un/Deserving Child : A Qualitative Study of the Discursive Welfare Rationales of a Philanthropic Foundation for Children Living in Extreme Poverty Situations.” CHILDREN & SOCIETY, vol. 39, no. 2, 2025, pp. 589–98, doi:10.1111/chso.12937.
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- Jacquet, N., Vandekinderen, C., Generet, C., Zamora Vargas, D., Vrancken, D., & Roets, G. (2025). The un/deserving child : a qualitative study of the discursive welfare rationales of a philanthropic foundation for children living in extreme poverty situations. CHILDREN & SOCIETY, 39(2), 589–598. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12937
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- Jacquet, Nicolas, Caroline Vandekinderen, Coline Generet, Daniel Zamora Vargas, Didier Vrancken, and Griet Roets. 2025. “The Un/Deserving Child : A Qualitative Study of the Discursive Welfare Rationales of a Philanthropic Foundation for Children Living in Extreme Poverty Situations.” CHILDREN & SOCIETY 39 (2): 589–98. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12937.
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- Jacquet, Nicolas, Caroline Vandekinderen, Coline Generet, Daniel Zamora Vargas, Didier Vrancken, and Griet Roets. 2025. “The Un/Deserving Child : A Qualitative Study of the Discursive Welfare Rationales of a Philanthropic Foundation for Children Living in Extreme Poverty Situations.” CHILDREN & SOCIETY 39 (2): 589–598. doi:10.1111/chso.12937.
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- 1.Jacquet N, Vandekinderen C, Generet C, Zamora Vargas D, Vrancken D, Roets G. The un/deserving child : a qualitative study of the discursive welfare rationales of a philanthropic foundation for children living in extreme poverty situations. CHILDREN & SOCIETY. 2025;39(2):589–98.
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- [1]N. Jacquet, C. Vandekinderen, C. Generet, D. Zamora Vargas, D. Vrancken, and G. Roets, “The un/deserving child : a qualitative study of the discursive welfare rationales of a philanthropic foundation for children living in extreme poverty situations,” CHILDREN & SOCIETY, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 589–598, 2025.
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