Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T18:17:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Kleber Rodrigo Durat.pdf: 1707684 bytes, checksum: 6eabda24d3d18ef54caf3e1e30b40e09 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-18 / As far as the capitalist bourgeois State is concerned, it is possible to affirm that the so-called capitalist System has been targeting actions aiming the constant pursuit for profit, which enters all aspects of social life of the working class. Social policies are the locus of attention of the government, considering the fact that its actions result from conflict and ideological disruption between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. From such a perspective, the appropriation of social policies with profitable ends, by the government, impairs the unequal logic presented by the capitalist society. It is, thus, from that point of interests that the bourgeoisie drives the society ideology seeking the generation of profit and the maintenance of the capitalist system. Educational policies, mainly those concerning higher education, are the field where leading changes over the formation of educational parameters are taking place, making education increasingly fit for the working market interests in opposition to a formation concerned with the life and preparation of human beings. Actions in the Brazilian social policies scenario are alike. A minimum population benefits from programs, usually the most vulnerable portion in poverty conditions or the people who might give Capital profit in return. One of Brazilian s Government strategies to attend the market demands for qualified work force is the massive insertion of the working class into the higher education. Through programs such as the National Program of Student Assistance (PNAES), government has sought to assure that students in major socioeconomic vulnerability situation achieve to finish undergraduate programs in Federal Higher Education Institutions (IFES) by means of transferring financial resources and investing in interdisciplinary actions within Universities. The present work aims thus to analyze PNAES student assistance actions within the Federal University of Technology Paraná (UTFPR) through Scholarship Programs and their impact in diminishing academic evasion at UTFPR Francisco Beltrão Campus. By means of bibliographical and documental research in law-papers, decrees, institutional documents, and mainly students application forms and data form UTFPR s informational system we were able to lay information systematically in order to analyze them in three distinct but inseparable moments, which resulted in the three chapter of this work. The first chapter presents the creation of social policies and the relation between the bourgeois State and actions performed in the production and reproduction of the working class life. The second chapter aims to present the sequence to the understanding of the bourgeoisie intentions to conduce social ideology mainly that which concerns educational policies. As we comprehend the ways of education, the third chapter presents the analysis of UTFPR s student assistance in order to evaluate if actions taken from 2008 to 2012 effectively contributed to the permanence of students in the institution and to the decreasing of evasion from Francisco Beltrão Campus as well. / Na compreensão do Estado capitalista burguês, permite-se afirmar que o sistema tem investido em ações na busca incessante da lucratividade, adentrando todos os aspectos da vida social da classe trabalhadora. As políticas sociais são o lócus de atenção do Estado, tendo em vista que suas ações são resultantes do conflito e da disputa ideológica empreendida pela burguesia e o proletariado. Nessa perspectiva, a apropriação das políticas sociais, por parte do Estado, para fins lucrativos torna-se um imperativo frente à lógica desigual que a sociedade capitalista apresenta. É nesse ponto de interesses que a burguesia toma para si o direcionamento ideológico da sociedade, buscando a geração de lucros e a perpetuação do sistema capitalista. É na política de educação e, principalmente, na educação de ensino superior que têm acontecido as principais mudanças na formatação dos parâmetros educacionais, tornando a educação voltada cada vez mais aos interesses do mercado de trabalho, despreocupada com a formação de seres humanos para a vida. No cenário das políticas sociais brasileiras, essas ações não são diferentes. Atende-se apenas ao mínimo da população, geralmente àquela parcela com maior vulnerabilidade e situações de pobreza ou então àquela que traga uma devolutiva lucrativa ao capital. Uma das estratégias utilizadas pelo Estado brasileiro para atender à demanda por mão-de-obra qualificada para atuar no mercado de trabalho é a inserção massiva da classe trabalhadora no ensino superior. Por meio do Programa Nacional de Assistência Estudantil (PNAES), o governo tem buscado garantir que os estudantes em maior vulnerabilidade socioeconômica concluam sua graduação nas Instituições Federais de Ensino Superior (IFES), por meio de transferência de recursos e disponibilidade de ações interdisciplinares nas universidades. O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar as ações de assistência estudantil previstas no (PNAES) e seus impactos na diminuição da evasão acadêmica na Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), campus de Francisco Beltrão, com a mplantação do Programa Bolsa Permanência da UTFPR. Por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica, levantamento de informações em leis, decretos, portarias e principalmente levantamento de dados junto aos cadastros dos estudantes e o sistema informacional da UTFPR, foi possível sistematizar as informações. A partir dessa sistematização, foram desenvolvidos três momentos distintos, mas indissociáveis, que resultaram em três capítulos deste trabalho. O primeiro momento trata da construção das políticas sociais e a relação do Estado burguês com as ações realizadas na produção e reprodução da vida da classe trabalhadora. No segundo momento, busca-se dar sequência ao entendimento das intenções da burguesia na condução da ideologia social, principalmente a ideologia aplicada na política de educação. Com base no entendimento dos caminhos da educação, o terceiro momento objetiva analisar a assistência estudantil, empregada na UTFPR, avaliando se as ações desenvolvidas pela universidade no período de 2008 a 2012 contribuíram para a permanência na UTFPR e para a diminuição da evasão no campus de Francisco Beltrão.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T18:17:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elaine Pizato.pdf: 3146219 bytes, checksum: 84554d20799d6b670b2afc8f22b00197 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-01-19 / This research has as object of study the formation of the São João neighborhood, located in the urban area, west of the city of Pato Branco - PR; taking into account the creation of the district in the early 1980s, it was a government strategy to remove families residing in the immediate vicinity of BR 158, which runs through town. Based on this strategy, it is questionable to what extent the transition of 158 houses from the edge of BR to the (current) São João neighborhood contributed to the realization of the rights to housing and to the city. So, to answer this question, it has been listed as a general objective of the development of this research: to analyze to what extent the implementation of the national housing policy in the city of Pato Branco contributed to the realization of housing rights and the city, in the case of São João neighborhood. And specific objectives the following points were defined: 1) support the development of the formation of cities in the capitalist order; 2) correlating the right to housing and the city with the current lineup of cities; 3) to investigate the process of moving the edge of the houses of the BR 158 to the São João eighborhood from the perspective of the research subjects. The universe of the research are families who lived along the BR 158, resulting in thirty families, and the sample are the families that have been transferred from houses located on the banks of the BR 158 to the São João neighborhood and still reside in this, a total of five respondents. This research is a case study of qualitative and exploratory. The historic building of empirical research had collected information informally with the population that is aware of the history of the formation of neighborhood and research in newspapers and local laws, as well as direct interviews with the world of research and analysis of the Convent of the Collection of photographs Santo Antônio de Pádua. It was conducted searching for information in the newspapers of that period (the early 1980s) and analysis of the minutes of the City Council Chamber of Pato Branco Municipality (the years 1979-1983), and nothing pertaining to the installation of families on the roadside of the BR 158, or their removal and the formation of São João eighborhood was found. / Esta pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo a formação do bairro São João, localizado na malha urbana, zona oeste, do município de Pato Branco PR; levando em consideração que a criação do bairro, no início da década de 1980, foi uma estratégia do poder público para retirada das famílias que residiam nas imediações da BR 158, que atravessa parte da cidade. Frente ao objeto exposto, questiona-se em que medida a transição das moradias da beira da BR 158 para o (atual) bairro São João contribuiu para a efetivação dos direitos à moradia e à cidade. Logo, para tentar responder esta indagação, elencou-se como objetivo geral do desenvolvimento desta pesquisa: analisar em que medida a execução da política nacional de habitação no município de Pato Branco contribuiu para a efetivação dos direitos de moradia e à cidade, no caso do bairro São João. E como objetivos específicos definiram-se os seguintes pontos: 1) fundamentar a evolução da formação das cidades na ordem capitalista; 2) correlacionar o direito à moradia e à cidade com a atual formação das cidades; 3) investigar o processo de movimentação das moradias da beira da BR 158 para o bairro São João sob a perspectiva dos sujeitos da pesquisa. O universo da pesquisa são as famílias que residiam às margens da BR 158, totalizando trinta famílias, e a amostra são as famílias que foram transferidas das habitações localizadas nas margens da BR 158 para o bairro São João e ainda residem neste, totalizando cinco entrevistados. Esta pesquisa é um estudo de caso de caráter qualitativo e exploratório. A construção histórica da pesquisa empírica contou com informações coletadas informalmente com a população que tem conhecimento da história da formação do bairro e pesquisa em jornais e legislações locais, bem como com entrevista direta junto ao universo da pesquisa e a análise das fotografias do Acervo do Convento Santo Antônio de Pádua. Foi realizada busca de informações nos jornais da época (início da década de 1980) e análise das atas da Câmara Municipal de Vereadores do Município de Pato Branco (dos anos de 1979 a 1983), e nada pertinente à instalação das famílias nas margens da BR 158, ou a remoção deles e formação do bairro São João fora encontrado.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:46:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Barby_Bittencourt_Martins_Dissertacao.pdf: 182456 bytes, checksum: a540f57cf1de83f4cab5ffe11050edbf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-22 / As the moment Luis Inácio da Silva has rise to power in Brasil, the country witnessed to a change in social policies. President Lula's government soon began to implement the Zero Hunger Programme (Programa Fome Zero), a series of initiatives aimed at eliminating hunger in Brasil. This programme contained huge proportions and represented the social flag against the poverty. By the way, with time the programme lost attention and the Family Grant Programme (Programa Bolsa Família) became the centre of attention for the government. Besides, critics started to indicate that Family Grant is not such emancipative programme as Zero Hunger seems to be. Therefore the need to comprehend those programmes and discover their forms arises as a question point. That will be transitioned from a emancipative programme to a welfare one? / Com a ascensão de Luis Inácio Lula da Silva à presidência do Brasil, o país presenciou uma mudança no que se refere às políticas sociais. Seu governo inicia apostando em um programa de dimensões elevadas onde continha políticas localizadas, assim como políticas estruturantes para combater a fome no Brasil. De modo geral, o programa Fome Zero assim denominado trazia a idéia de promover mudanças em vários aspectos na sociedade a fim de interromper o ciclo da pobreza e, dessa forma, eliminar a fome no Brasil. O programa representava a bandeira social do governo na luta contra a pobreza. Contudo, com o tempo, o programa foi sendo deixado de lado pelos governantes e, em seu lugar, o programa Bolsa Família um programa de transferência de renda condicionada começa a ser o centro das atenções governamentais. Críticos apontam nisso uma falha do governo, pois se deixa de investir em um programa de perfil emancipatório para investir-se em um programa de perfil assistencialista. Dessa maneira, surge a necessidade de discutir sobre essa questão para apreender o perfil dessas políticas. Será que se transitou de uma política emancipatória ao assistencialismo?

Dans un contexte de profondes transformations de l’action publique, cette thèse étudie les relations entre associations et pouvoirs publics, en consolidant une approche en termes d’interactions. Alors que les relations entre ces deux acteurs sont souvent envisagées de manière unilatérale, dans le sens d’une influence croissante de l’intervention publique sur les fonctionnements et projets associatifs, elle analyse également l’influence des associations sur les pouvoirs publics, moins explorée par la littérature. Sont étudiées pour cela les associations qui fournissent des services sociaux et médico-sociaux de la Région Languedoc-Roussillon, en combinant matériaux qualitatif et quantitatif. La perspective théorique mobilisée est socio-économique et s’appuie sur la critique du courant économique standard pour lequel les associations ne sont perçues qu’à travers leur rôle économique de prestataires de services. Cette thèse adopte ainsi une perspective plus complexe, en considérant également le rôle politique des associations. Aussi, son approche est contextualisée, historiquement et institutionnellement, comme suggéré par la démarche institutionnaliste. Sont ainsi étudiées les évolutions dans la régulation de l’État-providence depuis 1945 pour aboutir à la caractérisation du modèle actuel oscillant entre encadrement renforcé et mise en concurrence des associations. Enfin, l’exploration des dimensions organisationnelles et stratégiques des associations permet de mettre en évidence leur diversité dans le processus interactif, au-delà de la rationalisation. / In a context of profound changes in public policy, this thesis investigates the relationship between associations and public authorities by consolidating an approach in terms of interactions. Relations between these two entities are often considered unilaterally, pointing solely the increasing influence of public intervention on the functioning and projects of non-profit organizations, whereas this thesis looks also at the impact of associations on government, which is less explored in the literature. Associations providing social and “médico-social” services in the Languedoc-Roussillon Region are studied by a combination from qualitative and quantitative data. The theoretical perspective mobilized is a socio-economic one. It is built on the criticism of economic standard current according to which associations are perceived only through their economic role of service providers. By considering the political role of associations as well, this thesis adopts a more complex approach. Moreover, this approach is historically and institutionally contextualized, as suggested by the Institutionalist theory. The analysis of the changes in the regulation of the welfare state since 1945, leads to the characterization of the current model that oscillates between an enhanced supervision and a competitive tendering of the associations. Finally, the exploration of organizational and strategic features of the associations highlights, beyond rationalization, their diversity in the studied interactive process.

En Europe le processus de subsidiarisation des politiques sociales et de l’emploi (Kazepov, 2010) impacte fortement les réseaux locaux d’acteurs liés à la mise en place de nouvelles politiques actives (van Berkel et Borghi, 2007 ; Heidenreich et Rice, 2016). Ses conséquences sont gérées au quotidien par les professionnels intervenant auprès des citoyens. Ils expliquent aux usagers les fractures d’un Etat social en phase de transition – d’une socialisation des risques collectifs à une responsabilité individuelle de la protection (Bresson, Colomb et Gaspar, 2015 ; Andreotti, Mingione et Polizzi, 2012) – et ils donnent du sens aux frontières institutionnelles, géographiques et sociales (Ferrera, 2005), construites entre les dispositifs des politiques actives.La question de recherche de cette thèse vise à montrer en quoi le modèle européen de politiques actives de l’emploi structure les pratiques et les fonctionnements de nouveaux systèmes locaux de welfare. Pour y répondre elle aborde les stratégies d’acteurs face aux antinomies causées par la dimension rhétorique du nouveau welfare actif (Bifulco, 2005) et la dimension pratique de la crise des financements. Il s’agit donc de traiter la question des marges de manœuvre des street level bureaucrates (Lipsky, 1980) pour faire face au changement et donner du sens à des directives européennes souvent éloignées des terrains d’intervention et des caractéristiques des publics cibles.Au niveau théorique, l’objectif de ce travail de recherche est de proposer un cadre conceptuel capable d’expliquer le processus de subsidiarisation et de l’activation de l’Etat social à partir de ses effets. Notre hypothèse de travail nous amène à explorer une corrélation entre les politiques actives de l’emploi et : 1. la fragmentation territoriale des institutions et des réseaux d’acteurs ; 2. la spécialisation des services publics de l’emploi ; 3. les nouveaux instruments de contractualisation ; 4. la professionnalisation et précarisation des intervenants.A l’aide d’une recherche comparative en France et en Italie, nous proposons une analyse des stratégies professionnelles intervenant dans les politiques sociales d’insertion en faveur des jeunes. A propos de politiques de jeunesse, elles nous montrent les composantes des systèmes locaux de welfare (Loncle, 2011) et dessinent les modalités de protection sociale pour les nouvelles générations. En outre, depuis la mise en place de la Stratégie Européenne de l’Emploi en 1997 et le Pacte Européen pour la jeunesse en 2005, elles indiquent les modalités de transition vers l’âge adulte et définissent les critères d’employabilité dans le marché de l’emploi européen. Nous privilégions la méthode spécifique des vignettes (Barter et Renold, 2000 ; Finch, 1987 ; Hughes et Huby, 2002) afin de montrer les coulisses et les stratégies d’acteurs dans le processus d’activation. Nous complétons ces matériaux d’enquête avec des entretiens semi-directifs et des observations participantes visant à interroger différents niveaux d’acteurs, institutionnels et professionnels, liés à la restructuration du welfare local. / In Europe the subsidiarisation process of social policies and employment strategy impacts the local networks of actors linked to the development of new active policies. Its consequences are managed daily by professionals working with citizens. They explain to users fractures of a welfare state in transition - from a socialization of collective risks to an individual responsibility of protection- and they give meaning to the institutional boundaries , geographical and social , built between active political devices.The research question of this thesis is to show how the European model of active employment policy structure practices and operations of new premises of welfare systems. To answer it discusses the strategies of actors face the contradictions caused by the rhetorical dimension of the new active welfare and the practical dimension of the crisis of funding. It is therefore addressing the issue of flexibilities of street level bureaucrats to deal with change and make sense of often remote European directives intervention courses and characteristics of target audiences.At the theoretical level, the objective of this research is to propose a conceptual framework to explaining the process of subsidiarisation and activation of the welfare state from its effects. Our working hypothesis leads us to explore a correlation between active employment policies and : 1. the territorial fragmentation of institutions and stakeholder networks ; 2. the specialization of public employment services; 3. the new instruments of contracts ; 4. professionalization and casualization of stakeholders.Using a comparative research in France and Italy, we offer an analysis of professional strategies involved in social integration policies for young people. About youth policy, they show the components of the local systems of welfare (Loncle, 2011) and draw welfare conditions for the new generations. In addition, since the implementation of the European Employment Strategy in 1997 and the European Youth Pact in 2005, they indicate the transition arrangements to adulthood and define the criteria of employability in the market European employment. We prefer the specific method thumbnails (Barter and Renold, 2000; Finch, 1987; Hughes and Huby, 2002) to show the scenes and actors strategies in the activation process. We complet these survey materials with semi-structured interviews and participant observation to examine different levels of actors, institutions and professionals related to the restructuring of the local welfare.

This thesis shows how the Process Analysis Method (PAM) can be applied to assess technologies used to mitigate arsenic from drinking water in rural India, using a set of sustainability indicators. Stakeholder perspectives, gathered from a fieldwork survey of 933 households in West Bengal in 2012, played a significant role in this assessment. This research found that the ‘Most Important’ issues as specified by the technology users are cost, trust, distance from their home to the clean water source (an indicator of convenience), and understanding the health effects of arsenic. It was also found that none of the ten technologies evaluated are economically viable, as many do not charge user-fees, which creates reliance upon donations to meet recurring costs. Utilisation of a technology is strongly related to sociocultural capital, but in many cases, features that contribute to sociocultural value, like regular testing of the treated water, are not included in the financial budget. It is suggested that increased awareness might change attitudes to arsenic-rich waste and its disposal protocols. This waste is often currently discarded in an uncontrolled manner in the local environment, giving rise to the possibility of point-source recontamination. All technologies proved to have difficulties in dealing with waste, except the Tipot and Dug wells which produce no waste. Of the methods considered, the BESU technology scored highest, but still only with 47-62% of the maximum scores achievable within each domain. This explains the widespread failure of mitigation projects across the region. The indicators and metrics show where improvements can be made. A model scheme based on these findings is outlined which could be applied with the objective of increasing utilisation and improving sustainability. It can be concluded that a product stewardship approach should be taken in regard to design, implementation and operation of the technologies, including the creation of a regulated toxic waste collection and disposal industry.

All governments aim to ensure better health and nutrition to children. The Rajasthan state (India) has implemented a unique frontline coordination model where Accredited Health Social Activist (ASHA) Sahyoginis are expected to support two other frontline workers (FLWs) i.e. the Anganwadi Workers from the Integrated Child Development Services and the Auxiliary Nurse Midwives from the Health department to improve child health. This thesis focuses on examining the existing coordination between the three groups of FLWs in Rajasthan by exploring FLWs' participation in child immunisation and Vitamin A supplementation (two common activities), service coverage and beneficiary's' knowledge (expected outcomes), and the challenges faced and areas that need improvement for better frontline coordination. A mixed methods design was used. Sixteen villages from two blocks (tribal and non-tribal) of Udaipur district (Rajasthan) were selected using multistage purposive sampling. The formative stage included 12 FLWs' in-depth interviews (IDIs) as well as a review of FLWs' job descriptions to understand the process and government expectations on their participation in routine childhood immunisation, polio camps, routine Vitamin A supplementation and Vitamin A campaigns. The next stage included data collection from the 16 selected villages i.e. structured questionnaire survey of FLWs (46), observations of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Day (16), review of FLWs' immunisation and Vitamin A registers (32) and a structured questionnaire survey of registered infants' mothers (321)-all to ascertain the actual participation of FLWs in these four activities and the outcomes. IDIs with FLWs (46) and FLWs' line managers (17) were conducted to understand their experience, issues and solutions for better frontline coordination. The participation of FLWs in three of the four activities (except Polio Camps) was found to be limited. The FLWs and their line managers were also dissatisfied with coordination between FLWs. Poor outcomes also indicated unsatisfactory coordination. Overall, frontline participation and outcomes were better in tribal than non-tribal villages. A variety of factors (i.e. personal, professional, organisational, and geo-socio-cultural) appeared to affect coordination between FLWs. Appropriate recruitment, training, monitoring and supervision and rewards to the FLWs along with greater political commitment for coordinated approached and addressing intra-departmental challenges are proposed to improve frontline coordination and child health in Rajasthan.

Globally, twenty-seven countries have resettlement programs associated with UNHCR - representing commitments to the international refugee framework and domestic commitments to those refugees resettled. Since 1975, the US has resettled over three million refugees, including over 75,000 Bhutanese refugees since 2008 - more than all other countries combined on both accounts. The US Office of Refugee Resettlement has the mandate to 'make available sufficient resources for employment training and placement in order to achieve economic self-sufficiency among refugees as quickly as possible' (The Refugee Act of 1980). Nevertheless, their economic self-sufficiency and the intertwined ideas of employment and wellbeing remain little examined. A global systematic review of available high-quality evidence examined whether interventions affect resettled refugees' economic self-sufficiency and wellbeing. Although 9,260 citations were reviewed from a wide variety of academic, policy, and grey literature, no studies met inclusion criteria. This Campbell-registered systematic review concludes that evidence is insufficient to determine if programs affect resettled refugees' economic self-sufficiency and wellbeing. Subsequently, qualitative research explored existing interventions to improve the economic self-sufficiency of resettled refugees, their theories of change, and perceptions of effectiveness in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Program design follows a policy mandate and expects that initial employment leads to sustained self-sufficiency and wellbeing, albeit without measuring these outcomes or providing long-term assistance. The findings serve as a basis for future research and reveal programming implications for the Bhutanese refugee community in Pittsburgh and broadly for refugee resettlement. Next, a cross-sectional survey of 145 randomly selected Bhutanese refugees in Pittsburgh (a response rate of 92.9%) was conducted to provide groundbreaking demographics, rates of economic self-sufficiency, and correlates with improved outcomes. The population was overwhelmingly low-income with high usage of certain assistance such as food assistance. Both bivariate relationships and predictive models for employment, gross income, wages, assistance usage, and having 'enough' money to pay the bills were examined. Overall, these paint a complex picture, including the potential importance of neighborhoods, household size, and religious affiliation as well as a more typical picture of the importance of gender, education levels, and time in the country for certain measures of employment, earnings, and household self-sufficiency. The evidence-based perspective on the economic self-sufficiency of resettled refugees shows that little is known globally, including the potential for interventions to cause harm or success. Understanding the employment services and perspectives of economic self-sufficiency and wellbeing for the Bhutanese population provides a lens to view not only the challenges and successes of this population, but also national and international obligations. As one focus group participant stated, 'Government should understand the nature of the refugees arriving and put us with jobs that ... allow the life to sustain.'

This dissertation analyses the relationship between social work and social policy in Europe from a comparative historical perspective. Central to this analysis is the dynamic interplay of forces which led to the consolidation of the European nation state as a welfare state, including the current crisis of the welfare consensus. The role of social work emerges as central to the project of national cultural integration, a perspective which frequently gets overlooked from a purely national perspective. Social works enmeshment with this nation state project is revealed in the current transformation of the welfare states in the light of neo-liberal principles and in the context of globalization. This perspective underlines the need for the development of intercultural communicative competences and in particular a consistent anti-racist approach in social work. At the same time the particular position in relation to social policy requires the development of research methods specific to the discipline in the light of its hermeneutic tasks. / Die Arbeit behandelt die Beziehung zwischen Sozialer Arbeit und Sozialpolitik in Europa aus vergleichender historischer Perspektive. Untersucht wird die Dynamik des Nationalstaats und seine Konsolidierung als Wohlfahrtsstaat bis zur gegenwärtigen Krise des Wohlfahrtskonsenses. Dabei gewinnt die Rolle der Sozialen Arbeit in der Aufgabe kultureller Integration besondere Bedeutung, da dies aus rein nationaler Sicht oft nicht zu erkennen ist. Ihre Verkoppelung mit dem Nationalstaat wird besonders deutlich in der gegenwärtigen Transformation durch neo-liberale Prinzipien im Kontext der Globalisierung. Hieraus ergeben sich neue Aufgaben für die Soziale Arbeit, insbesondere in Bezug auf die Entwicklung interkultureller kommunikativer Kompetenzen und eines konsistenten antirassistischen Ansatzes. Gleichzeitig erfordert die besondere sozialpolitische Position die Entwicklung disziplinspezifischer Forschungsansätze im Lichte der hermeneutischen Bedeutung der Sozialen Arbeit.

La tesi si snoda lungo tre piani di analisi per esaminare i rapporti fra Unione europea e welfare state. Innanzitutto, essa guarda alla CEE come organizzazione sorta principalmente per perseguire l’integrazione economica degli Stati membri senza interferire sulla loro funzione di welfare. Nel ripercorrere l’evoluzione delle competenze sociali dell’Unione europea, la tesi suggerisce come i sussistenti limiti procedurali e sostanziali evidenzino quella logica. In secondo luogo, la tesi ricorre alla categoria di costituzione economica europea al fine di spiegare la limitazione di sovranità cui gli Stati membri sono andati incontro per favorire l’attuazione del principio di libertà economica. Su questa base, vengono enucleati taluni effetti prodotti dalla costituzione economica europea sul welfare state. Un’attenzione particolare è dedicata ai riflessi della costituzione economica in materia pensionistica. Infine, la tesi guarda alle innovazioni apportate dalla Strategia di Lisbona e dal Trattato di Lisbona, con particolare riguardo al rafforzamento del metodo aperto di coordinamento ed all’entrata in vigore della Carta dei diritti fondamentali. In questa luce, si coglie la tendenza all’edificazione di un modello sociale europeo. Avendone discusso genesi e sviluppo, vengono illustrati i suoi tratti distintivi ed i suoi riflessi sulle politiche nazionali di sicurezza sociale e del lavoro. / The thesis examines the relationship between European Union and Welfare State under three different perspectives. Firstly, it looks at the EEC as an organization pursuing economic integration of Member States while not interfering with their welfare function. In tracing the evolution of the social competences of the European Union, it is highlighted how the original logic still underlies the existence of procedural and substantive limits to those competences. Second, the thesis draws on the category of European economic constitution to explain how Member States bounded their sovereignty in order to give full effect to economic freedom. On that basis, the thesis describes some of the inroads made by the European economic constitution into national welfare states, with special attention to its effects on pension systems. Finally, the thesis looks at some of the innovations introduced by the Lisbon Strategy and the Lisbon Treaty, focusing on the strengthening of the Open Method of Co-ordination and the entry into force of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. In this perspective, the thesis captures the emergence of a European social model. Having discussed origins and development of the European social model, its main distinctive features and reflexes on domestic social policies are spelled out.