Welfare services are intended to provide care, aid, and support to individuals in need. However, and in spite of well-meaning intentions, support is sometimes experienced as patronizing, misplaced, or an abuse of power. In the current era of New Public Management (NPM), service users are seen as customers and the demands for measurable outcomes rise. Now more than ever, we need to understand the problematic sides of power relations that operate within the welfare state. That's why the EMER network – Explorations of Marginalised people’s Everyday Resistance – was started.
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Majken Jul Sørensen, Associate professor of Sociology
Østfold University College, Norway
E-mail: majken.j.sorensen@hiof.no
Marjo Kuronen, Professor of Social Work
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
E-mail: marjo.l.a.kuronen@jyu.fi
Rebecca Waters Boldsen Lund, PhD
University of Oslo. Norway
E-mail: r.w.b.lund@stk.uio.no
Satu Heikkinen, Associate professor in Sociology
Karlstad University, Sweden
E-mail: satu.heikkinen@kau.se