Of late, media coverage of anxiety and insecurity proliferating among the German population has been considerable. However, the social sciences have only recently explored these tendencies more profoundly, e.g. with respect to fears about social decline among the middle classes or immigration...

Activation and Labour Market Reforms in Europe Challenges to Social Citizenship Edited by Sigrid Betzelt Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany and Silke Bothfeld University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany palorave Contents List of Tables ...

The paper presents new findings on a specific 'gendered' problem resulting from 'activation policies' and a certain group of unemployed which has been widely neglected so far in public and academic discourse although it is both quantitatively significant and reveals systematic failures of...