Introduction : Exploring social assistance dynamics / Chiara Saraceno -- Cities as local systems / Enzo Mingione, Marco Oberti and José Pereirinha -- Income support measures for the poor in European cities / Yves Bonny and Nicoletta Bosco -- Why some people are more likely to be on social assistance than others / Marisol Garcia and Yuri Kazepov -- Paths through (and out of) social assistance / Björn Gustafsson [and others] -- Deconstructing the myth of welfare dependence / Chiara Saraceno
Summary
Describing social assistance 'careers' in different national and urban contexts, this innovative book documents the strong interplay between personal biographies and policy patterns - a particularly useful perspective which complements the more structural, top-down approach of much international work in social policy
