Critical Junctures & Processes

This theme explores the individual, structural and societal determinants of disadvantage and advantage for individuals and groups susceptible to risk and precarity. ILAS work programmes concentrate on the interchanges between processes of exclusion and inclusion, and explores key life transitions around health, education, work and retirement, bereavement and migration. Work on this theme engages with key public policy constructs, such as social protection, social inclusion, equity, and human rights, interrogating the relevance of existing polices for potentially marginalised groups. ILAS programmes are targeted at addressing critical gaps in measurement and weakness in policy frameworks that exacerbate rather than ameliorate existing inequalities.

Important work streams in the theme of critical junctures and processes includes:

Social Categories and Accumulated Disadvantage
Trajectories of Social Exclusion
Diminished Rights and Power
Economic Stability and Insecurity

ILAS

The Institute aims to advance people’s lives in Ireland and internationally who face issues with older life, living with disability, children, youth and parents who are vulnerable in social and other contexts. The research at the Institute is underpinned by academic staff and researchers who are keen the work we do makes a difference.

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