Abstract
AbstractFamilization and defamilization studies are increasingly seen as an important component of welfare research. They are concerned with the threats to the welfare of individuals caused by involuntary participation in the unwanted family relationship. Moreover, they address the idea that governments have the potential to reduce these threats through the provision of welfare measures. This article contributes to the familization and defamilizaion studies with the focus on the link between these studies and the studies of residualization strategies. It carries out three analytical tasks. The first is to present a new defamilization and familization framework. The second is to demonstrate the usefulness of this framework in analyzing the problem of employing the residualization strategies to reform the old‐age income security system. Our focus is particularly on the insufficient sensitivity of these strategies to women's (and men's) diverse preferences relating to ways of organizing their family life. The third is to demonstrate the empirical significance of this framework. To meet this objective, we apply the framework to the investigation of two old‐age income security measures in Hong Kong—the Mandatory Provident Fund and the Comprehensive Social Security Assistance scheme.
Highlights
Esping-Andersen (1990) categorized 18 OECD countries into ‘three worlds of welfare capitalism’ based predominantly on the concept of labour decommodification
This article has made two important contributions to the defamilisation and familisation studies. It demonstrates the link between the studies of defamilisation and familisation, and the studies of residualisation strategies
This has developed a new defamilisation and familisation framework for analyzing the implications of the residualisation strategies employed by government to reform the old age income security system
Summary
Esping-Andersen (1990) categorized 18 OECD countries into ‘three worlds of welfare capitalism’ based predominantly on the concept of labour decommodification. In order to reduce their chance of having involuntary participation in the unwanted family relationship, it is necessary for the government to provide old age income security measures beyond the confine of the residual welfare model.
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