The Well-Being of Socially Vulnerable Groups in the Unsteadiness During Social Movements
A Special Issue of Societies (ISSN 2075-4698).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2026) | Viewed by 23050
Editors
Interests: the impact of climate change on migration; challenges faced by socially vulnerable groups; the migration and development nexus
Interests: educational policies (national and supranational); history of education; ethics and comparative education
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global spread of modernity, and, with it, globalization, has resulted in an increasingly large number of human beings being deprived of the means necessary for their subsistence. In this changing environment or context, where Zygmunt Bauman's liquid society or Ulrich Beck's risk society appears, and in which society is built on a political, economic and social contract, the most vulnerable social groups face challenges or increasingly unprecedented challenges that affect their rights, well-being and health, while the tendency to exclude them from society thrives. In this sense, homeless people, immigrants and refugees, households living below the poverty line and minors at risk of social exclusion are considered vulnerable social profiles that may see their situation worsen in the context of recession, economic crisis, war or conflict or pandemics, such as COVID-19, among others. However, the public policies adopted on protection measures for these groups present a significant debate, which varies from one country to another, and whose deficit, on many occasions, has been replaced by the increasingly subsidiary role of the Third Sector with respect to public administration and the State. From this perspective, this call for manuscripts aims to analyze how these vulnerable social groups have been affected in the aforementioned contexts in certain areas, such as access to education and health, the provision of resources to satisfy basic needs, access to decent employment, housing, etc., in a way that affects the quality of life, while analyzing the measures that have been adopted either by the State and/or the Third Sector.
In unstable social, economic and political contexts, prioritizing topics such as social well-being, vulnerable social groups, social policies and vulnerability is of particular interest regarding submission themes.
In this Special Issue, valid contributions will be of one of the three categories of papers: articles, conceptual papers or reviews of the journal, and will address the topic of the Special Issue.
Dr. Alexis Cloquell-Lozano
Dr. Carlos Novella-García
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vulnerability
- policies
- wellbeing
- unstable context
- social inequality
- social inclusion
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