The welfare state was faced numerous challenges in recent times, which have been characterised by intensive migration, economic uncertainty, wars and conflicts, and climate change, all coming in the wake of polulation displacement and increasing needs for the social integration and protection of children and families with minority status or ethnic origin, or with different social backgrounds and cultural belonging. The social fragmentation of societies presents families with arange of challenges in terms of access to welfare, the protection of (social) rights, social integration and inclusion, identity politics, and the recognition of cultural diversity. The aim of this Special Issue is to provide new insights into the arrangements and challenges of child and family welfare regimes and policies in times of multiculturalism, migration, and “mixing populations”, as well as social risks and the fragmentation of the societies, the recognition of and resistance to cultural diversity, emerging fluid identities, and ethnocentric backlash.
Guest Editor: Dr. Elitsa Dimitrova
Department of Demography, Institute for Population and Human
Studies–Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
About the Journal
Societies (ISSN 2075-4698) is an interdisciplinary journal that brings together different scientific approaches to engage with societal questions to enhance our understanding of the social realm throughout history. The journal publishes original empirical research papers, literature reviews, and conceptual papers. Our aim is to publish papers that have a significant impact on addressing present and emerging societal questions. Therefore, we encourage researchers to publish their results in as much detail as possible. For empirical research papers and literature reviews, all experimental details must be provided, so that the results are reproducible. We also encourage the publication of timely theoretical pieces on topics of interest to existing and emerging societal questions. Papers are either published in the open journal or in Special Issues devoted to specific topics of interest to the field.
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Gregor Wolbring
Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, Cumming School of
Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
Author Benefits
Open Access: free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
High Visibility: indexed within Scopus, ESCI (Web of Science), RePEc, EconBiz, and other databases.
Journal Rank: JCR - Q2 (Sociology) / CiteScore - Q2 (General Social Sciences)