Session 1. Sustainability of welfare states
Chair: Yasuhiro Kamimura (Nagoya University)
Discussant: Naoko Soma (Yokohama National University)
１．“Social citizenship as a balance between welfare rights and needs: in search of a theoretical framework for Asian welfare systems”
Ijin Hong (Sungshin Women’s University, Korea) <Download (password required)>
２．“Familism, care and gender in Southern Europe and East Asia”
Margarita Estévez-Abe (Syracuse University, United States of America) and Manuela Naldini (University of Torino, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy)
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３．“New direction of the social policy – Spiral theory of social policy”
Kazuo Takada (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Session2-1. Re-discovering social protection and security beyond crisis
Chair: Akira Suzuki (Hosei University), Yoko Tanaka (University of Tsukuba)
Discussant: Takashi Suganuma (Rikkyo University) (papers 1 and 2)
１．“Euro crisis as a discovery device. The politicization of European integration”
Martin Heidenreich (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany) <Download (password required)>
２．“The stability of social security in the United States: A positive strain of
classical liberalism”
Kenzo Yoshida (Matsuyama University, Japan) <Download (password required)>
Session2-2.Re-discovering social protection and security beyond crisis
Chair: Akira Suzuki (Hosei University), Yoko Tanaka (University of Tsukuba)
Discussant: Mutsuko Takahashi (Kibi International University) (papers 3 and 4)
３．“Dualisation, labour market reform and youth unemployment in Spain:
Prospects for a job-rich recovery”
Ana Marta Guillén and Rodolfo Gutiérrez (University of Oviedo, Spain) <Download (password required)>
４．“Why are there so few homeless females in Japan?”
Keiko Kawahara and Yuko Suda (Toyo University, Japan) <Download (password required)>