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Social Geography of Poverty and Social Welfare Services  

Bae, Mi-Ae (Institute of Busan Geography, Pusan National University)
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Journal of the Korean Geographical Society / v.42, no.2, 2007 , pp. 177-195 More about this Journal
Abstract
The central aim of this paper is to identify the distributional pattern of poverty and to investigate the spatial relationship between poverty and welfare service providers in Busan, Korea. It is intended to explain how the relationship of service-dependency between impoverished people and social welfare services leads to uneven social geography. Welfare services controlled by public or private agencies may support the impoverished people in different ways, generating social outcomes. By exploiting the spatial variations in the incidence of poverty and the provisions of social welfare services, this paper is to understand the dynamics of the geography of poverty from a local scale so that it can help us understand how various governmental and nongovernmental area-based service providers are spatially uneven when they are compared to the distribution of service dependency group such as impoverished people. From this research, it is finally argued that the implications of locational interdependence between such needed groups and social welfare services for their support demand a paradigm for urban social geography that centers on the changing welfare provision structure and the linkages between population and service-provision.
Keywords
poverty; needs; social welfare services; impoverished people; service providers; spatial disparity; multicare; maternal care; child care; care for the disabled;
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