Join Visiting Researcher Julia Callegari, Associate Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the Mälardalen University in Sweden, who will examine how over-indebted women and men are constructed as clients within Sweden's debt reconstruction system. The research focuses on identifying client identities through how over-indebted individuals describe themselves and their financial circumstances.
The presentation also investigates how welfare professionals within the debt reconstruction system characterise these clients and how much these characterisations relate to prevailing understandings of over-indebtedness and gender. The findings reveal that descriptions both by and about over-indebted women and men construct gendered client identities, to which varying degrees of financial responsibilities and capabilities are attributed. These constructions, in turn, shape the nature of support provided to clients.
About the speaker
Julia Callegari is a Social Worker and an Associate Senior Lecturer in social work at the Mälardalen University in Sweden.
Her research interests are in over-indebtedness and gender, and she is currently involved in a research project focusing on over-indebted women and men’s self-presentations and possibilities to obtain debt reconstruction.
In this seminar, she will present findings from her dissertation concerning how over-indebted women and men are constructed as clients in Sweden’s debt reconstruction system.