Choose one of the following essay titles:
1. With reference to the Welfare to Work and New Deal programmes conducted under the New Labour administrations 1997-2010, critically evaluate the ways in which New Labour sought to reconfigure social citizenship.
2. What does Simon Prideaux (2010) mean when he writes ‘The welfare politics of Charles Murray are alive and well in the UK’.
3. What can we learn from the situation in other countries about what features of the UK’s welfare system make its citizens vulnerable to poverty?
4. Critically examine the appropriateness of the Social Exclusion Unit’s strategy to combat social exclusion among teenage mothers.
5. In what ways has migration been constructed as a ‘threat’ in the UK over the last decade or so, and what have been the consequences for the rights of ‘nation-state outsiders’?
6. Why, and in what ways, is the concept of citizenship contested in contemporary times?
7. Assess the contribution that the concept of social exclusion has made to our understandings of and responses to social problems.