Living Contexts of Non-Take-Up in Germany

Abstract

This article focuses on the refusal of social benefits in Germany from the perspectives of people who practice it. Through the presentation of three case studies, forms of subjectivation are reconstructed which offer insights into societal origins of refusal as an everyday mode of action and point towards further thematic and empirical research areas.

Keywords

• non-take-up
• germany
• social state
• processes of subjectivation
• target-group perspective