2023-05-16 03:00:10
DFrom 2009 to 2019, France was one of the rare European countries to increase its expenditure on social protection in favor of extreme exclusion (from 0.9% to 1.2% of GDP). In proportion, our country spends regarding twice the average of its neighbors in this area. For what result? The poverty rate at 60% of the median standard of living increased over the same period, from 13.5% to 14.6%, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies.
Thus, while the number of places in accommodation has never been so high (200,000), while initiatives in favor of the professional integration of the most precarious are multiplying, while the Ukrainian crisis has shown a tremendous surge of solidarity in favor of families fleeing the war (more than 110,000 Ukrainians have been taken in), there is a feeling of unease.
This malaise is first of all the difficulties experienced by precarious people on a daily basis, reinforced by the return of inflation. These are the women and men who, every evening, get no response from 115 and remain more and more on the street, despite the accommodation places created. It is the lengthening of the queues at the food distributions, in particular of the students. It is the extension of camps on the fringes of metropolises, the multiplication of cases of prostitution of minors, the persistence of “scenes of drug consumption” in the heart of cities, with their share of violence…
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This malaise is still the increase in phenomena of rejection, sometimes violent, of the most precarious or of those that accompany them. Whether they are migrants, marginalized homeless people, long-term unemployed or even desocialized young people, they are considered as “others”, who must either be hidden, or driven away, or forced to integrate a “program” by force. Of course, a drug user calls for care; should we therefore see only an irresponsible user, where addiction often comes to put a lid on the unbearable daily life of great precariousness, made of violence, vexations and health problems? Of course, immigration must be regulated; should we therefore leave many people waiting without any prospect of integration, without a work permit, at the risk of seeing their mental health deteriorate (if the Ukrainian refugees have integrated, it is also because they had, them, the right to work…)?
This malaise is finally the crisis of meaning of medical and social work, and more generally of human and contact professions. Not only have these professions been gradually downgraded, when never has it been so necessary to mend the ills of society and the crisis due to Covid-19 has shown that their action is vital. But above all, the meaning of their mission is all the more difficult to find because, very often, it leads more to making invisible rather than reintegrating people who live on the margins of society.
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