Journal of the Korean Geographical Society (대한지리학회지)

The Korean Geographical Society (대한지리학회)
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Social Geography of Poverty and Social Welfare Services

빈곤계층과 사회복지서비스의 공간적 연계성

  • Bae, Mi-Ae (Institute of Busan Geography, Pusan National University)
  • 배미애 (부산대학교 부산지리연구소)
  • Published : 2007.06.30
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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.

최근 빈곤에 대한 사회지리학적 연구는 빈곤문제를 완화하고 해결하려는 의지를 반영하여 사회복지서비스와의 연계적 측면에서 이루어진다. 빈곤계층의 기본적인 욕구를 충족시키기 위한 다양한 사회복지서비스의 제공에도 불구하고 서비스제공자와 서비스수혜자의 공간적 불일치로 인하여 발생하는 접근성의 문제는 결과적으로 사회복지서비스의 공간적 불평등으로 이어진다. 부산시를 대상으로 빈곤계층과 사회복지서비스의 연계성을 사회지리학적 입장에서 연구한 본 연구의 결론도 이와 같은 사회복지서비스의 공간적 한계에서 크게 벗어나지 못하고 있다. 1980년대 이후 급성장한 사회복지서비스의 양적 증대에도 불구하고 빈곤계층과 사회복지서비스시설간의 입지적 불일치는 상대적으로 복지서비스 공급에 있어서 과잉 및 과소지역을 초래하였다. 복지서비스의 과소공급지역을 중심으로 빈곤계층의 기본적인 욕구를 충족시키고 사회복지서비스의 공간적 불평등을 해결하기 위해서는 빈곤계층의 공간적 수요를 감안한 사회복지서비스시설의 유연적인 입지적 재분배가 요구된다.

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