La Sécurité Sociale, 80 ans après : dimensions et horizons de l’universalisme (SécUniverselle)

Holder

Estelle Vallier (Université Paris Cité, CERMES 3)

Research team

• Joséphine Eberhart (Université Paris Cité, Cermes3)
• Etienne Nouguez (Sciences Po, CSO, LIEPP)
• Juliette Froger-Lefebre (CNRS, SIRIC Curamus)
• Viannez Schlegel (Université de Lille, Ceraps)
• Claire Auzuret (Université Paris 8, CNLE, Cresppa)
• Hervé Hudebine (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Labers)
• Marion Labarchède (CNRS, Passages)
• Anne-Bérénice Simzac (ENSA Cancy, LHAC)
• Justine Rochot (EHESS, CEFC)

Description

When it was first established, Social Security was conceived as a universal program designed to protect the entire population against life’s major social risks. While the decades following its founding were characterized by an expansion of the scope of Social Security, the turn of the 21st century saw the emergence of trends toward the dualization of social protection and the tightening of eligibility requirements for social benefits. To mark the 80th anniversary of Social Security, this conference ambitions to examine what has become of the universalist ambition that lay at its foundation, by bringing together perspectives and methods from sociology, economics, political science, history and law. In addition to original contributions based on empirical analyses, the sessions will give significant attention to social protection practitioners, who work daily to implement—and sometimes restrict, even against their will—the principle of universalism.