(In)Equality in Social Protection: Multi-level Analysis of Intersectionality in Social Assistance Provision – a Comparative Study

The main objective of the research was to study social need from an intersectional perspective, identifying and mapping out the dynamics and characteristics of power relations as potential sources of inequalities, and to see whether and in what ways these are reconfirmed, perpetuated, and reconstructed, or alleviated and eliminated at the individual, symbolic and structural levels, as well as to study the interactions between these levels. The authors were, then, concerned with the question how social protection policies in Macedonia and BiH address multiple inequalities of persons that are or ought to be users of the social protection system, with a particular focus on the inequalities at the intersections, what impact this has on the livelihood of these persons, and how this can be improved.