Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy

Social investment has gained increasing prominence in family policy reform. It also been widely criticised from a feminist and social justice perspective. This article examines how the meaning of changes when it is seen as site investment. Using discourse-analytical approach focusing on agenda setting documents Germany's ‘sustainable policy’ this explored four dimensions: extension simultaneous narrowing family; articulation new gendered subjectivities; redefinition boundaries between state; modes differentiation families according to their ability ‘produce’ human capital. I argue that traditional loses its role normative reference point increasingly framed production Hence, more critical engagement with racialized inequalities, which are implied these discourses, necessary.