While scholarship regarding the promises and challenges of deinstitutionalisation is expansive, less is known about deinstitutionalisation within the context of contemporary neoliberal disability policy frameworks. This article reports on a study exploring recent transitions from institutional to community living within the context of the highly contested National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Australia. The perspectives of family members and staff within disability services reveal diverse understandings of the transition. Thematic analysis identified multiple complexities, including hope simultaneously experienced alongside grief and loss, and the non-linear processes involved in taking on new roles and identities. The study demonstrates that deinstitutionalisation is not constituted merely by a physical re-location and that undoing institutional practices requires ongoing attention and resources. Significant concerns raised by participants relating to the impacts of privatisation, fragmented services and a casualised workforce disrupt simplistic thinking about the inevitability of social inclusion through deinstitutionalisation, particularly within neoliberal policy settings.

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“不仅仅是一座新房子”：在向社区生活过渡的过程中取消制度实践和身份的复杂性

虽然关于去机构化的承诺和挑战的学术研究非常广泛，但人们对当代新自由主义残疾政策框架背景下的去机构化知之甚少。本文报道了一项研究，该研究探讨了澳大利亚在备受争议的国家残障保险计划 (NDIS) 背景下最近从机构生活到社区生活的转变。残疾服务机构的家庭成员和工作人员的观点揭示了对这一转变的不同理解。主题分析确定了多种复杂性，包括与悲伤和失落同时经历的希望，以及承担新角色和身份所涉及的非线性过程。该研究表明，去机构化不仅仅由物理搬迁构成，取消机构做法需要持续的关注和资源。与会者对私有化、分散的服务和临时劳动力的影响提出了重大担忧，这打破了关于通过去机构化不可避免地实现社会包容的简单化思维，特别是在新自由主义政策背景下。