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This article is concerned with the doing and production of data. We ask how data are made in intimate spaces such as the home in collaboration with the different parties involved in home-based care and services. The article builds on ethnographic field notes from 73 home visits, in the context of home-based mental health, substance abuse and social care for adults in Finland and Sweden. Drawing on affect theory, the article aims to foreground aspects of the production of data and research that are often edited out of the research process. In so doing, we argue that the production of data would not be possible without the active and affective collaboration of all parties involved in home visits. Thus, the article scrutinizes in detail the efforts made by different parties, such as researchers, clients and workers to do and produce data. While we study an atypical setting of institutional interaction, we contend that affects and affective relations gain particular importance in the home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The welfare systems in the global North has seen changes in professional care delivery systems in the margins of welfare, from care in large treatment institutions, to community care and, more recently, to care taking place in home spaces. Care and support are increasingly provided in the home of the service user through floating support and home visits. Drawing on empirical ethics, we aim to inquire into modes of doing good care during professional workers' home visits by building on observations of service interactions taking place during these home visits in two different settings: that is, a mental healthcare unit performing home visits in the context of psychiatric care and a special‐housing unit performing home visits in the context of homelessness services. We also build on interviews as retrospective reflections on service interactions. Drawing on these empirical materials, we ask what is considered as doing good in the margins of welfare and identify three ideal patterns: the relationality of care, the situatedness of care and the subject of care. Furthermore, these ideal patterns are connected to two different ideals of good care and conceptions of autonomy in care relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study contributes to discursive and interactional housing and home studies by analysing home visit conversations with clients who need support with their housing and living in the community. It focuses on the ways in which professionals comment on clients' home environments. The data, which consist of 20 audio-recorded home visits in Mobile Support directed at mental health and substance abuse rehabilitees, are analysed by applying the Foucauldian concepts of practices, normalization and inspecting gaze, Goffman's idea on face-work and the ethnomethodologically oriented research on the meanings of spaces in interactions. Five ways of using inspecting gaze are identified: pointing out, criticizing, giving advice, displaying concern and complimenting. The study provides a critical reflective basis for assessing the "soft" use of interactional power in clients' homes at a time when the provision of services in private home spaces is on the increase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]