Racism in and for the Welfare State

This book analyses politics, practices, and discourses of welfare racism against immigrants under neoliberalism. As an instrument of selection, exclusion, exploitation, and stigmatisation, welfare racism is a distinguishing feature of anti-immigrant racism which has gained new momentum over the last...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Perocco, Fabio (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Racism in and for the Welfare State- 2. The Welfare State Struggling with Capitalist Hybris
  • 3. Welfare State and the Hint for "Social Benefit Cheaters and Profiteers" Migrants: The Case of Belgium
  • 4. The Swedish Racial Welfare Regime in Transition
  • 5. The Public Charge: The Capitalist Politics of Labor, Migration and Austerity in the United States
  • 6. Whose Welfare State? A Racialized Logic to [Un]protect Immigration and Asylum in Spain
  • 7. The 23 Million of Romanians, Igor and the Others: Welfare State, Migration, and Racism in Hungary
  • 8. Continuities and Transformations of Racism in German Welfare Capitalism
  • 9. In a Country Boasting a Welfare State, do Black Lives Matter Less?
  • 10. Welfare State as a Political Weapon: Institutional Racism Against Arabs, Asylum Seekers and the Minorities of Israel
  • 11. The System of Racial Discrimination in the Italian Welfare State
  • 12. Anti-Immigrant Racism within the Brazilian Welfare State and the Expulsion of Cuban Doctors
  • 13. Japanese Welfare State and Racism: Is the Myth of Social Homogeneity Overshadowing Discrimination Patterns on Migrants?