Racism in and for the Welfare State
ISBN:
978-3-03-106073-1
Auflage:
1st ed. 2022
Verlag:
Springer International Publishing
Land des Verlags:
Schweiz
Erscheinungsdatum:
20.08.2023
Herausgeber:
Reihe:
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
354
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This book presents a global overview of racism against immigrants within and in the name of the welfare state. Rich in documents and historical perspective, it analyses politics, practices, and discourses of welfare racism through the exam of discriminatory laws, measures and speeches by institutional actors, public figures, and organizations.
The strength and persistence of this form of racism are due to several factors, including racism’s structural position in modern society, a colonial root of welfare state, the intrinsic limits of social rights in capitalism, and punitive migration policies.
An instrument of selection, exclusion and stigmatisation, welfare racism is a distinguishing feature of anti-immigrant institutional policies, which became specially aggressive in the neoliberal era with the dismantling of the welfare state and social rights.
Integrating perspectives from Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, welfare racism results a global and structured phenomenon concerning world labour as a whole, producing inequalities and division in the working class.
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Biografische Anmerkung
Fabio Perocco is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Venice, Italy.
