Overview

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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Author:   Fabio Perocco
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2022 ed.
Weight:   0.575kg
ISBN:  

9783031060731

ISBN 10:   3031060733
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   20 August 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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?."

Reviews

“Welfare in and for the Welfare State constitutes an important and relevant reading today. It provides a comparative perspective on welfare racism, and it helps us understand how welfare systems are being used around the world to exclude (instead of including) certain ethnic and economic categories. The book is … a comparative perspective on how welfare racism can shed light on both the challenges and opportunities for achieving racial justice and equity within welfare institutions, across different national contexts.” (Giacomo DiPasquale, Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, Vol. 6 (2), 2023)

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Fabio Perocco is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Venice, Italy.  

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