Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of racism and racial inequality in the welfare state
- Includes contributions from sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, and philosophers
- Presents a comprehensive overview of discriminatory provisions and practices in welfare policy
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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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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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Fabio Perocco is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Venice, Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Racism in and for the Welfare State
Editors: Fabio Perocco
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06071-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06070-0Published: 19 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06073-1Published: 20 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06071-7Published: 18 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 354
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Political Sociology, Political Science, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime