Racism in and for the welfare state
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Racism in and for the welfare state
（Marx, Engels, and Marxisms / Terrell Carver and Marcello Musto, series editors）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
- hbk
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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.
Table of Contents
1. Racism in and for the Welfare State (Fabio Perocco)
2. The Welfare State Struggling with Capitalist Hybris (Alain Bihr)
3. Welfare State and the Hint for "Social Benefit Cheaters and Profiteers" Migrants: The Case of Belgium (Nouria Ouali)
4. The Swedish Racial Welfare Regime in Transition (Diana Mulinari & Anders Neergaard)
5. The Public Charge: The Capitalist Politics of Labor, Migration and Austerity in the United States (Justin Akers Chacon)
6. Whose Welfare State? A Racialized Logic to [Un]protect Immigration and Asylum in Spain (Olga Jubany, Alexia Rue)
7. The 23 Million of Romanians, Igor and the Others: Welfare State, Migration, and Racism in Hungary (Petra Andits)
8. Continuities and Transformations of Racism in German Welfare Capitalism (Christoph Gille & Jonas Kohlschmidt)
9. In a Country Boasting a Welfare State, do Black Lives Matter Less? (Steve Jefferys)
10. Welfare State as a Political Weapon: Institutional Racism Against Arabs, Asylum Seekers and the Minorities of Israel (Diego Alberto Biancolin)
11. The System of Racial Discrimination in the Italian Welfare State (Fabio Perocco)
12. Anti-Immigrant Racism within the Brazilian Welfare State and the Expulsion of Cuban Doctors (Patricia Villen)
13. Japanese Welfare State and Racism: Is the Myth of Social Homogeneity Overshadowing Discrimination Patterns on Migrants? (Nicola Costalunga)
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