Author : Fabio Perocco
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031060717
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis Racism in and for the Welfare State by : Fabio Perocco
Download or read book Racism in and for the Welfare State written by Fabio Perocco and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.