Governing poverty and migration in European nation-states – keywords revisited: Postscript

Taken together these essays reveal both synergies and contradictions between and within immigration and welfare policies. Several common themes emerge. Firstly, while access to the welfare state is an important signifier of membership, in practice claiming certain state benefits is accompanied by su...

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Published inCritical social policy Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 700 - 703
Main Author Anderson, Bridget
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.11.2024
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Citizens
Immigration policy
Internal migration
Migration
Nation states
Poverty
Stigma
Surveillance
Victimization
Welfare policy
Welfare recipients
Welfare state
migration
welfare state
nationalism
deservingness
citizenship
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Summary:Taken together these essays reveal both synergies and contradictions between and within immigration and welfare policies. Several common themes emerge. Firstly, while access to the welfare state is an important signifier of membership, in practice claiming certain state benefits is accompanied by suspicion, surveillance and stigma. The good citizen is a worker citizen. Secondly, the importance of the welfare state in putting the nation into the nation-state: the normative national community imagined as the rightful subject of welfare states is racialised and classed. Thirdly, deservingness functions in both welfare states and immigration regimes to prioritise victimhood rather than rights and redistribution.
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ISSN:0261-0183
1461-703X
DOI:10.1177/02610183241273690