Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty: Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada - Couverture souple

Mirchandani, Kiran; Chan, Wendy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1552662500 ISBN 13 : 9781552662502

Editeur : Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

The criminalization and penalization of poverty through increased surveillance and control of welfare recipients in recent years has led many poverty advocates to claim that “a war against the poor” is currently in progress. The authors argue that people of colour are most often the casualties in the governments’ desire to roll back the welfare state. Relying on myths and stereotypes about racial difference, the enforcement and policing of welfare fraud policies constructs people of colour as potential “cheaters” and “abusers” of the system. This has allowed for the stigmatizing and discriminatory treatment of people of colour to persist unchallenged within the welfare system.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Wendy Chan is a professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University. Kiran Mirchandani is associate professor in the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her research focuses on home-based work, telework, contingent work,entrepreneurship, transnational service work and self-employment.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1552662500
• ISBN 13: 9781552662502
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 102
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible