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The Moral Economy of Welfare and Migration - Reconfiguring Rights in Austerity Britain (Paperback)
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The Moral Economy of Welfare and Migration - Reconfiguring Rights in Austerity Britain (Paperback)
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Britain's coalition government of 2010-2015 ushered in an enduring
age of austerity and a "moral mission" of welfare reform as part of
a drive for deficit reduction. Stricter controls were applied to
both domestic welfare and international migration and asylum, which
were presented as two sides of the same coin. Policy in both areas
has engaged a moral message of earned entitlement and invites a
sociological approach that examines such policies in combination,
alongside their underpinning moral economy. Exploring the idea of a
moral economy - from its original focus on popular rebellion at the
rising price of corn to more contemporary analysis of measures that
seek to impose moral values from above - Lydia Morris examines
Britain's reconfigured pattern of rights in the fields of domestic
welfare and migration. Those in power have claimed that heightened
conditions and sanctions for the benefit-dependent domestic
population, both in and out of work, will promote labour market
change and reduce demand for low-skilled migrant workers, often EU
citizens, whose own access to benefits was curtailed prior to
Brexit. Morris traces related political discourse through to the
design and implementation of concrete policy measures and maps the
diminished access to rights that has emerged, paying particular
attention to the boundaries drawn in defining target groups, and
the resistance this has provoked. The Moral Economy of Welfare and
Migration considers the topology of the whole system to highlight
cross-cutting devices of control that have far-reaching
implications for how we are governed as a total population.
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