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Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty - Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada (Paperback) Loot Price: R471
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Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty - Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada (Paperback): Wendy Chan, Kiran Mirchandani

Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty - Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada (Paperback)

Wendy Chan, Kiran Mirchandani

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Loot Price R471 Discovery Miles 4 710

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Arguing that people of color are most often the casualties in the governments' desire to roll back the welfare state, this analysis delves into the current myths and stereotypes about racial difference. In exploring such myths in conjunction with the enforcement of welfare fraud policies, this study shows how people of color are constructed as potential "cheaters" and "abusers" of the system, and how this has allowed for the stigmatizing and discriminatory treatment of certain races to persist unchallenged. With an analysis of the criminalization and penalization of poverty--including the increased surveillance and control of welfare recipients--this argument sheds new light on the perspectives of poverty advocates.

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Imprint: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Country of origin: Canada
Release date: April 2008
First published: April 2008
Authors: Wendy Chan • Kiran Mirchandani
Dimensions: 23 x 15 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 978-1-55266-250-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General
LSN: 1-55266-250-0
Barcode: 9781552662502

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