Criminalizing race, criminalizing poverty : welfare fraud enforcement in Canada / Kiran Mirchandani and Wendy Chan.

• Welfare fraud legislation in British Columbia and Ontario -- Discussions of welfare in the Canadian news media -- Methodology -- The effects of the welfare control system on people of colour -- Criminalizing welfare recipients of colour -- Racism and the Canadian welfare system -- Racism and neo-liberalism in Canadian society.

• "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 “awar 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."--pub. website. 

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Offentliga sektorn  (sao)

Socialtjänst  (sao)

Rasfördomar  (sao)

Rasism  (sao)

Bidragsfusk  (sao)

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Fattiga  (sao)

Välfärd  (sao)

Välfärdsstaten  (sao)

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Racism  (lcsh)

Public administration  (lcsh)

Welfare fraud  (lcsh)

Racism  (lcsh)

Poor  (lcsh)

Public welfare  (lcsh)

Welfare state  (lcsh)

Welfare recipients  (lcsh)

Public administration  (lcsh)

Kanada  (sao)

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