From Neoliberal Restriction to Control of the Roma-Towards Post-Neoliberal Ethnic Welfare

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/csr.2023.053" target="_blank" >10.13060/csr.2023.053</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
From Neoliberal Restriction to Control of the Roma-Towards Post-Neoliberal Ethnic Welfare
Original language description
The article examines how neoliberal reforms can pave the way for welfare racialisation, turning a delegitimised minimum-income scheme into a tool for racial-hierarchy enforcement. We follow the development of Czech minimum-income scheme legislation from 2014 to 2021, after a series of neo-liberal (workfarist) reforms reinforced the restrictive and controlling aspects of the system. The analysed period is characterised by the greater involvement of politicians representing the poorest regions of the Czech Republic and by calls for further restrictions. Analysing parliamentary debates from this peri-od, we show that the delegitimised social system is no longer understood as a tool of social protection or even labour market inclusion; rather, it has become a tool of ethnic hierarchisation, which particularly resonates in the context of perceived socioeconomic insecurity. We propose the term 'post-neoliberal ethnic welfare' to describe this emerging system, which derives its legitimacy from neoliberal categories of deservingness and reduces social-protection sys-tems into a performative tool of control over the Roma population.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology

Project
<a href="/en/project/TQ01000575" target="_blank" >TQ01000575: The Poverty Line: Regional Dimensions of the Absolute Poverty Definition</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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