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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.

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Welfare Fraud Legislation in BC and Ontario * Theoretical and Methodological Framework * Constructing the Problem of Welfare Fraud in the Media * The Effects of Welfare Fraud Enforcement on People of Colour * Racism, Neoliberalism and the Canadian State * Conclusion issues and theoretical debates relevant to contemporary Canada

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      Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/2008
      ISBN13: 9781552662502, 978-1552662502
      ISBN10: 1552662500

      Description

      Book 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.

      Table of Contents
      Welfare Fraud Legislation in BC and Ontario * Theoretical and Methodological Framework * Constructing the Problem of Welfare Fraud in the Media * The Effects of Welfare Fraud Enforcement on People of Colour * Racism, Neoliberalism and the Canadian State * Conclusion issues and theoretical debates relevant to contemporary Canada

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