Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Mirchandani, Kiran, 1968-

Publication

Black Point, N.S. : Fernwood Pub., c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Chan, Wendy, 1966-

Description

102 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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.

Subject

• Racism in public welfare administration > Canada
• Public welfare > Canada
• Welfare fraud > Canada
• Welfare recipients > Canada > Interviews
• Welfare state > Canada
• Poor > Canada
• Racisme dans les services sociaux > Canada
• Aide sociale > Canada
• Aide sociale > Fraude > Canada
• Aide sociale > Bénéficiaires > Canada > Entretiens
• État providence > Canada
• Pauvres > Canada

Genre/Form

Interviews

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references: p. 95-102.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9781552662502
• 1552662500

LCCN

^^2007534660

OCLC

145429192

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library