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Dependency By Law: Poverty, Identity, And Welfare Privatization, Frank Munger Jul 2006

Dependency By Law: Poverty, Identity, And Welfare Privatization, Frank Munger

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Privatization of welfare reflects the political pressure to limit public responsibility for protection of social citizenship. Recent welfare reforms incorporate three classic market-like privatization mechanisms--contracting out services forcing allocation of a limited pool of benefits, and deregulation. Deregulation entails strategic diversion and disqualification of large numbers of would-be applicants who are left without alternatives to the labor market. In this article I discuss an empirical study of the effects of deregulation of welfare on the self-perceptions of recipients. Interviews with recipients and with low-wage health care workers, former recipients, show that, criticisms of welfare notwithstanding, they have embraced welfare reform's …


Welfare Reform And Immigration: Attempting To Find A Domestic Answer To A Global Question, Kostas A. Poulakidas Oct 1998

Welfare Reform And Immigration: Attempting To Find A Domestic Answer To A Global Question, Kostas A. Poulakidas

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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