The moral economy of welfare and migration : reconfiguring rights in austerity Britain / Lydia Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Lydia (Sociologist), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees.

Sociology.

Great Britain--Economic policy.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Moral conditions.

Great Britain--Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Britain's coalition government of 2010-2015 ushered in an enduring age of austerity and a "moral mission" of welfare reform as part of a drive for deficit reduction. Stricter controls were applied to both domestic welfare and international migration and asylum, which were presented as two sides of the same coin. Exploring the idea of a moral economy Lydia Morris examines Britain's reconfigured pattern of rights in the fields of domestic welfare and migration.

Contents:

The Moral Economy of Austerity: Analysing UK Welfare Reform

Welfare, Migration, and Civic Stratification: The Shifting Terrain of Rights

Moralizing Welfare and Migration: A Backdrop to Brexit

Reconfiguring Rights: Boundaries, Behaviours and Contestable Margins

Moral Economy from Above and Below: Contesting Contraction of Migrant Rights

Activating the Welfare Subject: The Problem of Agency

The Topology of Welfare-Migration-Asylum: Britain's Outsiders Inside.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780228007593

0228007593

9780228007586

0228007585

OCLC:

1242039572