The shaming state : how the U. S. treats citizens in need.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salman, Sara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Shaming State

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : New York University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"The Shaming State is a comparative study of the impact of market fundamentalism on late modern American society. By looking at refugee resettlement and post-disaster relief programs, the book argues that withholding social welfare generates feelings of shame which are transformed into punitive feelings and expressions of hostility against marginalized groups"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The right to care in a shaming state: vulnerability in the United States

Part I: social rights and shame in resettlement assistance programs

Iraqi resettled refugees in Michigan: rights and burdens upon arrival

Becoming good Americans: seeking work in a land without jobs

Part II: social rights and shame in post-disaster relief programs

New Yorkers in the path of a hurricane: the duty of care and invisible vulnerabilities

Rebuilding after the hurricane: preventing fraud, abandoning citizens

Part III: unraveling rights, intensifying vulnerabilities

A state between care and shame: the structural undoing of social rights

Together, alone: fractured selves in late modern America

A way out of the shaming state: limits and possibilities of care.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4798-1459-8

OCLC:

1352966760