The racialized welfare discourse on refugees and asylum seekers: the example of “scroungers” in italy

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    The spread of anti-asylum seeker racism has taken place in the context of harshening of migration policies, of a "war on migrants" and a "war on asylum", enacted through multiple mechanisms, including the re-functioning and re-directing of welfare racism against refugees and asylum seekers. Alongside such a "return" of welfare racism, in the last decade, welfare racism against refugees and asylum seekers was forged and has been particularly widespread-as an essential part of the dual "war on asylum" and "war on the welfare state" (Burnett 2015). The article first explores . . .

     

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