Abstract
In contrast to the nexus between welfare and migration control, the link between migration and poverty (or rather the perception of poverty), has not received the same amount of political interest, but also public and scholarly attention. Yet, there are multiple ways in which migrants are rendered or perceived as poor in receiving states after having migrated. Hence, this special issue addresses the intersection of migration and poverty. The contributions cover various socio-legal, political and discursive aspects of how state institutions and non-state agencies address, and how poor citizens and migrant individuals in the broadest sense deal with, precariousness and discrimination in the states where they have settled or within which they have moved. In public and political discourse, migrant individuals are often portrayed as underserving, needy and dependent on the ‘receiving states’. Yet, what is often overlooked is how this assumed dependency is constructed by policies and laws, encouraged by media practices and everyday street-level implementation, to the degree that it demonises the foreign ‘other’, accused of misusing welfare assistance. At the same time, we find similar framings regarding marginalised citizens, such as welfare recipients, which discloses the moral character of social policies and a hierarchy of deservingness-recognition. Within the special issue, we critically discuss how such representations and policy mechanisms allow for the discriminatory circumscription of rights and services of the ‘poor’ and migrants that are deeply embedded in welfare chauvinist attitudes, causing significant control and surveillance by the state.
About the authors
Dr. Lisa Marie Borrelli promovierte im Sommer 2018 am Institut für Soziologie der Universität Bern. In ihrer Dissertation verfolgte sie die Auffindung, Verhaftung und Abschiebung von irregularisierten Migrant*innen innerhalb von fünf Schengenländern anhand Einer ethnographischen Studie staatlicher Institutionen. Seit 2018 arbeitet sie als Postdoktorandin im Institut für soziale Arbeit an der HES-SO Sierre und der Universität Neuchâtel im Rahmen des nccr – on the move zu den Themen Sozialhilfe, Ausländer*innenrecht und Integration.
Yann Bochsler, lic. rer. soc., FHNW, studied political science and law at the universities of Bern and Lyon. He works as a scientific employee at the Institute for Social Planning, Organisational Change and Urban Development, FHNW School of Social Work. His main research interests are poverty, social assistance in Switzerland, the welfare state and adequate housing. He is currently completing his doctoral project on the subject of young adults without vocational training in social assistance at the University of Geneva under the mentorship of the professors Carlo Knöpfel and Jean-Michel Bonvin. He is a member of the research committee “Social Problems” of the Swiss Society for Sociology (SGS).
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