Journal Articles

Bordering practices in the UK welfare system

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This article considers how chauvinistic welfare policies operate as a bordering practice. Taking
the UK as an example, it examines a process in which welfare provisions have increasingly been
withdrawn from a group of people designated as undeserving. It points out a close link between
chauvinism based on ethnicity and that based on class. This relation is explored in detail for the
case of social housing culminating in today’s ‘social housing for local people’ approach. A
second case, access to social services for unaccompanied minors, is presented to illustrate
bordering practices that operate in everyday services despite existing legal entitlements. The
cases show that governments and service providers frequently act outside their legal remits to
pursue this agenda, despite the UK’s anti-discrimination legislation.

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Series Title

Critical Social Policy

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Publisher

Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications., 2016

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

02610183

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Edition

Volume 36, Issue 3, August 2016; pp. 391–411

Subject(s)

Social services
Immigration
Welfare
housing
benefits

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