Ineligible

Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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While the poor have always been monitored and surveilled by the state when seeking financial support, the methods, techniques, and capacity for surveillance within and across government jurisdictions has profoundly altered how recipients navigate social assistance. Welfare surveillance has exacerbated social inequality, especially among low income, Indigenous, and racialized single mothers. Krys Maki unpacks in-depth interviews with Ontario Works caseworkers, anti-poverty activists, and single mothers on assistance in Kingston, Peterborough, and Toronto, and employs intersectional feminist political economy and critical surveillance theory to contextualize the ways neoliberal welfare reforms have subjected low-income single mothers to intensive state surveillance. Maki centres their experiences to examine how their status as lone parents prompted fraud investigations and invasive questioning about their relationship status, and triggered investigations by other governing bodies such as child welfare agencies. This book also examines the moral and political implications of administering inadequate benefits alongside punitive surveillance measures. Despite significant restraints, anti-poverty activists, caseworkers, and recipients have discovered individual and collective ways to resist the neoliberal agenda.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-11-10
Mått15 x 23 x 1 mm
Vikt312 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagFernwood Publishing Co Ltd
ISBN9781773634791

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: Introduction: Welfare Surveillance, Regulation, and Mothering on the Margins: The Feminization of Poverty, a “No-Win” Situation : Key Concepts and Terms: Methods : Summary of Book A Brief History of Welfare Surveillance in Ontario : Surveillance Stitched into the Fabric of the Emerging Social Safety Net Mapping the Welfare Surveillance Apparatus: Surveillance and Discrimination: Technological Surveillance and Regulation: Moral Surveillance and RegulationCaught in a Web of Surveillance: Interviews with Single Mothers on Social Assistance: Experiencing Welfare Surveillance : Relationships with Welfare CaseworkersExpanding the Welfare Surveillance Apparatus: The Family Responsibility Office and Ontario Works : The Children’s Aid Society: Indigenous Mothers, Surveillance, and Child WelfareSocial Workers, Financial Advisors, or Authoritarian Overseers? : Interviewing Frontline Caseworkers : New Public Management and Workplace Surveillance: How Caseworkers Understand Welfare Surveillance : Job Satisfaction and Workplace Health and SafetyCounternarratives: Building Dialogues of Resistance: Counternarratives, Disruptions, and Subversions: Notes: References: Index

Making up for the dearth of feminist research on the interplay of surveillance and poverty, ‘Ineligible’. combines feminist political theory, moral regulation, and theories of surveillance to offer a unique insight into the cross-disciplinary connections that stretch beyond the traditional theoretical frameworks of each discipline. In doing so, Maki presents their participants’ lived experiences as integral to their construction of knowledge. Thus, Maki builds a conceptual model of Ontario Works that is both accessible and a welcome addition to the controversial interaction between welfare scrutiny and assistance. By uncovering how state regulation manifests in the daily lives of Ontarian single mothers, Maki expertly demonstrates how detrimental welfare surveillance and moral regulation are to their individual experiences.

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