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dc.contributor.authorBielefeld, Brooke
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-29T12:34:24Z
dc.date.available2019-05-29T12:34:24Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn0966-3622
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10691-018-9363-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/378288
dc.description.abstractThis article aims to contribute to literature on the conceptualisation of ‘vulnerability’ and its use by neo-liberal welfare regimes to demean, stigmatize and responsibilize welfare recipients. Several conceptions of ‘vulnerability’ will be explored and utilised in the context of welfare reforms that purport to regulate social security recipients as highly risky ‘vulnerable’ subjects. However, as this article will make clear, ‘vulnerability’ is a somewhat slippery concept and one susceptible to abuse by powerful interests intent on increasing coercive surveillance, discipline and disentitlement for those designated as ‘vulnerable’. Legislation enacted ostensibly to address the ‘vulnerability’ of welfare recipients can foster intensive regulation and it must be asked who benefits most from such arrangements and the rhetoric that supports them.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Netherlands
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto23
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalFeminist Legal Studies
dc.relation.ispartofvolume26
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw in context
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSocial policy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the law
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4804
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440712
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode450518
dc.titleCashless Welfare Transfers for 'Vulnerable' Welfare Recipients: Law, Ethics and Vulnerability
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.rights.copyright© 2018 Springer Netherlands. This is an electronic version of an article published in Feminist Legal Studies, Vol 28(1) pp. 1-23. Feminist Legal Studies is available online at: http://link.springer.com/ with the open URL of your article.
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gro.griffith.authorBielefeld, Shelley S.


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