(Un)Conditional Welfare? Tensions Between Welfare Rights and Migration Control in Swiss Case Law
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Abstract This analysis of Swiss Federal Supreme Court judgements shows the coupling welfare and migration control. Foreign nationals depending on social assistance might face withdrawal their residence permits. We show how conveyed legal logics create conditionality rights a differentiation (non-)citizens. The individualise dependence follow neoliberal logic economic participation. They establish rationalities which reinforce politics belonging chauvinism.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0379-3664', '2297-8348']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2021-0008