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Published in: 50.50Double displacement: planning out the poorThe Turkish government's decision to transform Istanbul into a globally competitive city is based on the planned...
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Published in: 50.50Geographies of exclusion
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Published in: 50.50Poverty and drug trafficking: a denial of mercy
All too often, states disproportionately apply the death penalty to the 'small fish' in drug trafficking...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUniversal credit: fair for whom?
New changes intended to simplify the UK's welfare benefit system could have negative consequences. While the...
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Published in: 50.50The punitive regulation of poverty in the neoliberal age
The increasing penalization of poverty is a response to social insecurity; a result of public policy that weds the...
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Published in: 50.50Governing poverty: risking rights
The regime of controls, conditionalities and sanctions that characterise the governance of poverty - in stark...
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Published in: 50.50Canada: punishing the undeserving poor
The governance and perception of welfare in Canada has inextricably linked poverty, welfare and crime: to be poor is...
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Published in: 50.50Migration: controlling the unsettled poor
Examining the way in which first rulers, and then the state, have coerced the poor in England into mobility and...
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