The slow violence of life without cash: borders, state restrictions, and exclusion in the U.K. and Australia
In the U.K., refused asylum seekers who are considered destitute are provided with subsistence-level financial support through the Azure card, a cashless technology similar to a debit card. In Australia, identical technology is used to quarantine fifty percent of the welfare benefits of mainly Abori...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Geographical review 2019-10, Vol.109 (4), p.527-543 |
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Zusammenfassung: | In the U.K., refused asylum seekers who are considered destitute are provided with subsistence-level financial support through the Azure card, a cashless technology similar to a debit card. In Australia, identical technology is used to quarantine fifty percent of the welfare benefits of mainly Aboriginal residents of the Northern Territory. In this paper, I explore the underlying state logics driving such punitive financial policies directed at these populations, arguing that cashless technologies represent a form of slow violence that employs financial tactics to undermine the provision of care for populations with precarious citizenship status. Financial tactics enact new forms of border securitization, slowly but permanently excluding people with precarious claims to citizenship from participation in the nation |
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ISSN: | 0016-7428 1931-0846 |
DOI: | 10.1111/gere.12332 |