Surveillance potential: Exploring how unbanked social assistance recipients in Toronto, Canada negotiated a mandatory transition from cash to cards
This article explores how purportedly benign technologies, such as benefits cards used to distribute welfare funds, can be perceived as a tool for surveillance and social control, particularly in contexts that users experience as punitive. In many countries, poverty governance positions welfare reci...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Punishment & society
Year: 2023, Volume: 25, Issue: 5, Pages: 1190-1206 |
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