RT Generic
T1 Bureaucracy as border: barriers to social rights in Spain
T2 La burocracia como frontera: barreras a los derechos sociales en España
A1 Pérez Pérez, Marta
A1 Ávila Cantos, Débora
A1 García García, Sergio
A1 Ayala Rubio, Ariadna
A2 Della Porta, Donatella
A2 Steinhilper, Elias
AB Social rights are the result of struggles fought at the margins, involving practices of solidarity and care, and interpellations to the state and other actors in charge of the provision of such protections. The current fight for social rights in Spain takes place within a shrinking space for solidarity made of the introduction of neoliberal policies within public services, the implementation of a myriad of bureaucratic barriers to access to those provisions and toxic political discourses against migrants, ethnic minorities and those in solidarity with them. In this chapter, we will examine the shrinking spaces where struggles for social rights take place with regard to two main public provisions in Spain: healthcare and an economic benefit for low-income households. The obstacles that people encounter to access these services take forms that we have categorized into three types of intertwined processes: bureau-deterrence, bureau-exclusion and bureau-repression. They amount to an invisible withdrawal of welfare “from below”, which takes place in daily interactions in a complex institutional context where the criminalization of poverty is gaining pace.
PB Routledge
YR 2021
FD 2021-09-30
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/110539
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/110539
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 4 abr 2025