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From Neoliberal Restriction to Control of Roma Population Czech System of Social Protection and Disappearance of Social Citizenship
Trlifajová, Lucie ; Potůček, Martin (advisor) ; Sirovátka, Tomáš (referee) ; Pospěch Durnová, Anna (referee)
From Neoliberal Restriction to Control of Roma Population. Czech System of Social Protection and Disappearance of Social Citizenship. Lucie Trlifajová Equal position in society - and the ability to claim citizenship rights - is shaped by the feelings of recognition. This thesis examines the process of the disappearance of social citizenship in the Czech Republic, a gradual change in the social protection system targeted to poor and low- income households, which deprives poor people not only of an economic protection but also of their equal status and recognition. 2004-2012 reforms reduced the Czech system of social protection of poor and low-income households to a conditional and stigmatizing system, similar to countries that embraced a neoliberal approach to social policies. This thesis focuses on the "post-neoliberal" development of these systems in the following decade. The period is characterized by a greater involvement of politicians representing regions with higher proportion of inhabitants facing economic insecurity. In most cases, however, the involvement of these players did not reverse the restriction of social policies but rather accelerated and strengthened it. The thesis examines how the construction of social benefits (especially social assistance scheme) became part of a struggle...

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