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Monday 14. of June 2010

Razing Arizona: Policing and the Politics of Citizenship

On April 23, 2010 Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law. The new law, which will go into effect on July 29, 2010, requires local law enforcement authorities to check the immigration status of any person where...
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Razing Arizona: Policing and the Politics of Citizenship


Saturday 20. of October 2007

Eick, Sambale, Toepfer Kontrollierte Urbanität Zur Neoliberalisierung städtischer Sicherheitspolitik

Titel: Kontrollierte Urbanität. Zur Neoliberalisierung städtischer Sicherheitspolitik, Herausgeber: Volker Eick, Jens Sambale, Eric Töpfer, Seiten: 402 Pages, Verlag:Transcript, Urban Studies, Preis: 21 €, ISBN: 3-89942-676-2
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Eick, Sambale, Toepfer Kontrollierte Urbanität Zur Neoliberalisierung städtischer Sicherheitspolitik


Category: Control

Sunday 16. of September 2007

World Cup 2010: Privatizing Security in South Africa (G4S)

In April 2007 a global fact finding team from different unions went to South Africa, Malawi and Mozambique to find out about the employment practices of the global player "Group 4 Securicor (G4S)". The team interviewed G4S...
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World Cup 2010: Privatizing Security in South Africa (G4S)


Category: Security, welfare & workfare Security

Friday 27. of April 2007

Jacqueline Leavitt: Jobs and Public Housing - Old Programs and New Paradigms

Missing Image: Aliso Village March Public housing in the United States and Los Angeles began as a jobs program but job training programs are a relatively recent intervention in public housing policy [1]. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) signed the U.S....
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Jacqueline Leavitt: Jobs and Public Housing - Old Programs and New Paradigms


Category: Abstracts & Papers, Presentations, welfare & workfare

Wednesday 25. of April 2007

Nik Theodore: Beyond the New Paternalism

Beyond the New Paternalism This is the first article from a book and a conference we did on the connection between social housing and (un)employment in a transnational perspective. Other contribution in both German and English...
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Nik Theodore: Beyond the New Paternalism


Category: Abstracts & Papers, Presentations, welfare & workfare