Prescripted living: gender stereotypes and data-based surveillance in the UK welfare state

: The welfare benefits system in the UK has historically favoured individuals who conform to gender stereotypes: it also increasingly uses surveillance and conditionality to determine who is ‘deserving’ of support. This paper argues that this combination reinforces structures of categorisation and control, risking a vicious cycle which causes harm at both an individual and societal level: it also argues that human rights offers a tool for analysis and resistance to this harm.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Internet Policy Review

• Publication date

  2021-12-07

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Computer Science, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.14763/2021.4.1593
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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