Reconfiguration of the Estado de Bienestar and Discrimination in a Stigmatized District
This article is based on a field survey in Granada’s Zona Norte (Andalucia, Spain) between 1999 and 2006 which had as a starting point the mobilization of the district’s unemployed. The article looks at local policies adopted afterward in the areas of employment, training and social inclusion. The mechanisms that were set up are based on the definition of “target publics”. The ethnicisation of social relations and other forms of social categorization are analyzed in light of the reconfiguration of the Welfare State: decentralization, externalisation of policies to the “Third sector” and instituting social protection (from welfare to workfare). Cases of discrimination are examined according to how they came about and how they were treated.