During the COVID-19 pandemic, many states have enacted large-scale welfare programs that have also expanded their regulatory reach. While the ‘regulatory welfare state’ literature helps to make sense of these transformations, it has yet to address key concerns, such as diminished accountability and transparency in social policymaking, experiences of welfare conditionality, growing reliance on digital surveillance, interlocking inequalities, and the securitisation of mobility. This panel attends to domains of the regulatory state often understood as disconnected: welfare, development, and migration. It sheds light on how current understandings of the regulatory welfare state would benefit from building stronger connections with other interdisciplinary fields.
This is the second webinar in the 2021 Conversations - connection and disconnection webinar series.
