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26 Feminist L. Stud. 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/femlst26 and id is 1 raw text is: Fern Leg Stud (2018) 26:1-23 CrssMark https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-018-9363-6 Cashless Welfare Transfers for 'Vulnerable' Welfare Recipients: Law, Ethics and Vulnerability Shelley Bielefeld' Published online: 31 January 2018 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2018 Abstract This article aims to contribute to literature on the conceptualisation of 'vulnerability' and its use by neo-liberal welfare regimes to demean, stigmatize and responsibilize welfare recipients. Several conceptions of 'vulnerability' will be explored and utilised in the context of welfare reforms that purport to regulate social security recipients as highly risky 'vulnerable' subjects. However, as this article will make clear, 'vulnerability' is a somewhat slippery concept and one susceptible to abuse by powerful interests intent on increasing coercive surveillance, discipline and disentitlement for those designated as 'vulnerable'. Legislation enacted osten- sibly to address the 'vulnerability' of welfare recipients can foster intensive regu- lation and it must be asked who benefits most from such arrangements and the rhetoric that supports them. Keywords Cashless welfare transfers - Neo-liberal welfare regimes - Intensive regulation - Ethics - Vulnerability - Compulsory income management - Cashless Debit Card - Indigenous peoples Introduction This article aims to contribute to the literature conceptualising 'vulnerability' and its use by neo-liberal welfare regimes to demean, stigmatize and responsibilize welfare recipients. Several conceptions of 'vulnerability' will be explored and utilised in the context of welfare reforms that purport to regulate social security recipients as highly risky 'vulnerable' subjects. However, as this article will make clear, 'vulnerability' is a somewhat slippery concept and one susceptible to abuse by H Shelley Bielefeld shelley.bielefeld@anu.edu.au Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia I Springer

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