Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Deservingness: Reassessing the Moral Dimensions of Inequality Andreas Streinzer and Jelena Tošić
Part I: Deservingness – Genealogies, Struggles and Ideologies
Chapter 1. Caring for the Old and Letting Them Die: A Political Economy of Human Worth Susana Narotzky
Chapter 2. Must the Tired and Poor ´Stand on Their Own Two Feet‘? Tools for Analyzing How Migrants’ Deservingness is Reckoned Sarah S. Willen and Jennifer Cook
Chapter 3. Deserving Classes without Class: Explaining the Neo-Nationalist Ascendency Don Kalb
Chapter 4. A Methodological, Reflexive and Comparative Approach to Deservingness Erik Bähre
Part II: Categories, Policies and Negotiations of Deservingness
Chapter 5. Hartz IV. Affective and Sensual Registers of Moral Inferiority Stefan Wellgraf
Chapter 6. Unemployment, Deservingness and Ideological Apparatuses: A Case Study from Turin, Italy Carlo Capello
Chapter 7. The Politics of Austerity Welfare: Charity, Discourses of Deservingness and Human Needs in a Portuguese Church Parish Patricia Matos
Chapter 8. ‘Here, Morality is a Sense of Entitlement’: Citizenship, Deservingness, and Inequality in Suburban America Elisa Lanari
Part III: The (Un)Deserving Migrant/Refugee
Chapter 9. Ambivalences of (Un)Deservingness: Tracing Vulnerability in the EU Border Regime Sabine Strasser
Chapter 10. The Politics of Deservingness among Resettled Bhutanese Refugees Nicole Hoellerer
Chapter 11. Suffering and Vulnerability Reconfigured. Refugee Images of Hungarian Migrants Working in Refugee Accommodation Institutions in Germany Ildikó Zakariás and Margit Feischmidt
Part IV: Debt Relations – State, Market Actors and Debtors
Chapter 12. Do Mortgagors in Hardship Deserve Debt Relief? Legitimizing and Challenging Inequality during the Spanish Home Repossessions Crisis Irene Sabaté
Chapter 13. Households on Trial: Over-Indebtedness, State and Moral Struggles in Greece Theodora Vetta
Chapter 14. Victims, Patriots and Middle Class: The (Un)Deservingness of Debtors in Post–Credit Boom Croatia Marek Mikuš
Afterword: Differentiating Deservingness James G. Carrier
Index