Poverty as Misrecognition
What Role for Antidiscrimination Law in Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16764459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Ganty (0000-0002-8524-5378, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 962-1007 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Rights Law Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-7781 • E-ISSN: 1744-1021 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hrlr/ngab016 |
| OpenAlex | W3148029194 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
It is widely agreed that victims of discrimination on traditional status grounds such as gender and race are overrepresented among the poor and undereducated. People living in poverty also face discrimination because of their socioeconomic situation. Many national, European and international antidiscrimination provisions prohibit discrimination on grounds that are related to a person’s socioeconomic situation. It is striking, however, that this is hardly applied in practice. On the basis of domestic—Belgian, French and British—and European material, this paper argues that the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of social condition is an empowering legal tool in the protection of disadvantaged people, especially regarding issues of misrecognition. Four reasons for this are considered: the determining role of the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of social condition in applying a direct scrutiny of the socioeconomic underprivileged situation of the applicants, its role in combating stereotypes and stigma against poor people, its important cross-cutting function in cases of multiple discrimination, and its exclusive applicability in some occurrences of discrimination
Criminology · Disadvantaged · Face (sociological concept) · Inequality · Political science · Population · Poverty · Prejudice (legal term) · Scrutiny · Social exclusion · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Stigma (botany) · Discrimination and Equality Law · Law · Psychology
Toward an Anti-Stereotyping Approach for the European Court of Human Rights
Strengthening the Protection of Human Rights of Persons Living in Poverty under the ECHR
The Covid-19 pandemic and health inequalities
Judging Stereotypes
The Discrimination Grounds of Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Creating Capabilities
Economic Insecurity, Prejudicial Stereotypes, and Public Opinion on Immigration Policy
Introduction
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |