Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic engenders unemployment risks globally and locally. Reflectively engaging in Beck's risk society debates, this paper critically reviews the discursive effects of „risks“ when employed by the government in debates about unemployment insurance since the 1997 sovereignty handover. We break down the concept of risk into four layers: moral risk, financial risk, socio-economic risk and political risk and bring to light the contradictory outcomes that colour the nuanced attitudes among the state, the NGOs and the affected subjects.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Journal of Asian Public Policy |
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Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 8 Sep 2021 |
Bibliographical note
This work was supported by the Oxfam Hong Kong [20034-HKG-A1094-01-2020A-H21].Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Keywords
- Unemployment
- risks
- social policy
- critical discourse analysis
- COVID-19
- COVID- 19