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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| Pages (from-to) | 221-236 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of Asian Public Policy |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 8 Sept 2021 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Funding
This work was supported by the Oxfam Hong Kong [20034-HKG-A1094-01-2020A-H21].
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
Keywords
- Unemployment
- risks
- social policy
- critical discourse analysis
- COVID-19
- COVID- 19
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