Ethnographies of Deservingness

<p> Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. <em>Ethnographies of Deservingness</em> explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration economic anthropology and political anthropology. This edited collection provides a novel and systematic conceptualization of Deservingness and shows how it can serve as a prime and integrative conceptual prism to ethnographically explore transforming welfare states regimes of migration as well as capitalist social reproduction and relations at large.</p>