Neoliberal policies go hand in hand with social exclusion

March 15, 2016
Neoliberal policies go hand in hand with social exclusion

Sociologists Jonathan Mijs and Michèle Lamont and Elyas Bakhtiari describe how citizens in countries which, like the U.S., rolled out neoliberal policies in the 1990s and 2000s, have come to draw strong exclusionary lines between themselves and people at society’s margins, specifically Muslim immigrants and the poor.  See "Neoliberal policies go hand in hand with social exclusion" (Harvard Gazette, March 9, 2016; photo by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer)