Doing to survive, working to accumulate. The modernity/coloniality pair and the notion of capitalist work in the "normalization" of Gypsies receiving Guaranteed Income of Citizenship in Valladolid, Spain.

Abstract

This paper explores welfare policies linked to Guaranteed Citizenship Income (RGC), in the labor insertion of long-term Roma unemployed in Valladolid, Spain. The solidary relationship of these policies with the capitalist work system and the modernity / coloniality pair will be taken into account. Also, the differences between the two models found in the field work will be described: the "make to survive" as a way of Romani existence as opposed to the "work to accumulate" of the capitalist / modern / colonial system. Welfare policies will be evaluated as a mechanism of social control and normalization of the "others", which by virtue of the biopower held by the modern nation-state deploys its networks of mediators (social workers, public institutions, education) and organizations of the third sector (NGOs) for the disciplining of bodies for capitalist purposes.