As part of the Cape York Welfare Reform Trial (CYWRT), which has been running in the remote Aboriginal towns of Aurukun, Hope Vale, Mossman Gorge and Coen since 2008, Family Responsibilities Commissioners have the unprecedented ability to quarantine welfare payments. Critics claim this “BasicsCard,” which cannot be spent on alcohol, tobacco, pornography or gambling, brings shame to Aboriginal people – marking them as dependants, deemed incapable of responsible spending. Evaluations of the CYWRT paint a more complicated picture. While many of the “spectators” of the CYWRT report “welfare reform stigma,” the “subjects” themselves are more positive. This paper draws on ethnographic research in Hope Vale to argue that these categories overlap with loosely defined, porous social groups that developed during the town's mission past, described as the “engaged” and “embedded” Hope Valers, respectively. The engaged group tends to be more aware of and sensitive to the views of the dominant society and to subscribe to its “ideology of respectability.” Meanwhile, the latter group tends to adhere to a more egalitarian “ideology of relatedness,” and do not experience the shame, even when their own welfare is quarantined, because the behaviours that trigger quarantining are normalised within their highly circumscribed domain.

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BasicsCard是否在“欺骗”原住民？探索约克角对福利隔离的不同反应

自2008年以来，作为约克角福利改革试验（CYWRT）的一部分，该试验一直在偏远的原住民小镇Aurukun，Hope Vale，Mossman Gorge和Coen进行，家庭责任专员具有隔离福利支付的空前能力。批评人士声称，这张“基本卡”不能用于酗酒，吸烟，色情或赌博，它使原住民蒙受了耻辱，将他们标记为被视为无能力消费的受抚养人。CYWRT的评估描绘出了更为复杂的图景。CYWRT的许多“观察者”都报告了“福利改革的耻辱”，而“主题”本身则更为积极。本文根据Hope Vale的人种学研究指出，这些类别与在该镇过去的使命期间建立的松散定义的，疏散的社会群体重叠，被分别描述为“订婚”和“嵌入”的希望战士。敬业团体倾向于更加了解和敏感于主流社会的观点，并赞同其“受人尊敬的意识形态”。同时，后一类人倾向于坚持更为平等的“相关性意识形态”，即使他们自己的福利被隔离，也不会感到羞耻，因为触发隔离的行为在其高度限定的范围内已被规范化。