work on this volume started from an offi ce conversation in 2016, the editors sharing their outrage about another public controversy sparked by the Austrian conservative right-wing government. Once again, members of the government suggested that asylum allowances were somewhat unjust to 'the population' or 'us taxpayers', or 'hard-working Austrians' and 'Austrian pensioners'. The elements of such messages seemed all too clear: an imagined 'us' threatened by 'undeserving' yet still '(over)assisted' 'Others'. This combination of differentiation and moralized assessment of distribution sparked ever more associations in our ongoing conversations. Over decades, it was claimed that 'lazy immigrants' receive too much welfare or recognition, 'scroungers' abuse welfare systems, and many other similar and contrasting examples. They prompted us to bring together disparate scholarly discussions and analyses of processes of moralized assessments of distribution that seemed to coalesce in specifi c conjunctures and registers of power.(Un)deservingness is our attempt at creating a dialogue among these several fi elds of thematic scholarship and theoretical orientations. In recent years, anthropology in/of Europe has been a thriving scholarly environment for research on those questions. We are very pleased to have in this volume some of the scholars who drive the research that inspired us to think about (un)deservingness as a crucial category of contemporary politics. They come from various ethnographic and theoretical fi elds. As a comparative discipline, anthropology allows
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