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The politics and policies of welfare chauvinism under the economic crisis

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The ongoing economic crisis that emerged in the wake of the global recession in 2008, and was
followed by the more recent crisis of the Eurozone, has introduced new themes and remoulded
old ways of approaching the welfare state, immigration, national belonging and racism in
Northern Europe. This article identifies two main ways of understanding welfare chauvinism: 1)
as a broad concept that covers all sorts of claims and policies to reserve welfare benefits for the
‘native’ population; 2) an ethno-nationalist and racialising political agenda, characteristic
especially of right-wing populist parties. Focusing on the relationship between politics and
policies, we examine how welfare chauvinist political agendas are turned into policies and what
hinders welfare chauvinist claims from becoming policy matters and welfare practices. It is
argued that welfare chauvinism targeting migrants is part of a broader neoliberal restructuring of the welfare state and of welfare retrenchment.

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Series Title

Critical Social Policy

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Publisher

Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications., 2016

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

02610183

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Edition

Volume 36, Issue 3, August 2016; pp. 321–329

Subject(s)

Immigration
Neoliberalism
Economic Crisis
Welfare chauvinism
national belonging

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