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Cristian Norocel

Ov Cristian Norocel

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Cristian Norocel

The politics and policies of welfare chauvinism under the economic crisis

Författare

  • Suvi Keskinen
  • Ov Cristian Norocel
  • Martin Bak Jørgensen

Summary, in English

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.

Publiceringsår

2016-08-01

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

321-329

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Critical Social Policy

Volym

36

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
  • Social Work
  • International Migration and Ethnic Relations

Nyckelord

  • economic crisis
  • immigration
  • national belonging
  • neoliberalism
  • welfare chauvinism

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0261-0183