Chapter Five. Unraveling Working-Class Welfare Chauvinism

Mewes, Jan; Mau, Steffen

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“…This preference for excluding migrants from welfare services and benefits has been labelled welfare chauvinism or welfare nationalism (Andersen & Bjørklund, 1990;. Previous research has shown that welfare nationalism is widespread among natives voting for new-right parties, natives with lower socio-economic status, and natives perceiving migrants to be a cultural or economic threat to the overall society (Eger & Breznau, 2017;Ford, 2016;Mau & Burkhardt, 2009;Mewes & Mau, 2012;Reeskens & van Oorschot, 2012). The preference for including migrants in welfare benefits and services has received less attention, but could be labelled welfare universalism as one of the basic principles of universalism is that everybody permanently residing in a given state territory is entitled.…”

Section: Broadly Support For Public Childcare and Some Divergent Trendsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrants’ Attitudes and the Welfare State

Breidahl¹,

Larsen²,

Hedegaard³

et al. 2021

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Section: Broadly Support For Public Childcare and Some Divergent Trendsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrants’ Attitudes and the Welfare State

Breidahl¹,

Larsen²,

Hedegaard³

et al. 2021

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“…Most previous studies have treated welfare chauvinist attitudes as something that is applied uniformly across social benefits and social services. This holds true for both the previous theoretical debates (Johnston et al, 2010; Kymlicka and Banting, 2006; Miller, 1993) and empirical studies (Gerhards and Lengfeld, 2013; Kros and Coenders, 2019; Mewes and Mau, 2012, 2013; Reeskens and Van Oorschot, 2012; Van der Waal et al, 2010, 2013). The political rhetoric of radical right-wing parties is also geared to pose the question in this one-dimensional way (Andersen and Bjørklund, 1990; Eger and Valdez, 2018).…”

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Welfare chauvinism across benefits and services

Eick

Larsen

2021

Journal of European Social Policy

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The article theorises how covering social risks through cash transfers and in-kind services shapes public attitudes towards including/excluding immigrants from these programmes in Western European destination countries. The argument is that public attitudes are more restrictive of granting immigrants access to benefits than to services. This hypothesis is tested across ten social protection programmes using original survey data collected in Denmark, Germany and the UK in 2019. Across the three countries, representing respectively a social democratic, conservative and liberal welfare regime context, the article finds that the public does indeed have a preference for easier access for in-kind services than for cash benefits. The article also finds these results to be stable across programmes covering the same social risks; the examples are child benefits and childcare. The results are even stable across left-wing, mainstream and radical right-wing voters; with the partial exception of radical right-wing voters in the UK. Finally, the article finds only a moderate association between individual characteristics and attitudinal variation across cash benefits and in-kind services.

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“…The concept of deservingness was academically popularised by survey-based research on general welfare attitudes, in an attempt to explicate the conditions under which and the people with whom citizens are prepared to share access to public welfare resources (Van Oorschot, 2000;Mewes and Mau, 2012;Svallfors et al, 2012;Reeskens and van der Meer, 2015;Kootstra, 2016). While this theoretical approach, developed from a public opinion survey, applies to public welfare attitudes more generally, we consider it a useful tool for understanding street-level bureaucrats' moral considerations when deciding on access to benefits and services for migrant clients.…”

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Conceptualising the Role of Deservingness in Migrants’ Access to Social Services

Ratzmann¹,

Sahraoui²

2021

Social Policy and Society

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This ‘state-of-the art’ article on the role of deservingness in governing migrants’ access to social services situates our themed section’s contribution to the literature at the intersection between the study of street-level bureaucracy and practices of internal bordering through social policy. Considering the increasing relevance of migration control post-entry, we review the considerations that guide the local delivery of social services. Among others, moral ideas about a claimant’s worthiness to receive social benefits and services guide policy implementation. But while ideas of deservingness help to understand how perceptions of migrants’ claiming play out in practice, we observe limited use of the concept in street-level bureaucracy research. Drawing on theorisations from welfare attitudinal research, we demonstrate the salience of deservingness attitudes in understanding the dynamics of local social service delivery to migrant clients.

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Chapter Five. Unraveling Working-Class Welfare Chauvinism

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Migrants’ Attitudes and the Welfare State

Migrants’ Attitudes and the Welfare State

Welfare chauvinism across benefits and services

Conceptualising the Role of Deservingness in Migrants’ Access to Social Services

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