The Europeanisation of deservingness? Attitudes on immigrants’ access to welfare before and after Maastricht and the refugee crisis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7989607
AutoresFrancesco Visconti (0000-0001-7672-4433, University of Milan, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen25
Número1
Páginas132-151
Fecha de publicación2022-08-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2374-5126 • E-ISSN: 2374-5118
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23745118.2022.2113631
OpenAlexW4292229950
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas54

Have attitudes towards welfare deservingness changed over time across the EU? This article investigates aggregate and individual-level preferences towards welfare exclusionary policies, by evaluating antecedents of welfare deservingness in different contexts: in 1992, before the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, and in 2016, in the aftermath of the great recession, of the Eurozone and Schengen crises, and the Brexit referendum. Based on Eurobarometer and the ‘Reconciling Economic and Social Europe’ (REScEU) survey data collected in five EU countries, the article shows that unconditional transnational solidarity was weaker in 2016 compared to 1992. Contrary to expectations, cross-border welfare rights were already politicised in most countries prior to the Maastricht Treaty. Findings suggest that EU identity could have become the main criterion to define who deserves to have access to social security benefits, and in this sense, it is proposed that deservingness may have become ‘Europeanised

Brexit · Development economics · Economics · Eurobarometer · European integration · European union · Immigration · International economics · Maastricht Treaty · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Referendum · Solidarity · Welfare · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Policy and Reform Studies