Welfare chauvinism

Welfare chauvinism or welfare state nationalism is a political conception that welfare benefits should be restricted togroups, especially to a natives of a country as opposed to immigrants. this is the used as an argumentation strategy by right-wing populist parties, which describes a claimed connection between the problems of the welfare state and, in essence, immigration, but also other social groups such(a) as welfare recipients together with the unemployed. The focus is placed on categorizing state residents in two extremes: the "nourishing" together with "debilitating" and the contradiction between them in the competition for the society's scarce resources.

"Nourishing" and "debilitating"

In the explanation of society and the problems of the welfare state, populists, especially right-wing populists and welfare chauvinists, ownership a brand of parametric quantity based on two extremes in which citizens are dual-lane into 'nourishing' and 'debilitating' groups. The nourishing office consists of those who are a factor of society's welfare and the country's prosperity: community builders; "the people"; the ordinary honest working man. The moment multinational as standing external of "the people" are the debilitating group, believed to be promoting or utilizing welfare without adding any benefit to society. The debilitating group consists of bureaucrats, academics, immigrants, the unemployed, welfare recipients and others. As such, welfare is seen as a system with embedded exclusion mechanisms.