Who’s next? Cuts to welfare often target immigrants first but then move to nationals

Stanton, Richard, Lukes, Sue, Guentner, Simon, Wilding, Jo and Vollmer, Bastian (2016) Who’s next? Cuts to welfare often target immigrants first but then move to nationals. British Politics and Policy at LSE (23 Mar 2016). Website.

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David Cameron’s deal to cut social benefits for EU citizens may in part be a ploy in the internal politics of the Conservative Party. But it’s also the latest push in a long drive by UK governments to squeeze a once universalist welfare regime into a system of discrimination. Here, analysts from MigrationWork describe how the idea of ‘(un)deservingness’ has been applied since Thatcher and the miner’s strike to subvert the principle of universal entitlement, in parallel on two fronts: class and nationality.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy
Additional Information:	© 2016 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	24 Mar 2017 14:32
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 20:30
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/70686

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