TY  - JOUR
A1  - Efthymiou, Dimitrios E.
T1  - EU immigration, welfare rights and populism: a normative appraisal of welfare populism
T2  - Global justice : theory, practice, rhetoric
N2  - Populists in the EU often call for restrictions on EU immigrants’ access to welfare rights. These calls are often demagogic and parochial. This paper aims to show what exactly is both distinct and problematic with these populist calls from a normative point of view while not necessarily reducible to demagogy and parochialism. The overall aim of the paper is not to argue that all populists call for such restrictions nor to claim that all calls for such restrictions are populist. The purpose of the paper is rather humble. It only aims to show that populist calls for restrictions on EU immigrants’ access to welfare rights are characterised by two normatively problematic arguments that target two different subsets of the citizenry: what I dub for the purpose of this paper the moralists and the immoralists. It is the way populists address these two subsets of the citizenry, as well as the fact that they could simultaneously appeal to the concerns of both groups, that makes populist approaches to welfare rights both conceptually distinct to other approaches as well as potentially politically appealing to a more diverse population of voters.
KW  - populism
KW  - migration
KW  - welfare state
KW  - social justice
KW  - European Union
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/61156
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-611565
SN  - 1835-6842
VL  - 12.2020
IS  - 2
SP  - 161
EP  - 188
PB  - The Global Justice Network
ER  -