Author name: Dr. Harris Hassan

Welfare chauvinism has been institutionalized as a policy in various ways by the Far-Right parties in France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Hungary, and Poland. From angry opposition rhetoric to a gradual shift towards actual governing programmes based on deliberate exclusion of migrants from social benefits.

Once opposed to the idea of welfare, they have over the decades transformed into defenders of the welfare state — the Far-Rights. However, their political manifestation stresses restricting welfare benefits to native citizens, exploiting Neoliberal dislocation and migration anxieties to build working-class electoral coalitions.