Welfare chauvinism

Welfare chauvinism or welfare state nationalism is the political notion that welfare benefits should be restricted to certain groups, particularly to the natives of a country as opposed to immigrants, or should be for the majority, excluding ethnic minorities.

It is used as an argument by right-wing populist parties, to connect the problems of the welfare state to immigration and welfare recipients. The focus is placed on categorising state residents in two extremes: the "nourishing" and "debilitating" and the contradiction between them in the competition for the society's resources.

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