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  • To Belong or Not to Belong
    Markus M. L. Crepaz

    Trust beyond Borders, 04/2010
    Book Chapter

    From the perspective of policymakers, the findings in chapter 5 are extremely relevant: the more decommodifying national systems of welfare provision are the lower are the levels of welfare chauvinism among natives. This chapter will probe the determinants of nativist resentment and welfare chauvinism further, and it contends that two additional factors may be crucial in understanding prejudice and resentment. First, it is argued that the pattern by which foreigners are turned into citizens, that is, the type of “incorporation regime,” is important. A society with liberal immigration regimes that absorb foreigners relatively quickly blurs the distinction between insiders and