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Migration and Healthcare Reforms in Spain: Symbolic Politics, Converging Outputs, Oppositions from the Field

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Migrants’ healthcare entitlement represents a conflictive issue in the political battlefield, with research pointing towards the determinant role of party politics in determining policy outputs. Addressing the 2012 healthcare reform and 2018 counter-reform adopted in Spain by a right-wing and left-wing government respectively and drawing on qualitative analysis of parties’ discourses and policy measures, we argue that ideological differences along the healthcare-migration nexus were overemphasised to play symbolic politics. Partisan competition had less impact on actual outputs, while clashes between the central and regional governments, path-dependent practices and opposition from multiple venues played a central role in the policymaking process.

Source: South European Society & Politics

DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2020.1769342

Authors: María Bruquetas-Callejo, Roberta Perna

Institutions: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos

Language: English

Topic: Migration, Racism, and Human Rights

Subfield: Health

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W3036301134

FWCI: 1.107

Cites: 44

Cited by: 15

Related to: 10