Welfare State, Citizenship And Globalization: The Debate Over Social Rights

This article focuses its discussion on "social rights" in the welfare state, stressing that, contrary to the criticism from different political positions, such rights are essential to enable the autonomy of the citizen. Therefore, been considered as rights or prerequisites for the exercise of rights, the exclusion from effective access to certain basic services implies a reduction of citizenship, not only because it reduces the range of rights, but it affects the reality of citizenship as civil and political status. Moreover, globalization and neoliberalism have led to a severe restriction on the implementation of social policies.