María Bruquetas-Callejo and Roberta Perna (2020). Migration and Healthcare Reforms in Spain: Symbolic Politics, Converging Outputs, Oppositions from the Field, South European Society and Politics, 25:1, 75-98, https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2020.1769342

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.