Demographic conspiracy theories double as cover for dismantling welfare states.

Evidence

Last but not least, Eurabia also serves to legitimise the broader neocon social and economic agenda, since Europe’s coming demise is partly perceived to be the result of an ageing European population’s fatal addiction to an ‘unsustainable’ social model based on high pensions, early retirement and social security benefits. According to the arguments put forward by Steyn, Ferguson and others, these doddering Europeans need to sustain high levels of immigration in order to continue living in this economic fool’s paradise, which only brings the era of barbarism closer, since the majority of immigrants come from neighbouring Muslim countries. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 54

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes arguments that anti-immigrant rhetoric often functions as a vehicle for anti-welfare politics, as in analyses of austerity discourse.