Immigration and Welfare avoids simplistic and unhelpful notions of the'threat'of immigration to analyse the effects of immigration on national welfare states in an integrating Europe. It explores new migration challenges, such as asylum seekers and Europe's increasingly restrictive immigration policies, and looks at the implications of such debat

Immigration and Welfare: Challenging the Borders of the Welfare State (Routledge/Eui Studies in the Political Economy of Welfare, 1)

michael bommes and andrew geddes; Bommes, Michael; Geddes, Andrew, 1965-

Andrew Geddes; Michael Bommes

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare -- 1, London, New York, England, 2000

Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare, London, 2005

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

January 18, 2001

Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-278) and index

Bringing Together A Panel Of International Experts To Examine How International Immigration Challenges The Borders Of National Welfare States, This Volume Also Explores The Ways In Which This Challenge Affects The Dynamics Of Inclusion And Exclusion Within Welfare States. Immigration And The Welfare State / Michael Bommes And Andrew Geddes -- Looking In Three Directions : Migration And The European Welfare State In Comparative Perspective / Keith G. Banting -- Welfare State And Territory / Jost Halfmann -- European Welfare State Transformation And Migration / Magnus Ryner -- The Marshallian Triptych Reordered : The Role Of Courts And Bureaucracies In Furthering Migrants' Social Rights / Virginie Guiraudon -- National Welfare State, Biography And Migration : Labour Migrants, Ethnic Germans And The Re-ascription Of Welfare State Membership / Michael Bommes -- Immigration And The Politics Of Rights : The French Case In Comparative Perspective / James F. Hollifield -- Denying Access : Asylum Seekers And Welfare Benefits In The Uk / Andrew Geddes -- Europeanising The Reception Of Asylum Seekers : The Opposite Of Welfare State Politics / Roland Bank -- Immigrants' Social Citizenship And Labour Market Dynamics In Portugal / Maria Ioannis Baganha -- Temporary Transnational Laboiur Migration In An Integrating Europe And The Challenge To The German Welfare State / Uwe Hunger -- Thin Europeanisation : The Social Rights Of Migrants In An Integrating Europe / Andrew Geddes -- Unexpected Biographies : Deconstructing The National Welfare State? / Valérie Amiraux -- Defining And Redefining The Community Of Legitimate Welfare Receivers / Michael Bommes And Andrew Geddes. Edited By Michael Bommes And Andrew Geddes. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [254]-278) And Index.

Contributors to the book consider pertinent and at times controversial issues such as; the increasingly restrictive immigration policies across Europe; whether immigration erodes the national welfare state; how asylum seekers are systematically excluded from the welfare system; whether new immigrants are perceived as undeserving of welfare state benefits; whether new migration within the EU undermines national welfare states. Issues are addressed which are central to current social and political debates regarding European immigration policies, welfare state restructuring and European integration. It also looks at the implications of such debates for immigrant and immigrant-origin communities across Europe

This text avoids the notions of the "threat" of immigration to analyze the effects of immigration on national welfare states in an integrating Europe. It explores new migration challenges such as asylum-seeking, as well as examining the impact of free movement within the EU on migration and welfare

This book's sub-title - Challenging the Borders of the Welfare State - reflects commonly held assumption about relations between immigration and the welfare state.

This timely and original book explores new migration challenges such as asylum seekers and Europe's increasingly restrictive immigration policies.

xi, 291 pages : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-278) and index

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