Migrants And Welfare States

Author : Oleksandr Ryndyk,Brigitte Suter,Gunhild Odden
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030676155

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Migration to and from Welfare States by Oleksandr Ryndyk,Brigitte Suter,Gunhild Odden Pdf

This open access book explores the role of family, public, market and third sector welfare provision for individual and households’ decisions regarding geographical mobility. It challenges the state-centred approach in research on welfare and migration by emphasising migrants’ own reflections and experiences. It asks whether and in which ways different welfare concerns are part of migrants’ decisions regarding (or aspirations for) mobility. Employing a transnational and a translocal perspective, the book addresses different forms of geographical mobility, such as immigration, emigration, and re-migration, circular and return migration. By bringing in empirical findings from across a variety of Western and non-Western contexts, the book challenges the Eurocentric focus in current debates and contributes to a more nuanced and more integrated global account of the welfare-migration nexus.

Author : Michael Bommes,Andrew Geddes
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780415223720

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Immigration and Welfare by Michael Bommes,Andrew Geddes Pdf

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

Author : Karen N. Breidahl,Troels F. Hedegaard,Kristian Kongshøj,Christian A. Larsen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800376342

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Migrants’ Attitudes and the Welfare State by Karen N. Breidahl,Troels F. Hedegaard,Kristian Kongshøj,Christian A. Larsen Pdf

Analysing two major surveys of 14 different migrant groups connected to Danish register data, this insightful book explores what migrants think of the welfare state. It investigates the question of whether migrants assimilate to the ideas of extensive state intervention in markets and families or if they retain the attitudes and values that are prevalent in their countries of origin.

Author : Christian A. Larsen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1803923725

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Migrants and Welfare States by Christian A. Larsen Pdf

This timely book explores how Northern European countries have sought to balance their welfare states with increased levels of migration from low-income countries outside the EU. Using case studies of the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden, leading scholars analyse the varying approaches to this so-called 'progressive dilemma'. Providing an in-depth analysis of the relationship between public policies and the flow of migrants into these Northern European states, the book considers which destination-country policies most attract asylum seekers and other migrants. Chapters explore how the four states have responded to increased levels of immigration, examining their handling of issues related to integrating admitted applicants into the labour market, educating the children of immigrants, and naturalisation. Concluding with an investigation into contemporary public consensus regarding migrant selection, based on original survey experiments, the book sheds light on an issue that has become both politically and academically salient in Europe since the late 20th century. Interdisciplinary in scope, this expansive book contributes to the emerging field of research in the intersection between European migration studies and welfare studies. Its examination of the states' varying responses to increased migration will be of significant interest to researchers, policymakers, and public intellectuals in Northern Europe and beyond.

Author : Assaf Razin,Efraim Sadka,Benjarong Suwankiri
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262298377

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Migration and the Welfare State by Assaf Razin,Efraim Sadka,Benjarong Suwankiri Pdf

Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman once noted that free immigration cannot coexist with a welfare state. A welfare state with open borders might turn into a haven for poor immigrants, which would place such a fiscal burden on the state that native-born voters would support less-generous benefits or restricted immigration, or both. And yet a welfare state with an aging population might welcome young skilled immigrants. The preferences of the native-born population toward migration depend on the skill and age composition of the immigrants, and migration policies in a political-economy framework may be tailored accordingly. This book examines how social benefits-immigrations political economy conflicts are resolved, with an empirical application to data from Europe and the developed countries, integrating elements from population, international, public, and political economics into a unified static and dynamic framework. Using a static analytical framework to examine intra-generational distribution, the authors first focus on the skill composition of migrants in both free and restricted immigration policy regimes, drawing on empirical research from EU-15 and non-EU-15 states. The authors then offer theoretical analyses of similar issues in dynamic overlapping generations settings, studying not only intragenerational but also intergenerational aspects, including old-young dependency ratios and skilled-unskilled conflicts. Finally, they examine overall gains from or costs of migration in both host and source countries and the race to the bottom argument of tax competition between states in the presence of free migration.

Author : Karen Fog Olwig,Birgitte Romme Larsen,Mikkel Rytter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135704322

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Migration, Family and the Welfare State by Karen Fog Olwig,Birgitte Romme Larsen,Mikkel Rytter Pdf

Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detailed ethnographic studies. Chapters examine discourses, policies and programs of integration in the three receiving societies, studying how these are experienced by migrant and refugee families as they seek to realize the hopes and ambitions for a better life that led them to leave their country of origin. The three Scandinavian countries have had parallel histories as welfare societies receiving increasing numbers of migrants and refugees after World War II, and yet they have reacted in dissimilar ways to the presence of foreigners, with Denmark developing tough immigration policies and nationalist integration requirements, Sweden asserting itself as a relatively open country with an official multicultural policy, and Norway taking a middle position. The book analyses the impact of these differences and similarities on immigrants, refugees and their descendants across three intersecting themes: integration as a welfare state project; integration as political discourse and practice; and integration as immigrants’ and refugees’ quest for improvement and belonging. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Author : Karen Fog Olwig,Birgitte Romme Larsen,Mikkel Rytter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135704391

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Migration, Family and the Welfare State by Karen Fog Olwig,Birgitte Romme Larsen,Mikkel Rytter Pdf

Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detailed ethnographic studies. Chapters examine discourses, policies and programs of integration in the three receiving societies, studying how these are experienced by migrant and refugee families as they seek to realize the hopes and ambitions for a better life that led them to leave their country of origin. The three Scandinavian countries have had parallel histories as welfare societies receiving increasing numbers of migrants and refugees after World War II, and yet they have reacted in dissimilar ways to the presence of foreigners, with Denmark developing tough immigration policies and nationalist integration requirements, Sweden asserting itself as a relatively open country with an official multicultural policy, and Norway taking a middle position. The book analyses the impact of these differences and similarities on immigrants, refugees and their descendants across three intersecting themes: integration as a welfare state project; integration as political discourse and practice; and integration as immigrants’ and refugees’ quest for improvement and belonging. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Author : Crepaz, Markus M.L.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839104572

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Handbook on Migration and Welfare by Crepaz, Markus M.L. Pdf

Bringing together prominent scholars in the field, this Handbook provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex interrelationship between migration and welfare. Chapters further examine the effects of emigration on sending societies exploring issues such as the impact of remittances, diasporas, and skill deterioration as a result of human capital flight on capacity building and on economic and political development more generally.

Author : Assaf Razin,Efraim Sadka
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262264366

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The Decline of the Welfare State by Assaf Razin,Efraim Sadka Pdf

An analysis of the welfare state from a political economy perspective that examines the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on industrialized economies. In The Decline of the Welfare State, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka use a political economy framework to analyze the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare state benefits as we know them. Their timely analysis, supported by a unified theoretical framework and empirical findings, demonstrates how the combined forces of demographic change and globalization will make it impossible for the welfare state to maintain itself on its present scale. In much of the developed world, the proportion of the population aged 60 and over is expected to rise dramatically over the coming years—from 35 percent in 2000 to a projected 66 percent in 2050 in the European Union and from 27 percent to 47 percent in the United States—which may necessitate higher tax burdens and greater public debt to maintain national pension systems at current levels. Low-skill migration produces additional strains on welfare-state financing because such migrants typically receive benefits that exceed what they pay in taxes. Higher capital taxation, which could potentially be used to finance welfare benefits, is made unlikely by international tax competition brought about by globalization of the capital market. Applying a political economy model and drawing on empirical data from the EU and the United States, the authors draw an unconventional and provocative conclusion from these developments. They argue that the political pressure from both aging and migrant populations indirectly generates political processes that favor trimming rather than expanding the welfare state. The combined pressures of aging, migration, and globalization will shift the balance of political power and generate public support from the majority of the voting population for cutting back traditional welfare state benefits.

Author : Mårten Blix
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Welfare state
ISBN : 9781786432957

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Digitalization, Immigration and the Welfare State by Mårten Blix Pdf

The Swedish welfare state finds itself in the middle of two major upheavals: The impact of technology and immigration. Having taken in more refugees per capita than most other countries, the pillars of the welfare state are being shaken. Digital technologies are set to strengthen already existing trends towards job and wage polarization. This book explores how these trends are more pronounced due to the rigidity of the labor market and the comprehensiveness of tax-financed welfare services.

Author : Marry-Anne Karlsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000424928

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Migration Control and Access to Welfare by Marry-Anne Karlsen Pdf

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Over the past decades, European states have increasingly limited irregular migrants’ access to welfare services as a tool for migration control. Still, irregular migrants tend to have access to certain basic services, although frequently of a subordinate, arbitrary, and unstable kind. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Norway, this book sheds light on ambiguities in the state’s response to irregular migration that simultaneously cut through law, policy, and practice. Carefully examining the complex interplay between the geopolitical management of territory and the biopolitical management of populations, the book argues that irregularised migrants should be understood as precariously included in the welfare state rather than simply excluded. The notion of precarious inclusion highlights the insecure and unpredictable nature of the inclusive practises, underscoring how limited access to welfare does not necessarily contradict restrictive migration policies. Taking the situated encounters between irregularised migrants and service providers as its starting point for exploring broader questions of state sovereignty, biopolitics, and borders, Migration Control and Access to Welfare offers insightful analyses of the role of life, territory, and temporality in contemporary politics. As such, it will appeal to scholars of migration and border studies, gender research, social anthropology, geography, and sociology.

Author : Yeoh, Brenda S.A.,Collins, Francis L.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789904017

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Handbook on Transnationalism by Yeoh, Brenda S.A.,Collins, Francis L. Pdf

Providing a critical overview of transnationalism as a concept, this Handbook looks at its growing influence in an era of high-speed, globalised interconnectivity. It offers crucial insights on how approaches to transnationalism have altered how we think about social life from the family to the nation-state, whilst also challenging the predominance of methodologically nationalist analyses.

Author : Edward A. Koning
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487523428

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Immigration and the Politics of Welfare Exclusion by Edward A. Koning Pdf

Why do some governments try to limit immigrants' access to social benefits and entitlements while others do not? Through an in-depth study of Sweden, Canada, and the Netherlands, Immigration and the Politics of Welfare Exclusion maps the politics of immigrants' social rights in Western democracies. To achieve this goal, Edward A. Koning analyzes policy documents, public opinion surveys, data on welfare use, parliamentary debates, and interviews with politicians and key players in the three countries. Koning's findings are three-fold. First, the politics of immigrant welfare exclusion have little to do with economic factors and are more about general opposition to immigration and multiculturalism. Second, proposals for exclusion are particularly likely to arise in a political climate that incentivizes politicians to appear "tough" on immigration. Finally, the success of anti-immigrant politicians in bringing about exclusionary reforms depends on the response of the political mainstream, and the extent to which immigrants' rights are protected in national and international legal frameworks. A timely investigation into an increasingly pressing subject, Immigration and the Politics of Welfare Exclusion will be essential reading for scholars and students of political science, comparative politics, and immigration studies.

Author : Victoria Chorny,Rob Euwals,Kees Folmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : MINN:31951D02681960Y

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Immigration Policy and Welfare State Design by Victoria Chorny,Rob Euwals,Kees Folmer Pdf

Author : Markus M. L. Crepaz
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472069767

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Trust Beyond Borders by Markus M. L. Crepaz Pdf

How immigration influences popular concepts of citizenship and civic trust