Immigration and Welfare

Abstract

1. Introduction: immigration and the welfare state Michael Bommes and Andrew Geddes2. Looking in three directions: migration and the European welfare state in comparative perspective Keith G. Banting3. Welfare state and territory Jost Halfmann4. European welfare state transformation and migration Magnus Ryner5. The Marshallian tryptic reordered: the role of courts and beureaucracies in furthering immigrants' social rights Virginie Guiraudon6. National welfare state, biography and migration: labour migrants, ethnic Germans and the re-ascription of welfare state membership Michael Bommes7. Immigration and the politics of rights: the French case in comparative perspective James F. Hollifield8. Denying access: asylum seekers and welfare benefits in the UK Andrew Geddes9. Europeanising the reception of asylum seekers: the opposite of welfare state politics Roland Bank10. Immigrants' social citizenship and labour market dynamics in Portugal Maria Ioannis Baganha11. Temporary transnational labour migration in an integrating Europe and the challenge to the German welfare state Uwe Hunger12. 'Thin Europeanisation': the social rights of migrants in an integrating Europe Andrew Geddes13. Unexpected biographies: deconstructing the national welfare state? Valerie Amiraux14. Conclusion: defining and redefining the community of legitimate welfare receivers Michael Bommes and Andrew Geddes