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 debates for immigrant and immigrant-origin communities across Europe.
Author(s): Michael Bommes
Edition: 1
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 304
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Tables and figures......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
Series editors’ preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
1 Introduction......Page 15
Note......Page 25
Introduction......Page 27
Social citizenship and multiculturalism......Page 29
Social citizenship, ethno-linguistic diversity and the post-war welfare state......Page 31
Multiculturalism and social citizenship in the contemporary era......Page 35
Substate nationalism and social citizenship......Page 39
Conclusions and reflections......Page 44
Notes......Page 46
Introduction......Page 48
The modern state and territory......Page 51
The welfare state and territorial inclusion......Page 54
Migration: the dilemma of territoriality......Page 56
Conclusion......Page 58
Notes......Page 61
Introduction......Page 65
The Keynesian welfare state......Page 67
Crisis tendencies, responses and transformations of the KWS......Page 73
The dynamics of welfare state transformation......Page 75
The impact of European integration......Page 78
The dilemmas of social mobilisation for social citizenship......Page 80
Notes......Page 82
Introduction......Page 85
The Marshallian triptych reversed: a puzzle......Page 86
France......Page 90
Germany......Page 91
The Netherlands......Page 92
Equal access to education and training......Page 93
Political rights......Page 94
When rules facilitate the stealth of the executive......Page 95
The role of the legal sphere......Page 97
Conclusion......Page 99
Notes......Page 100
Introduction......Page 103
The ‘social construction’ of biographies through organisations......Page 104
Welfare states and the ‘social deviation’ of migrants......Page 107
Ethnic German immigration and changing welfare state positions......Page 109
Ethnic Germans, labour migrants and changing relations between the state and community of welfare receivers......Page 116
Conclusion......Page 118
Notes......Page 120
Introduction: immigration and immigrant policy......Page 122
Limiting rights: a comparative perspective......Page 124
What makes immigration legitimate?......Page 125
How to stop immigration?......Page 130
From a ‘threshold of tolerance’ to ‘zero immigration’......Page 136
Civil disobedience and the limits of control......Page 137
A ‘new republican pact’......Page 141
Conclusion: shifting strategies for control......Page 143
Notes......Page 145
Introduction......Page 146
The politicisation of asylum......Page 147
Asylum seekers and access to welfare benefits......Page 151
The 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act......Page 152
The voucher system......Page 155
The dispersal scheme......Page 156
Conclusion......Page 157
Notes......Page 158
Introduction......Page 160
Securing law enforcement and comprehensive exclusion: retention and detention......Page 161
Cutting opportunities for social integration: restrictions on liberties and economic rights after admission to the territory......Page 165
Freedom of movement within the host states’ territory......Page 166
Choice of residence......Page 167
Work......Page 169
Refusing state-funded integration: restrictions on access to welfare state benefits......Page 170
Social assistance......Page 171
Health care......Page 175
Conclusion......Page 176
Notes......Page 179
Introduction......Page 181
The legal-institutional framework......Page 182
The foreign resident population......Page 183
Immigrants’ insertion in the informal economy......Page 186
The building and construction industry: the nexus of the principal migratory dynamic......Page 189
The 1992 and 1996 regularisations......Page 191
Conclusion......Page 196
Notes......Page 198
Introduction......Page 200
Legal background......Page 201
Economic rationale for intra-Community posting of employees......Page 202
Development in employee postings......Page 205
Effects of employee posting in Germany......Page 207
Political reaction: the debate on the Foreign Employees Posting Act......Page 212
Conclusion......Page 215
Introduction......Page 219
Europeanising migrant social inclusion......Page 220
The EU context......Page 222
The migrant inclusion agenda......Page 226
The Amsterdam Treaty and its aftermath......Page 229
Arguing for inclusion......Page 232
Conclusion......Page 234
Notes......Page 235
Introduction......Page 236
The opening of transnational social spaces......Page 238
Comparing Islam in France and Germany......Page 243
Relations between church and state......Page 244
The decentralisation of political power......Page 245
Nationality laws......Page 246
The widening of biographical options through transnational Islam......Page 248
Conclusion......Page 253
Notes......Page 254
14 Conclusion......Page 257
References......Page 263
Index......Page 289
