Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare State: A European Dilemma by Ca

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This is a key new analysis of two major European issues: the impact of immigration and ethnic diversity on the nation state, and the declining capacity of the welfare state to maintain social equity. Detailed case-studies demonstrate the growing significance of the EU's role in formulating policy on migration, integration, discrimination, asylum, and racism.

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This book provides a major new examination of the current dilemmas of liberal anti-racist policies in European societies, linking two discourses that are normally quite separate in social science: immigration and ethnic relations research on the one hand, and the political economy of the welfare state on the other. The authors rephrase Gunnar Myrdal's questions in An American Dilemma with reference to Europe's current dual crisis - that of the establishedwelfare state facing a declining capacity to maintain equity, and that of the nation state unable to accommodate incremental ethnic diversity. They compare developments across the European Union with thecontemporary US experience of poverty, race, and class. They highlight the major moral-political dilemma emerging across the EU out of the discord between declared ideals of citizenship and actual exclusion from civil, political, and social rights. Pursuing this overall European predicament, the authors provide a critical scrutiny of the EU's growing policy involvement in the fields of international migration, integration, discrimination, and racism. They relate current policy issues to overallprocesses of economic integration and efforts to develop a European 'social dimension'. Drawing on case-study analysis of migration, the changing welfare state, and labour markets in the UK, Germany,Italy, and Sweden, the book charts the immense variety of Europe's social and political landscape. Trends of divergence and convergence between single countries are related to the European Union's emerging policies for diversity and social inclusion. It is, among other things, the plurality of national histories and contemporary trajectories that makes the European Union's predicament of migration, welfare, and citizenship different from the American experience. These reasons also account inpart for why it is exceedingly difficult to advance concerted and consistent approaches to one of the most pressing policy issues of our time. Very few of the existing sociological texts whichcompare different European societies on specific topics are accessible to a broad range of scholars and students. The European Societies series will help to fill this gap in the literature, and attempt to answer questions such as: Is there really such a thing as a 'European model' of society? Do the economic and political integration processes of the European Union also imply convergence in more general aspects of social life, such afamily or religious behaviour? What do the societies of Western Europe have in common with those further to the East? This series will cover the main social institutions, although not every author will cover the full range of Europeancountries. As well as surveying existing knowledge in a manner useful to students, each book will also seek to contribute to our growing knowledge of what remains in many respects a sociologically unknown continent. The series editor is Colin Crouch.

Author Biography

Carl-Ulrik Schierup is Director for MERGE at the University of Umea, Sweden.

Table of Contents

1: Understanding the Dual Crisis2: The 'Migration' Crisis and the Genesis of Europe's New Diversity3: Migration, Citizenship, and the European Social a Modeliberalism4: Transatlantic Convergence or Transatlantic Split?d Elements for a Comparative Framework5: Britain's 'Neo-American' Trajectory6: Germany: Immigration and Social Exclusion in ac Declining Welfare State7: Economic Miracle and Political Limbo: Italy and its 'Extracommunitarians'8: 'Paradise Lost'? Migration and the Changing Swedish Welfare State9: 'Bloody Subcontracting' in the Network Society: its Migration and Post-Fordist Restructuring Across the European Union10: What Creed in Europe?

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Links two fields of study which are normally viewed separately: research on ethnic relations and immigration, and the political economy of the welfare state

Long Description

This book provides a major new examination of the current dilemmas of liberal anti-racist policies in European societies, linking two discourses that are normally quite separate in social science: immigration and ethnic relations research on the one hand, and the political economy of the welfare state on the other. The authors rephrase Gunnar Myrdal's questions in An American Dilemma with reference to Europe's current dual crisis - that of the establishedwelfare state facing a declining capacity to maintain equity, and that of the nation state unable to accommodate incremental ethnic diversity. They compare developments across the European Union with the contemporary US experience of poverty, race, and class. They highlight the major moral-political dilemmaemerging across the EU out of the discord between declared ideals of citizenship and actual exclusion from civil, political, and social rights. Pursuing this overall European predicament, the authors provide a critical scrutiny of the EU's growing policy involvement in the fields of international migration, integration, discrimination, and racism. They relate current policy issues to overall processes of economic integration and efforts to develop a European 'social dimension'. Drawing oncase-study analysis of migration, the changing welfare state, and labour markets in the UK, Germany, Italy, and Sweden, the book charts the immense variety of Europe's social and political landscape. Trends of divergence and convergence between single countries are related to the European Union's emergingpolicies for diversity and social inclusion. It is, among other things, the plurality of national histories and contemporary trajectories that makes the European Union's predicament of migration, welfare, and citizenship different from the American experience. These reasons also account in part for why it is exceedingly difficult to advance concerted and consistent approaches to one of the most pressing policy issues of our time. Very few of the existing sociological texts whichcompare different European societies on specific topics are accessible to a broad range of scholars and students. The European Societies series will help to fill this gap in the literature, and attempt to answer questions such as: Is there really such a thing as a 'European model' of society? Do theeconomic and political integration processes of the European Union also imply convergence in more general aspects of social life, such a family or religious behaviour? What do the societies of Western Europe have in common with those further to the East? This series will cover the main social institutions, although not every author will cover the full range of European countries. As well as surveying existing knowledge in a manner useful to students, each book will alsoseek to contribute to our growing knowledge of what remains in many respects a sociologically unknown continent. The series editor is Colin Crouch.

Promotional "Headline"

1. Understanding the Dual Crisis 2. The 'Migration' Crisis and the Genesis of Europe's New Diversity 3. Still a European Social Model? From a Vision of a 'Social Europe' to the European Reality of Embedded Neo-liberalism 4. A Common Market, a Common 'Problem': Migration and European Integration Before and After the Launching of the Single Market 5. A Superabundance of Contradictions: The European Union's Post-Amsterdam Policies on MIgrant 'Integration', Labour Immigration, Asylum, and Illegal Immigration 6. Political Economies of Exclusion: Transatlantic Convergence or Transatlantic Split? 7. Britain's 'Neo-American' Trajectory 8. Germany, Immigration, and Social Exclusion in a Declining Welfare State 9. Economic Miracle and Political Limbo: Italy and its 'Extracommunitarians' 10. 'Paradise Lost'? Migration and the Changing Swedish Welfare State 11. 'Bloody Subcontracting' in the Network Society: Migration and Post-Fordist Restructuring Across the European Union 12. What Creed in Europe?

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Links two fields of study which are normally viewed separately: research on ethnic relations and immigration, and the political economy of the welfare stateCritical scrutiny of one of Europe's most pressing predicaments: how to integrate processes at the local and national level with those at the supra-national levelDetailed case-study analysis of migration, welfare, and citizenship in four European coutnries - UK, Germany, Italy, and Sweden

Details ISBN0199284024 Author Stephen Castles Short Title MIGRATION CITIZENSHIP & THE EU Series European Societies Language English ISBN-10 0199284024 ISBN-13 9780199284023 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2006 Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle A European Dilemma Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Affiliation Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney DOI 10.1604/9780199284023 UK Release Date 2006-03-16 AU Release Date 2006-03-16 NZ Release Date 2006-03-16 Illustrator Qu Lan Edited by Raju Ramchandran Birth 1927 Death 1851 Position Senior Lecturer Qualifications PhD Pages 344 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2006-03-16 Alternative 9780198280521 DEWEY 361.65094 Illustrations 16 figures, 8 tables Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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