Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What's unique about immigration in Europe?
- 2 Europe's immigration challenge in demographic perspective
- 3 Migration into OECD countries 1990–2000
- 4 Divergent patterns in immigrant earnings across European destinations
- 5 Economic consequences of immigration in Europe
- 6 Occupational status of immigrants in cross-national perspective: A multilevel analysis of seventeen Western societies
- 7 Immigrants, unemployment, and Europe's varying welfare regimes
- 8 How different are immigrants? A cross-country and cross-survey analysis of educational achievement
- 9 Immigration, education, and the Turkish second generation in five European nations: A comparative study
- 10 Managing transnational Islam: Muslims and the state in Western Europe
- 11 Migration mobility in European diasporic space
- 12 The new migratory Europe: Towards a proactive immigration policy?
- 13 European immigration in the people's court
- 14 The politics of immigration in France, Britain, and the United States: A transatlantic comparison
- 15 “Useful” Gastarbeiter, burdensome asylum seekers, and the second wave of welfare retrenchment: Exploring the nexus between migration and the welfare state
- 16 The European Union dimension: Supranational integration, free movement of persons, and immigration politics
- 17 The effectiveness of governments’ attempts to control unwanted migration
- Index
- References
7 - Immigrants, unemployment, and Europe's varying welfare regimes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What's unique about immigration in Europe?
- 2 Europe's immigration challenge in demographic perspective
- 3 Migration into OECD countries 1990–2000
- 4 Divergent patterns in immigrant earnings across European destinations
- 5 Economic consequences of immigration in Europe
- 6 Occupational status of immigrants in cross-national perspective: A multilevel analysis of seventeen Western societies
- 7 Immigrants, unemployment, and Europe's varying welfare regimes
- 8 How different are immigrants? A cross-country and cross-survey analysis of educational achievement
- 9 Immigration, education, and the Turkish second generation in five European nations: A comparative study
- 10 Managing transnational Islam: Muslims and the state in Western Europe
- 11 Migration mobility in European diasporic space
- 12 The new migratory Europe: Towards a proactive immigration policy?
- 13 European immigration in the people's court
- 14 The politics of immigration in France, Britain, and the United States: A transatlantic comparison
- 15 “Useful” Gastarbeiter, burdensome asylum seekers, and the second wave of welfare retrenchment: Exploring the nexus between migration and the welfare state
- 16 The European Union dimension: Supranational integration, free movement of persons, and immigration politics
- 17 The effectiveness of governments’ attempts to control unwanted migration
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Both immigration and immigrants have been high on the political agenda in many European countries for a few decades. In recent years the tone of these debates has become harsher and more negative towards immigrants, and we have observed a tightening of policies related to immigration and immigrants. Arguably, the main policy consequence of these actions has been a decrease in social rights for immigrants and asylum seekers, while refugees' social rights have remained strong in most rich nations. Prior to this period, immigration scholars (Soysal 1994; Guiraudon 2000) had observed an expansion of immigrants' social rights.
The focus of this chapter is on outcomes for immigrants in six countries that are characterized by different welfare settings: Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The inclusion of Canada and the United States in the analysis offers some broader comparative perspective on European experiences. The central theme of this chapter is the relation between welfare states and outcomes for immigrants in the socio-economic domain, with a focus on poverty and labor market participation. In the chapter, I compare outcomes for immigrants with outcomes for the non-immigrant population, and attempt to estimate the distance between the two groups. Large differences between the two groups can be considered an indicator of failing integration in the socio-economic domain (see also chapter 15 here).
The second part of the chapter addresses the consequences of weak labor market attachment and examines the relationship between unemployment and poverty.
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- Immigration and the Transformation of Europe , pp. 172 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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