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

Overview

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. -;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 established welfare statefacing 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.

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Bio of Carl-Ulrik Schierup

Carl-Ulrik Schierup is at Professor of Sociology of Work, National Institute for Working Life and Department of Ethnic Studies, Linkoping.

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Imprint

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Filesize

3.13 MB

Number of Pages

336

eBook ISBN

9780191521140