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Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare State - A European Dilemma (Paperback)
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Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare State - A European Dilemma (Paperback)
Series: European Societies
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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 established
welfare 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 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 overall processes 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 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 which compare 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 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 also seek
to contribute to our growing knowledge of what remains in many
respects a sociologically unknown continent. The series editor is
Colin Crouch.
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