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As the European Union faces the ongoing challenges of legitimacy,
identity, and social cohesion, an understanding of the social
purpose and direction of EU citizenship becomes increasingly vital.
This book is the first of its kind to map the development of EU
citizenship and its relation to various localities of EU
governance. From a critical political economy perspective, the
authors argue for an integrated analysis of EU citizenship, one
that considers the interrelated processes of migration, economic
transformation, and social change and the challenges they present.
As the European Union faces the ongoing challenges of
legitimacy, identity, and social cohesion, an understanding of the
social purpose and direction of EU citizenship becomes increasingly
vital. This book is the first of its kind to map the development of
EU citizenship and its relation to various localities of EU
governance. From a critical political economy perspective, the
authors argue for an integrated analysis of EU citizenship, one
that considers the interrelated processes of migration, economic
transformation, and social change and the challenges they
present.
Current migration policy is based on a seemingly neutral accounting
exercise, in which migrants contribute less in tax than they
receive in welfare assistance. A "fact" that justifies increasingly
restrictive asylum policies. Peo Hansen shows that this consensual
cost-perspective on migration is built on a flawed economic
conception of the orthodox "sound finance" doctrine prevalent in
migration research and policy. By examining migration through the
macroeconomic lens offered by modern monetary theory, Hansen is
able to demonstrate sound finance's detrimental impact on migration
policy and research, including its role in stoking the toxic debate
on migration in the European Union. More importantly, Hansen's
undertaking offers the tools with which both migration research and
migration policy could be modernized and put on a realistic
footing.
Current migration policy is based on a seemingly neutral accounting
exercise, in which migrants contribute less in tax than they
receive in welfare assistance. A "fact" that justifies increasingly
restrictive asylum policies. Peo Hansen shows that this consensual
cost-perspective on migration is built on a flawed economic
conception of the orthodox "sound finance" doctrine prevalent in
migration research and policy. By examining migration through the
macroeconomic lens offered by modern monetary theory, Hansen is
able to demonstrate sound finance's detrimental impact on migration
policy and research, including its role in stoking the toxic debate
on migration in the European Union. More importantly, Hansen's
undertaking offers the tools with which both migration research and
migration policy could be modernized and put on a realistic
footing.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
In order to think theoretically about our global age it is
important to understand how the global has been conceived
historically. 'Eurafrica' was an intellectual endeavor and
political project that from the 1920s saw Europe's future survival
- its continued role in history - as completely bound up with
Europe's successful merger with Africa. In its time the concept of
Eurafrica was tremendously influential in the process of European
integration. Today the project is largely forgotten, yet the idea
continues to influence EU policy towards its African 'partner'. The
book will recover a critical conception of the nexus between Europe
and Africa - a relationship of significance across the humanities
and social sciences. In assessing this historical concept the
authors shed light on the process of European integration, African
decolonization and the current conflictual relationship between
Europe and Africa.
In order to think theoretically about our global age it is
important to understand how the global has been conceived
historically. 'Eurafrica' was an intellectual endeavor and
political project that from the 1920s saw Europe's future survival
- its continued role in history - as completely bound up with
Europe's successful merger with Africa. In its time the concept of
Eurafrica was tremendously influential in the process of European
integration. Today the project is largely forgotten, yet the idea
continues to influence EU policy towards its African 'partner'. The
book will recover a critical conception of the nexus between Europe
and Africa - a relationship of significance across the humanities
and social sciences. In assessing this historical concept the
authors shed light on the process of European integration, African
decolonization and the current conflictual relationship between
Europe and Africa.
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.
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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