Europe's Immigration Challenge

Reconciling Work, Welfare and Mobility

Grete Brochmann, Elena Jurado

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781780762265
• eBook ISBN: 9780857721549
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

As the financial crisis continues to cast its long shadow over Europe, the view that immigrants compete unfairly for jobs and present an unsustainable burden on the European Social Model appears to be gathering support in some circles. But at the same time, the 'right' type of immigrant has often been perceived as a potential cure for Europe's sluggish labour markets and ailing welfare systems - especially immigrants who are young, easily employable and who arrive without family. So far, efforts to solve this conundrum - as in the UK's points-based system - have focused on increasing the selectivity of the admissions process. In this book, leading immigration experts question the effectiveness of this approach. Besides efforts to regulate the flow and rights of immigrants, they argue that governments across Europe need to devise labour market, welfare and immigration policies in a more integrated fashion.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Introduction
• 1. Migration and the Political Economy of theWelfare State: Thirty Years Later
• 2. European Movements of Labour: Challenges for European Social Models
• 3. Migration and Welfare Sustainability: The Case of Norway
• 4. Immigration in Italy: Subverting the Logic of Welfare Reform?
• 5. Responding to Employers: Skills, Shortages and Sensible Immigration Policy
• 6. European Employers and the Rediscovery of LabourMigration
• 7. Long-Term Care and Migrant Labour in the UK
• 8. Irregular Immigration and the Underground Economy in Southern Europe: Breaking the Vicious Circle
• 9. Restricting the Right to Family Migration in Denmark: When Human Rights Collide with aWelfare State under Pressure
• 10. Migration, Immigration Controls and the Fashioning of Precarious Workers
• Index