Full Description
This timely book explores how Northern European countries have sought to balance their welfare states with increased levels of migration from low-income countries outside the EU. Using case studies of the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden, leading scholars analyse the varying approaches to this so-called 'progressive dilemma'.
Providing an in-depth analysis of the relationship between public policies and the flow of migrants into these Northern European states, the book considers which destination-country policies most attract asylum seekers and other migrants. Chapters explore how the four states have responded to increased levels of immigration, examining their handling of issues related to integrating admitted applicants into the labour market, educating the children of immigrants, and naturalisation. Concluding with an investigation into contemporary public consensus regarding migrant selection, based on original survey experiments, the book sheds light on an issue that has become both politically and academically salient in Europe since the late 20th century.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this expansive book contributes to the emerging field of research in the intersection between European migration studies and welfare studies. Its examination of the states' varying responses to increased migration will be of significant interest to researchers, policymakers, and public intellectuals in Northern Europe and beyond.
Contents
Contents:
Preface xiii
1 Migration and Northern European welfare states 1
Christian Albrekt Larsen
2 Modelling the inflow of asylum seekers into Northern
Europe: are access to generous welfare benefits and other
policies affecting destination choice? 23
Anna Diop-Christensen and Lanciné E.N. Diop
3 Asylum seekers' social rights while waiting: comparative
insights from Denmark, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands 49
Karen Nielsen Breidahl
4 Labour market policies and refugees: the case of Denmark,
Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany 64
Rasmus Lind Ravn, Emma Ek Österberg and Trine Lund Thomsen
5 Education policies and the dilemmas concerning migrant
students in the Northern European welfare states: the case
of mother-tongue instruction 95
Nanna Ramsing Enemark, Jin Hui Li and Mette Buchardt
6 Memories of recognition in school: a survey of young adult
immigrant descendants in Denmark and Sweden 110
Kristian Kriegbaum Jensen and Tore Vincents Olsen
7 From convergence to divergence? The evolvement of
North European citizenship politics 125
Kristian Kriegbaum Jensen
8 Public opinion about migrant selection in Northern Europe 141
Troels Fage Hedegaard and Christian Albrekt Larsen
9 Revisiting the progressive dilemma 161
Christian Albrekt Larsen
References 185
Index
