Migration, citizenship, and the European welfare state: a European dilemma

Linking two discourses which are normally viewed separately - research on ethnic relations and immigration and the political economy of the welfare state, the authors scrutinise one of Europe's most pressing predicaments - how to integrate processes at the local and national level with those at the supra-national level

Linking two discourses which are normally viewed separately - research on ethnic relations and immigration and the political economy of the welfare state, the authors scrutinise one of Europe's most pressing predicaments - how to integrate processes at the local and national level with those at the supra-national level.

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