Immigrants and Poverty: The Role of Labour Market and Welfare State Access [Paperback]

Combining the literatures on welfare systems and immigration policies in new and innovative ways, Beatrice Eugster shows that the composition of the immigrant population and immigrants varying social rights condition the impact of a countrys labour market and welfare system on immigrants poverty. This book is a must-read for everybody interested in the socio-economic integration of immigrants and welfare chauvinism.Situated at the intersection of literatures on welfare regimes and immigration regimes, this comprehensive and nuanced study explores how social rights affect the incidence of poverty among immigrants in advanced countries. Cleverly, Eugster exploits variation between categories of immigrants as well as variation between countries to advance novel arguments. By focusing our attention on how immigrants are faring, her book represents a refreshing corrective to the current preoccupation with the implications of immigration for the fortunes and attitudes of natives.Integrating insights from the welfare state literature, the migration literature and the study on welfare chauvinism, Eugster provides a meticulous study on how institutional arrangements shape the integration of both forced and voluntary immigrants. Based on an original dataset on migrants social rights and poverty risks in advanced societies, she finds the poverty risks of immigrants are strongly dependent on the extent of social rights in their new countries. Immigrants and Poverty enhances our understanding of how the integration of both voluntary and involuntary migrants can succeed and provides a starting point for policy making. In times of heated politicization of migration to advanced societies, this book is a must read for scholars and policy makers and will have a profound impact in academic research and public policy making.Immigration and Poverty examines how advanced industrialised countries integrate immigrants into the labour market and welfare state and how this influences il#U