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Bommes, Michael; Geddes, Andrew

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“…This financial and social friction between migration and the welfare state is sometimes referred to as the migration/welfare-state paradox (Bommes and Geddes, 2000; Banting and Kymlicka, 2006; Brochmann and Hagelund, 2012; Carmel et al ., 2012; Koning, 2013). Recent years have seen an increasing number of studies on elements of the migration/welfare-state paradox, most of which zoom in on welfare state support and on what people – especially autochthones – think about the rights of immigrants within the welfare state (e.g.…”

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Earned Citizenship: Labour Migrants’ Views on the Welfare State

Kremer

2016

J. Soc. Pol.

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In policy and research, migration and the welfare state are often seen as being at odds. When ‘strangers’ enter the welfare state, the financial and social foundations of solidarity are said to crumble. A prominent question, therefore, is whether immigrants should have the same rights as the autochthonous population. Within this frame, migrants are often ‘objects’. This paper reports on qualitative research exploring what different types of labour migrants themselves think about the Dutch welfare state in general, and about giving social rights to immigrants, in particular. The differences in national backgrounds and levels of education in labour migrants’ views are striking: lower-educated Turkish and Polish migrants show little interest in the welfare state, whereas higher-educated Western Europeans seek welfare state security. Higher-educated Indian migrants find the welfare state a totally new concept, although after a while some come to appreciate it. A significant proportion of the questioned migrants, moreover, believe that people should not be entitled to welfare state rights immediately upon arrival. They favour ‘earned citizenship’, with the welfare state being a ‘contribution state’, but stress that migrants should not have to wait too long before being entitled to such rights. The paper also suggests new topics for further research in the increasingly important field of migration, diversity and the welfare state.

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Section: Introduction: the Migration/welfare-state Paradoxmentioning

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Earned Citizenship: Labour Migrants’ Views on the Welfare State

Kremer

2016

J. Soc. Pol.

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“…The articulation of ethnic diversity in European societies, which occurred during the 1980s and 1990s, raised fundamental questions about the role of social work in society (Lorenz, 2006). Welfare policies had discriminatory effects, which reinforced the construction of immigrants as basically “undeserving” (Bommes and Geddes, 2000). Thus, nation state policies can come up in social work encounters with migrants, because state borders can “move” the everyday practices where the nation state project is discussed (Rigo, 2009; Balibar, 2004).…”

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Recognising forced migrants in transnational social work

Turtiainen

2018

IJMHSC

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PurposeNation states’ neoliberal policies do not regard asylum seekers and undocumented migrants as deserving of a good life. Social work in welfare states is highly connected to the policies of nation states. There is a need to address theories in social work that have a transnational focus at the local level. Axel Honneth’s recognition theory enables an approach to forced migration from the direction of personal relations and personhood itself. The core idea is that if people cannot gain recognition, this causes harm to their self-realisation. The purpose of this paper is discuss how the recognition theory overcomes a national focus in social work.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is theoretical. The relations of recognition are discussed in the context of transnational social work in welfare states with forced migrants.FindingsThe theory of recognition in social work practice with people who do not have a residence permit is best articulated by an understanding of rights concerning all the attributes of the person, i.e. as a needy being, autonomous and particular in a community.Originality/valueForced migrants’ backgrounds provide a specific backdrop for misrecognition, which may harm self-relations. The relations of recognition contribute to social work by providing the sensitivity required to evaluate the complexity of views and attitudes that affect the way we encounter service users. The relations of recognition (care, respect and esteem) give normative criteria for communication in order to take another person as a person, which, in turn, contributes to healthy self-relations of forced migrants.

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“…In the past decade, the percentage of the foreign-born population increased in many European countries, reaching rates as high as 18% (EUROSTAT, 2017). Many Europeans are divided between narratives depicting migrants and refugees as a threat to the maintenance of the welfare state and national and religious identity (Golder, 2016) versus highlighting the need to build an intercultural society with shared values and a young workforce (Bommes & Geddes, 2003). It is no coincidence that the countries in Europe with the largest influx of immigrants have expanded mentoring most vigorously.…”

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Mentoring in Context: A Comparative Study of Youth Mentoring Programs in the United States and Continental Europe

2018

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Most of the existing body of research on formal youth mentoring has focused on programs in the United States, with few inquiries into how mentoring programs have taken shape in other contexts. In this article, we compare and contrast programs in the United States and continental Europe to investigate how context shapes the ways in which programs are conceived and implemented. Concerns about inequality and delinquency have been major drivers of program expansion in the United States, while concerns about the influx of migrants into linguistically and culturally homogeneous communities have fostered the expansion of programs in continental Europe. Through a series of program comparisons, we explored differences in volunteer characteristics, target populations, and how programs and benefits are construed. Implications for implementation and future research across both contexts are discussed.

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Cited by 11 publications

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Earned Citizenship: Labour Migrants’ Views on the Welfare State

Earned Citizenship: Labour Migrants’ Views on the Welfare State

Recognising forced migrants in transnational social work

Mentoring in Context: A Comparative Study of Youth Mentoring Programs in the United States and Continental Europe

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