Europe's Immigration Challenge: Reconciling Work, Welfare and Mobility

Machine generated contents note: 1. Migration and the Political Economy of the Welfare State: Thirty Years Later / Gary P. Freeman -- 2. European Movements of Labour: Challenges for European Social Models / Jon Erik Dolvik -- 3. Migration and Welfare Sustainability: The Case of Norway / Anne Skevik Grodem -- 4. Immigration in Italy: Subverting the Logic of Welfare Reform? / Giuseppe Sciortino -- 5. Responding to Employers: Skills, Shortages and Sensible Immigration Policy / Bridget Anderson -- 6. European Employers and the Rediscovery of Labour Migration / Georg Menz -- 7. Long-Term Care and Migrant Labour in the UK / Isabel Shutes -- 8. Irregular Immigration and the Underground Economy in Southern Europe: Breaking the Vicious Circle / Emilio Reyneri -- 9. Restricting the Right to Family Migration in Denmark: When Human Rights Collide with a Welfare State under Pressure / Per Mouritsen -- 10. Migration, Immigration Controls and the Fashioning of Precarious Workers / Bridget Anderson.

Annotation, 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 labor 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 labor market, welfare and immigration policies in a more integrated fashion