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Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 1)

Comparing Access to Welfare Entitlements

  • This open access book provides a comprehensive perspective on the inclusiveness of welfare states towards individuals in situation of international mobility
  • Compares EU policies and programmes in the areas of health care, unemployment, old-age pensions, family-related benefits, and guaranteed minimum resources
  • Highlights cross-country differences in the treatment of individuals with different mobility statuses

Part of the book series: IMISCOE Research Series (IMIS)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Austria

    • Monika Riedel, Andreas Chmielowski
    Pages 33-48Open Access
  3. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Belgium

    • Pauline Melin
    Pages 49-63Open Access
  4. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Bulgaria

    • Zvezda Vankova, Dragomir Kolev Draganov
    Pages 65-80Open Access
  5. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Croatia

    • Helga Špadina
    Pages 81-94Open Access
  6. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Cyprus

    • Christos Koutsampelas
    Pages 95-108Open Access
  7. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in the Czech Republic

    • Kristina Koldinská
    Pages 109-121Open Access
  8. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Denmark

    • Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen
    Pages 123-135Open Access
  9. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Estonia

    • Mare Ainsaar, Ave Roots
    Pages 137-148Open Access
  10. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Finland

    • Laura Kalliomaa-Puha
    Pages 149-164Open Access
  11. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in France

    • Lola Isidro, Antoine Math
    Pages 165-178Open Access
  12. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Germany

    • Reinhold Schnabel
    Pages 179-193Open Access
  13. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Greece

    • Fotini Marini
    Pages 195-209Open Access
  14. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Hungary

    • Gábor Juhász
    Pages 211-223Open Access
  15. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Ireland

    • Mel Cousins
    Pages 225-239Open Access
  16. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Italy

    • William Chiaromonte
    Pages 241-256Open Access
  17. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Latvia

    • Anhelita Kamenska, Jekaterina Tumule
    Pages 257-270Open Access
  18. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Lithuania

    • Romas Lazutka, Jekaterina Navicke
    Pages 271-284Open Access
  19. Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Luxembourg

    • Nicole Kerschen
    Pages 285-298Open Access

About this book

This first open access book in a series of three volumes provides an in-depth analysis of social protection policies that EU Member States make accessible to resident nationals, non-resident nationals and non-national residents. In doing so, it discusses different scenarios in which the interplay between nationality and residence could lead to inequalities of access to welfare. Each chapter maps the eligibility conditions for accessing social benefits, by paying particular attention to the social entitlements that migrants can claim in host countries and/or export from home countries. The book also identifies and compares recent trends of access to welfare entitlements across five policy areas: health care, unemployment, family benefits, pensions, and guaranteed minimum resources.  As such this book is a valuable read to researchers, policy makers, government employees and NGO’s.

Editors and Affiliations

  • FRS-FNRS & Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM), University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

    Jean-Michel Lafleur

  • Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM), University of Liege, Liege, Belgium

    Daniela Vintila

About the editors

Dr Jean-Michel Lafleur is Research Professor at the University of Liège and Research Associate at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS). He is also Associate Director of the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM). His research interests lie particularly in the areas of transnationalism, EU mobility and social protection. In 2015, he was awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for a project entitled “Migration and Transnational Social Protection in (Post)Crisis Europe” (MiTSoPro) upon which this volume is based.   

Dr Daniela Vintila is a postdoctoral researcher in the European Research Council (ERC) project “Migration and Transnational Social Protection in (Post)Crisis Europe” at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Liège. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research interests lie particularly in the areas of comparative politics, citizenship, EU studies, and international migration. Currently, she is chair of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group Migration and Ethnicity, co-convenor of the IMISCOE Standing Committee Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation and vice-chair of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) Research Committee on European Unification.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 1)

  • Book Subtitle: Comparing Access to Welfare Entitlements

  • Editors: Jean-Michel Lafleur, Daniela Vintila

  • Series Title: IMISCOE Research Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51241-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51240-8Published: 31 October 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51243-9Published: 01 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51241-5Published: 30 October 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2364-4087

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-4095

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 435

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Social Sciences, general, Microeconomics, Social Policy

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