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Citation link: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/643
Access to general social protection for immigrants in advanced democracies.pdf
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Access to general social protection for immigrants in advanced democracies


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Authors: Schmitt, Carina  
Teney, Celine  
Abstract: 
Immigration has become a central socio-political issue in most advanced democracies. While research mainly focuses on immigrant-specific policies in the area of immigration, integration and citizenship, we still know very little about the incorporation of immigrants into mainstream social policies. By analysing crossnational differences in the inclusion of immigrants into general social protection across 27 rich democracies on the basis of comparative indicators from the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) dataset, we seek to address this gap in a quantitative study. A cross-national comparison of these indicators shows a particularly large variation in the inclusiveness of the access to social protection for immigrants across countries. By drawing on the welfare state and integration regime literature, we assess the power of two contrasting perspectives, namely, the post-national welfare state and the welfare chauvinism models, in explaining this large cross-national variation in immigrants’ access to social security and social housing. Our overall findings suggest that both the welfare chauvinist and the post-national welfare state models comprise two theoretical perspectives that turn out to be fruitful to interpret cross-national variation in immigrants’ access to social protection. According to the welfare chauvinism model, we find robust evidence that left-wing cabinets are particularly reluctant to open general social protection schemes to immigrants. By contrast and in line with expectations derived from the post-national welfare state model, countries with an overall generous welfare state and countries facing large immigration flows tend to provide immigrants with more generous access to social protection.
Keywords: Immigration; Social protection; Advanced democracies; Welfare chauvinism
Issue Date: 31-May-2018
Publisher: Sage
Journal/Edited collection: Journal of European Social Policy 
Start page: 44
End page: 55
Note: 1
Band: 29
Type: Artikel/Aufsatz
ISSN: 1461-7269
DOI: 10.26092/elib/643
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-elib48468
Institution: Universität Bremen 
Faculty: Fachbereich 08: Sozialwissenschaften (FB 08) 
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