For the potential advantages of migration to be harnessed, it is crucial that immigration be accompanied by integration, or effective mechanisms for ensuring that immigrants are incorporated into labour markets, the economy and society. While immigration policy is often determined, designed and...

Vor dem Hintergrund des gesellschaftlichen Wandels durch Migration und der damit einhergehenden Rekonstruktion und Neubewertung von Fragen nach politischer und sozialer Gerechtigkeit haben sowohl Politische Bildung als auch Soziale Arbeit neue Herausforderungen zu bewältigen, welche sich...

Contents: Preface -- 1. A perfect storm -- 2. The welfare state in transition -- 3. The labor market in transition -- 4. Digitalization changing the economy and the labor market -- 5. Fiscal pressures from digitalization and immigration -- 6. Immigration, inequality and skills in the digital...

"The modern welfare state finds itself in the middle of two major upheavals: the impact of technology and immigration. Having taken in more refugees per capita than most other countries, the pillars of the Swedish welfare state are being shaken, and digital technologies are set to strengthen...

Focusing on the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Policy Learning from Canada is a systematic study of the international relevance of the Canadian immigration and integration policy model. To reveal how the Canadian immigration model has shaped the reform process in...

Das Buch thematisiert die neuen Anforderungen, denen die wechselseitige Interaktion von Wohlfahrtsverbandswesen, Sozialverwaltung und Sozialpolitik(-ern) ausgesetzt ist. Infolge gesellschaftlicher und politischer Veränderungen zeigt sich seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre ein Wandel innerhalb der...

Presenting a stimulating contribution to the quickly advancing field of welfare attitudes research, this important book develops the understanding of welfare legitimacy. It does so by assessing the nature of popular judgments about welfare deservingness, as well as the roots and consequences of...