The paper examines the claim that international migration and increased ethnic diversity challenge the sustainability and legitimacy of redistributive welfare states. Immigration might potentially lessen pressures related to demographic ageing, labour shortages in welfare services and the...

Offers empirically-grounded insights into various issues surrounding gender and migration into and within Europe. This work presents a comprehensive and critical overview of the historical, legal, policy and cultural framework underpinning different types of European migration.

"Although migration and integration have become important concepts today as a result of globalization, migration movements, integration, and multiculturalism have always been part of the history of Europe. Few people realize how many ethnic groups participated in migration within Europe or into...