I have proposed the structuration model as recently reformulated by William Sewell for the conceptualization of international migrations, arguing that its capacity to link macro- and micro-level social phenomena while keeping the latter and their relationship underdeterminate and contingent on...

How and why have non-nationals acquired social rights and welfare benefits since the 1970s? I have sought to answer this question through a comparative study of the evolution of the rights of foreigners in France, Germany and the Netherlands since 1973, when post-war foreign labor recruitment...