Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights by Beate Althammer - 9781032198774

Citizenship, Migration and Social RightsHistorical Experiences from the 1870s to the 1970s\nAuthor(s): Beate Althammer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032198774, 978-1032198774\nSynopsis\nThe tensions between European conceptions of the welfare state and transnational migration have caused heated political, public, and academic debates over the last decades. Historiography, however, has not yet explored in depth how European societies struggled with this dilemma-filled relationship in the formative phases of modern welfare states from the late nineteenth century to the post-war era. \n\nThe present volume contributes to filling this gap and thus to putting a highly topical issue into historical perspective. The focus is on Europe, but with a wide geographic scope that reaches also across the Atlantic. Following an introductory chapter, eleven case studies deal with four themes. The first part explores the agenc.