This timely and original book explores new migration challenges such as asylum seekers and Europe's increasingly restrictive immigration policies.

The lore of the immigrant who comes to the United States to take advantage of our welfare system has a long history in America's collective mythology, but it ha

Why do some governments try to limit immigrants' access to social benefits and entitlements while others do not? Through an in-depth study of Sweden, Canada, an

Three Worlds of Relief examines the role of race and immigration in the development of the American social welfare system by comparing how blacks, Mexicans, and

This book explores the historical development of post-war immigration politics in Norway, Sweden and Denmark from the perspective of the welfare state, examinin