Pitfalls of immigrant inclusion into the European welfare state

Kahanec, Martin; Kim, Anna Myunghee; Zimmermann, Klaus F.

doi:10.1108/ijm.2013.01634aaa.001

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“…According to Barrett et al (2013) there appears to be a commonly held perspective that immigrants in Europe are disproportionately represented amongst those receiving social welfare, despite a lack of empirical evidence to support this view. Recent media coverage in the UK of 'welfare abuse' by immigrants has focused on the increase in the number of 'nonactive' EU migrants in Britain, which rose by 42 per cent between (OECD, 2013.…”

Section: Immigrants and The Economic Cycle In Irelandmentioning

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Do Attitudes to Immigrants Change in Hard Times? Ireland in a European Context

Turner

Cross

2015

European Societies

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The enlargement of the European Union and the subsequent global economic recession has drawn attention to individual-level attitudes towards immigrants across Europe. In this context, using the European Social Survey we compared Irish attitudes towards immigrants with those in twelve other European countries at three critical moments in timeprior to large immigration flows in 2002; at the height of the economic boom in 2006; and after the global financial crash in 2008. Our analysis examines whether significant changes in attitudes towards immigrants has occurred in the Europe Union as a whole and within individual countries over time. We predicted that fluctuations in economic condition such as the rise in unemployment would affect attitudes towards immigrants. This relationship receives some support from our findings. In Ireland, positive attitudes to immigrants between 2006 and 2010 decreased and negative attitudes increased, on all attitudinal measures, more sharply than in any of the other European countries. Taking the twelve countries as a whole, attitudes have tended to polarise particularly with regard to allowing access to immigrants and their impact on the economy. This research reveals worrying trends in attitudes to immigrants in European countries, particularly in light of the importance of immigrants to the European labour market, both currently and in the future.

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Section: Immigrants and The Economic Cycle In Irelandmentioning

confidence: 99%